You Win Some, You Lose Some: Recorder and Other ALM Publications Leave Lexis

ZiefBrief had barely begun to celebrate the appearance of the Wall Street Journal on Lexis for law schools when word arrived that the Recorder, San Francisco's own legal newspaper, had been removed from Lexis — and not just the Recorder, but all other publications from American Lawyer Media, including the National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, and lots of jury verdict data.

For USF law students, faculty, and staff, the news is not all bad. For now, Westlaw is maintaining its relationship with American Lawyer Media and still offers the Recorder (in the RECORDER-SF database), the National Law Journal (NLJ database), the New York Law Journal (NYLJ database), and other ALM content.

Some American Lawyer Media publications are also freely available at ALM's Law.com  site.

Lexis giveth, and Lexis taketh away…