Sentences with phrase «major legal publishers»

Two major legal publishers announced initiatives this week to help laid - off lawyers keep their heads above water and make the transition to new jobs.

I always believed that publishing with an well established major legal publisher was the key to acceptance by the legal community and the key to commercial success.

I recall one major legal publisher annually announcing new databases of decisions of administrative tribunals at the CALL Annual Meeting.

As a writer and editor, she has served for more than 17 years as the managing editor and legal columnist for journals published by Civic Research Institute, and her work in other areas of law has appeared in publications by West, Matthew Bender, and other major legal publishers.

Using RSS feeds, we've mixed the 10 latest items for each of Canada's major legal publishers.

Another major legal publishers lists a large number of law reports in its databases, instead of saying that the databases are comprehensive from a certain date.

The major legal publishers generally describe their databases as comprehensive.

My belief was based on the idea that the free services would always be playing catch up to a moving target, as the major legal publishers continued to enhance their products with high quality content and product innovation.

Now we've actual evidence of a major legal publisher going for print on demand.

Acquisitions and mergers are expected to continue as the major legal publishers explore ways to increase their profitability, achieve growth and increase market share.

My former colleague described The Practical Law Company as the «Holy Grail» of acquisitions for the major legal publishers, concerned as they are about the decline in the value of their primary and secondary legal information, and actively looking for new product models that complement and enhance their existing product lines.

In the absence or organic growth and innovation, they are seen as essential both for survival and success for the major legal publishers in today's market conditions.

As well, the major legal publishers are seen by many consumers of legal information as being out of sync with their customers needs and expectations, especially regarding pricing and servicing.

The legal and regulatory businesses of the major legal publishers were created by acquiring dozens of small, medium and large legal publishing companies and merging their operations.

At the time I started publishing, any information about the sector was either tightly held by management at the major legal publishers or operated as gossip between information professionals at law firms, and even then, only the larger ones.

As I noted in my previous post, in the absence or organic growth and innovation, mergers and acquisitions are seen as «essential both for survival and success for the major legal publishers in today's market conditions.»

A coherent vision, smoothly executed, has achieved results that the major legal publishers could only envy.

I would add to Robert's analysis a reference to a comment by a former American colleague, who said that the major legal publishers had «lost their faith» in publishing legal information.

Expanding the publishing program with a close knit group of authors who wanted the experience of writing in a small and informal publishing environment, free of the demands for growth for the sake of growth that characterizes the major legal publishers.

One has only to recap the history of the numerous failures by the major legal publishers to see how difficult it is to get it right.

All three major legal publishers have reported lower publishing revenues while still holding out the prospect of a return to growth in future years.

With secondary content, the publisher could be certain of a minimal number of purchasers for every publication of quality as major law libraries acquired copies of virtually every print legal title published by a major legal publisher.

If these databases were integrated into its existing databases and updated thereafter in the same manner as before, Canlii would become truly competitive with the valued added databases of the major legal publishers.

In the late seventies and early eighties, the major legal publishers copied CCH and introduced loose - leaf formats across the board.

Simply put print law reports are on life support at a time when competition on price between the major legal publishers and the numerous free services, has weakened every legal publisher.

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.

The main revenue stream for the two major legal publishers has always been from packaging and recycling primary legal documents, enhanced by an array of value added finding tools such as key words, classification systems, and case and statute citators, prepared by in - house editorial staff.

Publishing trends are not working in favour of the major legal publishers and their recent financial performance confirms this to be the case — revenue is down and staff cuts and outsourcing have replaced publishing as the primary means of maintaining profit margins.

The choice of LexisNexis over other suitors ensured that there would be balance in the online services provided by the major legal publishers, ensuring meaningful competition on an ongoing basis in the market for legal information in Canada.

What i don't understand is why such a huge organisation is afraid of dealing with independent media or individuals who don't praise them at the drop of a hat my personal view is that until a few of us started publishing online a few years ago — and opening some of the doors that illustrate how all the major legal publishers operate..

The Legal Publications Support group is NLRG's Special Projects Division, and is a primary source of research, writing and support services for the major legal publishers, including Thomson Reuters (West), and Lexis / Nexis.

So far, the major legal publishers have not joined the migration to ELD over paper.

While there is evidence that major legal publishers are experiencing both «margin squeezes» and comparatively flat revenues in current market conditions, those margins have been historically very high.

The real issue being faced by the major legal publishers is the loss of the expectation of ever increasing revenue and profit from their online services that they had come to expect as a matter of right.

In such an event, ownership and control of all of three of the major legal publishers in Canada would be based abroad.

Has anyone else forwarded Connie's post to the major legal publishers who are not yet offering rss feeds?

Learning to deal effectively with more modest expectations of growth and profit is something to which the major legal publishers will have to learn how to adapt.

You may not be aware you are using SaaS, but both major legal publishers, LexisNexis and Westlaw, are SaaS services.

I would suggest that the Ministry of the Attorney General is the publisher of first instance when it distributes the judgments on an unrestricted basis to the major legal publishers for the express purpose of making the judgments available to the legal profession online.

What does this mean for the ambitions of the major legal publishers who have invested in the development of global businesses and global platforms in the expectation and belief that there was an «international» market for legal information?

Although we at SLAW should not likely favour one of the major legal publishers over another, with Hein it is hard not to love their databases since, as one colleague put it, «they are so darn nice to deal with».

It is not only a matter of the end of growth for the major legal publishers.

Opportunities clearly still exist for legal publishing in the new era of kindles, ipads and kobos, but not necessarily for the major legal publishers.

The major legal publishers have reported an overall decline in print publishing revenue.

While the share price of the major legal publishers was falling dramatically, Tottel was sold to Bloomsbury at the peak of the recent recession for four times the original purchase price.

Industry insiders and customers both know that the legal research market is already saturated with online legal information from the major legal publishers, without taking into consideration new sources of competition from free services.

The silence from the major legal publishers regarding the tough new competitive environment they are facing is deafening.