Those of us with longer memories recall that Elite once did make a bid for CMS (now Aderant) but if fell foul of US FTC concerns as it would have created a near monopoly. Oh, and there was also the matter of the Texas drug trafficking conviction - see back copies of Legal Tech Insider for full stories. As for certain former Aderant sales VPs - well one did leave but that was to take up a job with LexisNexis, those I think he's now stuck in gardening leave limboland.