Working with bar associations
vLex has built long-standing partnerships with many different bar associations to provide significant value to millions of legal practitioners, law firms and educational institutions.
Consortiums
Benefits for bar associations
Unmatched content and coverage
vLex is constantly updated with the latest legislation, case law, and secondary materials, ensuring that your members have access to the most up-to-date information, from over 100 countries.
Time-saving tools
vLex is designed to help your members save time and increase productivity. With powerful features, such as intelligent search, personalised recommendations, and advanced filtering options, your members can quickly find the information they need and get back to their work.
User-friendly interface
The platform’s user-friendly interface is easy to navigate, which enables your members to quickly get up to speed without hours of time-consuming training. vLex’s intuitive design and customisable dashboard also helps your members stay organised and work more efficiently.
Connect your in-house knowledge
AI analysis, automatic linking and document enrichment tools will enable you to find the most relevant legal information, from both your internal knowledge and vLex's global library, all with a single search.
Cost-effective solution
vLex allows bar associations to easily add their own publications and content to the platform to ensure that members have access to all of the legal resources they need in one convenient location.
“vLex Fastcase strengthens the value of membership for members of The Florida Bar, delivering powerful research tools that save time, enhance legal insight, and improve client outcomes."
Terry Hill, Division Director, The Florida Bar
Your publications
Promoting publications from bar associations
With vLex, your bar association has its own comprehensive legal research platform, tailored to the unique needs of your members. Bar associations can add their own publications and content to vLex, which not only provides members with valuable resources they can’t find anywhere else, but also helps bar associations showcase their thought leadership and expertise to a wider global audience.
Feature highlights
Key features for bar associations
Find what you need quickly
vLex enables you to search the way in which you prefer. Choose between an auto-complete search bar, advanced search with boolean options, or an intuitive and easy-to-navigate browsing tool.
Identify important information
Instantly identify the most cited passages of a judgment to get to the crux of a case, and even see where and how those sections have been most subsequently cited. vLex cross-references hundreds of thousands of documents continuously to identify cited passages, and provide direct links between documents.
Sign-in options
vLex provides many different sign-in options, so there is something to suit everyone. Sign-in options include using IP recognition, EZProxy or WAM Proxy, OpenAthens via your institution, Microsoft Active Directory, or linking social accounts, such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Supporting bar associations
Help your members achieve more
Microsoft Word
Ensure your citations are up-to-date within your documents, and discover recommendations to help you build better arguments with vLex for Word.
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Unlock the power of legal intelligence on any webpage with vLex’s Chrome extension, giving you instant access to vLex’s linking and search capabilities on any recognised page.
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vLex Cloud enables you to connect your internal knowledge with vLex's global library, and enrich documents with award-winning vLex technology.
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Partners
Bar association partners
Many state bar associations in the US and many of the best metro, county, and speciality bar associations offer Fastcase legal research as a bar member benefit.
View the list of our bar associations partners below to see if you already have access to Fastcase or other vLex products through your association.
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Partners
Bar Associations
Many state bar association in the US, and many of the best metro, county, and specialty bar associations offer Fastcase legal research as a bar member benefit. If you belong to one of the bar associations below, you already have access to legal research with Fastcase.
To log in, visit your bar association website by clicking the association name below. Please note that our partners do not share your login information with us. If you do not have your password for that bar website, please contact your bar association.