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So Who Does Write Those Expensive Supplements and Updates to Big Name Treatises?
Here’s a story from The Legal Intelligencer, “Law professors seek injunction over ‘sham’ treatise supplement that raises the question: Law professors seek injunction over ‘sham’ treatise supplement The...
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Rudovsky v. West Publishing Corp. – Judge writes readers were “not informed...
An earlier post here, “So Who Does Write Those Expensive Supplements and Updates to Big Name Treatises?, commented upon a lawsuit brought against Thomson West by the authors of one of their treatises....
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Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information
From the Minneapolis City Pages: “Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by selling free information,” by Erin Carlyle. West makes its money by selling free, public information — specifically, court...
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A Westlaw Tale
Paul recently blogged here about a news headline: “Westlaw rises to legal information fame by selling free information.” The readers at the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages have written in to the paper...
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Shedding West
There’s been quite a flurry of e-mails on the law librarians listserv with the subject line “West thinks you shouldn’t know your librarian’s name.” It traces back to a marketing campaign by West...
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John B. West and other non lawyers who have revolutionized legal research
The latest issue of The American Journal of Legal History just landed on my desk. It includes an article by Robert M. Jarvis, “John B. West: Founder of the West Publishing Company.” There are all...
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The supremely expensive Supreme Court Reporter Advance Sheets Service
Our friend Carl Malamud just sent out a tweet: If law librarians remain content to be purchasing agents, law libraries will die. *do* something! talk is easy, action requires effort. Carl’s tweet...
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Where Law Books Are Made, Illustrated
“West’s Words, Ho! Law Books by the Million, Plus a Few” Green Bag 2d, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 301-339, Spring 2011 George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 11-25 ROSS E. DAVIES, George Mason...
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