Thomson acquires NETSCAN iPublishing & Hildebrandt International.Thomson West (Eagan, MN), a provider of information and services for the legal market and a unit of the Thomson Corp., has acquired NETSCAN iPublishing (Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , VA), a publisher of pending legislative and regulatory information for government affairs professionals and lobbyists in corporations, associations, 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]
Founded in 1987, NETSCAN is a provider of value-added alert products covering legislative and regulatory information for all 50 states and the federal government with such products as RegAlert, LegAlert, PUCAlert and HPTS HPTS Health Policy Tracking Service HPTS High Performance Transaction System HPTS High-Performance Third Stage HPTS High Power Transmission System HPTS Hydrographic Post-Time System . Thomson said the purchase strengthens its "current awareness offerings and accelerates the company's strategy to provide legal, regulatory and government affairs professionals with faster, easier and reliable access to all the information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. they need." Also, Thomson Corp. (Stamford, CT) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hildebrandt International (Somerset, NJ), 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 services firm to legal organizations worldwide. The company offers consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" in such areas as technology, practice management, research/information services, compensation, recruiting and professional developments. Hildebrandt also publishes ten book titles, including "Anatomy of a Law Frim Merger" and "Client Satisfaction for Law Departments," and produces white papers on financial analysis, strategy/planning, and practice management, among other areas. |
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