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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

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 legal research company vLex and the American Bar Association are today announcing a partnership to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform.
The collection of competition and consumer protection content covers essential areas of antitrust law such as monopolization, intellectual property, consumer protection, mergers and
Continue Reading ABA Antitrust Content Now Available on vLex (And We Have An Exclusive Demo of How It Works)

Last week, Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, said that it had acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform that lays claim to having the largest collection of legal information on a single service. 
On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined from London by Masoud Gerami, managing director, vLex Global
Continue Reading LawNext Podcast: vLex Managing Director Masoud Gerami on the Company’s Acquisition and Plans for Growth of its International Legal Research Platform

A new partnership between Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex, the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to the public as a free
Continue Reading In Partnership with vLex, Free Law Project to Build Complete Case Law Database

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform.
The investment means that vLex will now have more resources available to drive its growth, including in the United States, and potentially to make acquisitions of other companies that will further that growth, a company spokesperson said.
vLex is unique
Continue Reading Private Equity Firm Acquires Majority Interest in Global Legal Research Platform vLex