In less than six months, two of the remaining independent and reasonably priced legal research providers Fastcase and Casetext have been acquired or are in the process of being acquired.
Fastcase, which itself had acquired the analytics platform Docket Alarm has been absorbed into vLex, an interesting and innovative European start-up, which has been
As market power shifts from law firms to in-house counsel, Bloomberg Law has responded by bulking up the Corporate Practice 
Center with resources designed to address the special needs of Chief Legal Officers, Chief Compliance Officers and Chief Operating Officers. Earlier this year Bloomberg Law relaunched the Corporate Practice Center with materials developed with extensive input from corporate counsel at major U.S. Companies. The Corporate Practice at Center includes practice pages covering: compliance, legal operations, corporate governance, alternative business structures, litigation and corporate news. In addition an “In Focus, “hot topics” section offers deep coverage of special topics such as proxy regulation and FCPA.
Bloomberg and the Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) also announced that they had entered a strategic collaboration for Bloomberg Law to offer sponsored content, practice tools and editorial expertise to ACC members through professional enrichment, educational and development programs.Continue Reading Bloomberg Law Relaunches Corporate Practice Center with In-House Counsel Focus: Compliance, Toolkits and Analytics
Back in January 2012, Warren Communications sued US Signal (1 12 cv-00138 U.S.D.C.D.C.) for unauthorized copying of their PDF format newsletter and is seeking damages of $19M. Warren publishes the Communications Daily which focuses on regulation of the communications industry.
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Lexis, ThomsonReuters and Wolters Kluwer CCH have been edging toward increasingly desperate measures in at attempt to coerce the
Almost a modern day parody of Henry Ford’s color palette for the Model T (“You can have any color as long as it’s black.”) Bloomberg is entering the legal marketplace with monochromatic contract as in, “You can have any contract you want as long as it’s Bloomberg’s standard contract.”
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
Qualities of the best legal publishing mergers: Making 1 + 1 = 3 Back in September I posted a survey asking readers to vote for the best and worst mergers in the legal publishing industry. This was not a scientific survey nor did I have a way to guarantee against participation by employees of vendors themselves.
The legal publishing industry has been in a state of continuous consolidation for the past 30 years. Here is your chance to vote on the best and the worst legal product acquisitions and company mergers.Click HERE to vote for the best and the worst legal publishing mergers. Voting will close on Sept. 23rd.
The synergy Between Bloomberg and BNA
A slight digression: The recent decades of consolidation in the legal publishing industry has resulted in the wholesale expatriation of control of American’s primary legal research content. (Lexis, born in Ohio is owned by Anglo-Dutch company, Reed