It is no surprise that following the launch of their AI enabled motion drafting platform Compose in February, Casetext 
has secured a new round of funding. The $8.2 million brings Casetext’s total funding to $40 million. Inside investors who participated in this round include Union Square Investors, Canvas Ventures and Y Combinator Continuity. The press release also refers to an unnamed “top law firm” as leading the round.
The announcement comes in the wake of Casetext’s launch of their game changing new Compose software. Compose goes where no legal product has gone before. It actually helps a lawyer draft a motion tailored to specific federal
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On February 25th they are launching an exciting new legal news service Legal Radar which I believe his targeted to deflate the aggressive growth and pricing of its main competitor
in the legal research arena was challenged on two fronts in the 2010’s. First they were challenged by the emergence of two full service competitors: 
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collected and coded and normalized data about the activities of 50 state legislatures back in the dial up days of modems with acoustic couplers. They thrived long enough to be 
founders expect to drive innovation for both companies. Fastcase which is celebrating its 20th anniversary has excently expanded beyond its primary law focus into analytics, legal news and secondary source publishing and alliances. Ross which made headlines with its A.I. search engine for legal research has recently launched its law school program and begun building alliances with bar associations and with Clio practice management software.
terms of a major market shift in the legal research and technology space. “In the 1990s the main way market dominance was building gigantic silos of data” epitomized by the Lexis and Westlaw platforms. According to Walters “The future will be owned by small, nimble companies that have inter-operable parts. The Fastcase-Ross alliance is about creating a new paradigm for the next 10 years.”
f law library and technology thought leaders to contribute to her new book “Law Librarianship in the Age of AI” which was released last week by the American Library Association.
between August and September 2019 and included responses from 5,061 law students at 201 law schools. The survey was conducted” to better understand future lawyer attitudes, behaviors and key drivers of user preference in relation to legal research.”Access