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Fastcase

Fastcase is an online legal research service with powerful searching and data visualization tools and comprehensive legal databases at your fingertips. It even integrates with other legal databases to enhance your legal research library.

Fastcase Rating:
4.8/5

Features

  • Customer Experience & Support - 9/10
    9/10
  • Pricing & Value - 10/10
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  • Innovation & Future-Proofing - 10/10
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Our Rating: 4.8/5

Our rating is based on our subjective judgment. Use our resources—including our rating and community ratings and reviews—to find the best fit for your firm.

Who Fastcase is For

Fastcase is an excellent option if you already have access through your bar association. Otherwise its comprehensive database is still very much worth the price, especially when compared to Westlaw and Lexis.

Fastcase Features

Website
www.fastcase.com
Starting Cost
$58/user/month
Free Trial
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Apps
  • Android
  • iOS
Sources
US State Cases
All 50 States
US State Statutes
All 50 States
US Cases
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US Statutes
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Dockets
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Secondary Sources
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News Coverage
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI legal assistants can help you identify relevant cases and statutes, and may even help you draft your brief.
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Natural Language Search
Can you search by entering a question in normal language rather than keywords or Boolean connectors and phrases?
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Boolean Search
With Boolean operators like AND, OR, and more, you can precisely target your search query.
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Case Summaries
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Citation Checking
A citation checker helps you identify whether a case or statute has been overruled, modified, or reversed or repealed.
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Filter Search
Can you restrict your search to certain parts or features of cases and statutes, like the date, judge, or jurisdiction?
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Research History
Research history makes it easier to find the results of previous searches or see if the law has changed with new results.
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Research Folders
Organize your research history into folders.
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PDF/Word Downloads
Download cases and statutes as a formatted PDF or Word document.
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Suggestions
When you run a search, get suggestions for additional searches to run or material you should look at.
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Alerts
Flag key cases so that you get an email notification if it is cited in a new case, statute, or secondary source.
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Software Integrations
  • Clio
  • Docket Alarm
Open API
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Things You Might Want to Know

Already free. Many local bar associations have subscription plans that allow their members to use Fastcase for free. Check the website or with your bar association to see if you can take advantage!

AI Sandbox. Do you have data or documents to analyze and explore and a need to share those insights? The AI Sandbox lets you use artificial intelligence in a secure environment to conduct that sort of work, then compare it with public legal data or Fastcase’s data. You can then have IBM’s Watson Analytics and Watson Developer Cloud analyze your findings to get more profound insights into your contracts, briefs, or other documents.

Secondary sources. The Fastcase library includes primary law (case law and statutes), legal blogs, law review articles, briefs, pleadings, expert witness databases, analytics, and secondary treatises. It includes 129 treatises from Aspen and CCH and over 100 titles from James Publishing, as well as 79 labor and employment treatises from Littler. Though Fastcase’s new imprint, Full Court Press, it has about 30 titles in production. Fastcase also provides access to law review articles through its partnership with HeinOnline.

Page edited by the Lawyerist editorial team. Last updated November 27th, 2019.

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