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FindLaw blogs an embarrassment to the legal profession

By Kevin

West Publishing, founded in 1872 in St. Paul, Minnesota by John West, has been one of, if not the, most prominent legal publishers in the United States for over a century. West established itself as the nationwide de facto standard used by all federal courts and most state courts for the reporting of legal decisions. The company published countless legal treatises authored by the leading legal scholars of our time. Black?s Law Dictionary published by West and the first law book I bought in law school, had a place in every courtroom and law office the entire time I practiced law. But boy has West Publishing, now part of Thomson Reuters, fallen. West, under the FindLaw brand, is now publishing spam law blogs full of little more than mindless crap, all in the name of selling Internet marketing services to unknowing lawyers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).