Fastcase has been very busy in the past few months having secured new bar agreements like Georgia and Washington, DC. They've also enhanced the interface (which my "user experience" librarians love to talk about), and agreed to support the Law.Gov project. Of course, all this movement with gaining new bar associations means that I'm going to have to update my map of free legal research providers through state bar associations!
Congrats to Fastcase and to the members of the D.C. bar.
D.C.
Bar Partners With Fastcase to Provide Free Legal
Research
Members
Gain Free Access to Nation’s Smartest Legal Research
Tools
Media
Contact: Jennifer Brand
202.731.2114
Washington, DC
(February 1, 2011) — Legal publisher Fastcase and the
District of Columbia Bar Association today announced a partnership that will
provide all active and judicial members of the D.C. Bar with free access to the
Washington, D.C. libraries in Fastcase’s comprehensive online legal research
system.
Beginning February 1, 2011, more
than 70,000 attorneys will receive free and unlimited access to one of the
nation’s largest law libraries through the D.C. Bar website, www.dcbar.org. The service is unrestricted by
time or number of transactions, and unlimited printing, reference assistance,
and customer service are included for free.
The D.C. Bar is one of the nation’s
largest bar associations, representing almost 10 percent of all attorneys in the
United
States
“The D.C. Bar is excited to announce
this new benefit and free resource for our members,” said Katherine Mazzaferri,
Chief Executive Officer of the D.C. Bar. “Our members range from local solo and
small firm attorneys to global law firm leaders, so offering free access to
Fastcase is a valuable benefit that our entire membership can appreciate.”
Members will get free access to
Fastcase’s D.C. law libraries, as well as the ability to subscribe individually
to the Fastcase nationwide Premium subscription for $195 per member per year
(the service normally costs $1,140 per year). Law firms can get even larger
discounts by subscribing to Fastcase’s Enterprise
Edition.
“A member benefit like this is
difficult to value, but comparable services cost at least $2,000 per attorney
per year, making the Fastcase worth more than $140 million per year to members
of the D.C. Bar,” said Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO. “Fastcase’s approach to
research harnesses the power of smarter research tools. We can provide better
service at high volumes, which makes partnerships like the D.C. Bar such an
effective win-win proposition.”
With the addition of the D.C. Bar
partnership, Fastcase now provides free premium legal research to more than
500,000 subscribers, in dozens of AmLaw 200 law firms, 20 state bar associations
and dozens of voluntary bar associations and law schools.
“That makes Fastcase by far the
largest legal research service outside of Westlaw and LexisNexis,” said Phil
Rosenthal, Fastcase President. “Fastcase is larger than Loislaw and Bloomberg
Law combined. And those numbers are paid subscribers only -- they don’t include
users of Fastcase’s award-winning, free mobile apps.”
Fastcase was founded 11 years ago by
two attorneys seeking to democratize the law and build smarter tools for legal
research. Fastcase has gained overwhelming support from state bar associations,
many of which have upgraded to Fastcase from LexisNexis, Casemaker, and
Versuslaw in the last year.
“We’re excited to work with the D.C.
Bar,” said Rosenthal. “We are a D.C.-based company, and have spent countless
hours practicing law on the same side of the desk as many of the D.C. Bar
members, so we understand the importance of saving time, keeping costs
competitive, and using the right tool for the job.”
Fastcase has gained very strong
momentum in the legal research market in 2010. Fastcase was voted #1 in Law
Technology News’s inaugural Customer
Satisfaction Survey, finishing first in 7 out of 10 categories over
traditional research providers Westlaw and LexisNexis. Fastcase’s free apps for
iPhone and iPad have dominated the category, winning the prestigious New
Product of the Year award from the American Association of Law Libraries.
And Fastcase joined Apple, Google, Twitter, and others in the prestigious EContent 100 listing of companies that matter most in the digital
economy.
About Fastcase
As the smarter alternative for legal
research, Fastcase democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more
people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with
the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter,
ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find
answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 500,000 subscribers from
around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington , D.C.
About The
District of Columbia Bar
Created by the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals in 1972, the District of Columbia Bar is the second largest
unified bar association in the United States United
States
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Jennifer
Brand
Brand Solutions Group, LLC
(202) 621-8123 Phone
(202) 731-2114 Cell
jbrand@brandsolutionsgroup.com
Brand Solutions Group, LLC
(202) 621-8123 Phone
(202) 731-2114 Cell
jbrand@brandsolutionsgroup.com
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