One of the best member benefits of a State Bar Association is the ability to access Casemaker or Fastcase (or InCite for Pennsylvania). However, sometimes it is confusing to keep up with which product each state offers. Luckily, the kind folks at Duke University’s Law Library have mapped everything out for us. Many
New York State Bar Picks Fastcase for Member Benefit
The race for state bar partnerships between Casemaker and Fastcase took another step toward Fastcase this morning. New York, which has been somewhat of a holdout on the free access to legal research benefit, is partnering with Fastcase to provide its members with free access to the product via the Bar’s website, www.nysba.org. I
How Law Librarians Can Adopt an Apple or Google Approach To Change
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Since the demise of Google Reader, I’ve been a little less frequent in going through my RSS feeds using the Feed.ly platform. Over the long weekend, I tried to catch up (and am still trying), and came across an article from bwagy on the different approaches that Apple and Google take
Hein Online & Fastcase Collaborate to Expand Both Services
This is one of those things that catches everyone by surprise right before the annual AALL conference. W.S. Hein and Fastcase announced this morning that they are forming a partnership to integrate content on each platform and create a more extensive legal research database. This is the sort of thing that everyone expected from Aspen/CCH/Loislaw
Fastcase's Bad Law Bot: "Big Data Applications For Legal Research"
The bad boys of legal research, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal of Fastcase, are once again looking at unique ways to look at legal information and create new methods to cull that information. In the latest iteration, they have come up with a way to use an algorithm to identify court cases with negative
Motivation, Determintion, Communication, and Increasing Happenstance
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The story goes something like this:
Sitting in a Partner’s office a few months ago, a research librarian was listening to the speech the partner was preparing to give the client. Suddenly, the librarian ran into one of those moments where her own experience suddenly became very relevant. As the partner jumped through
#openpacer
“To provide the public with open access to electronic federal court records.”
That is the plan for The Open PACER Act being pushed by OpenPACER.org.
Today there was a cross-posting on the Law Library Blog (not to be confused with the Law Librarian Blog), and Legal Research Plus. You can read the proposed
Texas Bar Launches the New Casemaker Platform for Its Members
I’m a little behind in this news, but the Texas Bar Association has recently launched the new Casemaker platform for all of its members. The new interface is definitely a step up for Casemaker and makes searching across the different library database a lot easier. The Casemaker access is free to all members of the
Citation Wars…or Mine! Mine!
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It was a rough time for the Empire.
Online case services were multiplying fast and furious. Yes, even their vaunted reporter system had been compromised. The beginning of the end began in the late 1990’s, when even the Courts had ruled against them. It became more important than ever to just hold
Let Your Inner James Bond Out — Skyfall into Social Media Sleuthing
I’ve heard this this latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, is to be the best one yet. Spy extraordinaire, man-about-town, and basically the alpha-est of the alpha males, every male that I know wants to be him.
So how can you let your inner spy out when doing your super-sleuthing?
Here are a couple of