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 week Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory announced the appointment of Robert Lemmond as President & CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Lemmond, joined Wolters Kluwer in 2011 as Vice President of the Law & Business Legal Markets Group. He previously held executive positions at several content and software companies including IHS, Primark, Disclosure,
Matthew Bender Online was one of the earliest digital successors to legal treatises on cd-rom. When it was released in the early 1990s, MBOnline offered an elegantly simple interface and eliminated the technical idiosyncrasies ( I almost wrote atrocities) of managing networked cd-roms. It allowed lawyers to have digital access to multi-volume treatises. But it was
On Friday, Judge Rakoff tossed out the lawsuit brought by intellectual property lawyer Edward White last year against Lexis and Westlaw, according to a story in Thomson Reuters News and Insight. White claimed that Lexis and Westlaw had violated copyright law by including his copyrighted legal documents in their online services.( Edward White v. West Publishing Corp, U.S.
Since thirteen or fourteen years is an eternity in the world of business cycles, here is a bit of history for the young ‘uns about an earlier merger/purchase. In 1998, at about the time of the Frankfurt Book Fair (early-mid October), Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier announced a merger. This was pretty shocking news to
Today Exane BNP Paribas released an equity research report suggesting that the time may once again, be ripe for a Thomson Reuters/Wolters Kluwer merger. While the US legal publishing units Westlaw and CCH are not the main focus of this speculation, it is