Bloomberg  Law entered the legal information market striding to a different drumbeat, and they continue to be delightfully contrarian. First they shunned  the traditional cost recovery model for online research,  then they added a raft of BNA content at no additional cost to subscribers. Last week they quietly retreated from their debut pricing plan.

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 There have been some wild extrapolations of late on some of my favorite blogs regarding the meaning of  Dewey & LeBoeuf’s  unsecured “legal research” related  debts as listed in the firm’s bankruptcy filing.

 These debts are listed as follows: Thomson Reuters (owed $2.3 million), LexisNexis (owed $1.4 million.), and Wolters Kluwer/CCH (owed $650K.).

In search of

Congratulations to the Research Genius Award Winner: David Proctor, Director of the Research and Information Center, Ballard Spahr. who submitted the first competed and correct crossword.

Second Place, Lance Odegard, Director National Technology, Thomson Reuters.

Thanks to all participants. The competed crossword and clues are below..

The skeptics said it couldn’t be done. The cynics said it wouldn’t be done ( at no additional cost to subscribers.) Only six months after the acquisition of BNA in September 2011, Bloomberg Law has loaded and integrated BNA content into the Blaw platform. And they are not charging their subscribers for the “mother lode” of content that became