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Holiday Customer Support Hours

Posted on December 22, 2010
From our whole team in Washington D.C., we’d like to wish you and your family a warm season’s greeting. If you find yourself doing some research over the next couple weeks, please note our holiday customer support hours: Wednesday December 22nd: 8am-5pm Eastern Thursday December 23rd: 8am-5pm Eastern (email support only) Friday December 24th: Closed Monday December 27th: 9am-6pm [...

Discovery Without Search: Law Librarian Conversations Backgrounder

Posted on December 10, 2010
Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase The past year has seen a lot of innovation in the design of legal research. In the blink of an eye (in this market anyway), we’ve seen the launch of WestlawNext, Lexis Advance, data visualization and Forecite from Fastcase, and new mobile apps for all three systems, to name just a few...

Good Company: Fastcase Named to EContent 100 List

Posted on November 22, 2010
Fastcase Named to 2010-2011 EContent 100 List EContent Magazine today released its annual list of 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry. The 2010 list includes Google, Twitter, Amazon, Apple . . . and Fastcase! Michelle Manafy, editor-in-chief of EContent Magazine, noted the companies included ?made this list through their hard work, customer focus, [...

11/17-18: Live Fastcase Trainings ? Tulsa, OK

Posted on November 17, 2010
At the Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting? Come see us! We are offering three training sessions: 10AM – 11AM Fastcase Nuts and Bolts Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting Crowne Plaza Hotel Tulsa, OK Room: Directors Row 5 3PM – 4PM Fastcase Nuts and Bolts Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Meeting Crowne Plaza Hotel Tulsa, OK Room: Directors Row 5 2PM – [...

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Bar Staff Webinar ? Top Ten Questions, Answered.

Posted on November 12, 2010
Fastcase Bar Partners: Please join us for a thirty minute webinar about the top ten most frequently asked Fastcase questions. We will breeze through 10 tips and resources that will make it easy to expertly answer member questions. The webinar is scheduled Monday, November 15 at 1PM Eastern...

Law Blog of the Day: PicJur

Posted on October 06, 2010
At Fastcase, we are unapologetic data visualization geeks. So you can imagine how excited we were when we came across, PicJur, a blog with the self-professed goal of “translat[ing] law into visual language.” The charts on this site are bold, beautiful, and very illuminating...

Fastcase Research Tip: Batch Printing

Posted on September 28, 2010
Did you know that you can print up to 20 cases at a time on Fastcase? Batch printing is simple, just follow these easy steps. 1. Add documents to your print queue. Add documents to your print queue one of two ways. (a) From the results page: Each case on [...

People v. Superman?

Posted on September 15, 2010
Sure Superman can see through walls and fly faster than a speeding bullet, but how would he hold up on cross examination? And would courtroom marshalls be able to restrain the Incredible Hulk? These are just some of the questions that visitors of the Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library’s, ?Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law [...

Happy Labor Day

Posted on September 03, 2010
Fastcase will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday September 6, 2010. We’ll be back on Tuesday. Have a terrific Labor Day weekend.

Special Webinar: Blogs, Twitter & LinkedIn for Legal

Posted on August 18, 2010
Join us on Friday September 10 at 12PM EST for a very special presentation by Rocket Matter founding partner, Larry Port. Rocket Matter is a leading provider of legal productivity software that helps law firms around the world efficiently manage their practice...

With this ring, I assign you my patent rights

Posted on August 17, 2010
Here?s a patent case that?ll have all inventors closely following their state?s marital property laws and strongly considering the content of their prenuptial agreements. Mundi Fomukong invents ?patents-in-suit? during his marriage to Fonda Whitfield...

Why so serious?

Posted on July 30, 2010
The folks at Google Scholar dug up some entertaining legal opinions this week, and well, the geeks at Fastcase got such a kick out of these decisions that we just have to pass a few along. You can check out Google’s full post here. Our favorite is Rimes v...

Fastcase for the iPad is Here!

Posted on July 19, 2010
We are delighted to announce Fastcase for the iPad, the most recent addition to our family of mobile apps. The new app (which is compatible with iPhones as well), takes full advantage of the iPad’s gorgeous high definition display, making it even easier to read cases and statutes on go...

Introducing: Fastcase Forecite

Posted on July 13, 2010
We have had a big couple of weeks here at Fastcase. As you may have heard, our iPhone app was recognized as the New Product of the Year for 2010 by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). We are also planning to release a brand new mobile app for the iPad...

