After publishing my head-to-head review comparing Casemaker and Fastcase, I noted in a follow-up post earlier this month the Oregon State Bar Association’s decision to switch from Casemaker to Fastcase and Casemaker’s response to that decision.
Now, Laura Orr at Oregon Legal Research offers another perspective on the Casemaker vs.…
The business-news network Bloomberg will launch a new legal research service later this month, Bloomberg Law, to compete head-on with those other giants of legal research, Westlaw and LexisNexis. I have more details about this in a post today at Legal Blog Watch: Bloomberg Takes on Wexis With New Research…
In a June 2008 post here, I previewed the beta version of Clio, a Web-based practice management tool. One year ago today, it came out of beta with the release of its full version, which I picked as one of 10 tech stars at LegalTech NYC.
To mark its anniversary today, Clio…
Earlier this month, I published here the letter I received from Steve Newsom, general manager of Lawriter, the company that produces Casemaker, responding to my review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase published in Law Technology News. Because I could not replicate their formatting, I did not publish two attachments to his letter…
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…
Any professional who uses Outlook to manage contacts, appointments and reminders should stop whatever he or she is doing right now and download Anagram. This is an elegantly simple but remarkably useful tool that lets you grab information from anywhere on your computer with a single keystroke and place it into Outlook as a…
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sent me this picture that he took of Ernie Svenson and me having dinner Friday night at Rosebud in Chicago. The three of us ate along with fellow blogger and TechShow attendee Matt Homan.…
Bloomberg.com, a business information site, unveiled a new design this week.…
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