CT Law Tribune, RIP

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You don’t have to a be lawyer to appreciate the Connecticut Law Tribune. It covered a wide breadth of stories that had a legal angle, and included thoughtful editorials that weighed in on some of the state’s most important issues.

Now comes word that the site’s publisher, American Lawyer Media, plans to discontinue the Law Tribune. The print edition ended in the 2010s. Now the online site is no more.

In February, the Connecticut Law Tribune editorial board “wound down its affiliation” with the publisher. Pictured above is the Law Tribune editorial board’s dinner at Mory’s in New Haven.

The backstory was published by the editorial board last month:
American Lawyer Media was started in 1979 by Steven Brill to publish The American Lawyer. Along the way, he grew the business to include, among other publications, The Connecticut Law Tribune. Nearly 20 years later, Brill sold ALM and its literary progeny to Time Warner. Thereafter, ALM’s legal publications were acquired from Time Warner by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund. After several other transactions, ALM managed numerous publications, before, most recently, it merged with Law Business Research, or LBR. According to its website, “LBR has undergone a significant transition from being a traditional legal publisher, to being a technology focused information business serving our clients and users with the knowledge, tools and data they need.”

 

Update: After this post was published, ALM provided the following:

“The Connecticut Law Tribune has not been discontinued. In February, we made internal changes to our editorial structure, including disbanding the regional Connecticut Law Tribune editorial board. These changes do not affect our commitment to Connecticut legal coverage, and the Connecticut Law Tribune brand remains active at this time. If any changes are made, subscribers will hear directly from us first.”

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