I’ve written any number of times here about the ongoing head-to-head competition between legal research services Casemaker and Fastcase to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers — or, to be more precise, to win the loyalty of America’s bar associations, since both services market themselves to state and…
Exclusive First Look: All New Version of Fastcase Out Today in Beta
The legal research service Fastcase is today unveiling a complete overhaul of its platform, its first entirely new version since 2003. The new version, called Fastcase 7, promises greater speed, expanded search, more intuitive functionality, and a more readable interface.
“We want to balance…
Casetext Launches LegalPad, A Writing and Publishing Tool for Lawyers
The legal research site Casetext is launching something today that could be a game-changer in how lawyers publish and share articles about the law. It is called LegalPad and the Casetext folks compare it to LinkedIn’s publishing platform or to the Medium…
Crowdsourced Research Site Casetext Raises $7M Series A Financing
As I start to make my way through some of the news I picked up at LegalTech last week, here’s a big one: The start-up legal research site Casetext announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A financing round. The round is led by Union Square Ventures…
New Crowdsourced Law Site is Part of Larger Project to ‘Annotate the World’
There is something very fitting in the fact that a site that started out deciphering rap lyrics is now turning its attention to making sense of the law.
The site, Law Genius, is the newest member of the larger Genius network of crowdsourced community sites, all of which grew out of…
CourtListener Adds Oral Arguments to its Free Research Site
The free legal research site CourtListener rolled out a notable enhancement this week, adding oral arguments from the Supreme Court and nine federal appellate courts to its collection of primary legal materials.
Now, when you conduct a search on CourtListener, the search results page includes matching oral arguments. You can toggle the results…
Ravel Law’s Research Results Now Include Client Alerts from Cooley LLP
The legal research site Ravel Law has partnered with the law firm Cooley LLP to pair Cooley’s client alerts with the court opinions in Ravel that they discuss.
Now, if the court opinion…
Casetext Launches Community Pages, Adds Other Features
Crowdsourced legal research site Casetext officially rolled out its new community pages this week. Designed to provide common ground for lawyers who share interests and practice areas, these pages allow lawyers to contribute analysis, meet others in their fields, and engage in discussions about current legal developments.
Also this week, Casetext…
CanLII Connects: Crowdsourcing Commentary on Canadian Law
Crowdsourcing the law is a concept any number of legal sites have tried over the years, as I’ve written about many times. The idea behind it makes perfect sense. There are lots of very smart legal professionals out there in the world — practitioners, academics, librarians and even law students. If they…
Fastcase Launches Free Advance Sheets in E-Book Formats
Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal, the founders of Fastcase, seem to revel in disrupting long-held notions of how legal publishing is supposed to operate. For two guys who are in the business of selling legal research, they can’t seem to find enough ways to give away access to core legal research…