Google is a powerful search engine for lawyers, helping to find facts and information at incredible speed. Advanced search techniques and many different options to search for news, videos, scholarly articles, and much more make Google almost ubiquitous. Beyond just the search, Google offers some tools and options lawyers should know about to take full advantage of the service’s powerful options….
By Catherine Sanders Reach NCBA members have access to Fastcase, a robust 50-state legal research database, as a membership benefit. Soon Fastcase will be rolling out a new default version to all members. Fastcase 7 brings all sorts of new features and upgrades. We sat down with Ed Walters, CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, to talk about what’s new and…
Do you try to remember to visit a blog or your favorite news website but you get distracted? Do you subscribe to email newsletters that sit in your inbox until you delete them or forget about them? Do you wish you had a way to have curated content come to you where you can check it in the morning and…
By Catherine Sanders Reach Each year the ABA TECHSHOW concludes the conference with a plenary session featuring a lightning fast, multi-speaker tips program. Some of the tips can be whimsical or esoteric but among the light-hearted nuggets are also some great, actionable bits of information lawyers can put into practice now. Following are some of the immediately useful tips from…
By Catherine Sanders Reach Finding information about companies, such as financials, principles, employees, valuation, competitors, credit and financial health for publicly traded companies is possible if you don’t mind digging through SEC filings. For nonprofits, religious institutions and privately held companies it requires even more digging, and the information is not always easily available. Whether you are looking at helping…
CATHERINE’S CALL By Catherine Sanders Reach Most people use the Google search engine every day to look up information on everything from restaurant reviews to driving directions to the airspeed velocity of a laden swallow. In fact, the word google (lower case G) officially appeared as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. The free web is especially…
CATHERINE’S CALL Did you know that Fastcase7 has a feature called Type-Ahead? Like a Google search, when you enter a word or phrase Fastcase 7 will immediately show you matches for terms of art and case names. Switch to Fastcase 7 by toggling the orange button from FC in the upper right corner of the screen when you are logged…
Did you know that Fastcase7 has a feature called Type-Ahead? Like a Google search, when you enter a word or phrase Fastcase 7 will immediately show you matches for terms of art and case names. Switch to Fastcase 7 by toggling the orange button from FC in the upper right corner of the screen when you are logged into Fastcase. Want…