Publishing

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In publishing, the little things do matter.

May 6, 2013

Today, one of my editors was kind enough to send me an email that read simply: Go to the Texas Supreme Court website. So I did, and guess what I saw? This: Now, I happen to know that Justice Hecht told a CLE crowd a few weeks back that Thomson Reuters’ West Texas Rules of [...]

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Thomson Reuters Law School Publishing Business Sold to Eureka Growth Capital

February 4, 2013

Paul Caron (TaxProf Blog) writes today that Thomson Reuters has apparently completed the sale of the law school publishing business to the private equity firm, Eureka Growth Capital, whose current holdings include college campus television and telecommunication services, floor coverings, digital photography services, home accent and decor products, engineered machined products, forensic toxicology labs, and [...]

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What does Bingham McCutchen’s move mean to you?

September 13, 2012

So it would appear that global firm Bingham McCutchen is following Pillsbury’s lead and moving it’s entire “back office” operation to a cheaper labor venue, Lexington, Kentucky, next year according to Eric Young of the San Francisco Business Times. About the staff moving over, Young reports, Those workers will perform a variety of services for [...]

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Should Reed Elsevier sell Lexis-Nexis?

July 5, 2012

By Jason Wilson Legacy legal publishers are like aging men, thinning on top and putting more weight on the bottom. In a research report issued by Liberum Capital on Tuesday, this little nugget caught my eye: Our view here is simple: the legal publishing industry is challenged and it would be better for Reed to exit [...]

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On editing & updating standards.

March 30, 2011

By Jason Wilson I’ve been catching up with some light reading of various deposition transcripts in Rudovsky v. West Publishing Corp., No. 09-CV-727 (E.D. Penn.), which were publicly available through Pacer.gov. While we wait for the court’s decision on West’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, I’ve reprinted some interesting excerpts related to [...]

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Contents, conduits, contexts, and conductors.

February 28, 2011

By Jason Wilson Or, in the words of the law librarian of Congress, Roberta Shaffer, “who are the legal information publishers, pirates, passers-by, pre-publishers, post-publishers, protectors and purveyors?” See Estes, AALL Vendor Colloquium Keynote Part 2 (Feb. 28, 2011). I’m not even sure how to begin to respond to this question given the number of participants [...]

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Some thoughts on Thomson Reuters Legal

January 29, 2011

By Jason Wilson It should have come as no surprise to anyone to read the ABA Journal’s post on Thomson Reuters-Pangea3′s (TRP3) job posting for disbarred lawyers to work in a new Ann Arbor, Michigan document review facility, which the Journal was kind enough to promote as a stateside LPO.  According to the post, a company [...]

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Exactly what do you mean by “curating”?

January 5, 2011

By Jason Wilson I find people who aren’t in the business of creating original practice-oriented content have some funny prognostications about what the future of the legal publishing (read: creating, broadcasting, and syndicating) business holds. Take, for example, Kevin O’Keefe’s recent post brazenly titled “Legal content on iPad and tablets: What’s the business model for [...]

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