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More TR Legal Layoffs?

18 Nov

According to an unnamed source, Thomson Reuters Legal may announce another wave of layoffs soon, perhaps even as early as today. The layoffs may affect customer service operations. As of yesterday evening the local press had no reports about this…

 

Taking the Pulse of WestlawNext Sales

02 Nov

According to Thomson Reuters’ 2011 3Q financials released yesterday WestlawNext sales increased by approximately 5,000 customers since 2011 2Q and now represents 46 percent of Westlaw’s revenue base. This means since WLN’s launch in February 2010 approximately 54 percent of…

 

Too Big To Fail: Is Thomson Reuters’ balance sheet so weak to be verging on bankruptcy?

25 Oct

In 12 Companies that Could Go Bankrupt Very Soon (Street Authority, Oct. 13, 2011) David Sterman lists TRI as one of 12 at-risk stocks that “could tumble in a hurry.” Sterman writes: I went in search of companies that may…

 

Please Welcome FWBS to the "Thomson Reuters Family"

06 Oct

Quoting from the Orange Rag: Thomson Reuters is continuing its spending spree with the announcement of yet another acquisition. This time it is Elite which has acquired FWBS, a provider of software solutions that allow lawyers to manage their practice…

 

Two Great Names. Reuters and Westlaw … and One New Site

05 Oct

Thomson Reuters News and Insight “provides legal news from Reuters with supporting documentation and analysis from Westlaw.” Yes, of course, you must have a user account to access the Westlaw material. Free Reuters news to push Westlaw usage, oddly interesting…

 

TR Legal’s Mike Dahn on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters

03 Oct

I first met Mike Dahn, who is now SVP Marketing & New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters Legal, last January in Eagan during a beta preview of WestlawNext (WLN), and since then, we have kept up with one another over…

 

Thomson Reuters in Turmoil: Danger Alert, It’s Time for "Chiefs" to Duck and Cover

29 Sep

Here we go … TR is executing a reorg — the Markets Division is merging with the Professional Division and the Head of the Professional Division has been appointed TRI’s COO. First Question: Why wasn’t this reorg executed last summer…

 

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…

 

Massacre in the Executive Suite of Thomson Reuters Markets: Is TRI’s Cash Cow, TR Legal, Next?

13 Sep

Devin Wenig, a 17 year veteran at Reuters and CEO of TR’s Markets Divison, was given the boot in July 2011 just ahead of the release of TRI’s 2Q 2011 financial report. It came with a “wish you the best”…

 

Vote for the Best and Worst Law Product Mergers

09 Sep

Jean O’Grady has launched a poll for law librarians (and others) to assess the consequences of the legal publishing industry consolidation for once independently owned but now “brand” products of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Jean writes I…