BREAKING: Citing Legal Industry Disruption, West, Lexis Open their Data to Free Access
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Last month, Harvard Law School hosted the conference, Disruptive Innovation in the Market for Legal Services, featuring Harvard Business School Prof. Clayton M. Christensen, author of the seminal 1997 book, The Innovator’s Dilemma. That came not long after ReInvent Law NYC, another conference that focused on innovation and disruption in the legal industry. Indeed, as I wrote then, we may be in the midst of a time of unprecedented innovation in legal technology.
“Our companies are jointly committed to eliminating barriers of cost and complexity that inhibit broad access to legal information and materials,” said the statement. “Beginning today, April 1, Westlaw, Westlaw Next, Lexis.com and Lexis Advance will be offered to the public at large, without cost of any kind.”
The statement was signed by Mike Walsh, chief executive officer of the global legal business of LexisNexis, and Susan Taylor Martin, president of Thomson Reuters Legal.
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