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 ‘Westlaw’
TR/Westlaw China Gobbles Up iSinolaw
22
Nov
Sadly, I must report about the latest so-called merger of online publishers. I just received a letter from Stephan Yao, CEO or Thomas Reuters Legal, China and Gordon Wong, Business Director of iSinolaw. According to this letter, the two companies…
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…
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…
Who Is Buying WestlawNext?
12
Sep
As we all know WestlawNext was launched in February 2010. Every quarterly report by TRI since then has reported WLN sales and beginning with 3Q 2010 WLN sales as a percent of Westlaw revenue. See below (Note: customer numbers are…
"Sign up for WestlawNext now because Westlaw is going to disappear:" Isolated Pitch or New Sales Tactic?
07
Jun
From a very, very credible source, I have heard that at least one public agency received a pitch that essentially said, “sign up for WestlawNext now because Westlaw is going to disappear” recently. Not a direct quote because the West…
