Here's another shout out to one of our sales teams...our colleagues in ALM's Research Group.  This is the time of year when they sell spreadsheets of the Amlaw 100 and 200 listings to law firms and others who are interested in access to the data.  So far this year we have sold more copies of those lists than we sold last year or in 2008, and are closing in on the 2007 record.  And overall sales of our research reports, databases and the other products sold by that group are also shaping up very well in 2010.  As we look to expand our research business as one of our strategic objectives over the next few years, it's great to see the team moving us strongly in the right direction.

And while not exactly a shout-out, I did want to welcome the launch of our newest e-newsletter: the NLJ's Supreme Court Insider.  Headlined by our two respected and incredibly talented Supreme Court correspondents, Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro, we hope to make this must-reading for appellate lawyers and Supreme Court junkies.  We'll start out weekly for the summer and then switch-over to daily publication when the Supreme Court term starts up again in October.  Check it out at:

 http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/alert_supreme_court.jsp