Articles Tagged with Fastcase

The Soldier in later Medieval England. This one has only the slightest to do with law but it is immensely cool nonetheless. This new British database provides access to the detailed service records of some 250,000 medieval soldiers who served between 1369 and 1453. As for the law connection, it includes a “protection database”……

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:…

My post earlier today, New Tool Jumps to Right Windows Folder, contained a type in the code for the download key. I’ve corrected the post to reflect the correct key, which is: ll908384573. (It should start with the letters “ll” not the numbers “11”.…

How much time do you spend every day on e-mail? As you read through your inbox and write and respond to messages, how much of that time are you tracking? My guess is that lawyers lose track of significant chunks of time spent on e-mail. A new plug-in for Outlook aims to capture that lost…

At the recent LegalTech in New York, I conducted video interviews with “10 tech stars” who were there. The series of videos are now posted here. The video interviews were the brainchild of the folks at the Legal Talk Network, who did all the filming and production and also did their best to…

Having just participated in an “un-conference” for the Law Practice Management Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, I am sold on the un-conference format. I suppose that different un-conference organizers orchestrate these in different ways, but here is how it worked in N.C. We kicked off in the morning with a featured speaker,…

The full video of the North Carolina disbarment hearing against former Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong is now online and available in the public domain. The 31.5 hours of video were donated to Public.Resource.Org by Courtroom Connect. The video is available at The Internet…

Another post of mine at Legal Blog Watch today should be of interest to readers of this blog: A preliminary audit conducted by Public.Resource.Org of publicly accessible documents from 32 federal district courts found 1,669 containing Social Security numbers and other personal information.…

The Law Library of Congress has converted its Global Legal Monitor from a static, monthly PDF to a dynamic and regularly updated Web site. The monitor tracks legal news and developments worldwide, drawing on information from the Global Legal Information Network and other sources.

From the announcement:

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I’m honored to learn that the folks at Paralegal SLO blog must be regular readers of this blog. Shortly after my post yesterday, Another Rip-Off Blog, they removed the offending item. After several commenters pointed this out to me, I checked Google cache and found it still there, so I grabbed this screen cap.…

The lawyer rating site Avvo unveiled a major redesign of its Web site last night in order to enhance user access to its three main features: Lawyer Search, Answers & Advice and Legal Guides. It also formally launched its Legal Guides, a series of brief overviews of legal topics written by private attorneys or…