Westlaw has had a lock on the reporting of case law for as long as I can remember. Along with LexisNexis, Thomson West is making billions selling back to the public that which the public owned to begin with – judicial opinions.
But an announcement today that Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. will make 1.8 million
The Thomson West and LexisNexis duolopoly has had stranglehold on people’s access to legal information for decades. But as John Markoff of the New York Times reports, their control of the nearly $5 billion legal publishing market is being challenged by a few organizations who believe the law should be freely accessible via the
