State Bar offers new member discounts

This month, the Insurance and Member Benefits Committee of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors announced new member discounts available to Texas lawyers.

The discounts include special prices on legal-specific programs such as law firm merchant accounts and data recovery, and also a range of consumer products including automotive services, electronics, and travel and entertainment.

State Bar members may access the discounts page at texasbar.beneplace.com

Free online legal research now spans 50 states

We've quietly launched a major update to our free online legal research tool.

Texas lawyers now have access to free caselaw from all 50 states, an improved search interface, and expanded federal libraries. The new service is dubbed Casemaker 2.1 and is available on My Bar Page (TexasBar.com) and on TexasBarCLE.com

You'll find lots of cool new features, including options to email a case or save it as a PDF or Word document with "live link citations" to other cited cases.

Please let us know what you think about Casemaker 2.1. Leave a comment below, or email webmaster@texasbar.com.