Discover what over 2,000 law libraries have already learned about legal information cost savings!

The Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual is the oldest, most exhaustive, and most trusted consumer guide to legal information published in the United States.  It is also the only book that tracked both prices and historic supplementation costs for thousands of titles.

This book will pay for itself many times over!

A book that has been called "... hands-down the most useful book on legal information ever written."  - Academic law library director.

​In the absence of the “AALL Price Index to Legal Publications” (discontinued in 2014), the Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual provides you with the ONLY objective source of pricing and supplementation cost data for several thousand legal publications – all designed to SAVE your library time and money!

The Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual is the only Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award winner that went on to become an essential ANNUAL publication, published for 25 years, and providing legal information consumers worldwide with vital, objective information on thousands of legal publications.

It provides the only systematic scrutiny of legal publishers and their pricing practices from a law librarian’s perspective.

The 2021 (25th) edition is the culmination of over 25 years’ research into legal information products and their supplementation costs up to 2020, with reviews of over 3,000 legal treatises and reference books published between 1995 and 2020, as well as many legacy titles published in prior years, an unprecedented accomplishment.

Between 2018 and 2021, the Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual has also been enhanced on a number of levels, including:

• Invaluable introductions to each of 87 subject categories in Chapter 27 (Legal treatises), providing subject overview, sources of law, and useful Internet sites.

• More than 200 pages of new material, including book reviews, and updating of existing content, now totaling 1,215 pages in all.

• Reviews of more than 300 new titles since 2018, new reference titles, and other product reviews (Chapters 22 & 27).

• Enhanced bibliographies of legal treatises in 87 subject areas (up from 67 in 2018), including more than 80 titles on Legal Research and Writing, and with new, used, electronic, or West Monthly Assured Print Pricing on more than 3,000 titles in all (Chapter 27).

• Updated bibliographies of state legal resources and research guides, including the cost of CALR offerings (Chapter 28).

• Completely updated bibliographic data for all covered titles.

• Completely updated cost and supplementation figures through 2020 (and 2021 for Matthew Bender).

• Completely updated cost spreadsheet for supplemented titles (Appendix G).

• Completely updated charts and tables reflecting 2020 corporate annual reports and pricing data.

• Completely updated sample Westlaw and LexisNexis costs (Chapters 4 & 25).

• Completely updated sample CALR costs for all vendors (Chapter 25).

• Industry developments and acquisitions, including profit margins through 2020 (Chapter 2).

• Updated information on Casetext, Fastcase, Law360, and other online providers.

• Cumulative supplementation cost data going back 28 years – all at your fingertips – to guide both your acquisitions and de-acquisitions decisions.

• Special alerts of egregious price and supplementation cost increases in recent years.

• Now in a hardbound edition at only a modest cost increase.

• Information you will find in no other source, and all painstakingly assembled for your library’s benefit!

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