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American Law Reports - RIP for Lexis Users

August 20th, 2007

Information Today - “The move by Thomson West’s Westlaw legal information service to pull its ALR content from competitor LexisNexis will not be a popular one with Lexis users—especially this Lexis user and her patrons! LexisNexis plans to offer new and upgraded services in response (see below), so the one-upmanship battle between the last legal information empires left standing grinds on. In its wake lie the customers, reeling from the never-ending cycle of having valuable information pulled out from under them again and again and again.”

I used ALR twice today. :-(

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2 COmments on “American Law Reports - RIP for Lexis Users”

  1. Connie Crosby CANADA Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 Says:

    Bad news for those of us who only subscribe to Lexis. Thanks for this.

    Connie

  2. Connie Crosby UNITED STATES Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0 Says:

    I just re-read my comment, and realize it could be taken in a sarcastic way. What I really meant to say is, thank you for pointing this out so that we are aware of it!!

    Cheers,
    Connie