Free Legal Research Coming Soon

Free access to primary law – what better benefit could a bar association offer its members? None, we think, which is why we've contracted with Washington, D.C.-based Fastcase to provide its 50-state library of caselaw to ISBA lawyers. And Fastcase will be available soon – visit isba.org for any new developments and watch for the September issues of the ISBA Bar News and the Illinois Bar Journal for details.

Fastcase will be a boon to all members, but especially solo and small firm lawyers struggling to reduce overhead and stay competitive. The Fastcase national library helps keeps you from being priced out of the increasing number of -matters that require research in other ------jurisdictions.

Here's just some of what Fastcase includes:

• an easy-to-use search engine that allows both Boolean and natural-language searching;

• cases from the courts of review from Illinois and every other state, as well as U.S. Supreme and federal appellate cases (users can search all jurisdictions at once);

• star pagination and double-column printing.

Can't wait to see what Fastcase looks like and how it works? Go to www.fastcase.com and sign up for a free short-term trial subscription.