Legal research instruction can no longer be tied to specific technology, be that «old» technology like books or whatever version of
commercial legal research services are currently available.
In a post here two months ago, I reported on the launch by
legal research service Fastcase of a new publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals, legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.
I've written any number of times here about the ongoing head - to - head competition between
legal research services Casemaker and Fastcase to win the loyalty of America's lawyers — or, to be more precise, to win the loyalty of America's bar associations, since both services market themselves to state and local bars to be offered as a member benefit.
The prices quoted (US $ 10 — 15 / hour for legal services and US $ 199 for
legal research services on a case — work completed in 72 hours) are much lower than the rates quoted in the earlier article.
Designed and developed in Asia, in consultation with the legal profession, and with the strength of Thomson Reuters at its core, Westlaw Asia provides a breakthrough multi-jurisdictional
legal research service with a real focus on Asia.
• ROSS Intelligence, a Palo Alto, Calif. -
based legal research services platform, raised $ 8.7 million in Series A funding, according to TechCrunch.
Obviously, such a revelation takes on greater importance since the service is relatively new (see Bob Ambrogi's introductory post from November), and since the question of whether
free legal research services can ever rise to the level of competitiveness with the «Wexisberg» triumverate remains much on the minds of those who watch the industry.
Knott said: «We're aiming to combine our precedent library with online
legal research services from PLC so fee - earners have a single point of search.»
Just as all web pages contain links to other pages, cases downloaded from
legal research services such as Westlaw, Lexis and other vendors contain links to the cases, statutes, articles, or other sources cited within the opinion.
As I reported last May, Judicata recently came out of several years of stealth mode to unveil what it had promised would be «a
better legal research service.»
With the ballooning volume of legal information and the shift of legal research from a profit to a cost center, it's imperative for lawyers to use AI -
powered legal research services like ROSS to recover time and focus on higher value activities for their clients.
Whereas other
legal research services rely on usernames and passwords, Bloomberg Law requires you to log - in using something it calls the B - Unit, a credit - card sized, biometric fingerprint reader that ensures that you and only you log - in to your Bloomberg Law account.
I've written any number of times here about the ongoing head - to - head competition
between legal research services Casemaker and Fastcase to win the loyalty of America's lawyers — or, to be more precise, to win the loyalty of America's bar associations, since both services market themselves to state and local bars to be offered as a -LSB-...]
There, he and another associate, Ed Walters, got the idea of starting a lower -
cost legal research service as an alternative to Westlaw and LexisNexis.
The artificial - intelligence -
driven legal research service ROSS Intelligence today announced an $ 8.7 million Series A funding round, adding to its earlier $ 4.3 million seed round.
Online legal research was pioneered by Hugh Lawford who not only launched one of the first online
legal research services anywhere, but also built a commercial enterprise from a university research project that dominated the Canadian online market for two decades.
The impediment of
traditional legal research services is that they just spew information and force lawyers to comb it painstakingly because these services simply use keyword matching to find relevant documents.
A recent survey of more than 2,100 subscribers to Clio showed that Fastcase is in a «virtual dead heat» for the most -
used legal research service (Westlaw 20.58 %, Fastcase 20.35 %, and LexisNexis 20.21 %).
Bloomberg Law's new home page.The Bloomberg BNA
legal research service Bloomberg Law today is introducing a new user interface that streamlines the search experience by making it easier to conduct searches and to find specific types of content.
The business - news network Bloomberg will launch a new
legal research service later this month, Bloomberg Law, to compete head - on with those other giants of legal research, Westlaw and LexisNexis.