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There?s an App for That?much money?

Posted on January 20, 2010
The most expensive iPhone app in the App Store helps law students prepare for the California bar exam. Though BarMax is marketing its new iPhone application as the inexpensive alternative to typical California bar prep packages, the buzz surrounding the App is focused on its $1,000 price tag, the highest in the App Store...

Our Blog Has Moved

Posted on January 19, 2010
As we recently announced, we updated and improved our corporate website. One of the improvements we made was to integrate our blog directly into the new corporate website. Please update your bookmarks and visit us: here: http://www.fastcase.com/blog.

Welcome to our brand spanking new corporate website!

Posted on January 19, 2010
Fastcase celebrated its 10th anniversary on December 1, 2009, and so it is only fitting that we begin the next decade with a new and improved corporate website. We hope that visitors will find the new corporate site informative and easy to navigate. Here are some of the improvements that we are most excited about:Subscribing to Fastcase is now even easier with our streamlined Subscription page...

Welcome to our brand spanking new corporate website!

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Happy MLK Day from Fastcase

Posted on January 18, 2010
We will be closed on Monday January 18, 2010 in observance of Martin Luther King Day.cc licensed flickr photo shared by BlatantNews.com

Happy MLK Day from Fastcase

Posted on January 18, 2010
We will be closed on Monday January 18, 2010 in observance of Martin Luther King Day. cc licensed flickr photo shared by BlatantNews.com

Running from the law with a click of a button

Posted on January 15, 2010
One crafty criminal on the run decided to put a new spin on the traditional investigation. The convicted burglar escaped prison in Suffolk, England, earlier this fall and had remained without a trace until he started updating his Facebook page and taunting the police with posts such as a seasonal photograph showing him holding a [...

Running from the Law, with the Click of a Button

Posted on January 14, 2010
One crafty criminal on the run decided to put a new spin on the traditional investigation. The convicted burglar escaped prison in Suffolk, England, earlier this fall and had remained without a trace until he started updating his Facebook page and taunting the police with posts such as a seasonal photograph showing him holding a cooked turkey and wearing a strand of tinsel while raising his middle finger to the camera -- and a caption reading: ?Here's proof...

Lawsuit of the Day: Michael Jordan Has Beef with Chicagoland Grocery Chain

Posted on January 07, 2010
We hope that by this point in the week you have pried yourselves away from your computers, Blackberrys, or iPhones, and you are wrapped tightly in your Snuggies or Slankets in front of the fireplace with your nearest and dearest. But for those of you who are still plugged in, we have a juicy [...

Happy Holidays from Fastcase

Posted on December 24, 2009
We wish you a very happy, healthy and joyous holiday season.cc licensed flickr photo shared by P_R_

Lawsuit of the Day: Michael Jordan Has Beef with Chicagoland Grocery Chain

Posted on December 23, 2009
We hope that by this point in the week you have pried yourselves away from your computers, Blackberrys, or iPhones, and you are wrapped tightly in your Snuggies or Slankets in front of the fireplace with your nearest and dearest. But for those of you who are still plugged in, we have a juicy little tid-bit of a lawsuit for your entertainment...

Fastcase Holiday Reading List

Posted on December 21, 2009
Whether you are a library card-carrying book-worm or dedicated techie itching to try out the Kindle, iphone, Nook, iRex, or Sony Reader that Santa left under your tree, the holidays are a great time to relax, refresh, and curl up in front of the fireplace with a few good books...

Law & Tech Roundup

Posted on December 16, 2009
Our RSS readers are exploding with law and technology news this week. Here are some of the highlights:Microsoft (and its European customers) are having a good day. European regulators finally dropped their antitrust suit against Microsoft in exchange for the software giant's agreement to give European Windows users a choice of 11 rival web browsers rather than limiting them to Internet Explorer...

Important Info for Members of the State Bar of Wisconsin

Posted on December 15, 2009
At Fastcase, we are constantly striving to improve our product in order to serve you better. We recently made some adjustments to the back end of our site that may require members of the State Bar of Wisconsin who use Internet Explorer to adjust their browser settings...

Why Aren't NFL Instant Replays Reviewed De Novo?

Posted on December 10, 2009
Duke Law professor Joseph Blocher asks a great question: Why Aren't Instant Replays Reviewed De Novo? He argues that unlike trial courts, umpires and referees operating in real time are not in the best place to make the correct call. After all, in sports, the reviewing decision-maker is viewing the play multiple times, from many angles, and in slow motion...

