Fourth Class of Start-Ups Graduate from LexisNexis Legaltech Accelerator Program
MENLO PARK, CA –- LexisNexis® today announced that nine new technology start-ups have graduated from its 12-week Legaltech Accelerator Program, which helps promising companies quickly gain traction in the rapidly evolving legal tech industry.
LexisNexis State Net Launches Major Upgrades, Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation
Sacramento, CA -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional® announced significant upgrades to the State Net® platform, which the world’s leading companies, associations and law firms rely on to monitor, comply with, and respond to legislation and regulation. State Net provides unmatched content, speed, and analytics, helping government affairs and compliance professionals act quickly and confidently. With today’s announcement of search, content, design, and analytical improvements, State Net extends its leadership in legislative and regulatory tracking and engagement.
LexisNexis Awarded Contract with United States Federal Judiciary
Washington, DC – LexisNexis Legal & Professional® today announced it was awarded a new contract as a primary information provider to the United States Federal Judiciary to provide more than 20,000 Federal judges, their support staff, and other Federal Judiciary employees with full enterprise-wide unlimited access to the broadest possible range of primary legal, secondary legal, news, business and journals, people and public records content, and analytics.
Law360 Podcast Explores the Perils, Pitfalls and Promise of Cannabis
New York, NY -- Legal news organization Law360, a LexisNexis company, today announced the launch of a new podcast series, Law360 Explores: Legalization. Hosted by senior cannabis reporter Diana Novak Jones, the podcast looks at the murky legal scenarios cannabis businesses must face, as told by the business owners and attorneys on the front lines.
United Nations Foundation Honors LexisNexis CEO Mike Walsh with Global Leadership Award for Advancing Rule of Law
New York, NY -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional, today announced that Mike Walsh, CEO of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, will receive a Global Leadership Award from the United Nations Foundation in recognition of the company's contributions to advancing the rule of law globally.
Lexis Advance Preferred by Next-Generation Lawyers
New York, NY -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional today released results from an independent study of 5,061 U.S. law students that shows Lexis Advance is preferred over Westlaw for legal research. The survey of law students at 201 ABA-accredited U.S. law schools was conducted to better understand future lawyer attitudes, behaviors, and key drivers of user preference in relation to legal research.
LexisNexis CounselLink Releases the 2019 Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report
Raleigh, NC — LexisNexis® CounselLink®, a leading cloud-based enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments, today announced the release of its 2019 Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report. Now in its sixth year, the Trends Report is based on more $33 billion in legal spend comprised of nearly seven million invoices and approximately 1.7 million matters.
LexisNexis Announces Fourth Round of Legal Tech Accelerator Participants
Raleigh, NC -- LexisNexis® today announced that nine participants were selected in its fourth Legal Tech Accelerator program. The program was started to give startups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. In line with the broad LexisNexis vision to transform the way law is practiced, each of the nine accelerator participants – Civvis, ClearstoneIP, Courtroom5, Discovery Genie, DueCourse, JDoe, Lawgood, TermScout and Tusk – is driving innovation in a distinct area of the law.
LexisNexis Launches Enhanced CourtLink Docket Research Solution on the Lexis Advance Platform
Raleigh, NC -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the integration of its CourtLink court docket and document solution into Lexis Advance, the company’s flagship legal research platform. CourtLink’s unmatched docket coverage and market-leading functionality are now available via the Lexis Advance platform and mobile app, making it an even smarter litigation intelligence choice.
LexisNexis Named to Fast Company’s Inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators List
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, today announced it was named to Fast Company magazine’s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list. The list recognizes 50 top organizations that have committed to empowering employees at all levels to improve processes, create new products or invent new ways of doing business. To compile the list, the magazine partnered with Accenture, which evaluated submissions for the role that innovation played in each company’s culture and operations. Winners were selected by an elite panel of Fast Company editors, renowned business leaders, and notable innovators.
LexisNexis and Knowable Announce Joint Venture
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Knowable, one of the leaders in enterprise contract intelligence. Knowable was spun off from Axiom Global Inc. in February 2019. Mark Harris and Alec Guettel, Axiom’s co-founders, will lead Knowable as CEO and CFO respectively. Knowable will operate independently, but will benefit from access to LexisNexis’ leading brand, resources, and infrastructure. The partnership will further enable LexisNexis to help customers improve decision-making and achieve better outcomes.
