It was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from more than 100 countries.
It is a deal that could
Continue Reading On LawNext Podcast: The Four Founders of vLex and Fastcase on the Merger Of Their Two Companies
With the news last week of the merger of legal research companies Fastcase and vLex, it seemed a good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. The occasion of this interview was the company’s 20th anniversary, and we recorded it live, on the exhibit hall floor, at the annual
Continue Reading On LawNext: Revisiting the Fastcase Origin Story: Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal on How Their Company Came To Be
The merger creates a global law library with over a billion documents, which Fastcase CEO Ed Walters called “the most important training set” for large language models, such as those that power ChatGPT.
Continue Reading Fastcase Merges With vLex, With Plans for Integrated AI-Powered Research Offerings
In a deal that will reshape the legal research and legal technology landscape on a global basis and threaten the longstanding “Wexis” legal research duopoly, the companies vLex and Fastcase today announced that they have merged into a single entity that they say will have the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library
Continue Reading In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital
Today vLex and Fastcase, two of the fastest-growing legal technology companies, announced that they are merging to form the world’s largest digital law library. The combined company will also have the world’s largest law firm subscriber base and resources containing more than one billion legal documents from more than 100 countries. Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit are investing
Continue Reading vLex and Fastcase Merge to Form World’s Largest Global Law Library (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
The new feature utilizes the large language model that underlays ChatGPT, but via an API that does not suffer from the same intermittent outages as the popular chatbot.
Continue Reading Docket Alarm Incorporates GPT-3.5 to Auto-Summarize PDF Litigation Filings in Complex Dockets
Docket Alarm, which is owned by Fastcase, is one of several products on the market that allow legal professionals to search and browse dockets of federal and state courts. But, when using any of these services, as you browse docket entries, there is no quick way to know what a litigation filing is about without having to download,
Continue Reading Docket Alarm Now Uses GPT-3 To Show You Summaries Of PDF Litigation Filings As You Review Docket Sheets
The legal profession would be nothing without access to information. So much of being a lawyer, or working in a law firm, is researching, writing, and communicating. And all of that can be achieved better if you have the right tools for the job. Yet, in the world of tech, lawyers often fall behind because of tradition or culture or
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All Bar Members Gain Free Access to Texas Case Law Alert Collection by Fastcase
AUSTIN, TX and WASHINGTON, DC (January 18, 2023) – Fastcase and the State Bar of Texas are extending their partnership to provide all active State Bar members with free access to Fastcase case law alerts in thirteen practice areas.
Since 2014, State Bar of Texas members have
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Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase, the companies announced today.
As I have written before, Clearbrief is an innovative legal technology product
Continue Reading Now View More Case Law As You Draft Legal Documents in Clearbrief, through Partnership with Fastcase
Seattle, WA and Washington, DC (Monday, December 12th, 2022) – Clearbrief, the award-winning, patented platform that brings AI into legal drafting in Word, announces its collaboration with Fastcase, a leading legal intelligence company and legal research provider. Together, the two companies are joining forces to give lawyers, judges, and in-house counsel the ability to seamlessly view any caselaw cited as
Continue Reading Clearbrief and Fastcase team up to bring attorneys, legal writers instant access to even more caselaw as they draft documents using artificial intelligence
Improving Search Options for Law Libraries and Library Organizations with Fully Searchable MARC Records
Washington, DC (December 6, 2022) – Full Court Press, the publishing arm of Fastcase, today announced it is providing MARC catalog records through a partnership with Cassidy Cataloguing Services. The partnership is ongoing and the libraries that subscribe to Cassidy will receive ongoing MARC
Continue Reading Fastcase Teams with Cassidy Cataloguing to Provide MARC Records for Titles Offered by Full Court Press Imprint
The AILA Law Journal has come a long way since its April 2019 launch. At the time of the publication of the November 2022 issue, the AILA Law Journal will be 8 issues old.
I am proud to be the Editor in Chief of the AILA Law Journal at the time of the release of this November 2022 issue.
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This week Fastcase is announcing three new projects for 2023 which will become the foundation of additional state initiatives across the country in the future.
Dockets with the State Bar of Texas
State Bar of Texas has given its members access to DocketAlarm brief, pleading and motion documents in Fastcase. The Texas bar will also launch a digest curated
Continue Reading Fastcase 2023 Roadmap Includes New Citator Called “Cert”
In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation platform.
The new product is being built on
Continue Reading Immigration Law Firm and Fastcase Partner to Create Case Management and Document Automation System