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summary: "INSLAW, Inc. is a Washington-area software company that developed the PROMIS case management system and became the center of a major legal and political scandal after alleging the U.S. Department of Justice stole its proprietary software and drove the company into bankruptcy."
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**INSLAW, Inc.** is a software company founded by [[Bill Hamilton|William A. Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] as the commercial successor to the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR), a Washington, D.C. non-profit think tank that originally developed the [[PROMIS]] (Prosecutor's Management Information System) software under grants from the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]]. The company became the center of the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] following its allegation that the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] systematically stole its proprietary software, drove it into bankruptcy, and distributed modified versions internationally to foreign intelligence agencies.
INSLAW, Inc. is a software company founded by [[Bill Hamilton|William A. Hamilton]] and [[Nancy Hamilton]] as the commercial successor to the Institute for Law and Social Research (ILSR), a Washington, D.C. non-profit think tank that originally developed the [[PROMIS]] (Prosecutor's Management Information System) software under grants from the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]]. The company became the center of the [[PROMIS Software Scandal]] following its allegation that the [[Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] systematically stole its proprietary software, drove it into bankruptcy, and distributed modified versions internationally to foreign intelligence agencies.
### Origins: The Institute for Law and Social Research