Happy Independence Day

Posted on July 02, 2010
Fastcase will be closed on Monday July 5, 2010 in observance of Independence Day. We wish you a wonderful holiday weekend. cc licensed flickr photo shared by travlinman43

What Eisenhower, UPS, and the Railroads Can Teach Us About Law.gov

Posted on June 30, 2010
Law.gov is a national movement to create better, bulk access to America’s primary law, spearheaded by nonprofit Public.Resource.org and its “rogue archivist” founder Carl Malamud. Hundreds of participants have met in workshops around the country in the first half of 2010, culminating in June meetings in Washington and Boston...

Supreme Court Issues Bilski Decision

Posted on June 28, 2010
Hot off the presses, here’s the Supreme Court’s long awaited decision on business method patents, in Bilski v. Kappos (08-964). Get the entire decision here. And the Court’s decision in Christian Legal Soc. Chapter of Univ. of Cal., Hastings College of Law v...

Supreme Court Extends Heller to the States

Posted on June 28, 2010
While most of the Supreme Court buzz may be focused on Supreme Court Nominee, Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings which started today – the current justices are making headlines of their own, handing down a number of landmark decisions. cc licensed flickr photo shared by dbking Already issued this morning was the Court’s decision in McDonald v...

Law Technology News Survey Ranks Fastcase #1 in Customer Satisfaction

Posted on June 23, 2010
Law Technology News has launched a new Vendor Satisfaction Survey broken down by industry. In the legal research survey, respondents ranked Fastcase #1 in customer satisfaction in 7 out of 10 categories, and a very close second in two out of the remaining three...

The Security Investment

Posted on June 18, 2010
cc licensed flickr photo shared by lloydi While cyber security threats are hardly new (McAfee and Norton were both formed some 20 years ago), a quick look at the tech headlines indicates security and privacy issues on the web have only worsened. A couple weeks back, a disconcerting Facebook glitch exposed many users? private chats to [...

Florida Passes Technology in Elections Act

Posted on June 07, 2010
Florida’s election laws are in the news again, and this time for a decidedly technology-forward reason. Florida’s House of Representatives recently passed Technology in Elections Act (HB 869). [St. Petersblog 2.0] [Google Public Policy Blog]...

Introducing the Fastcase Quick Reference Guide

Posted on May 27, 2010
We just added a handy one-page reference guide to the most commonly used Fastcase features to the Documentation and Downloads section of our Help & Training page. Click here to download the document as a PDF file. And drop us a line at comments@fastcase...

Memorial Day Weekend

Posted on May 27, 2010
The first long weekend of the summer is here! Time to fire up the grill, visit the pool, and most importantly, take a moment to remember those who gave their lives in service of our nation. Fastcase will be closed on Monday, May 31, 2010 in observance of Memorial Day...

Can a Google Adwords Campaign Constitute Evidence of Copyright Infringement?

Posted on May 14, 2010
Happy Friday! By now you have probably heard about the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) big win against file-sharing service, LimeWire. If not, you can check out excellent coverage of Judge Kimba Wood’s summary judgment decision, issued on May 11, via the New York Times, CNET, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired...

Updates to the Federal Rules, Coming this December to a Courthouse Near You

Posted on May 12, 2010
It’s official. The Supreme Court, on April 28, 2010, approved proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Federal Rules of Evidence...

LOC Creates One-Stop Resource on Elena Kagan

Posted on May 12, 2010
SCOTUS watchers, the Library of Congress just made your job much easier. cc licensed flickr photo shared by Harvard Law Record To serve congressional and public requests for resources pertaining to this historic nomination, the Law Library of Congress has developed an incredibly thorough web presentation on Elena Kagan on its Supreme Court Nominations site...

Lawsuit of the Day: The hat that launched a thousand knock-offs

Posted on May 11, 2010
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. That is just part of what is at stake in milliner, Luke Song’s, lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Friday, May 7. You may not know who Luke Song is, but chances are, you are familiar with one of his recent masterpieces — the hat that [...

Where do you network online?

Posted on May 10, 2010
There’s a host of social networks online these days. Some are mainly social, like Facebook. Others are for your professional networks, like LinkedIn. But these lines are easily blurred. On LinkedIn, many folks’ initial connections are their personal friends...

Law Firm Leadership During Times of Change: Q&A with LLSDC President Cameron Gowan

Posted on May 10, 2010
Cameron Gowan is the President of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC) and the Library Manager for DC-based Groom Law Group, Chartered. Cameron has a truly daunting array of academic degrees, including a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California, a J...

The Law is Beautiful

Posted on May 07, 2010
At Fastcase we are a bit obsessed with slick data visualizations. So it should come as no surprise that we are gaga over Jonathon Feinberg’s brilliant web app, Wordle. This delightful app generates gorgeous “word clouds” from any text that you feed it...

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