My bet is that legal will be sold in 2020. Streamline costs and appear to be more profitable in 2019 and sell in 2020. Someone posted below on another thread and it’s the most logical post I’ve seen on this site.
“Thomson Reuters Legal (TRL) is now being prepared for sale to one of the Big Four accounting firms (perhaps PwC) in the year 2020. That is why Susan Taylor was, without explanation, removed after the sale of controlling interest in F&R to Blackstone was announced, and Brian Peccarelli (a JD and CPA) was brought in to replace Taylor. The sale of TRL will coincide with the conclusion of Rick King's Scale 2020 program, which has been steadily & quietly consolidating technology resources throughout TRL since 2013.
TRL's July 2018 release of Westlaw Edge, little more than a much-hyped hastily cobbled-together skin on top of WestlawNext, is intended to produce the appearance of new sales & organic revenue growth for prospective TRL buyers and analysts and to distract from the fact that growth at TRL has, in fact, been essentially flat post-recession.”
I gotta admit there is a lot of logic to this. @W96rYzS-uhg made sam valid points, so I. reposted his post from another thread