Dewey Leaves Publishers With Unpaid Debts of Over $US 4 Million

Thanks Simon at SLAW for detailing the debts we knew Dewey would leave the publishers with….   Kluwer got off relatively lightly but  Thomsons and LN  can’t be over- joyed with this especially when they end up getting 10 cents in the $ back...

Slaw Article Says: Asking Westlaw & LN About Pricing “like asking the descendants of Colonel Sanders for his secret recipe”

Great piece by Bob at Slaw about the sale of BNA           Article SLAW:Bob Berring Bloomberg Law: The Wheel Turns Bloomberg Law: The Wheel Turns Tectonic plates are shifting in the world of legal information. The sale of the Bureau of...

Something New In The Legal Content World– Hurrah

As always it’s always SLAW who report it first – thanks SLAW   Legal Hackathon Legal Hackathon A hackathon (hack + marathon) is an event where computer programers, often in conjunction with graphic designers or other related disciplines, get together...

IALL Now On Facebook

The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) is now on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/IALL.org ? Here are some of the more recent posts ? Ruth Bird has written an excellent blog post on the importance of professional associations.Professional Associations...

?SLAW Article: Simon Chester Rashomon Like Views of the Thomson-Reuters Merger ? and Why Bloomberg Is Gaining

Wow what a read – we’ve seen all the TR West Kluwer acquisition suggestions this week.. This piece by Chester surmises that Bloomberg will take the leading role in the legal information distribution market and will most like subsume Lexis Nexis and much...