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:…
Fastcase Unveils ‘Largest Free Law Library’
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…
New tool helps firms manage pro bono work
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…
A must-have add-in for Outlook users
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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Buzz Bruggeman
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 gets redesign
Bloomberg.com, a business information site, unveiled a new design this week.…
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