Toby and I had a great lunch today where we discussed everything from the current state of the music touring business to what will happen when Mayor Mike goes back to his day job of running Bloomberg. One of the topics along the way to the Bloomberg end of things was if Reed Elsevier spun
Many of you may have heard the news that LexisOne, Lexis’ minimalist effort at providing a limited selection of free case law, was officially shut down earlier this month. Apparently, Lexis did a two-step program to first place LexisOne behind a “community site” (which required registration), and then two months later shut it down completely.
 |
| Image [cc] Bobby Cromick |
[Note: I received this guest post last week, but the writer asked to remain anonymous. Quite frankly, this wasn’t the first time I heard someone voice this opinion, so let us know if you think they are on-point with this post, or if you think Bloomberg Law isn’t just a different
Below is an excerpt of what Law 360 emailed to its current client base re/the news of this acquisition.
The combination of Law360 and LexisNexis will deliver powerful improvements to Law360’s news coverage and will allow us to continue to expand our coverage into new practice areas and jurisdictions.
In the intermediate term, the acquisition
I am no stranger to receiving strange gifts in the mail from publishers. I once got a box full of used horse shoes in a Thomson Reuters box. However, the gift I just received this morning may be a bit stranger than even the horse shoes. In my renewal notice (actually, it was the
 |
| Image [cc] HorsePunchKid |
[Guest Post from Jason Wilson, VP at Jones McClure Publishing, and blogger at rethinck.]
On her blog, Dewey B. Strategic, Jean O’Grady took direct aim at large legal publishers—Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Bloomberg, and Wolters Kluwer—and urged them to customize their database offerings at the practice-group level rather than taking
Leave it up to Jean O’Grady to come up with a fascinating question to end the week. On her wonderful blog, Dewey B Strategic, she is running a quick and dirty survey on the “Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers.” Although, it is not a purely scientific survey, I suggest that you go over and
I’ve been thinking all day about what the Bloomberg acquisition of BNA will eventually mean in the legal publishing world. I first thought of what it would mean to Westlaw and Lexis, and whether Bloomberg Law would now truly bring some competition to the duopoly we’ve all come to accept (and loathe.) However, what really
I also received a Q&A Sheet from Bloomberg about their acquisition of BNA and what it means for customers of both products.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATED TO BLOOMBERG’S ACQUISITION OF BNA
1. What was announced today?
Bloomberg and The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA) today announced that they have entered into an agreement under
Well, we always hear rumors around the time of AALL that someone is buying BNA (usually Westlaw or Lexis), however, it seems that Bloomberg was the one to actually pull the trigger on this acquisition. I just received this press release on the purchase. (More of my personal comments to come…)
SEE: Q&A about Bloomberg/BNA Acquisition