I asked whether anyone had experience with www.thelaw.net as an
alternative to Wexis and only received a couple responses. Here is a
brief summary:
I did a trial about two years ago. It is a dedicated web browser with
templates to help you form your search, but the results come directly
from VersusLaw. So my take is that it is a slightly easier front end for
VersusLaw, and at that time the cost was identical to the top-level
VersusLaw subscription. It's pretty easy to set up a short trial, and I
didn't get any annoying phone calls afterwards, although I still get the
e-mail ads (like the one below) once or twice a week.
We've had a subscription for a little over a year at the instigation of
one of our practice group leaders. We had a free trial for a month, and
ended up signing up for a 5 user license (out of 160 attorneys). The
person who wanted it loves it, but I haven't heard much else from the
other people I signed up. We also have an eLibraries product from West
and that may be the reason not many people tried out thelaw.net. There
is some interesting stuff on the service, but sometimes I forget that I
have it!
I also had some difficulties on the admin side. I sent several emails
to get a trial for our firm that didn't get answered. It took a while
to get a response about setting up the firm for the free month.
The ones that I know of use thelaw.net rather than Wexis, mostly because
they are either solo practitioners or in very small firms that do not
believe they could afford even the wexis plans for solo practitioners.
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