formerly american lawyer media is an integrated media company located in new york city and is a leading provider of specialized business news and information focused primarily on the legal insurance and commercial real estate sectors . 1 alm owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers including the american lawyer the new york law journal corporate counsel the national law journal the legal intelligencer legal times and real estate forum . 2 the company also produces conferences and trade shows for business leaders and the legal profession . law journal press alm s professional book imprint publishes over 130 treatises on a broad range of legal topics . other alm businesses include newsletter publishing court verdict and settlement reporting production of professional educational seminars market research and content distribution . the company was started in 1979 by steven brill to publish the american lawyer . in 1997 brill sold alm to time warner who wanted the courttv stake . 3 alm s legal publications were acquired from time warner by u.s. equity partners l.p. a private equity fund sponsored by wasserstein & co. l.p. in 1998 . 4 shortly afterward it acquired national law publishing company parent of the national law journal and new york law journal from boston ventures and the legal publications of legal communications including the legal intelligencer from meridian venture partners . 5 6 in 1999 u.s. equity bought real estate publisher schein publications . 7 in 2007 alm was purchased by incisive media for us 630 million . 2 in 2009 incisive had to restructure the loan used to purchase alm and alm once again became an independent company owned by the lenders and apax partners . 8 wasserstein & co. repurchased alm in 2014 . 9 in 2015 alm acquired summit professional networks . 10 in january 2016 the company acquired british legal magazine legal week . 11 alm s owner wasserstein acquired another magazine company in 2016 expanding their ownership in the publishing space . references edit company profile . alm press room . 2009 . archived from the original on 4 july 2010 . retrieved 24 june 2010 . a b tryhorn chris 5 july 2007 . incisive media purchases us publisher alm . the guardian . retrieved 24 june 2010 . time warner buys court tv stake time warner to shed legal publications law publishing merger planned would be buyer is bought up schein publications acquired by wasserstein perella private equity affiliate . incisive media reaches agreement on refinancing of the group . incisive media press release . 8 sep 2009 . retrieved 4 dec 2013 . wasserstein buys back law titles for 417m lukas i. alpert 5 january 2015 . legal publisher alm to acquire summit professional networks . wall street journal . issn 0099 9660 . retrieved 1 february 2015 . nell gluckman 12 january 2016 . alm buys uk s legal week from incisive media . the american lawyer . retrieved 3 february 2016 . external links edit official website american lawyer media holdings in the international directory of company histories 2000 . v t e alm american lawyer media the american lawyer connecticut law tribune fulton county daily report the legal intelligencer the national law journal new york law journal summit professional media futures insidecounsel this article about a media company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alm company & oldid 736174344 categories legal literaturemedia in new york citypublishing companies of the united statesalm company integrated media companiesmedia company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 25 august 2016 at 18 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view