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| Big Data Hits a Wall c. J O’Grady |
The disruption of access to court dockets through Pacer has implications beyond the retrieval of dockets and documents.
The Administrative Office of the US Courts announced on August 11th that archival dockets from 5 federal courts would no longer be available through Pacer. I contacted the Office
Jones McClure is one of the
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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.”
First it was iPad, and iPhones, then it was cloud printing. Tomorrow it’s the Droid. Fastcase runs to it’s own drumbeat away from the mainstream research providers. As the big three legal providers (Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law) harden their digital bulwarks against free or low cost access, Fastcase keeps opening
These debts are listed as follows: Thomson Reuters (owed $2.3 million), LexisNexis (owed $1.4 million.), and Wolters Kluwer/CCH (owed $650K.).
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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, 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