Comments on: Potential Trouble for LexisNexis and Westlaw http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/potential-trouble-for-lexisnexis-and-westlaw/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: devesh gupta http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/potential-trouble-for-lexisnexis-and-westlaw/comment-page-1/#comment-116328 devesh gupta Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:55:36 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=4983#comment-116328 Can anybody suggest me good online freely available for US Caselaw and Statute search. Can anybody suggest me good online freely available for US Caselaw and Statute search.

]]> By: Fred Zimmerman http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/potential-trouble-for-lexisnexis-and-westlaw/comment-page-1/#comment-60396 Fred Zimmerman Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:59:37 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=4983#comment-60396 People have been seeing this coming for a long time (my first job at LexisNexis in 1997 was to manage the first web interface to their research service) but the companies have a far better position than it appears from outside. Legal research publishing is a multi-billion dollar business, but, since it amounts to a tiny percentage of the dollars at stake in major corporate litigation, it is an easy decision for big companies to pay big law firms to use the best possible research tools. People have been seeing this coming for a long time (my first job at LexisNexis in 1997 was to manage the first web interface to their research service) but the companies have a far better position than it appears from outside.

Legal research publishing is a multi-billion dollar business, but, since it amounts to a tiny percentage of the dollars at stake in major corporate litigation, it is an easy decision for big companies to pay big law firms to use the best possible research tools.

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]]> By: Borja Ramirez http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/02/potential-trouble-for-lexisnexis-and-westlaw/comment-page-1/#comment-42768 Borja Ramirez Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:15:36 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=4983#comment-42768 Big Legal Publishers are at the brink of a big business turmoil. Public content, such as Case Law will very soon be open and free (Senator Lieberman is only one of the global actors liasing for the application of Open Government principles). More info here: http://www.acm.org/public-policy/open-government Public content will be provided and be accesible not only through Government Agencies websites but also by a new generation of young Legal vertical "social-search" star-ups such as Legalsolo.com, who will merge case law & law with social content such as blogs, micro-blogs, user generated comments, etc..And of course everything will be for free! LexisNexis and Westlaw see the uphill road coming up and are spitting up free services such as LexisWeb in a rage for preventing the death of their biz model (any similarities with the death of the newspaper?). Hey, I´m not questioning the valuable content they generate around Case Law, which in turn is the only contente they will charge for in the future, I´m just saying that they will have to stop selling at stupid rates public content such as Case Law. This is their last chance to change or die. No more fees for free public information! Big Legal Publishers are at the brink of a big business turmoil. Public content, such as Case Law will very soon be open and free (Senator Lieberman is only one of the global actors liasing for the application of Open Government principles). More info here:
http://www.acm.org/public-policy/open-government

Public content will be provided and be accesible not only through Government Agencies websites but also by a new generation of young Legal vertical “social-search” star-ups such as Legalsolo.com, who will merge case law & law with social content such as blogs, micro-blogs, user generated comments, etc..And of course everything will be for free!

LexisNexis and Westlaw see the uphill road coming up and are spitting up free services such as LexisWeb in a rage for preventing the death of their biz model (any similarities with the death of the newspaper?). Hey, I´m not questioning the valuable content they generate around Case Law, which in turn is the only contente they will charge for in the future, I´m just saying that they will have to stop selling at stupid rates public content such as Case Law.

This is their last chance to change or die. No more fees for free public information!

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