BarBri is up for sale-BAR/BRI is formerly owned by West Publishing, the nation's largest officially authorized publishing company and the owner of Westlaw, which, along with LexisNexis, provides the lion's share of online legal examine. West has told its executives that BAR/BRI no longer fits the company's plans.
BAR/BRI was founded in the 1960s by William A. Rutter and Jan Horn (BAR) & Jeffrey Rubinstein, Beardsley Rummel, &Lewis Collens (BRI).
BAR/BRI grew spectacularly in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, under the leadership of Stan Chess, Steve Levine, and Dick Conviser and is currently headed by Mike Simms, a Texas attorney.
BAR/BRI also owns the BarPassers bar review course and the Micromash bar review course.
Many potential purchasers of the nation's largest bar review program are afraid about BAR/BRI's limited upside It claims to have more than 90 per cent of the national market and dramatic prospective downside, about the increase in competition & the waning number of students paying for a traditional full-service course, and about BAR/BRI's defence of numerous lawsuits.
Bar review competitors include Kaplan PMBR was owned by the Washington Post Company, Reed Bar Review, Rigos Bar Review, Emanuel Bar Review, Pieper Bar Review, Themis Bar Review, Pass the Bar, & BarMax. BAR/BRI materials, which were once hard to achieve in second-hand condition, are now sold freely on eBay and Craigslist in a bulky secondary marketplace.
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