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Fastcase Review

Feb 22nd, 2010 | By Laura Bergus | Category: Featured, Law Office Software

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 [...]



Update: WestlawNext Screenshots and Pricing Information

Jan 28th, 2010 | By Laura Bergus | Category: Featured, Law Office Software

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 [...]



WestlawNext: It’s About Time

Jan 27th, 2010 | By Laura Bergus | Category: Featured, Law Office Software

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 [...]



Google Scholar Search Now Includes U.S. Case Law and Legal Journals

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Laura Bergus | Category: Attorney Gadgets, Courtroom Technology, Featured, Law Office Software, Law School, Lead Article, Practice Management

The legal research game has just taken a light-year shift, thanks to Google. Last night, Google quietly non-announced that Scholar search now includes U.S. federal and state case law and legal journals. Recently, the debate on open access to legal information has been raging, with some folks sticking up for the Westlaw/Lexis walled-garden approach that [...]