Casesoft Swallowed by Lexis-Nexis?

The Common Scold . Monica Bay reports that Lexis-Nexis, not sated with its acquisition of my favorite Time, Billing and Accounting software, PcLaw, has its large belly focused on another of my favorite companies, CaseSoft. You probably have heard of, or used, their quality knowledge management programs, CaseMap, TimeMap, and NoteMap. I have blogged often about them, and I use TimeMap to create graphical chronologies. This trend is disturbing, as the behemoth Lexis-Nexis, having eaten document assembly program, HotDocs, now owns the franchise on some pretty great software. If they spoil them, I will be very unhappy. I like small, lean operations; they tend to be more customer-centric. Let's hope that Lexis-Nexis respects that. Of course, all of this might be rendered moot by the move to Web 2.0 applications that are website based, and use free and ad-supported resources. Amicus has gone to the web, and will be adding billing and accounting soon. Thomson is bringing Elite to the Web for billing. It will be fun to watch.

Comments

[Carolyn Elefant]

I don't know if it is a coincidence of timing, but shortly after LEXIS bought Accurint, it suffered that huge security breach. Now the service is incredibly cumbersome to use. Again, don't know if the breach was the fault of the LEXIS takeover or was bound to happen anyway, but I do share your concerns about the LEXIS gobbling of all of these services. Think antitrust/Microsoft.

[John Polivick]

I subscribed to Accurint for years, and they always charged ala carte for their services, such as an address history needed for an immigration petition, etc. Their pricing was reasonable.
Now that Lexis/Nexis owns Accurint, they want to charge me $75 a month minimum, whether I use the service or not. I closed my account today, and I'll never use a Lexus product again.