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 morning Greg McCaffery CEO of Bloomberg Law sent a letter to clients announcing some changes at Bloomberg Law and BloombergBNA. The most immediate impact will be the unification of all legal products under a single subsidiary named BloombergBNA starting in January 2014.
New Leadership Structure Effective January 1, McCaffery will become the
Thomson Reuters is no slouch when it comes to monitoring, but monitoring is not an area where they were regarded as cutting edge. Westlaw has developed a number of monitoring products over the years, Westclip for legal and news updates, Keycite Alert and West docket alerts. All reliable and unexciting tools that seemed a response
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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
1. Faster to the ebook market. Once again Fastcase has leapfrogged over many well established legal publishers by jumping into the eBook market. Last year at AALL, only the two largest legal publishers LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, were
Today Dow Jones released a routine “snooze” of a press release on executive changes. A roster of names I had never heard before were appointed to key positions reporting to CEO Lex Fenwick . Toward the bottom of the list there was a name familiar to the legal community.
“Dan Hayter has been named head
