Members of The Iowa State Bar Association now have free access to Fastcase 7, the all-new version of Fastcase. Many members already access Fastcase daily for their legal research and are familiar with the features and smart search tools that help them find the results they’re searching for faster. Fastcase 7 is an even more fluid and easy-to-navigate online legal research platform. As an ISBA member, you have unlimited access to one of the largest law libraries in the world.

It has all of the familiar features and tools from the past, as well as an enhanced Forecite, Tag Cloud, Authority Check and Bad Law Bot, more advanced search options, new results screen options, larger fonts and selections to make documents easier to read on computer screens, and new dual-column printing options.

You choose when to use Fastcase 7. Upon logging in to Fastcase, you’ll see a slider in the top right corner of your screen that allows you to toggle back and forth between Fastcase 7 and the classic Fastcase service.

This ISBA member benefit is unlimited — with no restrictions on time or number of transactions, unlimited printing, unlimited reference assistance and unlimited customer service included for free, as well as a newspaper archive, selected legal forms and a one-stop PACER search of federal filings. The benefit provides free access to Fastcase’s intuitive and smarter legal research tools, training webinars and tutorials, industry-leading mobile legal app and live customer support from members of the Fastcase team.

Members can access Fastcase through the ISBA’s website at www.iowabar.org. Simply use your bar username and password to connect with all Fastcase 7 has to offer.

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WHAT’S NEW?

The New Home Screen

The Results Screen

When you enter Fastcase 7, you will be greeted with a guided visual tour that automatically loads the first time you toggle over and can be viewed anytime, as many times as you need. You will notice several resources, tools and updates are prominently displayed, including: Help resources (such as the ability to live chat with a Fastcase reference attorney), any new results on alerts you have set for particular searches and quick access to a much more detailed version of your search history than was available in previous versions of Fastcase.

When you run a search on Fastcase 7, your main results are accompanied by several tools, all on the same page. These panels can be hidden or expanded without any load time and everything is pre-loaded on a bottomless screen. You can also move panels and customize your research experience.

You control which results are displayed with the numerous filter options and have the ability to clear and apply filters to your heart’s content without ever leaving the results page.

The Tag Cloud is the first of its kind in the legal research space. You can ascertain which terms are being used to discuss a legal issue in a flash, and can click any term to refine your results to those that use that term.

The Interactive Timeline is now displayed directly below your search results. You do not have to go to another page to view the timeline, allowing you to see your list of results and the data visualization of those results simultaneously.

Suggested Results are displayed alongside your main results for every search. This right-hand column is no longer just for HeinOnline materials, but Forecite Results, Journals, and everything in between.

You get bottomless results. There are no pages of cases to click through on Fastcase 7. When you scroll to the bottom of the initial results, more results will load automatically.

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WHAT’S NEW?7Fastcase 7 makes reading cases on a screen easier by using large, beautiful fonts. You can make the reading experience even cleaner by activating full screen mode using the diagonal arrows on the top right of the opinion text.

Your results list is now displayed alongside the opinion text in larger format and you can favorite or add cases to your print queue directly from an opinion page.

The Document Page

You can view Authority Check alongside your opinion. Authority Check provides vital information about how your case was cited. It includes an innovative feature dreamed up by Fastcase: Bad Law Bot. Rather than using editorial input, Bad Law Bot is driven by information embedded within citing cases. Each case is analyzed for negative citation signals which are mandated by the Bluebook rules. If a case uses negative signals to describe a case, that case is flagged for review.

The New Authority Check

A More Advanced SearchNow with Fastcase 7, you can search across different types of materials at the same time. Cases, state constitutions, attorney general opinions – choose to search everything or filter results down to just a select category. You can also choose to search across all materials associated with a particular state jurisdiction simultaneously.

New Dual-Column PrintingNow you can download up to 500 documents at a time in a zip file, with each document in a separate file. Each file has an intelligent name, so you can identify them in a snap.

New Cloud LinkingFastcase Cloud Linking is a free tool that finds citations to cases in your PDF or Word document, creates public hyperlinks to them and returns the document (with links) to you for download. Now you can automatically create hyperlinks in briefs, issue alerts, or client memos, preserving all of your existing formatting, but simply adding hyperlinks to cases.

Cloud Linking is notable because the links it creates are public and free — anyone can follow them regardless of whether they have a Fastcase subscription. While both LexisNexis and Westlaw also have tools that convert citations into hyperlinks, the person following their links must have a subscription to view the source material.

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UNLIMITED PRINTING Fastcase never charges for downloading or printing a case. Print to your heart’s content as part of your regular flat subscription price.

PRINT QUEUE Add documents to your queue as you research. When you are finished, download up to 500 documents at once with a click.

PUBLIC LINKS You can share Fastcase’s primary law materials with collegues, friends, and clients, whether or not they have access to Fastcase.

Fastcase is a leading legal publisher focused on smarter legal software that democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Founded in 1999, Fastcase is one of the fastest-growing legal tech companies, covering over 800,000 U.S. attorneys and more from around the world. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase or visit www.fastcase.com.

Fastcase and HeinOnline have worked to integrate their respective libraries, leading to one of the most successful partnerships in legal publishing. The two services are naturally symbiotic: use Fastcase’s data analytics tools to search HeinOnline’s massive library of law review articles for free.

The idea is simple - where Fastcase’s excellent primary law materials end, HeinOnline’s unmatched law journal coverage begins. And the best part? You never have to pay to search HeinOnline journal articles.

No matter where you log-in to Fastcase, your work will be ready and waiting with Fastcase’s free Android and iOS mobile app. The award-winning app puts the American law library in the palm of your hand so you can research on the run, or create a virtual trial notebook. The app can be synced to a desktop account giving users the opportunity to view their saved documents and recent searches across all of their devices.

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