Please take the 2019-2020 Dewey B Strategic Survey here. Review the 2019 highlights below and tell your colleagues about the best and the worst of 2019 in legal publishing and legal tech.The survey will close on Sunday March 1st.
The Highlights 2019 was a relatively quiet launch year in legal technology and publishing. The
On February 25th they are launching an exciting new legal news service Legal Radar which I believe his targeted to deflate the aggressive growth and pricing of its main competitor Law360.
American Lawyer Media’s flagship publication, American Lawyer has been credited with inventing the legal news market in the 1980s. ALM has been exploring ways to reinvent how lawyers consume legal news for several years. The relaunch of Law.com brought content from all 19 ALM legal publications together in a unified platform. The old legal intelligence platform was relaunched as Legal Compass. On Tuesday they will launch an AI enabled streaming news service for lawyers.
Legal Radar delivers a clean customizable stream of breaking legal news and competitive insights. Lawyers can track companies, industries, law firms as well as litigation. Legal Radar offers breaking litigation news within minutes of a filing. When cases are reported documents such as complaints and opinions are attached to the story. I found Legal Radar to be visually “addicting” like an endless Facebook stream. It was hard to stop scrolling! Like its competitor
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Lexis and Westlaw laid the foundations for today’s online research market in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Their dominance 
in the legal research arena was challenged on two fronts in the 2010’s. First they were challenged by the emergence of two full service competitors: Bloomberg Law and Fastcase. More surprising was the disruptive impact of the disgruntled, entrepreneur lawyers with a good idea and some venture capital who invented some completely new ways of approaching research and delivering insights..
Spinning Analytics Gold From Dockets. Lexis and WESTLAW were in the docket business for decades but it Lex Machina (now owned by Lexis Nexis) which invented a way for lawyers to use analytics for pitches and litigation strategy.
Lex Machina took the most mundane of legal data sets– docket entries and spun it into a goldmine of legal insights. Lex Machina started as a public interest project at Stamford Law school in 2006. The product leverages machine learning and natural language processing, to normalize, structure, and analyze raw data from millions of case dockets
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Fastcase is taking on Lexis Nexis Law360 and American Lawyer Media with their relaunch of Law Street Media with a
“high tech industry offering”. According to David Nayer, Editor in Chief of Law Street Media, they will focus on “legal news that leads to business.”
The strategy will be to focus on emerging legal news by industry and offer readers the ability to track litigation, companies, and firms within industry sectors. According to the press release, “The first service will cover high tech and will leverage Fastcase’s wealth of real-time docket, 
litigation, and analytics information to create legal news that generates business for its users. This segment features emerging litigation in technology, from data privacy and government regulation, to the privacy rights of individuals from hacking, to the commercialization of their private information. Articles include coverage of tech giants, emerging tech, tech policy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property.”
In addition to reading legal news online at www.lawstreetmedia.com, readers can subscribe for customized daily delivery of the day’s stories at https://lawstreetmedia.com/subscribe-lsm/. There is no charge to subscribe or access full articles.
Law Street Media was founded by legal journalist John Jenkins in 2013 and acquired by Fastcase in 2018 The press release state that “the reboot of Law Street is part of Fastcase’s goal of “democratizing the law and providing a smarter approach to legal research. Law Street’s industry-by-industry approach keeps the focus of news stories on clients.”
What to Watch – Competing With Free?. Fastcase is launching Law Street Media at at particularly fraught time in the legal news market. American Lawyer Media is the granddaddy of legal news reporting has had an exclusive alliance with LexisNexis. This is rumored to be up for renewal. Will ALM opt to go independent?. Bloomberg which was already in the news business
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Looking back on 2019. It was a year of product launches, re-brands and realignments. Here are the most popular posts of 2019 followed by a list of the most read posts from earlier years.
Happy New Year!
During the Great Analytics ‘Shoot-Out’ at AALL, law librarians tested and compared the results of seven federal litigation analytics platforms.
Analytics tools enable lawyers to ask completely new questions and gain insights which were virtually unavailable in a text based research world. It takes a special skill set to ask the right “data quality” questions when firms are assessing the dozens of analytics products competing for a share of lawyers desktop or an organization’s information resource budget.
Use cases for analytics include: pitch strategy, AFA responses, litigation strategy, deal negotiation strategy, managing client expectations, diving process efficiency, internal bench marking and developing peer metrics.
Law librarians have been quietly driving the adoption of analytics in the business and practice of law. Hundreds of librarians, knowledge managers and legal publishing executives jammed into a meeting room at the 2019 American Association of Law Libraries Conference and Meeting in Washington DC on July 15th to attend a two and one half hour “super-session” “ The Federal and State Analytics market: Should the Buyer Beware?” exploring the state of litigation
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I was traveling this week, so I will provide a summary of some legal information and technology highlights.
Fastcase and Florida Bar Launch Case Alerts
Fastcase which seems to have a weekly product launch or feature enhancement – did not disappoint this week. On Tuesday they announced that in collaboration with the Florida Bar they had launched Case Alerts, a daily report of court decisions in key practice areas. The subscription-only service introduced Florida Family Law Alerts, a daily e-mail summary of family law decisions from Florida courts. Fastcase and The Florida Bar will roll out new Florida practice areas throughout the summer, including business law, real property, probate, trusts, and tax law alerts. Read more at this link.
Thomson Reuters Added Jurisdictional Surveys to Westlaw Edge
On Monday Thomson Reuters announced the release of Jurisdictional Surveys, The press release describes the features as allowing users to “quickly retrieve a customized and relevant compilation of laws across all U.S. jurisdictions on virtually any topic.” My first reaction to Thomson Reuters press release on jurisdictional surveys was to wonder how this feature if different from their 50 state survey offering. I plan to have a demo and will report back on what I learn.
Bloomberg Ending UK Court Coverage
A Bloomberg Law executive explained to me that use of the UK materials had declined and that there were legal
Continue Reading Weekly Round Up – Fastcase Adds Case Alerts; TR Adds Jurisdictional Surveys; Bloomberg Law Ends UK Coverage; New Exhibitors at AAALL — Innovation Survey!
Casemaker has announced the launch of Casemaker4 – a “next generation” research platform with a new look, faster 
search and expanded functionality New features were added based on extensive testing and user feedback. New features include: alerts delivered via email; advanced search opinions; predictive “type ahead” functionality; and “intelligent algorithms” which suggest related primary and
Only weeks after Wolters Kluwer was in news for surviving a malware attack, today there is happier news. Dean 
Sonderegger has been named SVP & General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory . He succeeds former LRUS head Greg Samios who was recently named as President & CEO of the Wolters Kluwer Health division’s global Health Learning, Research & Practice. Sonderreger has decades of experience in the legal technology and publishing space. Most recently he was, he was Executive Director of Product Management and Marketing at Bloomberg BNA. At Wolters Kluwer Sonderegger has spearheaded customer-focused innovation to enhance legal professionals’
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