USPTO Announces "Green" Initiative

Posted on December 09, 2009
The USPTO announced on Monday that it would begin a pilot program to accellerate the examination of patent applications for "green" technologies. According to the USPTO "The new initiative, coming days before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, will accelerate the development and deployment of green technology, create green jobs, and promote U...

Business Intelligence and People Finder Now Available on Fastcase!

Posted on December 02, 2009
We are delighted to announce our partnership with ReferenceLegal, the leading provider of business and consumer intelligence to the legal profession. ReferenceLegal's database contains information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U...

Fastcase is Hiring

Posted on December 02, 2009
Fastcase is a ten-year leader in the online search industry, and we are seeking a friendly, highly motivated, detail-oriented person to join our Customer Outreach team. Job duties include training customers on how to use our online legal research system, assisting customers with legal research inquiries, creating online content for newsletters and blogs, and assisting with quality assurance work...

Fastcase?s Hidden Gem: A Second Level of Citation Analysis

Posted on November 25, 2009
One of the most powerful (and nerdy, if we do say so ourselves) features of Fastcase is also one of the most hidden. This hidden gem is Authority Check?s second level of citation analysis which analyzes the number of citations within your search results...

Fastcase Tips: Constructing a Broad Keyword Search

Posted on November 16, 2009
Get your week started off right with a Fastcase Research Tip. Today, we have tips for creating a broad search query. When you are getting started on a new research project, it is usually a good idea to start with a broad search query and then narrow your query until you get an acceptable number of results...

Facebook: The Perfect Alibi

Posted on November 11, 2009
In the past, we have blogged about how social-networking can get lawyers and defendants in to hot water. Well, there are two-sides to every coin, and today The New York Times reports how 19 year-old Rodney Bradford's Facebook status updates kept him out of jail...

Free Wi-Fi for the Holidays Courtesy of Google!

Posted on November 10, 2009
Traveling during the holidays is always a harrowing, but Google is taking the edge off this year by providing free wi-fi at 47 participating airports (and on Virgin America flights). The program (which honestly sounds a little too good to be true) starts next Monday November 16, 2009 and runs through January 15, 2010...

Can You Patent a Method for Speed Dating?

Posted on November 09, 2009
We've been on sort of an intellectual-property law roll here on the Fastcase blog, and today we have another IP news flash for you -- and this one is a doozie. The amicus count (70!) on this one blows McDonald v. Chicago out of the water.On Monday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bilski v...

Innovation and Unbundling in Legal Research

Posted on November 04, 2009
In a recent post on Westlaw's (and Thomson Reuters's) Legal Current Blog, one of the elder statesmen of legal information theory, Professor Bob Berring discusses free legal information, and why he believes that it does not pose a threat to traditional legal publishers...

Do You Have a Privacy Interest In Your Gmail? Nope.

Posted on October 29, 2009
Loyal readers, we apologize for the paucity of blog posts recently. We promise to return with more juicy posts soon. For now, check out this post from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog describing a scary (but thoughtful) opinion by a federal judge in Oregon that holds that law enforcement authorities can search your Gmail without notifying you...

iPhone Patent Battle Brewing (Links to Patents Included)

Posted on October 22, 2009
by flickr user kyz With a product as popular as Apple's iPhone (Apple recently reported that it sold 7.4 million iPhones sold in the last quarter) it was only a matter of time before the intellectual property lawsuits started pouring in...

Legal Quote of the Day

Posted on October 22, 2009
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ~ Olver Wendell Holmes

Notable Articles ...

Posted on October 22, 2009
Reduced legal aid rates will cause 'mass exodus' of law firms~ The Times OnlineCasemaker vs Fastcase: Closed vs "Open" Source ~ Oregon Legal Research Blog Emerging Internet Trends: An Analysis of Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit Presentation~ Read Write WebMoscow court terminates $22...

Legal Quote of the Day: Publius Syrus

Posted on October 22, 2009
The guilty dread the law, the innocent fear fortune. ~ Publius Syrus Source (Google Books): The moral sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman slave: from the Latin

Social Networking R.I.P.? Plus: How 140 Characters Can Get You Into a Lot of Trouble

Posted on October 19, 2009
This past week, we have devoted a number of posts to the intersection of law and social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Were we too late? Are these familiar social networking sites already pass�? According to this article from today's Washington Post, sophisticated internet users are already looking for the next big thing...

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