Following the intense interest generated within the legal information profession by the acquisition of Lawtel announced by Sweet & Maxwell on August 2, 2002, the Editorial Board asked Wendy Beecham to grant us an interview to enable her to communicate to us the rationale behind the takeover. Wendy very kindly agreed to speak to me and the following is a report of our conversation, which covered not just Lawtel, but also included a follow-up to the interview Wendy gave to Laurence Eastham shortly after she became Managing Director of Sweet & Maxwell in I 999, and published in the Law Librarian.