For Immediate Release

Contact:         Lee Feldman, Peters & Feldman for ALM

                        Phone:  (203) 341-8922 E-mail: lfeldman@alm.com

ALM GROUP PUBLISHER CHRIS MOBLEY ADDS RESPONSIBILITY

 FOR TEXAS PROPERTIES

NEW YORK (October 6, 2009) –  ALM, an integrated media company, today announced that Chris Mobley, group publisher for ALM’s Florida and Georgia properties, will add oversight of ALM’s Texas Lawyer and its related publications to his responsibilities.

Mobley joined ALM as president of its Florida Division in October 2000.  He was named group publisher in 2008.  His career spans 37 years in the media business, including 17 years as a reporter and editor at The Miami Herald and The Tampa Tribune, as well as a variety of senior management positions in editorial, circulation and advertising at the Miami Herald Publishing Company.  He also served as associate publisher/Broward for The Herald.  Mobley received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida.  He will continue to be based in South Florida.

Texas Lawyer is the primary source of legal news and information for the third largest legal community in the country, and has won numerous journalism awards. The print and online publication covers the latest news from law firms, the courts, state agencies, in-house legal departments, and the state legislature, and also publishes In-House Texas, related Web sites, blogs, reference texts and directories.  Texas Lawyer is published by ALM.

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The Treasury’s celebrated TARP program to rescue troubled mortgages still hasn’t really kicked in. Treasury is being beaten up by Congress for not starting it. But the law still requires guidelines for the asset acquisition, and the acquisitions are going to put the nature of newspaper notice into play.

Some Attorneys General are protecting states’ rights, which include the notices. To see them see www.pnrc.net/foreclosures.htm.

These Texas residents are upset about the water use in the recovery of an old mine. But the notice was in the paper, 4 times no less.

These folks are treading water. They would have been informed if they had been reading.

http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2008/11/23/news/news03.txt

The Wisconsin Attorney General came down foursquare on the importance of newspaper notices in this dispute about a newspaper’s screw-up of a notice. Too bad it happened. The industry has to pay attention to accuracy in these. The importance of that fixed, accurate record is one of the reasons to use print.

The opinion: http://www.doj.state.wi.us/ag/opinions/opinions.asp#informal

The story:

http://www.lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=8674

This long running battle about a Duke Energy dam removal has centered on the choices of newspapers for notice. It is hard to understand why the state Division of Water Quality didn’t put notices in the newspapers in the area. It is great that the notices ran in a student paper (although a little puzzling), but why not do the maximum amount of notice and quell this part of the dispute? How much more did the legal fees cost the state than the simple cost of the right notices?

http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/11_08/11_05_08/fr_jackson_loses.html

Lines in major cities were stretching around miles of city blocks to try to grab up these historic headlines.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1108/567381.html

Candidates for office are more than occasionally found to hold property for which taxes, liens or mortgages have not been paid. The candidates themselves, of course, usually feel their privacy has been invaded. But their financial lives are a piece of their suitability for office. Publishing foreclosure notices, as well as writing about them in news stories, protects a piece of accountability.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081103/ARTICLES/811030258/1015/NEWS0101?Title=Records_show_Boseman_owns_property_in_foreclosure

This landowner missed the notice because he lived out of town.

It would be great to think someone in the circulation department at this newspaper would have contacted this guy about subscribing, but somehow one suspects it won’t happen.

TMI (Too Much Information) shows that the web can both overreport and underreport, but in any event the ease of the single keystroke puts the whole information stream in peril.  Here, a lot of personal information accidentally wound up on the web.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081016/LOCAL18/810160473/1195/LOCAL18#

Take a look at this notice on Al Cross’s Ruralblog

Friday, October 03, 2008