Thomson Reuters North American Legal (formerly Thomson North American Legal) is the strategic business unit of The Thomson Corporation that specializes in furnishing information and office solutions to lawyer

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

s and other legal professionals in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Its major business is West

West

West is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south.By convention, the left side of a map is west....

. West is a megabrand in the Legal vertical and is the preeminent publisher of legal business and research solutions like Westlaw

Westlaw

Westlaw is one of the primary online legal research services for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a part of West. In addition, it provides proprietary database services...

, and Carswell. It also markets Elite and ProLaw practice management systems, and the FindLaw

FindLaw

FindLaw is a business of Thomson Reuters that provides online legal information and online marketing services for law firms. FindLaw was created by Stacy Stern, Martin Roscheisen and Tim Stanley in 1995, and was acquired by Thomson West in 2001....

 free legal web portal

Web portal

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. It owns the BarBri

BarBri

BarBri is a company in the United States that offers a widely used bar exam preparation course. A majority of American recipients of a Juris Doctor degree attend a six-week BarBri course, which features lectures by law professors on the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination —...

 and MicroMash bar review courses, and Hildebrand International, a consulting

Consultant

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firm. It was formed in the realignment of the Thomson Legal and Regulatory unit in October, 2006. It was renamed after the merger of Thomson and Reuters in 2008.

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• Thomson legal products