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- From: bmiller@lunatix.uucp (Barry Miller)
- Subject: Re: Law books in electronic form?
- Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 253-1481
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:51:18 GMT
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- Alan L. Batongbacal (alanlb@bethesda.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
- : Hi there! I have a brother who's a lawyer and he wants to know if
- : any publisher of law books distributes any of its products in
- : electronic form, whether floppy or CD-ROM. Of particular interest
- : would be the large publishers such as West.
- :
- : Thanks for any replies!
- :
- : alan l. batongbaca
-
- Alan --
-
- West does publish several libraries in CD-ROM form. We use two
- libraries (Tax and Bankruptcy) at our firm, and the response has
- generally been pretty good. They have several more libraries,
- including environmental law, governement contracts, and others I
- can't remember right now. They do not publish their larger sets,
- such as the Federal Reporter -- the second series of that set is
- near 1000 volumes right now, compared with 150 or so for the
- Bankruptcy Reporter. The bankruptcy CD-ROM set requires 5 disks
- (although it includes other material besides case law), so you
- can imagine how many disks it would take for the Federal
- Reporter.
-
- Tell your brother to call 1-800-937-8529. This is Westlaw's
- customer service line, but they should be able to give him the
- number for CD-ROM. I understand there is some friction between
- the Westlaw people and the CD-ROM division, so if the Westlaw
- people won't give you CD-ROM's number, e-mail me. I'll get the
- CD-ROM number at work.
-
- One other thing -- our subscription price to the libraries
- includes a free Westlaw uplink to update those libraries. In
- other words, we can call Westlaw through the CD-ROM interface
- program to update our tax and bankruptcy research, and we are not
- charged on-line time. This gives us the ability to fix our
- research costs in those areas.
-
- Good luck to your brother. I hope they have a library he can
- use.
-
- --Barry
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