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Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Last week John Wonderlich posted about the ongoing story of the GAO giving exclusive rights to digitalize legislative histories to Thomson West on the Open House Project blog . The government entering a deal with a private company and giving them exclusive rights to public documents creates a situation where the whole point of digitalization is lost. When large amounts of documents are...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez, Readers may remember a previous Boing Boing post Did the US gov't sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West? Well, the answer is now a definitive yes, that data has been sold down the river and is out to sea. Public.Resource.Org sent in a FOIA request to GAO on this topic seeking access to the scanned data. Today's letter answering...
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Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Thomson West has an opening for a Librarian Relations Manager based in Washington, DC. To apply, go to the Company's career page, click on "Search Jobs" and scroll down the list or use "librarian" in the keyword search term box...
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New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
From Thomson West: We have an opening for a Thomson West Librarian Relations Manager based in Washington, DC. This is a position for a dynamic, self-directed individual! If you are interested, please visit http://west.thomson.com/careers . Click on "Search Jobs" and scroll down the list OR use "librarian" in the keyword search term box to bring the listing to the top. All...
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Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Thomson West's Law Librarians in the New Millennium is now being offered as an electronic newsletter. It will be no longer be published in print. To subscribe to the e-newsletter go here. [JH]
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Law.com (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Questions continue to be raised among bloggers about an agreement in which the U.S. General Accounting Office gives publisher Thomson West exclusive rights to federal legislative histories prepared on the public's dime. Public-access proponent Carl Malamud (who we've written about...
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Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
The (NABL) will be conducting a day-long training seminar for blind and visually impaired attorneys and law school students in Baltimore on April 10, 2008 as part of the , April 10-11, 2008. Thomson West is helping to sponsor the training seminar and will be providing training on WestLaw for approximately half of the day-long session. The training will be specifically targeted...
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Justia Legal Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
Hi Friends, As public domain information hero Carl Malamud is working on getting case law online and into the public domain (we have helped a bit :). Carl, donors, and the Public.Resource.org team have done a lot and... more...
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Justia Legal Marketing Blog (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
But in addition to case law, Carl has also been working to get other public legal documents online and into the public domain. These documents include the legislative histories of the laws. So this was interesting... it looks like Thomson-West has signed an exclusive agreement with the GAO to have these legislative histories on WestLaw.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Firms Will Collaborate on Internet Video Products for Law Firms
CINCINNATI, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- EMI Network today announced that
it has entered into a strategic business agreement with Hubbard One, a
Thomson West business, to produce and support Internet videos for marketing
and business development for large and mid-size law firms located
throughout the United States and Europe....
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Boing Boing reports on Carl Malamud's investigation of the exclusive deal in which the Government Accountability Office has contracted with Thomson West to provide complete federal legislative histories compiled by GAO law librarians. John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation alerted...
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TechnoLawyer Blog (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Congratulations to Thomson West — its Newsletter Flag in the February 21, 2008 issue of Answers to Questions sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period February 18-March 2, 2008. The copy from this Newsletter Flag appears below:...
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Matt's blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Tax & Accounting and Thomson West announced they are joining forces as a new, primary corporate sponsor of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, which is the largest professional organization of tax lawyers. By combining the resources of Thomson Tax & Accounting and Thomson West with those of the ABA Section...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Percentage of Americans who say they would definitely sign a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement if their spouse or partner asked them to, according to a survey by Thomson West: 14
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Eighty percent of Americans willing to at least consider prenups
EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Would you sign a prenuptial
agreement before you say, "I do"? A new survey by Thomson West, a leading
legal information solutions provider, finds that Americans are evenly split
on the issue, but are open to at least considering a prenup.
Forty-one percent of Americans say they might...
