The plot thickens in the ongoing copyright lawsuit by Thomson Reuters against ROSS Intelligence, as lawyers for TR have now subpoenaed documents from two companies not previously mentioned in the case, Fastcase, the legal research and publishing company, and Morae Global Corporation, a company that provides legal and compliance solutions to legal departments and…
Law Street Media, the Fastcase News Service, Launches M&A News Feed, Using Data from Matterhorn
Law Street Media, the legal news service owned by Fastcase, is adding coverage of mergers, acquisitions and financings, using data and documents provided by Matterhorn Transactions, a company that provides comprehensive databases, analyses, and reports of publicly filed transactional information.
This adds transactional news to Law Street Media’s existing litigation-focused coverage of technology,…
Fastcase Names Its 11th Annual Class of Fastcase 50 Innovation Honorees
If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”
Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to…
Eversheds and Fastcase Launch Data Analytics Tool To Assess Spoliation Risk
One of the riskiest aspects of litigation practice is spoliation — the destruction or alteration of evidence — which can carry costly sanctions for both lawyers and their clients.
Today, the law firm Eversheds Sutherland and the legal research company Fastcase are releasing what they say is a first-of-its-kind tool designed to assess…
Longtime Competitors Fastcase and Casemaker Merge, Reshaping the Legal Research Landscape
In news akin to a wedding announcement jointly issued by the Hatfields and the McCoys, two longtime competitors in the legal research market, Casemaker and Fastcase, have merged, creating a single company under the Fastcase brand that has an estimated subscriber base of more than three quarters of all lawyers in the United…
Track COVID-19 Cases and News with New Email Alert Service from Fastcase
An email alert service launched today by legal research company Fastcase, COVID-19 Case Alerts, provides daily updates on new civil opinions, selected pleadings, breaking news, and analyses of legal issues related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The alerts, delivered each business day except holidays, provides a snapshot of the latest legal developments on COVID-19, Fastcase says.…
Fastcase Acquires Technology and Staff of Innovative Legal Research Platform Judicata
In a move that could dramatically reshape the legal research market going forward, legal research and publishing company Fastcase has acquired the technology and employees of the California legal research platform Judicata, promising to take its unique technology to all 50 states.
One of the most innovative legal research platforms in the U.S.,…
Fastcase Names Its 10th Annual ‘Fastcase 50’ Honorees
Every year since 2011, the legal publisher Fastcase has presented its Fastcase 50 award, which honors 50 individuals who are judged to be the year’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”
Today, Fastcase named its honorees for 2020, and the list includes a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, law…
Research Platform ‘Cadwalader Cabinet’ Gets Full-Text Case Law through Fastcase Partnership
Ever since its 2008 launch by the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the Cadwalader Cabinet has been recognized as an innovative and practical research and intelligence platform for news and analysis of U.S. financial regulation.
Now, a content partnership between Cadwalader and legal research company Fastcase promises to make the platform…
Legaltech Week, 4.10.20: More Layoffs in Legal Tech and Ron Friedmann Talks Fastcase
Top stories this week include more layoffs in legal tech as Epiq, suffering the double blow of a ransomware attack and the pandemic is reported to let go as many as 200. Also in the news, cutbacks at other legal tech companies, a report on the state of legaltech Down Under, Fastcase says…
Breaking: Fastcase and Casemaker Settle Copyright Litigation over Georgia Regs
The two legal research companies Fastcase and Casemaker have settled their three-year legal battle over Casemaker’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations.
In federal court in Atlanta, the two companies jointly filed a stipulated dismissal of the matter. The request did not not reveal the terms of the settlement, but the dismissal was “with…