For many of us that use the many products of the Thomson Reuters Legal stable, we can thank TR Legal’s Chief Scientist and head of R&D for many of the great features that make our research results better. Sadly, that giant of the industry died suddenly this morning at the age of 62. The announcement
Jason Beahm, a San Francisco lawyer and former content writer for Thomson Reuters’ (TR) Findlaw website, has filed a class action complaint (PDF) against TR, and the employee contracting company, Adecco, claiming that the writers in the Sunnyvale, California offices were not properly paid for overtime worked, for the meals (and
We mentioned last week that Thomson West was slapped with a $5.18 judgement from a case brought against them by two Law School Professors where West published shoddy pocket parts and attributed the profs’ names to the publication even though they did not write them. We also mentioned that the general consensus from those interested in
My friend Joe Hodnicki over at Law Librarian Blog lays out a good overview of some of the bad decisions that West Publishing made in the whole Rudovsky vs. West matter. As Joe puts it, “Invoice-paying law librarians” have seen tricks and shams for a while now, but with so much going on, and in
Interesting news out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where a jury awarded David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov $90K each against West Publishing for defamation and for placing the Defendants in a false light. In addition to the $180K, the jury also slapped West with punitive damages for $2.5M for each defendant.
Here are the
I was joking around with Sarah Glassmeyer on Twitter yesterday that the graph she did on Thomson Reuters acquisitions would explode if she added in all the mega-company acquisitions from 2010. Although today’s news about TR becoming the primary printing and binding shop for the American Bar Association isn’t exactly an acquisition, it does louden that
Jordan Furlong brings up an interesting insight in his recent post, “Law firm of the 21st Century.” He notes “the company that used to sell lawyers their textbooks and caselaw databases is now, in effect, competing with them in the delivery of legal services.” He’s referring in large part to the recent acquisition
When Reed Elsevier announced the retirement of its current CEO, Andy Prozes, it also outlined a change in how the LexisNexis business will be organized after January 1, 2011. LexisNexis will be split into two different units, each with its own CEO. There will be a “Risk Solutions” group with Jim Peck as
We mentioned last week that Thomson Reuters Legal is going to double-down its efforts to sell its products to the one- to three-attorney law firms. From some of the people I’ve talked to, it appears that the majority of these efforts are going to take place through an increase in phone sales focused on these
