When Bloomberg acquired the Bureau of National Affairs in 2011, many legal information professionals wondered if this was simply another takeover that would obliterate the identity, the products and culture of yet another venerated legal publisher. Would Bloomberg Law crush the deep and well cultivated relationships that BNA had developed with law firms and law librarians over the years?
I have been noticing some positive changes at Wolters Kluwer for the past few months. I have had several conversations with Bob Lemmond the
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Last year I participated in the 2011 program at AALL on the new generation of research platforms from Lexis and Westlaw..
A year ago WestlawNext was the only “new generation” product that was fully deployed to subscribers. Lexis Advance was deployed in trials and Bloomberg Law was regarded as a “wanna be”
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.
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