Fastcase Introduces e-Books, Beginning with Advance Sheets
From the post:
According to the Fastcase blog post, Fastcase advance sheets will be available “for each state, federal circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court”; will be free of charge and “licensed under [a] Creative Commons BY-SA license“; and will include summaries. Each e-Book Advance Sheet will contain “one month’s judicial opinions (designated as published and unpublished) for specific states or courts.”
According to Sean Doherty’s post, future Fastcase e-Books will include “e-book case reporters with official pagination and links” into the Fastcase database, as well as “topical reporters” on U.S. law, covering fields such as securities law and antitrust law.
According to the Fastcase blog post, Fastcase’s approach to e-Books is inspired in part by CALI‘s Free Law Reporter, which makes case law available as e-Books in EPUB format.
For details, see the links in the post at Legal Informatics.
I mention it because not only could you have “topical reporters” but information products that are tied to even narrower areas of case law.
Such as litigation that a firm has pending or very narrow areas of liability (for example) of interest to a particular client. Granting there are “case watch” resources in every trade zine, but hardly detailed enough to do more than “excite the base” as they say.
With curated content from a topic map application, rather than “exciting the base,” you could be sharpening the legal resources you can whistle up on behalf of your client. Increasing their appreciate and continued interest in representation by you.