With the news last week of the merger of authorized analysis firms Fastcase and vLex, it appeared a very good time to revisit our 2019 interview with the founders of Fastcase, Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal. The event of this interview was the corporate’s twentieth anniversary, and we recorded it dwell, on the exhibit corridor flooring, on the annual convention of the American Affiliation of Regulation Libraries.
On this interview, Walters and Rosenthal recount how, as two younger associates on the legislation agency Covington & Burling, they got here to discovered Fastcase in 1999. Additionally they recall a few of their biggest successes and worst errors through the years as founders, and provide their predictions for the way forward for Fastcase. How do their predictions in 2019 rise up in 2023? Properly, you’ll must pay attention to search out out the reply to that.
Though Fastcase began as a authorized analysis firm, in recent times, it had diversified and expanded into areas equivalent to authorized analytics, authorized publishing, authorized information, and even authorized doc automation. That diversification had already began once we spoke to Walters and Rosenthal in 2019. The 12 months earlier than, that they had acquired the authorized dockets and analytics firm Docket Alarm, and, as you’ll hear, they had been already seeing analytics as a key part of their future progress.
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