CRIV BLOG

CRIV / LexisNexis Fall Semiannual Call

Date: November 29, 2018

Participants: Carolyn Bach (Sr. Manager Librarian Relations and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis) and Teresa Harmon (Sr. Director Segment Manager, LexisNexis), Vani Ungapen (AALL Executive Director), CJ Pipins (CRIV Chair), Karen Provost (CRIV Liaison)

Requests for Advocacy:

• There were two advocacy requests from law firms unable to renew their Law360 subscriptions without having a Lexis Advance contract. Lexis reached out to both firms to resolve, and provided us with this updated clarification around product packaging:

 “We’ve worked with Law Librarians and AALL over many years and deeply respect our longstanding relationship with this community. We see Law Librarians as critical collaborators in the journey to evolve our offerings and better serve all customers. It is in that same spirit that we’re engaging with AALL to fully understand the concerns that have been raised. Ultimately, our goal is to provide legal information and analytics that help lawyers cut through vast amounts of data to efficiently gain insights, make better decisions, and achieve the best outcomes possible.

We appreciated the time and effort the AALL leadership team put into sharing their insights on our products and pricing.  We will certainly keep these perspectives in mind as we move forward.  We also were grateful for the opportunity to discuss our integrated product strategy and our compliance process that includes internal and external legal review of all pricing and packaging prior to release to customers.  Since pricing and packaging plans vary by customer type and are customized to meet specific customer needs, we encourage members to follow-up with their LexisNexis account representative with any questions regarding their firm’s specifics.”

• Monthly invoices for online products started to include a $2 charge per paper invoice. Customers were notified in the three prior invoices that a print invoice charge is forthcoming and were directed to the registration process for electronic invoicing. LexisNexis has worked hard to improve the online billing service and PowerInvoice so that all customers can enjoy hassle-free paperless billing. This offers a much more complete billing experience than paper: customers can view their invoices, statement of account, or pay an invoice at any time in PowerInvoice.
  To avoid this charge, simply register to receive electronic invoice notification emails via Powerinvoice. After viewing an invoice cite list, open invoices or you statement of account, click on register for online account management link to sign up, or contact your LexisNexis representative to assist.

New Product Release: We are very excited to share the news about Context on Lexis Advance. A new product that released on November 29^th. Context is the legal industry’s first and only language analytics product that helps legal professionals build the best arguments for cases by knowing how judges are likely to rule on motions. Powerful language analytics are deployed across millions of documents, so one can quickly identify the language a specific judge frequently relies on and understand how an expert’s testimony stands up to judicial scrutiny.

Law School faculty received access to Context on Nov. 29^th as part of their law school’s subscription. Students will have access in January.

All commercial customers can preregister for free access for a limited time here.

Lexis Advance enhancements:

• Ravel View:

Ravel View is unique data visualization tool on Lexis Advance that helps users find the most influential cases faster, including cases that may have been overlooked. After running a search in case law, users can select the Ravel View icon that displays an interactive visual map of the top 75 cases and how they connect and interact with one another. Shepard’s® treatment is also integrated so researchers can quickly determine if a case has been treated positively or negatively. A popular tool among associates and law students.

• Custom Pages and Non-billable zones:

Non-billable zones on Lexis Advance are a new custom solution exclusively available for law firm administrators to build and centrally control content sets. They can be shared firm wide or they can be sent to group within the firm. A key benefit is that users in a non-billable zone can easily transition to and from billable research. Also, non-billable zone-specific usage can be tracked in PowerInvoice™ and reduce billing data admin.

A clarification, where non-billable zones are set up by administrators, we also have a solution for end users called Custom Pages that released last spring. This is a tool that individual users can access to set up their own personal custom page with their go to sources etc.

• Shepard’s:

– The new Shepard’s case card visually displays Shepard’s treatment, including the number of citations for each treatment, right from the results screen, helping researchers determine case relevance faster while browsing through their case law results. Plus view the most cited headnote in the case and display the Reason for Shepard’s Signal™ language—the language from citing references that most influenced a case’s Shepard’s Signal.

– Shepard’s treatment for Notice of Appeal Filed has been applied to federal cases generating a yellow caution signal.

-Shepard’s treatment has been applied to statute sub-sections in select jurisdictions.

• • History grace period: Commercial customers who bill research can re-run searches within 24 hours without incurring an additional charge (from the search box, history or saved in Work Folders).
  • New segments in Jury Verdict & Settlements, Law Reviews & Journals and Company profile content
  • Federal case law enhancements: notice of appeal terminated and reporter placeholder for new Federal cases
  • Filter improvements in News content
  • Law360 newsletters now include hyperlinks to Lexis Advance for cited references.

Lexis Practice Advisor enhancements and new offerings:

• New offerings: Data Security & Privacy, Tax, Private Equity and Investment Management, Financial Services Regulations. These practical guidance modules include access to practice notes, forms, clauses, checklists, secondary content, and relevant primary law.
• State Law Comparison Tools: The new State Law Comparison Tool helps researchers quickly compare laws across states. The tool is available now for Labor & Employment, Data Security & Privacy and Intellectual Property & Technology, and will expand to more practice areas.
• Smart Forms: The Lexis® Smart Forms tool provides automated legal templates in a question and answer format. The tool builds documents with the right data and clauses based on user answers. Completed forms can be downloaded as Microsoft® Word files (.docx) or PDF.
• Smart forms are included in select Lexis Practice Advisor® practice areas including Commercial Transactions, Corporate and M&A, and Labor & Employment, with more on the way.
• 2019 plans: Enhancements planned for Transaction Search, drafting solutions and developing more industry content in Financial Services, Insurance, Energy, Life Sciences, and Healthcare.
  

  AALL Updates – LexisNexis is continuing their sponsorship for the 2019 AALL Call for Papers and their longstanding LexisNexis AALL research grants.