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The Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual is the only Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award winner that has gone on to become an essential ANNUAL publication, providing legal information consumers worldwide with vital, objective information on thousands of legal publications.
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Over the past two years, the Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual has been enhanced on a number of levels, including:
- Invaluable introductions to each of 87 subject categories in Chapter 27, providing subject overview, sources of law, and useful Internet sites.
- More than 200 pages of new material since 2018, including book reviews, and updating of existing content, now totaling 1,215 pages in all.
- Reviews of more than 300 new titles since 2018, new reference titles, and other product reviews (Chapters 22 & 27).
- Enhanced bibliographies of legal treatises in 87 subject areas (up from 67 in 2018), including more than 80 titles on Legal Research and Writing, and with new, used, electronic, or West Monthly Assured Print Pricing on more than 3,000 titles in all (Chapter 27).
- Updated bibliographies of state legal resources and research guides, including the cost of CALR offerings (Chapter 28).
- Completely updated bibliographic data for all covered titles.
- Completely updated cost and supplementation figures through 2021, with supplementation figures through 2020 (and 2021 for Matthew Bender).
- Completely updated cost spreadsheet for supplemented titles (Appendix G).
- Completely updated charts and tables reflecting 2020 corporate annual reports and pricing data.
- Completely updated sample Westlaw and LexisNexis costs (Chapters 4 & 25).
- Completely updated sample CALR costs for all vendors (Chapter 25).
- Recent industry developments and acquisitions, including profit margins (Chapter 2).
- Updated information on Casetext, Fastcase, Law360, and other online providers.
- Cumulative supplementation cost data going back 28 years – all at your fingertips – to guide both your acquisitions and de-acquisitions decisions.
- Special alerts of egregious price and supplementation cost increases in recent years.
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As a valued customer, you not only benefit immeasurably from timely access to critical
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