10.01.82

Foundation Day. The concept of creating a Legal Resource Center to provide structured and researched information to the legal fraternity and others to meet the challenges of the e-age conceived.

1982-86

Introduction of the Cardex system . About 11,000 specially designed cardswere prepared and daa was filled therein.

1986

First computer installed. File structure and database created in dbase III plus.

1986-89

Database of Table Index, Corresponding Equivalent Citations, Follow Up, Statute Index of the judgments of Supreme Court of India completed. A Five Level Head-note system for Subject Index prepared. First software for retrieval of database prepared in

Existing software WESTLAW (U.S.), LEXIS-NEXIS (U.S.), CLIRS (Australia) and NETLAW (Singapore) analyzed. All were found to be text based software promoted by publishing houses. Such software did not provide satisfactory search results because voluminous data was retrieved from the text or from the catchwords provided. It is almost impossible to browse through each search result. The result was a cumbersome process to replace an existing cumbersome system. A practical solution was, therefore, devised by development of a menu driven system containing drop down menu and linking databases to the text. LAWINC silently continued its effort in the development of the database and software.

Oct. 89

PC World, India and PC Quest carried a news item on the database and retrieval programs prepared by LAWINC. Overwhelming response was received, some from even remote corners of the country. However, the software needed further modifications, as it did not provide interlinking between the databases. It was then decided to put in more effort before finally launching the product.

1992

Proposals were received for the development of the program in Windows, SQL, Power builder and C++ but the idea had to be shelved as the available data showed that very few members of the legal fraternity were using Windows environment at that time.

1992-95

Dipankar P. Gupta, Former-Solicitor General of India, K.T.S.Tulsi, Former-Additional Solicitor General of India and Harish N. Salve, Senior Advocates showed keen and serious interest in the project and fully supported the concept, despite its slow pace. The program and data was developed using FoxPro.

At the end of 1995 the concept took a global form inasmuch as some international software and marketing concerns showed interest realising the potential of the product. Apart from SPOTLAW, which was the case law retrieval system, other software like PLEA and STAT-SCOPE were also developed, to meet the growing needs of legal professionals.

1996

Some of the products created by LAWINC were tested in the Windows environment. More products were added.

07.11.96

Hon'ble Justice M.M. Punchhi, Chief Justice of India, inaugurated the web site of LAWINC (http://www.indiaconnect.com/lawinc.htm) launched on the Internet and formally released DIAL-N and LOCATOR. This was the first legal web site launched in India. VSNL joined hands with LAWINC and made a presentation of the their efforts. The Asia Pacific Legal 500 in its 1997 edition at page 171-172 acknowledged LAWINC's contribution in the following words :

"The most visible sign of a profession gearing itself up to challenge the dominance of international law firms has been the launch of the country's first Internet legal directory, under the title Law Information Center (Lawinc). The system is intended to disseminate contacts and facilitate lawyer/client interaction."

The effort was applauded by one and all Media Coverage

10.07.97

Installation of LINC-APEX Version 1.0 commenced. A software in FoxPro was developed consisting of all the 1997 judgments of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and Delhi High Court. The data wasinstalled on the hard-disc of the users.

21.07.97

http://www.lawinc.com launched. Latest judgments of the Supreme Court made available on the Internet free of charges

20.11.98

LAWINC 97 CD released, in the Windows environment containing SPOTLAW 1.0

02.01.98

LAWINC 98 CD launched, containing SPOTLAW 2.0, after carrying out modifications suggested by users who had used LAWINC'97

10.03.98

Judgments of Supreme Court of India Communicated via E-mail (JUSTICE) launched.

01.07.1999

LAWINC'99 CD launched containing SPOTLAW 3.0

01.08.1999

http://www.lawinc.com shifted to faster server to meet the needs/ demands to the users

24.08.1999

SPOTLAW launched on the net - 'First dynamic legal web site in the world'

28.01.2000

LAWINC Gold released to commemorate with the Golden Jubilee of the Supreme Court of India. SPOTLAW 4.0 released

10.01.2002

SPOTLAW 5.1released

10.01.2003

SPOTLAW Citator released

01.08.2003

http://www.lawsofindia.com released in corroboration with Crimson Logic of Singapore

10.01.2006

http://www/lawinc.co.in launched

15.05.2009

New General Body and Executive Council constituted – Resolved to hold Global Conference of Chief Justices, undertake publication of 60 yrs. of Supreme Court and beyond… and other publications in joint venture with Indian Law Institute.