Merger mania continues
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Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will merge with Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer in a deal valued at $8 billion. Reed Elsevier is the second-largest legal publisher in the US, and Kluwer, though much smaller, ranks third. Even so, the merger's impact on the legal industry will be relatively insignificant compared to its effect on professional publishing. The combined company, which will be the world's leading supplier of scientific and professional information, is expected to encompass $6.6 billion of sales and operational activities in Asia, Europe and North America. The Reed/Kluwer merger continues a trend of consolidation in the legal publishing industry. In 1997, Thomson Corp and West Publishing, the largest legal publishers in the US, announced their intention to combine, in a deal valued at $3.4 billion.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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The big push comes to legal publishing
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Matthew Bender, a New York-based legal publishing house, became the first to introduce a push strategy when it announced an agreement to provide content to the PointCast Network. Push technology enables providers to deliver information to subscribers without requiring the subscribers to access their Web sites or e-mail. Lexis-Nexis has announced a similar arrangement and will supply information via Version 4.0 of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). So far, the content to be provided seems relatively unexciting. For example, one of Bender's two services will offer updates on subsequent treatments of cases, or in other words, live Shepardizing of cases and jury verdicts. The other channel will deliver news feeds from services such as Journal Extra and CalLaw.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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More publishing mergers on the horizon
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A rash of mergers in the legal publishing industry is making it difficult for independent companies to compete. Times mirror has reacted to the latest merger, between Lexis-Nexis and CCH Inc, by placing its Matthew Bender & Co subsidiary on the market. Bender is known as a publisher of treatises as well as practical guides and forms books. The company also holds a half interest in Shepard's, a publisher of citation products. Industry watchers have been predicting Bender's sale for several months. The buyer is expected to be a company with deeper resources and the online services necessary to distribute Bender's content. Times Mirror also put its medical publishing subsidiary, Mosby Inc, up for sale.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1998
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