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Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research
January 7, 2014
If two heads are better than one, then why should legal research be a solitary pursuit? What if you could put three or four or even dozens of heads to the task? If you could tap into a collective, collaborative research process, it seems fair to say, you could complete your work more quickly and be more confident of your conclusions. Enabling just that kind of crowdsourced legal research is the goal of two innovative websites. But they go at it from different directions. Casetext starts with...
January 7, 2014
If two heads are better than one, then why should legal research be a solitary pursuit? What if you could put three or four or even dozens of heads to the task? If you could tap into a collective, collaborative research process, it seems fair to say, you could complete your work more quickly and be more confident of your conclusions. Enabling just that kind of crowdsourced legal research is the goal of two innovative websites. But they go at it from different directions. Casetext starts with...
App Of The Week: HeinOnline – Law Journals And Other Legal Research Materials
October 1, 2013
HeinOnline swims with the big legal research subscription-based sharks by filling a niche and doing it well. The service...
October 1, 2013
HeinOnline swims with the big legal research subscription-based sharks by filling a niche and doing it well. The service...
Who Owns The Law?
May 4, 2013
Founded and built legal publishing company Fastcase, which pioneered citation analysis, data visualization, mobile apps, and eBooks for legal research. Responsible for strategic direction with special emphasis on product development, finance, business development, and licensing.
May 4, 2013
Founded and built legal publishing company Fastcase, which pioneered citation analysis, data visualization, mobile apps, and eBooks for legal research. Responsible for strategic direction with special emphasis on product development, finance, business development, and licensing.
‘Nanny-cam’ app allows clients to track lawyer billing
April 21, 2013
More and more lawyers are using apps for legal research, trial work and client management. But there have been few low-cost options for clients who want to keep tabs on their lawyers. That's changing. Clients increasingly will have access to apps that promise to help them track billing, draft documents, find lawyers and "add transparency and a measure of convenience" to dealings with lawyers, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The WSJ looked specifically at Viewabill, which the paper...
April 21, 2013
More and more lawyers are using apps for legal research, trial work and client management. But there have been few low-cost options for clients who want to keep tabs on their lawyers. That's changing. Clients increasingly will have access to apps that promise to help them track billing, draft documents, find lawyers and "add transparency and a measure of convenience" to dealings with lawyers, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The WSJ looked specifically at Viewabill, which the paper...