LexisNexis Launches Context for Courts, Delivering Venue-Specific Insights for Data-Driven Litigators
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of Context for Courts, the first expansion of the award-winning contextual case-law analytics solution available through Lexis Advance. Context for Courts delivers deep insights into the rulings and language most cited by more than 5,000 U.S. state and federal courts so litigators can determine how best to argue their case and where to file it for the greatest potential for success. Context is a key component of the Lexis Analytics™ suite of products that gives lawyers greater knowledge through data-driven insights.
LexisNexis Accepting Applicants for Fourth Cohort of Legal Tech Accelerator
Raleigh, NC – LexisNexis today announced that it is accepting applications for the fourth cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. The program is designed to give start-ups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. The accelerator leverages LexisNexis deep expertise in legal, technology and start-up domains, and industry-leading market position to advise and incubate program participants.
Two LexisNexis Legal & Professional Products Named as CODiE Finalists for Best Emerging Technology and Best Legal Solution
NEW YORK, NY — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that two of its products – Context and Lexis Advance – were finalists in the 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards, underscoring the company’s commitment to customer-driven product innovation.
LEAP and LexisNexis Close Formation of Joint Venture in Practice Management Software
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX and a leading global provider of information and analytics, and LEAP Legal Software, have closed the transaction forming the PCLaw | Time Matters joint venture, announced on May 8, 2019.
LexisNexis CounselLink Spotlights New Work Management Capabilities at CLOC 2019
RALEIGH, NC — LexisNexis® CounselLink®, a leading cloud-based enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments, today announced the launch of a comprehensive set of new work management tools that allow legal teams to go beyond just managing matters and take a more holistic approach to managing their work. This approach is critical for GCs who need to understand the full scope of work handled by their legal department to provide strategic advice, metrics and information to their business stakeholders. With all information accessible in a single interface, the new work management features help legal departments better manage internal work product and matters, relations with outside counsel and total legal spend, and ultimately drive better decisions. LexisNexis will be demonstrating CounselLink’s new capabilities May 14-16 at CLOC 2019 Vegas Institute. CounselLink’s new work management features enable legal departments to collect, organize, track, audit and report on all the work performed within the department. Departments can:
LexisNexis Legal & Professional Awarded 2019 Achievement in Customer Excellence
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced it won a 2019 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award in the Voice of the Customer category. This honor recognizes LexisNexis’ commitment and innovative approach to soliciting real-time customer feedback to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
LEAP and LexisNexis Announce Joint Venture in Practice Management Software
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX and a leading global provider of information and analytics, and LEAP Legal Software, have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to support the growth and development of PCLaw® and Time Matters®, leading Law Firm Practice Management (LFPM) software solutions for small-to-medium sized law firms.
LexisNexis Launches InterAction® for Office 365®
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – LexisNexis® InterAction®, a leading client relationship management (CRM) solution purpose-built for legal and professional services, today launched InterAction® for Office 365®, an advanced, high-performing application that embeds CRM data into existing workflows across Microsoft® Outlook, Excel and Word. Available for both desktop and subscription versions of Office, this application harnesses the power of a firm’s client relationship data, delivering it at the right time so professionals can update, access and consume client relationship data within their natural workflow at their desk or on the go.
LexisNexis launches the new Lexis Middle East legal platform
DUBAI – LexisNexis Middle East & North Africa announced the launch of the new Lexis Middle East platform, its online database providing access to case law, legislation and expert commentary in English for Middle East jurisdictions.
LexisNexis Expands Data as a Service offering with OpenCorporates legal entity data
RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of information and analytics, and OpenCorporates the largest open database of companies in the world, are today announcing a new collaboration which adds OpenCorporates legal entity data to the Nexis® Data as a Service portfolio.
