"Deal Monitor" & Regulatory Surveys from Thomson & CCH.The Thomson Corp. (Eagan, MN) has launched "Deal Monitor," a new intelligence tool that allows corporate counsel to track, monitor and analyze mergers, acquisitions and securities information, starting at the industry level and working down to individual transactions, companies, financial advisors and outside counsel. The service is part of Thomson's "Counsel Monitor" group of intelligence tools and services. Using the new service, corporate counsel are able to: estimate the total value of transactions in a specific industry or by competition; view completed, pending and withdrawn deals; find underwriters, financial advisors and transactional attorneys; and, uncover relationships between companies, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings and West's legal and regulatory databases. Also, Thomson West has released Westlaw 50 State Regulatory Surveys, a service that provides surveys of state regulations for researchers across four topics: insurance, blue sky laws blue sky laws n. laws intended to protect the public from purchasing stock in fraudulent companies that lack substance, such as those selling swamp land, non-existent gold strikes and dry oil wells, or who have no assets besides a post office box. , employment and healthcare. Carrying regulation information from all 50 states, the surveys are compiled by attorney editors and include a topic summary and a PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. table explaining major differences and commonalities among the regulations on a particular topic. Researchers can access the service by searching the database, by browsing its table of contents or by accessing the 50 State Survey tab. The tab allows researchers to review both regulatory and statutory surveys and can be personalized. Also, subscribers to CCH's (Riverwoods, IL) "Blue Sky Law Reporter" now have access to "CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) Smart Charts," a service that allows users to compare state 2 securities law information across multiple jurisdictions. It includes information on the adoption by various jurisdictions of many Blue Sky law provisions for all 50 states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Guam, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. and the Virgin Islands. "Smart Chart" also provides a link to the full text of the applicable laws, regulations, policy statements, administrative orders and opinions. Changes that have occurred in the last 30 days are highlighted. |
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