On February 11, 2002 in this newsletter, I wrote: "Despite the years of competition, the case management market still has many players. But last year, West Group acquired ProLaw and Lexis-Nexis allied itself with Time Matters. Will further consolidation occur? Will we ever see a roll-up or merger involving a case management solution and an accounting or time-billing solution?"
Since then, LexisNexis has acquired Time Matters and PCLaw, and more recently CaseSoft and Dataflight. Thomson-West, Wolters Kluwer, and other companies have also made strategic acquisitions.
What does it all mean? Veteran technology reporter John K. Waters attempts to answer this question in his Law.com article, LexisNexis Mergers: Toward a Microsoftesque Monoculture?
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