Luminaries Include: Bob Berring, Cindy Chick,Bess Reynolds, Anne Ellis, Steve Lastres, and Tracy Thompson-Przylucki from the library community. Leaders from other fields include: Ron Friedmann, Bruce MacEwen,
This is the first alignment of independent legal publishers that I can recall.. As a consumer of legal information, I appreciate the importance of small publishers in the legal information ecosphere. Past publishing partnerships involved companies of wildly disproportionate size and market power. This partnership has delightful symmetry and counterpoint (Hein offers deep archive
I’d like to think I was brilliant. More likely I was just lucky. When I started as a first-year associate at Covington & Burling more than sixteen years ago, I was very fortunate to discover the library, and to discover that it was the secret to survival as a junior
1. Faster to the ebook market. Once again Fastcase has leapfrogged over many well established legal publishers by jumping into the eBook market. Last year at AALL, only the two largest legal publishers LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, were
First it was iPad, and iPhones, then it was cloud printing. Tomorrow it’s the Droid. Fastcase runs to it’s own drumbeat away from the mainstream research providers. As the big three legal providers (Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law) harden their digital bulwarks against free or low cost access, Fastcase keeps opening
…Come up with some Interesting New Tools for Legal Research.
Phil Rosenthal and Ed Walters both former associates from Covington & Burling began developing what they refer to as a smarter alternative to Westlaw and Lexis in the late 1990’s. After a modest amount of angel funding and a decade of development, Fastcase now has