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Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

by Tom Blakely thebignewsletter.com published 2025-12-31

Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.

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