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
This past week Lexis quietly acquired the a collection of 55 titles from Oxford University Press US Law Division. Now before you get too excited here’s the bummer – the collection does not include one of my personal favorites, the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations by
Today Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis released almost simultaneous announcements that they were acquiring specialty legal information companies.
TR announced the acquisition of PLC Practical Law Company and Lexis Nexis announced the acquisition of Knowledge Mosaic. Today’s post will focus on the TR/PLC deal.
TR and PLC
PLC is a private company based in the
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.
Since thirteen or fourteen years is an eternity in the world of business cycles, here is a bit of history for the young ‘uns about an earlier merger/purchase. In 1998, at about the time of the Frankfurt Book Fair (early-mid October), Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier announced a merger. This was pretty shocking news to
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.