Startup founders Ed Walters and Phil Rosenthal merged their legal research platform, Fastcase, with European legal provider vLex in 2023 — and then, two years later, led vLex in merging with legal management tool Clio. Their success story puts them at the center of the sweeping changes AI is bringing to research, client management, and the practice of law.
Join Walters and Rosenthal in a conversation with Library Innovation Lab director Jack Cushman to learn how their mission to democratize access to law has found new opportunities in the age of AI.
You can read more about the acquisition of vLex in Business Insider.
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Ed Walters is a co-founder and former CEO of Fastcase, a pioneering legal publishing company that invented many of the modern tools for legal research and post-merger chief strategy officer at vLex. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, Cornell Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.
Phil Rosenthal is a co-founder and longtime president of Fastcase, which revolutionized legal research while democratizing the law and the post-merger chief growth officer at vLex.
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