CRIV BLOG

Date: January 14, 2021, 10:00 a.m. EST

Participants:

• Carolyn Bach, Senior Manager, Librarian Relations & Faculty Programs, LexisNexis
• Simon Weierman, Senior Director, Segment Management, LexisNexis
• Vani Ungapen, AALL Executive Director
• Karen Selden, AALL CRIV Board Liaison
• Ashley Ahlbrand, CRIV LexisNexis Liaison

Product Brand Updates: Rebranding and streamlining of several existing product names, making it easier for customers to identify and navigate LexisNexis® products (September 2020):

• Lexis Advance® to Lexis®
• Lexis Advance® CourtLink® to Lexis® CourtLink®
• Lexis Practice Advisor® to Practical Guidance

Lexis+™:

Commercial product launch of Lexis+ (September 2020). Released to the law school market in July, and commercial markets in September

• Feature-rich, premium legal solution that unites advanced research, Practical Guidance, Brief Analysis and enhanced tools with a modern user experience to deliver data-driven insights, greater efficiency and better outcomes
• Dramatic visual styling and simplified layout designed to set a new standard in ease of use 
• Striking imagery, bold colors and typography to help improve readability, reduce visual “clutter” and emphasize essential information and tasks
• New Experience Dock that creates an integrated starting point for core legal tasks and enables seamless switching between product experiences and workflows
• New and intuitive features, such as Search Tree, Code Compare and Shepard’s® At Risk, to make it easy for practitioners to access the information and insights they need, control their search experience and provide better counsel
• Delivers on the demand for legal solutions that look and work more like the modern technology products attorneys use in their personal lives

Multiple incremental updates to Lexis+ following initial commercial market rollout (October through December 2020)

• New “light/dark” home page toggle option
• Code Compare feature updates with expanded coverage, additional display options and delivery support
• Shepard’s At Risk enhancements that display within Shepard’s reports
• Brief Analysis enhancements including the Shepard’s Preview, At Risk indicator and Cited in Your Document tab, updated with more information and additional delivery options
• Work folders enhancements to enable document highlights and annotations without saving to a folder
• Search relevance improvements launched to drive more relevant case law results
• Lexis Answers® feature updates to recognize implicit questions and offer answers curated from Practical Guidance

Lexis+ and Lexis®: Incremental platform updates applicable to Lexis+ and Lexis

• New Exclusion Filter added to News search results to filter out “noise” from news, including stock stories, non-business news and obituaries 
• 861K new trial court cases, briefs, pleadings and motions added online 
• Acquired American Maritime Cases, a specialized collection of maritime and admiralty cases and AMC’s in-depth index of maritime topics, to become the exclusive provider moving forward 

Law360® updates:

•  Launch of Law360 Employment Authority (December 2020): Law360 Employment Authority, offering actionable intelligence for employment lawyers through exclusive insights, in-depth analysis and deep news coverage. Covers three key areas in employment law: discrimination, wage and hour and labor. Each section offering breaking news, timely features and thoughtful analyses for readers who specialize in labor and employment law
• My Law360, enabling customization for  Law360 & Law360® Pulse news and analysis experience

Law360 Pulse: a new product offering that released in early January 2021

• Brand-new Law360 Pulse business-of-law news service, combining the award-winning journalism and research of Law360 with powerful data and analytics from Lexis+ to deliver unparalleled coverage, timely insights and industry intelligence to help law firms and legal departments succeed   
• Complements the industry-leading Law360 practice-of-law coverage, giving legal professionals a single best source for comprehensive legal news with LexisNexis

Practical Guidance:

• Launch of new Market Standards for M&A solutions (October, 2020): the new Market Standards for M&A solution enables searching, comparison and analysis of publicly filed M&A deals, helping users jump from insight to action with the most current and comprehensive M&A coverage—and the interactive analytics needed to make more data-driven decisions.
• Multiple incremental updates to the Practical Guidance product to aid users in locating critical guidance, improving their document drafting experience and sharing greater insights with users:
• Enabled alerts on Practical Guidance at the document level to track changes in the law that affect their practice
• Enhanced forms on Practical Guidance, enabling users to download forms with in-line drafting notes and alternate/optional clauses so they can better engage with annotated forms
• Updates to improve discoverability and navigation of International Practical Guidance content
• Refined Practical Guidance search experience to offer a combined search result that surfaces all Practical Guidance content in a single place
• Launched Clause Finder on Practical Guidance to help users quickly research and find relevant clauses by Agreement Type, Point of View (i.e., buyer/seller) and Jurisdiction
• Launched the Survey of Commercial Lease Terms in Practical Guidance, providing up-to-date intelligence about the commercial leasing market and giving real estate attorneys a clear view of market standards and trends to aid them in lease negotiations

Courtlink®: Multiple product updates to improve CourtLink ease of use

• Updated alert and track result display in table format with additional view and delivery options
• Support to save favorite courts for searching to simplify and streamline docket research
• Search improvements, including a unified search form, for a simplified search experience
• Support added to edit the criteria of existing alerts
• Improved Summary Alert email presentation for easier review and deeper insight

Lexis® Search Advantage: Multiple updates to drive greater insights and efficiency for users

• Released Context and Lexis Search Advantage integration, enabling Lexis Search Advantage users to link from references within firm documents to judges, attorneys and expert witnesses into Context to gather insight and analytics on the entity
• Rolled out new motion type and sub-type document classifications to enable precise search and filtering of firm documents within Lexis Search Advantage | Litigation
• Refined the landing and results pages of Lexis Search Advantage | Litigation to support customization and research integration

Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer: New Lexis Verdict & Settlement Analyzer search filters including Filter by Judge, Filter by Attorney and improved Practice Area and Topics filtering

InterAction®: Updates to this business development solution

• Launch of “Strategic Data” subscription tier
• Embedded analytics—visualizations on process status and integrated views of relationships
• Nexis Newsdesk™ embedded into user interface for easy view of public news information curated to contacts
• Partner integrations with Foundation Software (integrated experience management) and Bunnell Idea Group (video coaching on business development)

Nexis Newsdesk: Multiple enhancements to improve administrator ease of use and efficiency of relevant information distribution through Nexis Newsdesk, improved readability for end-users

• Launch of entity cards to help ensure accuracy of news results by matching to companies
• Simplified process to add topics to searches within Nexis Newsdesk
• Refreshed Manage Sources page for administrative ease of use
• Updated clipping flow for selecting content
• Ability to access saved content from landing page
• New Trends Chart for additional insights
• New Post-Search Filter to avoid duplicates
• Article load date replaced with publish date per user feedback 
• Readability of newsletters through mobile devices improved through mobile friendly newsletter theme
• Self-service support for managing Twitter feeds within Nexis Newsdesk

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New Librarian Resources:

• Competitive Intelligence Toolkit: a comprehensive resource, created with the assistance of CI specialists, designed to help law librarians and other legal professionals complete CI research more efficiently as it relates to the LexisNexis® products they have access to. The kit Includes helpful checklists for public companies, private companies, industries, attorneys, law firms and people
• LexisNexis® InfoPro site: contains a variety of updated resources for legal information professionals, including research tips, webinars, newsletter content and product information