Fastcase just added a truckload of employment law titles from Littler. They're here! @Littler Employer Library titles are now available on @fastcase. For a complete list of titles and pricing information visit https://t.co/4bOl9htR2a Plus, you can sign up for a free daily Employment Law Case Digest. pic.twitter.com/e5tvP3Phxc — Fastcase (@fastcase) March 22, 2018 Continuing its … Continue reading Fastcase Adds Littler Employer Library
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Fastcase is still aggressively pursuing secondary content, and more is coming soon. That's the takeaway from a little conversation I had with Joe Patz, a Fastcase account executive, at ABA TECHSHOW yesterday. He was one of several people I was keen to ask, What's coming in the next year? First of all, more RAIL is … Continue reading Fastcase on the Fast Track
Jared Correia interviewed Ed Walters in the latest Legal Toolkit podcast, providing a glimpse into the future of legal publishing. It's a fun conversation for book geeks, and it serves up some great insights. For example, big global publishers (Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer) have found print books to be a drag on their business, but this has … Continue reading The Future of Print Books and Legal Publishing
The latest update in Fastcase's push for secondary content is its addition of Wolters Kluwers treatises. This is an important step, immediately giving Fastcase users alternatives to some of the biggest West and Lexis practice aids. Fastcase is playing with the big boys now. But for legal publishing as a whole, this is more of … Continue reading Fastcase Adds More Secondary Content
Since Fastcase's big announcement last week, I've continued to think about what it might mean for me as a practicing small-town lawyer in a small state. And the more I think about it, the more I realize it will probably be a long time before Full Court Press publishes much for me. I want somebody … Continue reading Full Court Press and Bar Associations
Fastcase announced its own publishing house last week: Full Court Press. The name comes from this New Yorker article about a basketball strategy that gives plucky underdogs a chance against bigger, more skilled, more traditional teams. It recognizes the monumental task of creating a body of secondary legal materials that can compete with West and Lexis. … Continue reading Fastcase’s New Publishing Arm
This morning I read a blog post on Thurott about his Windows 10 book, which is published on Leanpub. Since I used to be an attorney-editor in my state bar's publishing division (where I spent perhaps too much time thinking about publishing problems instead of editing) I went to the Leanpub site and started digging. … Continue reading Lawyers Should Adopt Lean Publishing