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Two legal research services are in a head-to-head competition to win the loyalty of America’s lawyers. If you think I’m talking about Westlaw and LexisNexis, think again. This battle is between Casemaker and Fastcase. For my monthly Web Watch column in Law Technology News, I offer a head-to-head review of the two services:…

There’s something happening here. Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright-free federal case law online (see my post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms. Called The Public Library of…

Thanks in part to funding from Bill and Melinda Gates, Pro Bono Net has developed a Web-based platform for law firms to manage and promote their pro bono work. To be launched early in 2007, it is called Pro Bono Manager. An article in the Pro Bono Net newsletter says the software…