About Us
The Roots of lawOnTAPP
Maurice (Mauri) F. Baggiano has been a legal writer, researcher and indexer for over 35 years.
As a distinguished legal writer and content editor at the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (now a business unit of Thomson/West Publishing) he wrote and edited multiple chapters and articles for several jurisprudences, and later joined the ALR Federal department. In the 1990s Mauri joined LexisNexis in Charlottesville, VA and was the team leader for indexing development.
iNTELLiNDEX, an indexing company serving legal publishers the world over, was established in the year 2000. The success of iNTELLiNDEX spawned the creation of new bud press, inc. in 2004. Formed with a LexisNexis colleague, new bud press, inc. provided editorial and indexing services to worldwide clients for nine years. Mauri led the company as its President until mid-2013 when editorial operations for legal publications transitioned to lawBookEditors. The expanded editorial services offered by lawBookEditors is accomplished by a team of expert editors “hand picked” and guided by Mauri.
Later this year, lawOnTapp, LLC, will launch two publications on federal evidence law. Mauri is the Publisher and looks forward to growing this venture in western New York State.
Mauri was awarded Honors with Distinction from the Faculty of Arts and Letters of SUNY Buffalo where he earned a baccalaureate degree in English in 1975. He continued his education at SUNY Buffalo Law School where he received a J.D. in 1978. He received both degrees in just over 5 & 1/2 years of study.
He began teaching writing classes as an adjunct professor at Jamestown Community College while he studied for the bar exam. As a practicing attorney, his teaching career continued at Gannon University, and later, at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Mauri currently lives and works in Jamestown, NY, where he was born and raised.
Mauri Baggiano
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work,
the material out of which laws are made,
out of which the Constitution was written.
Everything depends on our understanding of them.”
Felix Frankfurter - Supreme Court Justice