Loislaw.com Tulip Tiptoes
by February 18, 2002 12:00 am 73 views
“Mum” is the word from Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer NV these days. The parent company of Loislaw.com Inc. of Van Buren, Wolters Kluwer’s legal team is not talking about the $75 million lawsuit recently refiled against it by JurisDictionUSA Inc. of Phoenix.
A number of Wolters Kluwer subsidiaries, including Loislaw.com, are named in the suit. Loislaw.com was traded on Nasdaq before Wolters Kluwer subsidiary Aspen Publishers Inc. of Chicago bought it for $95 million in 2001.
Loislaw.com has filed a motion for dismissal. Dale Gordon, corporate counsel for Aspen, as expected said that his company denies all of the allegations made by JDUSA and that Wolters Kluwer plans a vigorous defense.
JDUSA alleged contract breeches by Loislaw.com, which had a marketing and licensing agreement to sell a software product called “LoisDesk” in partnership with JDUSA. When Loislaw.com was bought out, the suit claims, the online legal information provider sloughed off its responsibilities to JDUSA.
Former Loislaw.com owner Kyle Parker and his wife, Renee, who now live in Florida, are also named in the suit which was refiled Jan. 18 in The Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County.
Lawyers Mike Manning and John Hendricks of Phoenix represent JDUSA. Manning’s successful Mafia-related convictions are immortalized in the book “Inside Job.”