The abundance of free legal information on the internet is
forcing legal information providers to go beyond mere document delivery and develop tools on top of traditional legal content that enhance and innovate.
«The challenge to publishers is how we put our content into new and meaningful contexts,» says Peter Lake, managing director
of legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell, which after 207 years of serving the same marketplace could certainly be accused of being a traditional publisher.
This client joins the growing roster of prestigious
legal information providers who have discovered the benefits of Green Point's dual shore model — legal resources in India, working under the supervision of bar - admitted US attorneys working in Israel.
Paul writes and edits the outsourcing chapter (including the outsourcing precedent documentation) for Practical Commercial Precedents, one of the UK's leading commercial precedent textbooks, and sits on the outsourcing editorial board for Practical Law for Companies, the UK's leading
online legal information provider.
Actually Lexum and the various legal information systems it manages belong to a small set of exceptions among Canadian legal information services in being entirely based in Canada, in these times of
worldwide legal information providers.
For example, David Worlock, the respected digital strategy advisor and consultant, imagines that the
large legal information providers will seek to migrate through acquisition into the workflow outsourcing business, even though they are inclined also to outsource all their own internal functions, presumably contracting publishing industry jobs even further.
Should any one of the two
big legal information providers / publishers — whatever they consider themselves — meet their demise (not to say that they will) will anyone notice other than their employees?
As a provincial crown corporation tasked with distributing Quebec's court and tribunal judgments, SOQUIJ is a leading provider of free and commercial retail legal information services, as well as a wholesale provider of case law upon which the
national legal information providers rely.
A major survey of 1,200 leading lawyers, conducted
by legal information providers LexisNexis and published by the Law Society this month, found that some employers were paying mere lip service to flexible working.
For this exercise, we'll stick with looking at companies trying to displace the Practice of Law e.g. Law Firms not the Business of Law
e.g. Legal Information Providers.
I feel that in this context, understanding the impact of non-textual legal information, including both video and podcasting, is key to the future relevance of the legal profession and of
current legal information providers.
From the OLRC site the titles, as revised, were picked up and incorporated immediately into the federal statutory compilations maintained by the major
online legal information providers.
Columbia Law Revue's «West Law Story» might cause some of
the legal information providers to pause for thought.
Legal information providers can load Illinois decisions «as is».