It’s a widespread and fairly well-known practice that one “benefit” of hiring a law student as a law clerk is access to free WEXIS legal search. However, under Westlaw’s “Educational Purposes” and Lexis “Academic Purposes” licensing agreement clauses with law…
Posts Tagged ‘Lexis’
Pollak Stepping Down as President and CEO of ALM
18
Nov
When the licensing and content co-generation agreements between ALM and Lexis were announced, many folks began speculating that Lexis would acquire ALM eventually. Will the recent announcement that Bill Pollak is stepping down as ALM’s President and CEO early next…
And the Winner in ATL’s Shed West Print Era in Academic Law Libraries Photo Caption Contest Is
18
Oct
Having catalogued the total number of volumes, microfilm, microfiche, and titles, this dumpster is hereby accredited. – ABA Details on ATL here. Image suitable for framing in Lexis, Fastcase, Bloomberg Law and Wolters Kluwer executive offices below (click to enlarge)…
The "Product Intrigue" Boogie for Lexis Advance
04
Oct
Lexis Advance for Solos has been available for some time now and the Company is starting to advertise it on legal media sites like the National Law Journal. So I clicked on an ad link and was sent here. Damnit…
Thomson Reuters Is Going to Win the Second Round of the Law eBook Slugfest
27
Sep
Looks like the first round goes to Lexis. While you can acquire a few TR Legal eBooks via Amazon (yawn) and you can acquire some CCH and ABA eBooks on their e-commerce site (ditto, yawn), by the end of the…
Going the Distance: Lexis to Offshore Some Not Yet Specified Number of Jobs to the Philippines
19
Sep
Last month Lexis Global Legal & Professional informed its US workforce that it was planning to offshore some jobs to the Philippines next year. Most of the positions affected reportedly will be in Global Customer Services and Support. See the…
Textbook Rental Comes To The Kindle
18
Jul
The promise of electronic textbooks has been with us for awhile. Anyone remember the competing platforms of Folio on Lexis and Premise on West? Both companies sold electronic versions of their casebooks in the 1990s, though they were heavily drenched…
The Value of Production Editors for Fact-Checking: Weissenberger and McFarland’s New Edition of The Law of Premises Liability
05
Jul
I admit, here’s an instance where I like a publisher’s format switcheroo. Lexis has converted the latest edition of The Law of Premises Liability from annual pocket-part supplementation to the loose-leaf format. OK, I’m very old school when it comes…