Context Wins ‘People’s Choice’ Award in the Inaugural Legaltech Product Innovation Competition at Legalweek
NEW YORK, NY – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that Context, the first and only case law language analytics solution, won the People’s Choice Award at the inaugural Legaltech Product Innovation Competition held at Legalweek in New York. The competition evaluated the best legal technology products and services over the preceding year according to six judging criteria.
LexisNexis Launches Global Foundation to Advance the Rule of Law
NEW YORK, NY – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, a not-for-profit entity established to further achieve its mission to advance the rule of law around the world. The LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation will enable leading entities from the legal, judicial, academic, NGO and other sectors to support and implement projects that address one or more of the four rule of law components: equal treatment under the law, transparency of the law, access to legal remedy, and independent judiciaries.
LexisNexis Launches Context, Advanced Judge and Expert Witness Analytics
RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of Context, a powerful, A.I.-enhanced solution that delivers insights on judges and expert witnesses to help attorneys best prepare, present and argue their case. Context is a key component of the new Lexis Analytics™ suite of products that gives lawyers greater knowledge through data-driven insights.
LexisNexis® Unveils New PCLaw® Go App
NEW YORK – LexisNexis®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, has announced the release of its newest mobile timekeeping application, PCLaw® Go, for its PCLaw® billing, accounting, and matter management software. This easy-to-use application will allow users to track and enter time associated with current cases and matters directly to their PCLaw software, using their iOS or Android mobile device.
LexisNexis Launches Rule of Law News Coverage by Law360
NEW YORK – Legal news organization Law360, a LexisNexis® company, today announced the launch of Access to Justice Law360, a rule of law-focused coverage section free to the public. Law360 and LexisNexis share a corporate mission to advance the rule of law around the world, and Law360 is uniquely positioned to shed light on emerging issues critical to this work.
LexisNexis Supports Arab Lawyers Embrace of A Global Future
ROME – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, announced that it will be capturing the pulse of the Arab legal community at the 4th Arab Lawyers Forum, where the impact of global trends and regional regulatory reform will be discussed. As a strategic media partner, LexisNexis will interview key speakers and industry leaders drawn from over 300 delegates at the Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria Resort on 5th-6th October. Timed to take place immediately before the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference (7th-12th October) in Rome, the Forum has expanded in scope since it was previously held in Morocco, Egypt and Bahrain.
LexisNexis® Announces Third Round of Legal Tech Accelerator Participants
Raleigh, NC—LexisNexis today announced that six participants were selected in its third Silicon Valley Legal Tech Accelerator program. The program was started to give startups a leg up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. In line with the broad LexisNexis vision to transform the way law is practiced, each of the six accelerator participants – Attune Capital Group, Digitory Legal, Disputly, Justis Connection, Procertas and Specifio – is driving innovation in a distinct area of the law.
LexisNexis Accepting Applicants for Third Cohort of Legal Tech Accelerator
RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® today announced that it is accepting applications for the third cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. The program is designed to give start-ups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. The accelerator leverages LexisNexis deep expertise in legal, technology and start-up domains, and industry-leading market position to advise and incubate program participants.
LexisNexis Survey on Law Firm Marketing and Business Development Reveals Competitive Pressures and Inconsistent Support from Management Hinder Efforts to Win New Business
RALEIGH – LexisNexis® InterAction® today announced the results of its 2018 Law Firm Marketing & Business Development Survey, conducted in partnership with Catapult Growth partners. The survey seeks to understand how marketing and business development leaders, as well as C-suite executives, are adapting to the evolving legal climate in the US and Europe. Specifically, the survey examines the current state of legal marketing and business development, how marketing and business development teams are changing, and which metrics are used to measure the outcomes they achieve.
LexisNexis Specialized Law Launches ‘Lexis Legal Advantage’ Online Community
NEW YORK – LexisNexis, a leading global provider of information and analytics to the legal industry, today announces the launch of a new online community, Lexis Legal Advantage, a comprehensive online resource dedicated to legal professionals within the small and midsize law firm market. Subscribers can access fresh, compelling and actionable content designed to specifically address the challenges and emerging trends unique to the small and midsize market.
