Wolters Kluwer Legal unit acquires German publisher; enters Portuguese market.Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. Legal, Tax & Regulatory Europe unit has acquired Carl Heymanns Verlag KG (Cologne), one of Germany's leading academic and legal publishers. No terms of the deal, subject to German regulatory approval, were given. Journals covering such topics as criminology criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see , civil procedure, commercial 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. protection, economics, trademark, copyright, intellectual property and bankruptcy, thousands of law titles including books and research papers for law students, academics and legal practitioners, judgments of the European Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights: see Council of Europe. , Wolters Kluwer said the purchase is a strategic fit with its current position in Germany where it produces information for the labor and family law, construction law and training for law students' categories. Wolters Kluwer German publishing units include Herman Luchterhand Verlag, Werner, R.S. Schulz, Carl Link, C.W. Haarfield, the Jurion online service and the software provider AnNoText. Also, Wolters Kluwer has entered the legal publishing The production of texts that report laws or discuss the Practice of Law. Originally limited to printed materials, legal publishing now encompasses electronic media as well, with most legal publications becoming available online or in CD-ROM format. market in Portugal with the establishment of a partnership with Coimbra Editora (Lisbon) to produce online services and tools for legal professionals in that country. Coimbra's current products will be integrated into Wolters Kluwer technology platforms. Wolters Kluwer Portugal will also launch: JusNet, a database designed to support lawyers in the preparation of cases; JusJournal, a legal information online diary An online diary is a personal diary or journal that is published on the world wide web on a personal website or a diary hosting website. Online diaries began in 1994. As a community formed, these publications came to be almost exclusively known as online journals. of topics selected by legal specialists; and, JusGestao, a work tool that manages information such as payments, terms and invoices at the office. |
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