Since entering the legal education market in the late 1970s, Carolina Academic Press has become a major publisher of law school textbooks.

Today, CAP publishes more than 100 books a year in academic fields ranging from legal education and criminal justice to anthropology and african studies.

In 2011, CAP released its first software package, Core Grammar for Lawyers, which has been used by more than half of the law schools in the United States.

On January 1, 2016, Carolina Academic Press acquired the Law School Publishing Division of LexisNexis.

[citation needed] The firm has its headquarters in the historic Fitzgerald office building near downtown Durham.