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Knowledge Mosiac: What Did LexisNexis Buy and Why DId They Buy It? What Will They Do With It? The Race for Content Continues

By Jean O'Grady on January 10, 2013

My first reaction to the LexisNexis purchase of Knowledge Mosaic was. “but why?” Doesn’t Lexis already have much of the same content as KM in their own mega system, so why buy redundant content? My second reaction was a chill running down my spine as I recalled the last time a mega vendor purchased a small

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The Race For Content Continues: Thomson Reuters Acquires Practical Law Company

By Jean O'Grady on January 4, 2013

Today Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis released almost simultaneous announcements that they were acquiring specialty legal information companies.

TR announced the acquisition of PLC Practical Law Company and Lexis Nexis announced the acquisition of Knowledge Mosaic. Today’s post will focus on the TR/PLC deal.

TR and PLC

PLC is a private company based in the

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Next Generation Legal Search Engines: Westlaw Next, Lexis Advance and Bloomberg Law:The Good, The Bad and The Baffling

By Jean O'Grady on July 27, 2012

On Sunday, July 22nd, I participated in the AALL program on the Next Generation Of Legal Research Databases where co-panelists, Jean Davis, Emily Marcum, Susan Nevelow Mart and Victoria Szymczak delivered the results of the survey we conducted regarding academic, law firm and government adoption of Lexis Advance, Westlaw Next and Bloomberg Law. A lively discussion was

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Breaking News: Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Joining Forces on Current Awareness

By Jean O'Grady on July 19, 2012

Back in December I wrote a post speculating on the possibility of a Wolters Kluwer Thomson Reuters Merger. While no merger has come to pass, a new alliance was just announced.

I have been noticing some positive changes at Wolters Kluwer for the past few months. I have had several conversations with Bob Lemmond the

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The Future of Libraries, eBooks, Siri, iPads, KM, New Research Platforms

By Jean O'Grady on July 5, 2012

The latest edition of Practice Innovations from Thomson Reuters was just released. This issue includes my article on The Future of eBooks in Law Firms and the Future of Libraries as well other articles on cutting edge topics.

Fastcase Should Fastrack to Advance Sheets 2.0

By Jean O'Grady on June 26, 2012

There are two things that surprised me about the Fastcase release of advance sheets which was announced last week.

1. Faster to the ebook market. Once again Fastcase has leapfrogged over many well established legal publishers by jumping into the eBook market. Last year at AALL, only the two largest legal publishers LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, were

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A Shake Up at Dow Jones! Can a Shake Up in Law Firm Access to the Wall Steet Journal and Factiva Be Far Behind?

By Jean O'Grady on June 20, 2012

Today Dow Jones released a routine “snooze” of a press release on executive changes. A roster of names I had never heard before were appointed to key positions reporting to CEO Lex Fenwick . Toward the bottom of the list there was a name familiar to the legal community.

“Dan Hayter has been named head

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Deconstructing Dewey’s Debt: In Search of the Missing Variables

By Jean O'Grady on June 1, 2012

There have been some wild extrapolations of late on some of my favorite blogs regarding the meaning of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s unsecured “legal research” related debts as listed in the firm’s bankruptcy filing.

These debts are listed as follows: Thomson Reuters (owed $2.3 million), LexisNexis (owed $1.4 million.), and Wolters Kluwer/CCH (owed $650K.).

In search of

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Reading Between the FAQ’s of the Lexis-Law360 Deal

By Jean O'Grady on March 21, 2012

I think I can hear librarians throughout the US breathing a collective sigh of relief:

Today began with the announcement of the acquisition of the Portfolio Media Law360 newsletters by LexisNexis and was followed by reassuring phone calls and communications from Law 360 to its customers.

The Lexis acquisition of Law360 is being described as a

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“No Soup For You!” Are Legal Publishers Using A Seinfeld Episode as a Business Strategy?

By Jean O'Grady on February 15, 2012

Why are legal publishers using the “Seinfeld Soupman strategy” of banishing customers who “opt out” of firmwide contracts rather than maintaining relationships on which to build future good will and market share?

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Lexis, ThomsonReuters and Wolters Kluwer CCH have been edging toward increasingly desperate measures in at attempt to coerce the

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