I have compiled a list of the most popular Dewey B Strategic  posts of 2013. Several themes run through the year. Innovation and reinvention are driving both law firms and legal publishing. There is a “David and Goliath” theme with new legal publishers challenging the dominant players — this theme emerges as well for law

If anyone had asked me in 2006 if there was room in legal publishing for a new suite of topical current  awareness newsletters I would have said “no.” BNA, Andrews, Mealys. Warren  and a host of other super-specialty newsletters had left no niche of law lie fallow.And I would have been dead wrong! I

 This week Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory announced the appointment of Robert Lemmond as President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Lemmond, joined Wolters Kluwer in 2011 as Vice President of the Law & Business Legal Markets Group. He previously held executive positions at several content and software companies including IHS, Primark, Disclosure,

There is nothing radical about a leading legal publisher jumping into the fierce competition for current awareness market share. What is radical in WK’s announcement is the casual, almost off- handed reference to “automatic copyright compliance.”

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

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

The synergy Between Bloomberg and BNA

  • Both are non-public companies.
  • Both rooted in journalism
  • Both “Made in America”

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