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Wexis at AllExperts (345 words) |
 | Wexis is a humorous portmanteau used to refer to the duopoly of academic publishing conglomerates which dominate the U.S. legal information services industry — namely, Westlaw and LexisNexis. |
| Neither of these companies is independent—they are parts of much larger conglomerates which dominate the entire information services sector. |
| As of 2005, Wolters Kluwer is the largest company trying to establish a beachhead against the "Wexis" duopoly; it has taken over offline legal publishers like Aspen Publishing and online legal services like Loislaw. |
| Jeremy's Weblog: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004 (14369 words) |
| I prefer Wexis." You'll notice a line that asks whether you'd like to choose "time billing" or "transactional billing." Right now, as we bait the hook and reel you in, everything is free. |
| And while it's true that most firms pay a flat rate larger than the nation's GDP to have unlimited access to Wexis, they pass those costs to their clients with a substantial markup, so it's important to bill for as many searches as possible. |
| Wexis wishes those clients would disappear, and is working on a Wexis client disappearing tool that you will soon be able to buy for just a few hundred Wexis points. |
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