| Headquarters: | New
York, NY |
| Date Founded: | 1997 |
| Description: | ALM is a leading integrated media company focused on the legal and business communities. ALM brands represent the premier vehicles for reaching the $200 billion U.S. legal services industry, including more than 50% of the nation's practicing lawyers. ALM is also a leading source of print and online information for the commercial real estate industry. ALM national and regional publications, events, books, newsletters and reference works reach more than 1 million estimated readers and attendees, while more than 400,000 unique visitors use ALM's electronic news and information resources each month. |
| History: | ALM (www.alm.com) was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity investment fund, sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. In 1997, U.S. Equity Partners acquired the legal publishing division of American Lawyer Media, L.P. and the National Law Publishing Company, creating the nation's largest legal journalism organization. Since that time, the company has expanded through the start-up of new publications and ventures, as well as acquisitions, before being purchased in 2007 by Incisive Media. |
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ALM publishes 33 national and regional periodicals that serve legal and business professionals. ALM newspapers include: The National Law Journal, the largest paid circulation national legal newspaper and the New York Law Journal, the nation's largest regional legal newspaper founded in 1888. Content in ALM's legal newspapers includes news, features, analysis and commentary about the world of law and advocacy. The American Lawyer anchors the company's magazine portfolio. It features stories on the strategies, successes, failures and personalities of the most important figures in the legal world. ALM’s Corporate Counsel is the leading vehicle for reaching the nation’s general counsel and in-house legal departments.ALM’s other legal magazines focus on specific practice areas or segments within the legal profession and specific topics applicable to the business and practice of law. ALM's Real Estate Media Division publishes the award-winning Real Estate Forum magazine, as well as regional publications for commercial real estate professionals that include Real Estate Southern California, Real Estate New York and Real Estate New Jersey. Combined, ALM's periodicals reach more than one million readers. Magazines:The American Lawyer The American Lawyer Student Edition California Employment Law Corporate Counsel Executive Legal Adviser Focus Europe GC California GC Mid-Atlantic GC New England In-House Texas IP Law & Business Law Firm Inc. Law Technology News Minority Law Journal Real Estate Forum Real Estate New Jersey Real Estate New York Real Estate Southern California Newspapers:Broward Daily Business Review (Ft. Lauderdale) The Connecticut Law Tribune Delaware Law Weekly Fulton County Daily Report (Atlanta) The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia) Legal Times (Washington, D.C.) Miami Daily Business Review The National Law Journal New Jersey Law Journal New York Law Journal Palm Beach Daily Business Review Pennsylvania Law Weekly The Recorder (San Francisco) Texas Lawyer Books:ALM's Law Journal Press currently publishes more than 120 books, covering a broad array of legal topics, from health care fraud to Internet and intellectual property law. ALM's books generally focus on practical legal subjects that arise in the daily professional lives of lawyers. The majority of ALM's books are updated once or twice per year with supplements provided on the latest legal developments. Newsletters:ALM's Law Journal Newsletters publishes 25 newsletters that target particular interests of lawyers practicing in specialty areas, from entertainment law and finance to product liability and insurance law. ALM Conference and Trade Show Divison:ALM's Conference and Trade Show Division is one of North America's largest producers of educational and networking events for business leaders and the legal profession. The division offers more than 300 conferences and two leading industry tradeshows, as well as conferences in Europe and Asia. Attendance at the division's events, which span a broad range of topics including law, finance, natural resources, life sciences, multi-cultural marketing, real estate and healthcare, will exceed 40,000 executive-level decision makers this year. ALM Research:ALM Research is the leading provider of competitive intelligence and data for and about the legal market, including studies and reports based on ALM’s recognized industry publication rankings, such as the Am Law 100 and NLJ 250 annual surveys, and original research, commissioned to provide insight into specific aspects of the industry and marketplace. ALM Online:ALM's Law.com is the Web's leading legal news and information network. Law.com connects legal professionals to award-winning national and regional legal publications online, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day. Through Law.com, legal professionals can track developments in their practice specialties, research legal technology purchases, participate in accredited online training, conduct national job searches, identify expert witnesses and purchase research and publications. ALM's GlobeSt.com and GlobeSt.Retail Web sites provide up-to-the-minute coverage of breaking commercial real estate industry news for brokers, developers, lenders, managers, real estate lawyers, corporate executives and financiers. Other online publications include GlobeSt. Week and newsletters that address specific commercial real estate segments. Litigation Services:ALM offers a variety of resources for litigators, including the NLJ Expert Witness and Consultant Network and VerdictSearch, the nation's leading publisher of verdict and settlement news and research. |
