Well, we weren’t the only ones having some April Fool’s Day fun yesterday.  In fact, there was so much tomfoolery going around that no one could tell what was real and what was a joke.  I’m really hoping that the iPad/Donkey Kong console is true!!  That’s a much better use of an iPad than reading

Dear “New Lexis.com”,
I know that you are still in the gestation stage of your life, but I thought I’d write you a letter to help you enter the world on a better footing than your cousin WestlawNext did.  Let me start off by saying that we’re all excited to see what you look like,

It seems that the folks at WestlawNext have created a simple two-page resource that helps us all understand the pricing of their new product.  You got to love a clearly written two-page document like this that list out twenty-four scenarios along with three footnotes listing caveats to some of the scenarios.  Don’t forget to multiply those

I feel like I’ve been picking on the folks at Thomson Reuters regarding the launch of WestlawNext, especially with this post last week.  I expected a quick response from Thomson Reuters on my questioning their approach to pushing this out to law firms and more specifically to law students.  The response came this morning from

NOTE: I talked with a couple of the “Project Cobalt” team members who told me that there were a number of inaccuracies in my post (such as the name of the product won’t be called “West Next” or that Boolean searching isn’t available.)
Although most of these comments came from inside West, it looks like