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It is an understatement to say that Ravel Law is not your father’s research platform.
You are not just using a new product, you are entering the “world of Ravel”… and you need to check all your preconceptions about legal research at the door.

Ravel Law makes me feel old. It has some similarities to

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It is more than a year  since Judge Rakoff dismissed Edward White’s case against Westlaw and Lexis for copyright infringement. A memo explaining the rationale was promised and it has finally been delivered. On July
3, 2014,  Judge Rakoff released a Memorandum and Order which provides a fair use analysis of the decision and reaffirms the 2013 dismissal.

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 In August  2013 LexisNexis announced that they had entered into a joint
venture with Internet Brands (the owner of Cars.com) to develop
“marketing solutions” using the Martindale.com platform. Although
Internet Brands is taking the lead in managing the joint venture there
is no mention of Martindale on their website. Since LexisNexis owns InterAction,  the

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Fastcase  which made it’s name as a low cost alternative to Lexis and Westlaw with an innovative search engine including  graphical timelines for analyzing caselaw has announced a move into the growing legal process improvement and  workflow arena.

www.fastcase.comToday LexisNexis and Fastcase announced that the Collier TopForm & File product will now be provided exclusively by Fastcase and

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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

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After years of development Wolters Kluwer is preparing to release the secret platform that has been referred to internally as Project Cheetah at the AALL conference in July. Wolters Kluwer recently offered to “lift the veil” so I could get a look at Project Cheetah. Will Cheetah be just another hyped up launch of a

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Last
week the Special Libraries Association and the Financial Times released a
report “The Evolving Value of Information Management.”  First of all, I want
to applaud SLA and the Financial Times for this innovative partnership which
obviously addresses a mutual need to foster the value of  both premium
content resources and sophisticated content advisers.

I
do

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Today Thomson Reuters announced that it had launched the latest incarnation of Westlaw Business as “The Business Law Center on WestlawNext.” There have been seismic shifts in law firms and the legal publishing industry since Thomson Reuters first waded into the corporate practice market in 2005 with the acquisition of Global Securities Information (GSI). Seven

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