American Lawyer Media Hires Top Times Executive as CEO

Posted on February 11, 1998

American Lawyer Media, Inc. announced that William L. Pollak, a top business executive with The New York Times, has been named the company's Chief Executive Officer, a new position, and a member of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Pollak, 41, joins American Lawyer Media after 15 years with The Times, the last six as an Executive Vice President. During his career, he has held a variety of marketing, advertising and circulation positions. Mr. Pollak received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1982.

American Lawyer Media was recently formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., the merchant banking arm of Wasserstein Perella & Co., with the acquisitions of both American Lawyer Media, L.P. and the National Law Publishing Company, which have been merged.

The new American Lawyer Media, Inc. has an estimated readership of over one million. The company publishes 16 periodicals, including several leading national periodicals and publications serving four of the five largest state legal markets. In addition to The American Lawyer, the company's feature publications include The National Law Journal, the nation's largest selling legal newspaper, and the New York Law Journal, which has the largest paid circulation of any regional legal newspaper in the United States. The company also publishes five other daily newspapers serving Georgia, Northern California, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, as well as four weekly newspapers serving New Jersey, Texas, Washington D.C. and Connecticut.