This so called conspiratorial meeting included: representatives from CCH,
BNA, Lawyer's Cooperative, Lexis, Tax Analysts, three ABA committees, the
State Bar of Wisconsin, the AALL, a BlueBook liason, the Department of
Justice, HyperLaw, Shepherd's McGraw Hill, and two lawyer-lobbyist from West
Publishing Company (which, except for justifying the non-participation of
West experts on the grounds that the meeting had some anti-trust
problems) acted appropriately.
I am interested in how you garnered your information on this "secret"
meeting.
Alan Sugarman
HyperLaw
sugarman@panix.com
On Mon, 12 Dec 1994, Richard Leiter wrote:
>
> Does any one have any information about the TAP meeting today being held
> at TAP's Washington headquarters?
>
> Apparently this is a "secret" meeting, the topic of which is
> implementation of a "vendor-neutral" citation format. This is beginning
> to take on a conspiratorial tone: West was not invited nor informed of
> the meeting, even though they probably stand to be the most impacted and
> effected by any new citation format. (After all, protest as much as they
> might, should some new format be mandated, they will have to comply
> ultimately.)
>
> Apparently AALL has an "official" representative at the meeting. I
> wonder what sort of format we are supporting or proposing at this point.
>
> What I have hear is that there will be a handful of publishers, a
> representative from the Blue Book, and from AALL, present to discuss
> doing something. Is any one else bothered by the intrigue and the
> secretness?
>
> Richard Leiter
> Allen Mercer Daniel Law Library
> Howard University
> 202-806-8045
>
>
>
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