This week Fastcase announced a new partnership with Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory which will enhance Fastcase subscribers access to treatises, handbooks and other secondary sources. Wolters Kluwer sold their Loislaw research platform to Fastcase in 2015. It appears that both companies recognize the complimentary nature of each others resources. Fastcase has been bulking up their secondary source content throughout the past year through both alliances and launching their own imprint Full Court Press and hiring seasoned legal publishing executive, Steve Errick in 2017 as Chief Operating Officer. With the Wolters Kluwer alliance, Fastcase gains more ground in their quest to close the “content gap” and become a serious competitor to Lexis and Westlaw who have dominated the legal research market for the past 30 years. I would not expect this to be the last alliance between Fastcase and Wolters Kluwer. Fastcase still lacks regulatory…
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