Thomson West acquires CourtExpress.Thomson West (Eagan, MN), a provider of information and services for the legal profession and a unit of The Thomson Corp., has acquired CourtExpress (Washington, D.C.), a provider of online docket and retrieval services from U.S. and international courts. No terms of the deal were given. For over 20 years, CourtExpress has provided court document retrieval The ability to search for documents by keywords and other attributes such as date and author. It implies that the documents have been indexed on all pertinent fields and that keywords have been chosen based upon title and textual content. See document imaging and document management system. , case tracking, due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. and related competitive intelligence alert services to legal professionals. The company provides: online access to the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Bankruptcy courts bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. , as well as state, local and municipal courts in the U.S.; in-person document retrieval services for all U.S. courts, international courts and tribunals, U.S. government agencies and all U.S. libraries; an online database of millions of federal cases; a database of expert witnesses; a quarterly litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. report of billing rates charged by U.S. 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]
Thomson said the acquisition is part of its strategy to provide reliable docket, trial court document and court information solutions to legal professionals. Thomson West Pres./CEO Peter Warwick said that CourtExpress' "expertise and customer knowledge, combined with our ... products and services, creates a comprehensive collection of court information that will offer customers an even more compelling reason to choose Thomson West." |
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