It was bound to happen sooner rather than later and with the added effect of the recession we imagine it just made Incisive management…well…more incisive..or should that be decisive
Min Online reported yesterday that the US Legal Times and the National Law Journal are to merge into a single publication
Legal Times which covers the Supreme Court, Capitol Hill, Justice Department and regulatory agencies, with National Law Journal retaining the latter’s title.
The NLJ already covers law firm activity and litigation news.
To accommodate both audiences, the NLJ.com Web site will be redesigned so that it will include legal news from around the US as well as updates from Washington. Both the print and online editions will expand the jobs listing to include national and Washington-based positions. The first expanded version of NLJ will be the May issue.
Legal Times editor and publisher David Brown will be editor-in-chief of the new NLJ, while Stephen Lincoln will serve as publisher of the merged pubs.
The report says:
National Law Journal has weathered the economic downturn better than many b2b pubs. Its ad pages were down last year only 6.18% according to the year-end IMS audit data. Legal Times was not tracked by IMS for the entire year, but the major five titles in Incisive’s portfolio, including flagships American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, were only down as a group 1.38% in ad pages in 2008. Incisive Media also runs the popular legal portal Law.com, which attracts over 1.3 million monthly uniques, according to min’s b2b’s monthly digital boxscores.
Let’s not forget how many news based local legal publications Incisive now own. We’re guessing that by years’ end they’ll have folded many of the print versions into the web and consolidated the bigger publications
