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vLex/Fastcase
March 27, 2025

Accessing Fastcase During the vLex Fastcase Content Merge

As a part of the merger between legal tech companies vLex and Fastcase, the vendors' legal research content is transitioning to a new digital platform. As of March 2025, the transfer to the new platform is not yet fully complete. As a result, when our members access Fastcase via Jenkins , they will...
News & Events
April 27, 2023

Legal Tech & Research News: vLex and Fastcase Merge to form vLex Group

If you haven’t yet heard the big news about vLex and Fastcase *, the two legal tech companies are merging to form the vLex Group. Announced earlier this month, the merger purports to create both the “the world’s largest law firm subscriber base” as well as the “biggest legal data corpus ever...
vLex/Fastcase
January 5, 2021
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Breaking News: Fastcase and Casemaker Announce Merger

Today Fastcase, one of our most popular remote-access member databases, and rival Casemaker announced a merger. For more information, see: The Fastcase blog post announcing the merger. Commentary by Robert Ambrogi , an attorney and respected longtime legal journalist. Here's the bottom line for...
Remote Resources
November 24, 2020

Using Fastcase 7: The Results Page

If you are a new user of Fastcase * or still getting familiar with Fastcase 7 (FC7), you may not know about all the features of the FC7 search results page. This post will help you to get acquainted with the results page so that you can better navigate the database and narrow in on the results that...
vLex/Fastcase
October 27, 2020

Using Fastcase 7: Jurisdiction & Sources

If you’re a frequent Fastcase * user and/or Jenkins’ blog reader, you’ve probably noticed that the database now opens in the new Fastcase 7 (FC7) interface by default . This post will feature tips on how to select jurisdiction or sources from the main search bar in FC7. Stay tuned for future blog...
vLex/Fastcase
October 15, 2020

Fastcase Access Now Defaults to Fastcase 7

Fastcase 7* (FC7) is now the default platform for Jenkins’ members! When logging into Fastcase, users will be sent directly to Fastcase’s most up-to-date interface. If you are not yet familiar with FC7, you will notice a streamlined homepage that encourages use of the main search bar. If you prefer...
Caselaw & the Courts
May 8, 2020

Searching Pennsylvania Case Law

Trying to search Pennsylvania case law while you are working remotely? Jenkins has several resources that may be helpful. For Pennsylvania appellate court cases, take a look at Fastcase . Generally, Fastcase has case law from all 50 states going back at least as far as 1950. Many states, including...
HeinOnline
January 7, 2020
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Jenkins 2019 Year in Review

Now that our first year in our new location has come to an end, we decided to revisit the new resources we've added and go over some of the work we've done in 2019. Jenkins added a new in house database this year - Cheetah from Wolters Kluwer . This database has extensive and comprehensive coverage...
vLex/Fastcase
July 23, 2019

Fact-Checking News Sources

The fast pace of the 24 hour news cycle has pushed sources to break news quickly, and often sensationalize stories to remain competitive. The rush to be the first to publish has created an environment where facts are checked during or after a story breaks. Consumers are now forced to be more aware...
vLex/Fastcase
July 18, 2019

Fastcase Tip: Authority Check

Fastcase offers a research tool called Authority Check , which helps find later citing cases to a particular case. Authority Check can be used to locate related authority on your topic or to prioritize your research by looking for the most fequenty cited cases. In the Fastcase Classic interface,...