Dwight Opperman, the former CEO of West Publishing Co., died early this morning at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 89.
The family said he had a brief illness.
He started with West Publishing after graduating from the Drake University Law School in 1951. During his tenure the company became one of the largest legal publishers in the world and helped develop WestLaw, the ubiquitous legal research tool used familiar to first year lawyers and the most senior partners. West was sold to Thomson Corp. for $3.4 billion. The company is now known as Thomson Reuters and has a campus in Eagan, Minn.
Dwight’s son Vance is a founding partner of the Minneapolis law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen. In an email to the firm announcing Opperman’s death, Richard Lockridge described Opperman as “about as down to earth as they come, but also brilliant, tenacious and a great Minnesota and national businessman.”
The Star Tribune says funeral arrangements are pending.
Source: http://minnlawyer.com/minnlawyerblog/2013/06/13/dwight-opperman-dies-at-89/
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