On January 5, 2021, legal publishers Casemaker and Fastcase announced their merger and joint building out of legal research and analytics, news, data, and workflow solutions. The two companies will combine their teams and technologies to innovate research, analytics, and workflow offerings that empower lawyers with powerful digital solutions. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Fastcase in the transaction.

The two companies have taken a similar trajectory in creating an affordable and widely accessible alternative to the global publishers that dominate American law, offering subscriptions to bar associations, who subscribe on behalf of their members. Each company offers its subscribers different products, and this merger will allow the combined company to offer state bar associations the best of both, a more complete alternative for legal research. Combined, Fastcase and Casemaker are expected to serve more than one million users.

The Wilson Sonsini team that represented Fastcase in the transaction includes Mark Fitzgerald, Amanda Creedon, and Drew Kohlmeier.

For more information, please see the joint press release. Additional coverage can be found at Law.com.