Today vLex is announcing a suite of AI tools in its research assistant platform Vincent AI. Since the merger with Fastcase in 2023, vLex has offered the “world’s most comprehensive AI legal research platform.” vLex has launched an invitation-only beta which includes a suite of large language model (LLM) tools. The beta will be offered to additional users
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The 2023 Fastcase 50 Announced, Honoring Legal’s Innovators, Visionaries, And Leaders
The Fastcase 50 is probably the best-available roster of those who are leading the charge on innovation in law.
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The 2023 Fastcase 50 Announced, Honoring Legal’s Innovators, Visionaries and Leaders

Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” Fortunately, even though Fastcase merged earlier this year with vLex, that tradition continues, as Fastcase has now announced the 2023 honorees.
I say “fortunately” because, as I wrote when last year’s list was…
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The Four Founders Of vLex And Fastcase On The Merger Of Their Two Companies
It is a deal that could reshape the legal tech landscape on a global basis and potentially even threaten the longstanding legal research duopoly of Westlaw and LexisNexis.
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On LawNext Podcast: The Four Founders of vLex and Fastcase on the Merger Of Their Two Companies

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…
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On LawNext: Revisiting the Fastcase Origin Story: Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal on How Their Company Came To Be

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…
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Fastcase CEO Ed Walters Joins The Legaltech Week Live Panel At 3 ET Today To Discuss the Fastcase-vLex Merger

With the merger of Fastcase and vLex the biggest legal tech story of the week, Fastcase CEO Ed Walters joins our Legaltech Week panel live today at 3 p.m. ET to discuss the news with our regular group of legal tech journalists and bloggers.
We’ll also talk about Thomson Reuters’ sale of its Elite group of products and other top…
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Fastcase Merges With vLex, With Plans for Integrated AI-Powered Research Offerings
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.
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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital
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…
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vLex and Fastcase Merge to Form World’s Largest Global Law Library (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
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…
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ABA Antitrust Content Now Available on vLex (And We Have An Exclusive Demo of How It Works)

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…
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LawNext Podcast: vLex Managing Director Masoud Gerami on the Company’s Acquisition and Plans for Growth of its International Legal Research Platform

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…
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In Partnership with vLex, Free Law Project to Build Complete Case Law Database

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…
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Private Equity Firm Acquires Majority Interest in Global Legal Research Platform vLex

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…
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