Ryan has previously waxed poetic about how some mandatory bars are imposing odd and counterproductive ethics rules and opinions.
This topic resurfaced for me recently as I have been asked to present to a futures committee of a mandatory bar in November. They are wanting me to give them a picture of all that is
Texas State Bar Adds Fastcase Alongside Casemaker
As the saying goes, “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” That phrase also applies to the State Bar membership benefits. The State Bar of Texas has agreed to add Fastcase as a member benefit on top of its already existing Casemaker access. This makes it the first Bar in the country to offer both services. In addition
LegalZoom Gets Nod From South Carolina Supreme Court
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The term “Access to Justice” (A2J) is tossed around a lot in the legal world, but as the old saying goes, talk is cheap. It is common for state bar associations to step up and use another phrase to shoot down A2J projects or non-lawyers’ attempt to fill a gap in the
Are You A Casemaker or Fastcase State? Duke Law Library Maps It Out For You
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
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
Take the Ethics Opinion Question Challenge
Last week I posted on how recent DC Bar opinions would cause clients to have to pay for more lawyer time. I don’t think the DC Bar was attempting to directly protect the lawyers’ market from e-discovery vendors, but instead saw that protection as an unintended consequence. As a result of the post, I received
The Law & Grad School Blame Game
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There has been talk for the last few years about the unsustainability of the Graduate School program in the United States. For many of us, we have heard the segment that talks specifically about law schools, and have watched as many of the schools are caught in… shall we say, stretching the truth
The Rise and Fall of Universal Citation: Can It Rise Again?
I have to admit that I usually think that many of the articles that AALL puts out in its Law Library Journal tend to be too rigid and too academic in style, but the Summer 2011 issue is actually chock full of interesting articles ranging from Ron Wheeler’s Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything? to Gail
How Many Bars Can a Lawyer Hit in One Week-end?
No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad lawyer joke. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship with Texas’s many bar associations.
Thanks to our Facebook relationship, I had the opportunity to share the stage at the Texas Bar Leaders Conference with the Texas State Bar’s social media whiz, John Sirman.
He’s a lawyer/webbie,