The scruffy underdog image put forth by Versus is part of the attraction for private-practice attorney Rick Georges of St. Petersburg, Florida. I know that I didn't want to be a little cog in a big machine. While Georges had access to Lexis through the junior college where he taught, getting the service for his private practice was next to impossible. Traditional online publishers are still primarily proprietary and very, very expensive and the small law firm simply can't afford it. Acton estimates that 30 percent of his current clients have no consistent connection to law schools or the court house.
Law librarians are overworked and underpaid.
It's going to be a much easier system to use and teach than a law librarian trying to teach someone who simply walked in how to use the library. At this juncture, the answer seems to be an unequivocal yes. The question of how people make money out here is upside-down right now. The people with the least content are making the most money, and the ones with the most content are struggling along. They know who their audience is and they give them what they want.