Fastcase is a low-cost but wide-coverage online legal research tool with a modern, intuitive interface. Fastcase is a relatively new player on the legal research scene, but has some features that rival the bigger research alternatives, especially if your practice isn’t too dependent on deep secondary sources and you’re comfortable with, you know, a modern [...]

Josh and Huma discuss the importance of building your personal brand. Can it overcome quality legal skills? Are people less into Twitter these days? What is a new law in Pennsylvania doing about sexting and teenagers?

 

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OnlineUniversiteis.com recently published a list of “100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs“. In this list of 100, they included the following for law students:
Search through all kinds of legal history and information using these tools.

Everybody’s Legal Glossary: This searchable resources puts legal terms into plain English so that you can understand them.
Catalaw: Catalaw is [...]

A throw down between the traditional casebook and the e-book on portability and usability.

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Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some of our questions directly:
Do you know when WestlawNext will be available for use at law schools?
Mike Dahn: We have not finalized a law school rollout plan.  Law school students will not have access to WestlawNext at launch.  However, we will distribute trial [...]

In case you didn’t know, Apple launched the iPad tablet today. Here’s the link.

Update 1/28/10: Mike Dahn, Vice President of WestlawNext Product Development, was kind enough to answer some questions about availability and pricing, and we’ve posted some screenshots.

Next week at Legal Tech NY, and at a number of preview breakfasts, Thomson Reuters will publicly showcase its new legal research product, WestlawNext. The basis of the new tool, [...]

Last week, Twitter announced that the Suggested Users List is now categorized for easier browsing. Instead of just a list of users, people are given a list of categories with suggested users in each category. However, the list of categories does not include “Legal” or “Law” or anything similar.

It looks like lawyers and law students [...]

In the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court used the term ‘blog’ on page 49 of the slip opinion.
Soon, however, it may be that Internet sources, such as blogs and social networking Web sites, will provide citizens with significant information about political candidates and issues. Yet, §441b would [...]