Martindale-Hubbell is owned by consumer website company Internet Brands.
[4] He wrote in the preface: The object of the work is to furnish to Lawyers, Bankers, Wholesale Merchants, Manufacturers, Real Estate Agents, and all others who may have need of business correspondents away from home, the address of one reliable law firm, one reliable bank, and one reliable real estate agent in each city and town in the United States; also to give the laws of the several States on subjects of a commercial character that are of interest or importance to business men, or have a bearing on mercantile transactions and the collection of debts....[5][6] The first edition of Hubbell's Legal Directory was published in 1870.
Meanwhile, internal conditions as well as difficulties of communication with Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania had made it necessary to withdraw publication of law digests for these countries.
[18] In October 2013, Reed Elsevier entered into a joint venture with Internet Brands, LLC.
[19] In March 2014, the joint venture was completed resulting in the combination of Martindale-Hubbell, Lawyers.com, and Internet Brand's Nolo legal division.