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Bloomberg Law was just named AALL Product of the Year for 2012.
In an interesting competitive juxtaposition, it follows the 2011 Product of the Year award to ThomsonReuter’s for WestlawNext.  After years of development and some misfires, in 2011 Bloomberg Law launched a new platform which against all the odds put it into a competitive

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I think I can hear librarians throughout the US breathing a collective sigh of relief:
Today began with the announcement of the acquisition of the Portfolio Media Law360 newsletters by LexisNexis and was followed by reassuring phone calls and communications from Law 360  to its customers.
The Lexis acquisition of Law360 is being described as a

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You heard it here first. A press release confirms that Lexis has acquired Portfolio Media the publisher of the Law360 Newsletters. The press release provides no details on how this acquisition will impact either Law360 subscribers or current subscribers to LexisNexis. I analysed several scenarios in my recent post  A Lexis -Law360 Deal: The Race

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It was only a matter of time. We all know that Lexis and Westlaw watch the emerging legal content providers closely. The rumor of the week is that some sort of alliance is brewing between LexisNexis and legal newsletter publisher Law360. It has also been rumored that both Lexis and Westlaw lost out to

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EB First Edition from Wikipedia Commons

A story in the New York Times today, Britannica is Reduced to a Click” reported that The Encyclopaedia Britannica, one of the “grand dames” of the library reference shelf was going  completely digital. After 244 years the publisher would stop printing the 129 pound, 32 volume set. The print  EB was

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A class action lawsuit (12 CV 1340) was filed in the Southern District of New York today by Edward White and Kenneth Elan and their respective law firms  against West Publishing  dba West and Reed Elsevier dba Lexis.I know you are thinking:  law review articles, chapters of legal treatises, a book of lawyer jokes,… poetry for lawyers…Wrong. The plaintiffs are

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Why are legal publishers using the “Seinfeld Soupman strategy” of banishing customers who “opt out” of firmwide contracts rather than maintaining relationships on which to build future good will and market share?
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Lexis, ThomsonReuters and Wolters Kluwer CCH have been edging toward increasingly desperate measures in at attempt to coerce the

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Firms have been deleveraging (reducing the ratio of associates to partners) for the past decade in response to client pressure to reduce costs. Although the economy is recovering, deleveraging is expected to continue to impact law firm staffing for the foreseeable future.



Life After Leverage ALM Legal Intelligence

 American Lawyer Legal Intelligence recently

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Today, Bernstein Research. released a report: Reed Elsevier: Voices Calling for Asset Divestitures Should Grow Louder, and Perhaps Fall on Deaf Ears which includes some significant implications for the legal publishing marketplace. The report recommends that Reed Elsevier divest some units including LexisNexis and suggests by implication that Bloomberg Law is standing by and

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In today’s Strategic Legal Technology, my friend and former colleague Ron Friedmann posted a Open Letter to BigLaw Managing Partners: Four Imperatives for 2012 and Beyond

Here is my reinterpretation of Ron’s recommendations for thriving the “new normal”  which includes both mandates and opportunities  for information professionals …with some additional insights for Managing Partners.

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