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…
Posts Tagged ‘Thomson’
Some Thoughts on Thomson’s Acquisition of West Being Honored as Worst Legal Publishing Merger
24
Oct
Reporting on the findings of Dewey B Strategic’s self-admitted unscientific poll on best and worst legal publishing industry mergers, Jean O’Grady writes: According to the Legal Information Buyers Guide and Reference Manual, between 1995 (the year before the Thomson acquisition)…
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…
