American Lawyer Media Names Iain Murray Vice President, Information Systems.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2003 American Lawyer Media ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media), is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and real estate communities. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused on the legal and real estate communities, including , Inc. (ALM), the nation's leading legal journalism and information company, today announced the promotion of Iain Murray Iain Hamish Murray (b. 1931; Lancashire, England) was educated in the Isle of Man and at the University of Durham. He entered the Christian ministry in 1955. He served as assistant to Dr. to the new position of Vice President, Information Systems. Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. , currently Chief Technology Officer for the company, joined ALM in 2000 as Information Technology Director for the American Lawyer Media Newswire. Murray has led numerous technology initiatives, including expansion of the company's Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. , networking, desktop and publishing systems. Over the past nine months, he has managed the integration of law.com's acquired online publishing and production operations into ALM. Prior to his employment with ALM, Murray held a variety of information technology management positions with Time Out and Conde Con·dé , Prince de Title of Louis II de Bourbon. Known as "the Great Condé." 1621-1686. French general who won major victories in the Thirty Years' War. Nast publications. Before that, Murray consulted for leading UK publications, including The Times, The Scotsman, and The Express Newspaper Group, and served as an executive of Imagenes Y Palabaras (Words and Pictures), a management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects and communications firm that developed English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. publications throughout Europe and the Far East. He also taught digital publishing techniques at Camberwell College of Art in London. A native of Scotland, Murray holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Edinburgh University. "Iain and his team have done a superb job in focusing and implementing our investments in information systems throughout the company," said William Pollak, President and Chief Executive Officer of ALM. "This well-deserved promotion recognizes the central role that technology will continue to play in expanding our business and serving our customers in the legal industry." Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , ALM is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal industry. ALM currently owns and publishes 23 national and regional legal magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer(R) and The National Law Journal(R). ALM's other businesses include Web, book, custom and newsletter publishing, court verdict and settlement reporting, production of legal trade shows and conferences, educational seminars and distribution of content related to the legal industry. ALM was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. More information on ALM, its business and services is available on the Web at www.americanlawyermedia.com. |
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