This morning Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. emailed a stunning announcement to law library directors around the US. The flagship
Cheetah legal research platform was being rebranded as VitalLaw. The change is expected to take place on Monday November 1st. The librarian list-servs lit-up with the expected questions and concerns as well as a dash
Matterhorn Deal Data Available In Fastcase Law Street Media News Platform
Today Fastcase and Matterhorn Transactions are announcing an alliance that will make M&A deal data and analytics available in
Fastcase’s legal news platform. Law Street Media. The deal terms and data will be added to its existing litigation-focused coverage of technology, agriculture, and health law.
According to the press release: “Matterhorn proprietary data analysis provides legal professionals with unparalleled capabilities to search for and compare the market terms of mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and other transactions. The company provides transactional attorneys both
consolidated information on market terms as well as detailed legal language used for specific deal provisions, based on underlying legal agreements and financial disclosures. Matterhorn enables its clients to know precisely the frequency, form, and language of transaction terms and provisions by tying each deal term to the actual documentation.”
It is axiomatic that lawyers and law firms are hungry for data and analysis- so this is a smart alliance. I am not personally familiar with the Matterhorn product. But the description above sounds similar to the content available in Lexis Intelligize, Thomson Reuters “Westlaw Business” (formerly GSI) and Bloomberg Law. I have no doubt some brilliant research librarian will undertake an analysis of each platform to tease apart the unique and common content and features across these platforms.
The integration of analytics with news has been a growing trend for the past two years. In addition to Fastcase— American Lawyer Media, Lexis Law360 and Bloomberg have all been pushing data into their news offerings.
Growth without Greed I am an agnostic on how these products compare at this point. Everyone is welcome to the join the analytics party – legal consumers win as the quality and scope of products expand. But I do have to cheer for the addition of sophisticated M&A data to products available through Fastcase – which has taken a unique “growth without greed” approach to transforming the legal
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The brief analysis wars continue. Lexis+ Judicial Brief Analysis Launched Today
Lexis+ Judicial Brief Analysis was initially conceived as a tool for judges and their clerks. The Lexis product developers soon realized
that lawyers on opposing sides also need to be able to analyze multiple briefs to identify conflicting or omitted authorities. The specific functions, features and reports in Judicial Brief Analysis were derived from workflow mapping exercises and interviews with over 100 attorneys.
Lexis+ Judicial Brief Analysis provides the standard brief checking efficiencies (checking the validity of authorities and identifying omitted authorities). But there is an obvious benefit to be able to simultaneously analyze and review multiple documents. Getting a quick overview of authorities cited by each party, by both parties as well as identifying president identified by neither party.
How it works – an attorney or judge’s clerk can upload up to 6 documents – 3 plaintiff and 3 defendant briefs. A Judicial Brief Analysis
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APIs for Insights: Fastcase and Courtroom Insight Announce Full CI Integration with Docket Alarm
Today Fastcase and Courtroom Insight are announcing a partnership which will integrate Docket Alarm with the Courtroom Insight
knowledge management product. Courtroom Insight which offers a database including thousands of profiles for judges, expert witnesses and arbitrators, allows law firms to build out custom experience database mapping internal lawyer experience to those profiles. . Docket Alarm’s 500 million state and federal litigation docket and documents will be mapped to the experts and judges within Courtroom Insight.
Docket Alarm Founder and Fastcase VP of analytics Michael Sander, describes this partnerships as “building API bridges within the legal tech community, knowing that the litigation record contains a robust dossier on thousands of expert witnesses. Marrying these data sources ultimately helps law firms make better decisions on expert witnesses.”
This is a win-win for both companies. Law firms no longer want to buy interfaces, they want to buy data that can power internal
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Thomson Reuters Ramps Up HighQ Workflows with Practical Law, 3E, Microsoft Teams Integrations
Last week Thomson Reuters announced a significant new integration of HighQ with workflow features of Practical Law and 3E
features, and Microsoft Teams®. According to the press release the HighQ workflow platform offers more than “50 customer-driven enhancements.” The marketplace is demanding tools which drive collaboration and optimize workflows and productivity.