Martindale-Hubbell

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Martindale-Hubbell
Parent company Internet Brands [1]
Founded1868
Founder James B. Martindale
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New Providence, New Jersey
Nonfiction topicslaw
Official website www.martindale.com

Martindale-Hubbell is an information services company to the legal profession [2] that was founded in 1868. The company publishes the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, which provides background information on lawyers [3] and law firms in the United States and other countries. It also published the Martindale Hubbell Law Digest, a summary of laws around the world. Martindale-Hubbell is owned by consumer website company Internet Brands. [1]

Contents

History

19th century

Volumes of the 2004 edition of Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory on the shelf in the reference section of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California Martindale-Hubbell volumes.jpg
Volumes of the 2004 edition of Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory on the shelf in the reference section of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California

Martindale's Directory was first published in 1868 by James B. Martindale, a lawyer and business person. [4] He wrote in the preface:

The object of the work is to furnish to Lawyers, Bankers, Wholesale Merchants, Manufacturers, Real Estate Agents, and all others who may have need of business correspondents away from home, the address of one reliable law firm, one reliable bank, and one reliable real estate agent in each city and town in the United States; also to give the laws of the several States on subjects of a commercial character that are of interest or importance to business men, or have a bearing on mercantile transactions and the collection of debts.... [5] [6]

The first edition of Hubbell's Legal Directory was published in 1870. By 1896, Martindale's Directory included basic information that still appears in today's Martindale-Hubbell Directory. This edition introduced law digests for all the states and provinces. [4] [7] The same year, the 26th edition of the Hubbell's Legal Directory was published. [8]

The volumes of the 2003 edition of the Martindale Hubbell International Law Directory and International Law Digest above the volumes of the de: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law on the shelves in the reference section of the National Library "Sts. Cyril and Methodius" in Sofia, Bulgaria Martindale Hubbell International Law Directory and Law Digest - 2003 edition.jpg
The volumes of the 2003 edition of the Martindale Hubbell International Law Directory and International Law Digest above the volumes of the de: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law on the shelves in the reference section of the National Library "Sts. Cyril and Methodius" in Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 Edition of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest on CD-ROM 2007 MARTINDALE HUBBELL LAW DIGEST ON CD-ROM.jpg
2007 Edition of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest on CD-ROM

20th century

By combining the Martindale's Directory and Hubbell's Legal Directory, the first edition of the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory was published in 1931 as a two-volume set. [9]

In 1951, a digest was added for Israel. Meanwhile, internal conditions as well as difficulties of communication with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania had made it necessary to withdraw publication of law digests for these countries. These law digests were revised and again published in the 1990s. Throughout the years Martindale Hubbell Law Digest, which was revised and published annually, has been considered as an incomplete encyclopaedia of comparative law in English. [10] [11] [12]

In 1990, Martindale-Hubbell was purchased by Reed International P.L.C. [13] [14] Reed Elsevier came into being in 1992, following the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, the Netherlands-based scientific publisher. [15]

21st century

Their directory went online in 2004, "free to legal professionals." [16] In 2007, the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell [17] Law Digest became available only via CD-ROM and subscription on-line. In 2009, all the 150 Law Digests could be consulted free of charge on martindale.com. [18] In October 2013, Reed Elsevier entered into a joint venture with Internet Brands, LLC. [19] In March 2014, the joint venture was completed resulting in the combination of Martindale-Hubbell, Lawyers.com, and Internet Brand's Nolo legal division. The joint venture operates under the name of Martindale-Hubbell. [1]

Products and services

2010 Edition of Martindale Hubbell Law Digest ON CD-ROM. This was the last published edition of the Law Digest. 2010 EDITION OF MARTINDALE HUBBELL LAW DIGEST ON CD-ROM.jpg
2010 Edition of Martindale Hubbell Law Digest ON CD-ROM. This was the last published edition of the Law Digest.

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References

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  3. ↑ "Why Judges Tilt to the Right". The New York Times . January 31, 2015. Of the 975,000 lawyers listed in 2012 in the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory,
  4. 1 2 3 "About Martindale-Hubbell". Martindale.com. n.d. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
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  9. ↑ The Martindale-Hubbbell Law Directory (Annual) (63rd ed.). New York: Martindale Hubbell Law Directory Inc. 1931.
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