Member Benefits

• Jurisdiction: Georgia,United States
• Citation: Vol. 26 No. 5 Pg. 0054
• Pages: 0054
• Publication year: 2021

Member BenefitsNo. Vol. 26, No. 5, Pg. 54Georgia Bar JournalApril, 2021

Fastcase and Casemaker: The Peanut Butter & Jelly of Legal Research

Fastcase and Casemaker have joined forces and will work together to provide a superior research experience.

BY SHEILA BALDWIN

The State Bar of Georgia first offered legal research as a member benefit in January 2005. This relationship was initiated due to our members' desire to have access to quality legal research at an affordable price. Electronic legal research was developed in the late 70s, with LexisNexis and Westlaw dominating the market with their expensive and somewhat complex online services and CDs. Eventually, other internet-based search engines entered the legal technology market with software that helped attorneys keep up with case law, statutes and research resources. Legal professionals were forced to move beyond their firm libraries to the cloud to keep current and access expanding content. Two such providers that came on the scene were Casemaker and Fastcase, with Casemaker being the first to exclusively market...