Today LexisNexis announced its agreement to acquire MLex, a provider of international legal analysis and commentary on regulatory risk. MLex which started in Europe has become a an important resource for antitrust lawyers in the US.
I didn’t see this one coming. Morningstar has announced
In early January Lexis sent emails to its customers, announcing that they had entered into an exclusive agreement to provide access to the New York Times in the legal market.This means that the New York Times will be removed from Lexis’ main competitors Westlaw and BloombergLaw.
We all new it was coming. It was just a question of when. LexisNexis announced today that it has rebranded one of it’s recent acquisitions Knowledge Mosaic as Lexis Securities Mosaic.
At the time of the acquisition in January 2013 I wrote a post What Did Lexis Buy and Why Did They Buy it? What Will
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| David Perla at the BBNA “Wall of Firsts” c.BBNA |
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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