by George Chasse | Feb 22, 2023 | Legal Research Analysis, Legal Resources, Westlaw
Thomson Reuters has launched a brand-new product that it claims will improve both the speed and quality of legal research. The new product, Westlaw Precision, is an advanced add-on to Westlaw Edge. It is designed to reduce research hours and expand the Westlaw Key...
by George Chasse | Feb 17, 2023 | Legal Research Consulting, Legal Resources
The 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market is out and the results paint a telling picture about law firm profitability. As Jean O’Grady of Dewey B Strategic put it so succinctly in a recent article, “it’s bad.” For the first time since 2009,...
by George Chasse | Oct 3, 2022 | Legal Research Contracts, Legal Research Providers
Have you reviewed your legal research subscriptions lately? If not, you may want to take a thorough look to make sure you are only paying for the services that are on your contract. Recently, I talked about desperate sales tactics such as embedding tricky terms in the...
by George Chasse | Sep 29, 2022 | Legal Research Contracts, Legal Research Pricing
If January’s Westlaw reference attorney controversy has taught us anything, it is that legal research providers have gotten more than a little desperate to increase their profits at the expense of their customers. Law firms should be more cautious than ever about...
by George Chasse | Sep 29, 2022 | Legal Research Contracts, Legal Research Pricing, LexisNexis Pricing, Westlaw Pricing
Every law firm knows the pain of getting their annual legal research rate increase. Legal research costs are already notoriously high. It can be even more frustrating when you didn’t get much to go with the rate increases to benefit your practice. Typically, 85% of...