Case Summaries Now Available for State and Federal Court Opinions
Washington, DC (December 20, 2011) – Legal publisher Fastcase has partnered with Justia to provide free access to summaries of state and federal court opinions to all users of the Fastcase online library database. Justia, a legal media and technology company based in Mountain View, Ca., has been drafting concise summaries of breaking court opinions written by licensed attorneys since March 2011.
The summaries are added daily to all opinions from state supreme courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and federal circuit courts of appeal, and made available for no additional charge to all Fastcase users.
“Case summaries used to be offered only in the most expensive traditional legal research services,” said Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase. “That ends today. Together with Justia, we’re offering very helpful editorial summaries of new cases – and at no additional cost.”
Justia has offered a number of services surrounding its case summaries, such as a daily feed of summaries by jurisdiction and practice area. Today, they are integrating the summaries in Fastcase’s legal research service as well.
Justia is a leader in democratizing the law and making more of the world’s law available in the public domain. “This is a powerful tool for attorneys, journalists, and others looking to keep up with latest developments in the law,” said Stanley, CEO of Justia CEO. “Our Daily Summaries support our commitment to make online legal information freely available and easy to access.”
In recent months, Fastcase has debuted a suite of Fastcase Cloud Printing applications and has been named to the prestigious EContent 100 list of leading digital publishing and media companies alongside Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. Fastcase was recently ranked #1 on Law Technology News’s first Customer Satisfaction Survey, and won the 2010 American Association of Law Libraries New Product of the Year Award. It was also recognized as the leader in mobile apps by the 2011 ABA Legal Technology Survey.
About Justia
Justia (http://www.Justia.com) is a legal media and technology company focused on making legal information, resources and services easy to find on the Internet. Justia provides Internet users with free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog databases, as well as community resources. The company also provides legal blog and Web development services for law firms, educational, public interest and other socially-focused organizations.
About Fastcase
As the smarter alternative for legal research, Fastcase democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 500,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase, or visit http://www.fastcase.com.
Recognized for “Shaking Up the Content industry”
Washington, DC (November 29, 2011) – Legal publisher Fastcase has been named to the prestigious EContent 100 list of leading digital publishing and media companies. This is the second year in a row that Fastcase has received the prestigious award.
Recipients were selected based on their leadership in digital content industry. Fellow EContent 100 award recipients include
Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, as well as legal publishers Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, and Reed Elsevier. The complete list of the 2011-2012 EContent 100 recipients are available in the December issue of EContent Magazine and online at http://www.econtentmag.com/articles/editorial/feature/the-100-top-companies-in-the-digital-content-industry-the-2011-2012-econtent-100-79073.htm.
“In digital publishing, you’re either disrupting, or being disrupted,” said Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase. “For more than a decade, we’ve been moving the legal publishing industry from a “mere access” market to a service industry characterized by nimble innovation – from an economy of scarcity to a competitive economy of abundance. We’re very grateful that EContent Magazine recognizes that.”
Others are taking note of Fastcase and increasingly showing appreciation for the company’s innovativeness, attentiveness, and thought leadership. Fastcase was recently ranked #1 on Law Technology News’s first Customer Satisfaction Survey, winning the 2010 American Association of Law Libraries New Product of the Year Award, and recognized as the leader in mobile apps by the 2011 ABA Legal Technology Survey.
Fastcase has more than 500,000 subscribers from around the world, and is one of the fastest growing companies in legal publishing.
“There are plenty of changes afoot on this year’s list, as well as at the magazine,” said Theresa Cramer, Editor of EContent. As you read through these pages, you’ll notice a change in the EContent 100 categories—and a subsequent change in the companies we’re honoring this year. As we focused less on enterprise content companies and more on the world of digital publishing and media, the judges had to reimagine the list—and relearn the judging process. While many of the old stand-bys still made it onto this year’s list, there are plenty of fresh faces as well—many of which are shaking up the content industry.”
The complete 2011-2012 EContent 100 list can be viewed online at www.econtentmag.com. For more information about Fastcase, visit www.fastcase.com.
About EContent
EContent is a leading authority on the businesses of digital publishing, media, and marketing, targeting executives and decision-makers in these fast-changing markets. By covering the latest tools, strategies, and thought-leaders in the digital content ecosystem, EContent magazine and EContentmag.com keep professionals ahead of the curve in order to maximize their investment in digital content strategies while building sustainable, profitable business models.
www.econtentmag.com.
About Fastcase
As the smarter alternative for legal research, Fastcase democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 500,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase, or visit http://www.fastcase.com.