Legal publishing
On May 21st Bloomberg BNA will be releasing a new product which focuses on the emerging constellation of issues referred to as “social media law.” The Social Media Law & Policy Report is BNA’s first new “notification product” since 2009. It will cover social media issues emerging in a wide range of legal practice areas including labor,
Welcome to MORE on Bloomberg Law: BNA Debuts on the Blaw Platform
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The skeptics said it couldn’t be done. The cynics said it wouldn’t be done ( at no additional cost to subscribers.) Only six months after the acquisition of BNA in September 2011, Bloomberg Law has loaded and integrated BNA content into the Blaw platform. And they are not charging their subscribers for the “mother lode” of content that became
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Is Lexis the Next Acquisition for Bloomberg?
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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
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The Votes Are In, Learn Why: Lexis Acquistion of Shepard’s Voted Best Legal Publishing Merger
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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.…
eBooks: Why are Publishers Pouring Digital Content into 19th Century Wineskins?
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I was at first excited by the prospect of eBooks for law firms. Next year could we be handing new associates an i-Pad loaded with a custom practice library? Could eBooks liberate law firms from the significant cost of housing, maintaining and updating print resources? Could eBooks liberate librarians from managing the substantial overhead of
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Vote Now For the Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers
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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.
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