LexisNexis Launches Lexis Analytics, an Unmatched Suite of Advanced Tools Designed to Power Data-Driven Law
RALEIGH - LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of Lexis Analytics, a comprehensive suite of analytics tools that leverages advanced technology, vast stores of legal content and expert curation to give lawyers a decisive competitive advantage in the business and practice of law.
LexisNexis Launches Data Visualization to Enhance Its Flagship Online Legal Research Platform, Lexis Advance
NEW YORK - LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the launch of a new data visualization technology, Ravel View, into its flagship Lexis Advance online legal research platform. Ravel View transforms traditional case law search lists into a map of the cases and language that judges find most important. As a result, users can understand the legal landscape faster and uncover cases they may have overlooked in reviewing traditional search results.
LexisNexis Unveils New Time Matters Go App
NEW YORK – LexisNexis®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, has announced the release of a new mobile timekeeping application, Time Matters® Go, for its Time Matters case, client and document management software.
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional Wins 32 Awards from <em><strong style="font-size:20px">The National Law Journal</strong>®</em> and <em><strong style="font-size:20px">Corporate Counsel&
NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, today announced that it has been recognized by The National Law Journal and Corporate Counsel in their annual “Best of” awards for legal technology in 2018. The Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal Best of awards are chosen by the publications’ readers and by working professionals in the legal industry.
CloudNine Acquires eDiscovery Product Lines from LexisNexis
HOUSTON AND NEW YORK – LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, and CloudNine, a leader in simplifying and automating legal discovery, today announced the sale of the LexisNexis eDiscovery product suite to CloudNine. Simultaneously, CloudNine announced a significant investment from an affiliate of Peak Rock Capital. The sale includes the LAW PreDiscovery, Early Discovery Analyzer (EDA) and Concordance products.
LexisNexis Sweeps Reader Rankings as Best Online Public Records Research Provider
NEW YORK, NY – LexisNexis®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced that it was recognized throughout 2017 and into 2018 as the Best Online Public Records Research Provider by various prestigious ALM publications in their annual “Best of” awards for legal technology.
LexisNexis CounselLink Releases the 2018 Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report
RALEIGH, NC — The 2018 CounselLink® Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report is now available. Now in its sixth edition, the Trends Report pulled from an even larger stream of data this year. Derived from a detailed analysis of invoices processed through the CounselLink Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solution, this resource has allowed law departments to gain an understanding of current legal metrics trends and benchmark their performance against other organizations.
Experts see 25 bps rate cut by RBI in December, FY20 GDP forecast at 6%
Repo rate now stands at 5.15%, lowest in nine years. A sixth cut this year would mark the longest streak of consecutive rate cuts since the current interest rate framework was introduced 20 years ago
India has to play its cards well in post-coronavirus world
A new war of invisible type is now going on against mankind. Each country will have to select its side. But more importantly, develop its one offense and defensive frameworks
India isn't winning friends with its openly aggressive lurch to the right
The Indian government is behaving like Viktor Orban of Hungary or Donald Trump himself in its happy embrace of the global right.
Infra to banks: What will it take to fix Indian finance after the crisis
Can India in the 2020s try to reinvent its finance-construction model so that it works for everyone and not just for a few thousand financiers in Mumbai?
As protests against citizenship tests swell, what Is Modi's endgame?
Protests in Indian cities against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens have attracted young people of all faiths and none.
Apparel, jewellery, electronic retailers to roll out store-on-wheels; launches virtual tour of stores
“The idea of store-on-wheels is that customers should not feel suffocated that they can’t go out and shop, and feel the same pleasure right at their doorsteps,” said Vishnu Prasad, managing director of Future Lifestyle Fashions that owns Central and Brand Factory.
CAIT flags traders' inability to pay full salary for April, seeks Goyal's intervention
"If such payments are made, the business of the traders will fall like anything and in absence of any inflow of money, such payments will be disastrous for the retail trade of the country and in turn will badly affect the economy," CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in the letter to Goyal.
Non essential e-commerce in the red even in green & orange zones
Ecommerce leaders including Amazon and Flipkart have been able to recover only one-fifth of their pre-Covid-19 demand even after they opened up sales of non-essentials across smaller towns and cities which fall under the Green and Orange zones, as per analysts and industry insiders.