Legal ?Publishing? Companies & People: That?s What We Need

Here's an article HOB recently penned for SLAW


Read the full piece at

http://www.slaw.ca/2010/09/30/legal-?publishing?-companies-people-that?s-what-we-need/

Here's the intro ....

It has occurred to House of Butter that in 2010 there now appears to be a singular lack of imagination at senior management levels at the major legal publishers.

Plenty of the usual tinkering and re-imagining of existing content and products and more of the we?ve bought this and look at the our latest JV with one or other technology based company to help ?streamline? content management and flow at law firms. Woop de doo.

HOB wonders if this lack of imagination has its roots in fact that both Lexis and West currently see themselves as ?content? database storage and re-distribution organisations rather than employing that remarkably resilient word, Publisher.

Would Henry Butterworth or John B. West and their immediate successors have found a way through the quagmire that is today?s legal information market. Or would their fate also be the constant chase for the next quarter?s figures and a general floundering about hoping that the next big idea in legal publishing will come down from the heavens as a eureka moment lightening strike.