Zurich-American Insurance Group puts lawyers online with Counsel Connect.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--Counsel Connect, the leading online service for attorneys, has reached an agreement with Zurich-American Insurance Group, a leading professional liability insurer under which Zurich will provide all of their thousands of lawyer customers with unlimited, free access to Counsel Connect. The agreement provides for full membership and access privileges for all the lawyers served by Zurich-American through Professional Liability Underwriting Managers, Inc. (PLUM), which covers thousands of 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]
"We are pleased to welcome all these new members to Counsel Connect and gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that Zurich-American recognized the value of what Counsel Connect provides," said Mark Obbie, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Counsel Connect. "While many of the nation's largest law firms and corporate legal departments have made bulk purchases of Counsel Connect, and many bar associations recommend it to their members, this is the largest group membership agreement we have reached to date." "Because they are insured through Zurich, these lawyers will receive at no cost to them a place to go for information that will assist them in providing quality services to their clients, in addition to the benefits of being online and on the Internet with a service meant only for lawyers," said Zurich-American's senior vice-president for professional liability insurance, Robert Fishman Robert G. Fishman is executive director of George Washington University's . He received his PhD in anthropology from SUNY at Buffalo in 1983. For eight years, he served as administrative coordinator and assistant professor of anthropology at Georgia State University. . Attorneys insured through Zurich and PLUM also receive free access to Lawyers Legal Research (LLR LLR Lunar Laser Ranging LLR Log-Likelihood Ratio LLR Loan Loss Reserve LLR Low Level Radiation LLR Looks Like Rain (song) LLR Local Linear Regression LLR Lessons Learned Report LLR Load-Limiting Resistor ) Online, the court opinions service from Timeline Publishing of Redmond, Washington. LLR Online is expanding its archive of court opinions and other services and has moved to the World Wide Web (http://www.llr.com), where it is accessible from Counsel Connect. Counsel Connect (http://www.counsel.com), a division of 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 , L.P., is an online communications and information service exclusively for lawyers. The service offers online discussion groups and seminars in more than 200 areas of law, personalized daily news reports, libraries of legal briefs and memos, Internet access, and e-mail. Counsel Connect currently has more than 35,000 subscribers. CONTACT: Trylon Communications, Inc., New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Rebecca L. Kramer/Lloyd P. Trufelman, 212/818-9151 |
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