CRIV/LexisNexis Semiannual Call

Conference call took place June 11 at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Participants:

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

This update includes product enhancements released between January – June of 2021.

Lexis+™

• Lexis+™ Litigation Analytics released in late January as part of the Lexis+ ecosystem. Lexis+ users now have access to a powerful toolset for litigation analytics in a single, integrated workflow providing precise, relevant, data-driven insights from Lex Machina® and Lexis® CourtLink® to quickly evaluate or compare judges, courts and counsel.

• Shepard’s® At Risk helps ensure users are citing the best authority for a point of law. It was extended beyond the full-text case opinion to display in other context across Lexis+, including Brief Analysis and Shepard’s® reports.

• Brief Analysis was included at Lexis+ launch and offers powerful insights by analyzing legal briefs (users or their opponent’s) and providing recommendations to craft stronger legal strategies and drive winning outcomes. This year to date, multiple updates have been rolled out to further improve Brief Analysis, including embedding Shepard’s analysis in the “Cited in your Document” tab, enabling users to filter recommendations for specific legal concepts and jurisdictions, and launching enhanced PDF processing capabilities.

• A recent case study was published about Brief Analysis by AWS, LexisNexis® Builds AI-Powered Legal Brief Analysis Tool Using AWS, which highlights the collaboration between Lexis Labs and AWS through a “Working Backwards” innovation approach to develop a capability which improves productivity and decision-making for our customers.

• Other recent Lexis+ updates:
  • The experience dock choice a user makes (Research, Practical Guidance, Brief Analysis or Litigation Analytics) now remains as the default across sessions, so users can pick up where they left off.
  • In a similar manner, the Explore Content area of Lexis+ that enables users to browse our collections of content and resources, was enhanced to persist the last tab utilized so users can pick up where they left off across research sessions.
  • Annotations and highlights are now made visible when a user returns to a document without requiring the document be saved to a Lexis+ work folder.
  • The Lexis Answers® tool is now made available when searching Practical Guidance materials on Lexis+.
  • The full-text document display across our content collection was updated to improve the presentation, focusing on readability and navigation.

Lexis® and Lexis+

• Law360® Pulse, which launched in January and provides unparalleled business of law coverage, was integrated for access to archived articles through Lexis and Lexis+.

• Our International Primary Law collection, already leading in coverage from beyond the U.S., was expanded to include laws and regulations through machine translations and original-language source documents. The initial wave began with Latin American countries (January), with later additions of Germany and Indonesia (April) and then Spain (May). Sixteen new countries have been added within 2021, increasing our total collection to 25 plus the European Union.

• The LexisNexis® Public Records user interface was refreshed to align with Lexis and Lexis+.

• The Trial Court Orders content collection was expanded by over 100K documents through March. 

• Search Relevance enhancements were launched for Statutes & Legislation and case law searching, which will improve the relevance of results for Lexis and Lexis+ users.

Practical Guidance

• The approach to search was updated by combining results across previously separate content categories, leading to more relevant results when searching Practical Guidance.

• An updated presentation of the Practical Guidance home page and starting practice area pages was launched to all users to improve discovery of important resources and simplify product navigation.

Context

• A new module of Context, Context Attorney Analytics was released in March, which applies the powerful language analytics capabilities of Context to attorney data. Our solution provides unique insights into the records and experience of attorneys and uncovers the precise arguments they have made in prior motions and briefs, helping attorneys neutralize their arguments and strategy.

• Context Judges and Courts for Canada was released, expanding our powerful language analytics capabilities to international use.

Law360® and Law360 Pulse

• Navigational support was added between Law360.com, Law360 Pulse and the Law360 Authority products through the left-hand navigation panel on each website.

• Law360.com search was extended across products. Users on Law360.com can now search across all content and filter results, helping reduce research time. Content exclusive to Law360 Pulse, Law360 Tax Authority and Law360 Employment Authority is labeled as exclusive.

• Our mobile applications for iPhone® and Android® devices now include all Law360 brands for on-the-go coverage. Law360 Enterprise and Platform customers have access to the Law360, Law360 Tax Authority, Law360 Employment Authority and Law360 UK products in the app. The Law360 app can be downloaded at the Google Play™ store or Apple® App Store.

InterAction®

• The recently released 2021 Law Firm Marketing and Business Development Report provides insights on the impact of COVID-19 and business development trends.

Lexis® for Microsoft® Office

• Texas Greenbook citation formatting rules on Lexis for Microsoft Office have been updated to the 14th edition, along with enhanced Lexis for Microsoft Office Canada McGill’s formatting rules for legislative citations.

Nexis Newsdesk™

Multiple enhancements have been made to Nexis Newsdesk newsletter management and analytics capabilities.

• The Nexis Newsdesk Insights view helps surface key events and trends in a graphical display without running a full analysis.
  • Read the top stories for each search.
  • Identify the most active sources and their sentiment.
  • See which people and companies are dominating the conversation.
  • View topics word cloud and sentiment charts now in the Insights view.
• Dashboards are now customizable to resize or reorder the widgets.
• Sources cards reveal key information about the publication.
• Journalist articles panel quickly displays more articles from a selected author.
• One tab is used for newsletter management options.
• Playable clips are included for TV/radio (for accounts with the TV/Radio Broadcast add-on).
• For accounts with the Premium Social Media Package:
  • Volume column and pause control for Twitter streams
  • Full-length tweets now visible in the search results.

• The new Nexis Newsdesk Certification Program is a three-part series helping Nexis Newsdesk administrators improve their skills, search techniques and content-sharing strategies.

Summer Associates

The new Summer Associate web page includes a wealth of resources for training and guidance, including career advice from legal professionals, practice area resources, essential legal research skills and more.

AALL

• LexisNexis is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the 2021 AALL Annual Conference. Please join us in the Virtual Exhibit Hall on July 19, plus additional sessions on July 20 – 22, to learn about the most recent product updates and announcements. View offerings here.  In addition, LexisNexis is sponsoring the following conference-related events. We’re looking forward to connecting with you at the conference.
  • July 21 at 2 p.m. ET Program Session: “What’s in a Name? Expanding the Concept of Libraries and Librarians in the 21st Century,” Panel Discussion

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