Casetext today is rolling out three major updates to its legal research platform. One is an updated design and architecture to make the site faster, cleaner and easier to use. But it is the other two updates that I want to focus on, because, in combination, they dramatically enhance the results you receive when…
Robot Fight: Casetext’s CARA vs. ROSS’s EVA
On Monday, I blogged about the launch by ROSS Intelligence, the AI-based legal research platform, of EVA, a free product that analyzes briefs and performs various functions, including determining whether the cases they cite are still good law.
After hearing about EVA, the folks at Casetext — who have their own brief analyzer,
Casetext Adds New Databases to Help Zero In On Black Letter Law and Key Holdings
Every legal researcher has come across the phrase in a judicial opinion, “It is well settled that …,” or, “It is axiomatic that …” In 2014, I wrote about a prototype legal research website that mined opinions for instances of these phrases and made them searchable as a way of helping researchers…
Casetext Now Automatically ‘Pushes’ Legal Research to Attorneys
The legal research company Casetext has introduced a feature that monitors an attorney’s litigation dockets for briefs and memoranda from opposing counsel and then automatically delivers a report of case law that is relevant but not included in the document.
The feature uses Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA, an analytical tool…
Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs
Fresh on the heels of Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results. This means that, in addition to finding relevant — but possibly overlooked — case law, CARA also finds relevant briefs. Casetext is calling…
Law Librarians Name Casetext’s CARA as New Product of the Year
Every year at its annual meeting, the American Association of Law Libraries presents an award for the new product of the year. This week, it announced that this year’s honoree will be…
Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding
The legal research service Casetext is announcing today that it has closed on a $12 million Series B funding round. Excluding e-discovery companies, it is one of the largest investments in a legal technology startup ever. The only two…
New Casetext Feature Finds Relevant Cases For You, But Along With It Will Come New Pricing
The legal research service Casetext is unveiling a new service today that automatically finds cases that are relevant to legal memoranda and briefs. With this unveiling, Casetext, which has been free to use ever since its 2013 launch, is also preparing to roll out its first paid subscription tiers for premium services,…
Casetext's New Features Help You More Easily Get to the Essence of A Case
Casetext is on a journey. And it just took another big step along the path.
The journey is to develop a free legal research platform that is as robust and useful as a paid site. The big step is a new case-reading page that adds features that make it easier…
Casetext's Crowdsourced Citator Gains Traction, Passes 67,000 Entries
As I explained then, all someone has to…
Round-up: News From Firm Manager, Casetext and Alt Legal (Who?)
Some of the week’s legal technology news:
Email Integration in Firm Manager. LexisNexis Firm Manager, a practice-management platform aimed at one- and two-lawyer firms, this week added email integration. The integration enables users to have their emails and attachments automatically saved with the associated client matter. “If an attorney…
The Failure of Crowdsourcing in Law (So Far, At Least)
Above are the slides from my July 20 presentation on crowdsourcing to the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. When I first suggested the title, I was sure the presentation would be a positive one, demonstrating the ways in which crowdsourcing and collaboration “are changing” legal research. I have long been a believer…