[Updated at 10:55 a.m. with statement from Wolters Kluwer.]
The legal research company Fastcase has acquired one of its prime competitors among middle-market legal research providers, Loislaw. Fastcase has purchased Loislaw from Wolters Kluwer, which had acquired it in 2000 for $95 million.
LoisLaw subscribers…
For the third year running, the Fastcase legal research app is the most popular legal app among lawyers, according to the 2015 edition of the annual Legal Technology Survey Report compiled by the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center.
Among lawyers who reported having downloaded a legal-specific app, 41%…
Fastcase today announced the recipients of its 2015 Fastcase 50 awards. The awards recognize “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”
This is the fifth year of these awards. Previous winners can be seen for 2011, 2012, 2013, and…
The new Fastcase 7 start page.
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…
The Clio Cloud Conference kicked off this morning in Chicago with a keynote by company cofounder Jack Newton in which he made a number of major announcements.
Notably, Newton announced a new integration partnership between Clio and the Fastcase legal research platform, making Clio the only practice-management…
For the second successive year, the Fastcase legal research app is the most popular legal app among lawyers, according to the 2014 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. The most popular business app among lawyers this year is LinkedIn, the survey said.
Among lawyers who reported having downloaded a legal-specific app, 36.5% listed Fastcase. Last year,…
The new Lexis Advance has a simplified search bar and quick-access pods.
The official theme of the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in San Antonio this week was “Beyond Boundaries.” But for three of the leading legal-research vendors in attendance there, the theme was “A Change is Gonna Come.”…
Well, here’s a licensing deal I would not have seen coming: LexisNexis and Fastcase. The two companies announced today that Fastcase will now be the exclusive provider of Collier TopForm & File, a tool for creating and filing bankruptcy…
As a member of the inaugural 2011 class of Fastcase 50 honorees, I am pleased to report that Fastcase today announced its 2013 group of Fastcase 50 honorees. This year’s group is a diverse list of legal innovators that ranges from…
Yesterday, Hein and Fastcase announced a publishing partnership through which the companies will share primary and secondary legal materials. Today, Fastcase revealed details about how the arrangement will be priced.
Under the agreement between the companies, Hein will provide its HeinOnline subscribers with…
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…
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