CRIV/LexisNexis Semiannual Call

Held: December 8, 2021, 12:00 p.m. (Eastern).

In attendance:

• Carolyn Bach, Sr. Manager, Knowledge & Research and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis
• Simon Weierman, Sr. Director, Segment Management, LexisNexis
• Vani Ungapen, Executive Director, AALL
• Michelle Hook Dewey, AALL Executive Board Liaison to CRIV
• Ashley Ames Ahlbrand, CRIV Liaison to LexisNexis

This update includes product enhancements released between July and December 2021.

The Lexis+® Experience

• Enhanced the Lexis+ ecosystem with the launch of the Legal News Hub

• Improved the search experience on Lexis+ with updates to:
  • Extend the reach of Lexis Answers® to secondary sources
  • Add a new Motion Type filter in briefs, pleadings and motions search results
  • Add support for sorting by TOC order when searching TOC sources
  • Launch the Search Tree for natural language and refine presentation of the Boolean Search Tree
  • Enhance the Search Within Results capability so users can target selected document sections, and add control to include or exclude documents matching the user-provided terms
  • Enhance filtering of Arbitration Decisions by enabling users to filter by a particular arbitrator 
  • Enable the Graphical View of search results (aka Search Term Maps) for an additional nine content types

• Rolled out multiple enhancements to Shepard’s® Citations Service, including:
  • Shepard’s integration into the Document view for quick access via tabs
  • Shepard’s interactive visualization of the citing decision treatment by jurisdiction or date
  • Additional support for delivery of Shepard’s At Risk indicators with the delivered report

• Improved upon Brief Analysis through multiple updates, including:
  • Rollout of Judicial Brief Analysis, which enables users to compare up to six documents (three for each side) and receive one comprehensive report of all case law arguments, citations and quotes to help determine accuracy, relevance and argument strength
  • Launch of an integrated Quote Check capability for users to validate that they have quoted primary source materials correctly with the right pin cites for the location of their quotes
  • Integration of expert tips and cases recommended in treatise publications and Practical Guidance through secondary source recommendations

• Enriched Lexis+ Litigation Analytics coverage through:
  • Addition of new courts from seven new counties in California and Georgia
  • Upgraded existing court coverage to Enhanced level in New York, Florida, Utah, and Wisconsin
  • Updated Practical Guidance interface with a user experience refresh within Lexis+

• Enhanced the Lexis+ Legal News Hub with smart tabs that customize the experience with user intervention, and added new content sources, including Law360® UK, Law360 Tax Authority, Law360 Employment Authority and Law360 Insurance Authority

• Launched related secondary source document recommendations based upon the LexisNexis headnote and the case law document the user is viewing

• Improved the Work Folder experience by enabling users to search within full-text documents saved to folders

• Enhanced the Negative News feature with LexisNexis Smartindexing Technology™ filters by subject

The Lexis+ and Lexis® Services

• Extended a multi-year global licensing agreement with The New York Times®, added 300+ publications from Newsbank Inc., and 100+ publications from ProQuest® and the Tribune Content Agency to our news collection

• Added 1.8M briefs, pleadings, motions, and trial court orders online to expand the leading LexisNexis collection

• Added new international primary law collections for Syria and Cuba, totaling 27 new countries added in 2021

• Added Browser Zoom Notification Messages on Lexis and Lexis+ to inform users of the ideal viewing and display experience when utilizing Zoom functions

• Launched Burton’s Legal Thesaurus on Lexis and Lexis+, giving users access to distillation of  complex legal terms into plain language and offering 14,000 synonyms, legal phrases and associated concepts

Practical Guidance

• Expanded Market Standards, our solution for analysis of market trends, to include new deals; it now contains more than 37,000 M&A deals, 4,900 employment agreements and 2,700 credit agreements

• Released Clause filters, enabling users to find on-point clauses more quickly

• Rolled out new content including:
  • NY Employee Handbook Supplement, a sizable collection of annotated NY and NYC employee handbook policies for attorneys to use when developing handbooks for employers
  • Key estate planning templates for all U.S. states and territories (290 total templates) in Trusts & Estates
  • A new Civil Litigation Brief Writing Fundamentals video in Practical Guidance, enabling users to get up to speed on the essential elements of successful brief writing in a visually engaging and user-friendly format; includes related content links for deeper guidance on motion practice

• Launched nine new litigation process maps in the Civil Litigation practice area for federal court litigation, including visualizations orienting users to where in the litigation lifecycle their selected phase fits; this resource curates essential content on a litigation phase or subphase, all in one place, and also helps users anticipate and plan for workflow needs further in the litigation process

• Refreshed the Practical Guidance Author Center to align the look and feel and add new author search functionality, as well as new links to authors’ law firm webpages.

Lexis® Search Advantage

• Lexis Search Advantage | Litigation—Enhanced the search experience including support for advanced search, configurable pre-search filters and results page, expanded sources when selecting entities, and support for Single Sign On (SSO)

• Lexis Search Advantage | Transactional—added support for Single Sign On (SSO)

The Lexis® CourtLink Service

• Updated the Dockets & Documents page for easier review of recent downloads and dockets in a table format, including more details for each entry

• Updated the Courts selection menu, enabling users to select their targeted courts more easily

• Released new courts (California and Illinois) and reactivated dozens of other individual state courts that were temporarily offline due to changes in the state court system

Lex Machina® Capabilities

• Released the 2021 Consumer Protection Litigation Report (August), the 2021 Contracts Litigation Report (September), and the 2021 False Claims Litigation Report (October)

• Released the new False Claims Module (October), which provides Legal Analytics for litigation involving the False Claims Act (FCA), as well as related claims under state law; false claims litigation centers on the allegations of fraud against the government by a person or company

Intelligize® Tools and Content

• Released two new tools for researching Public Companies’ Performance on ESG Issues:
  • A new Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) application that brings together a wide range of ESG-related content for individual companies or peer groups to help companies, advisors and researchers evaluate legal and regulatory risks, devise disclosure strategies and tell their ESG stories effectively to broad audiences
  • A new ESG tab added to the Company Insights offering to help customers (1) streamline ESG disclosure research by paring down complex topics with a simple point and click and (2) drill deeper into graphical representations of trending ESG topics and customize ESG analytics to compare against selected peer companies

MLex® Regulatory Insights

• Launched new content called “Future Mobility” to follow major regulatory trends impacting the transport industry

• Added topic tagging that enables more precise search and alert results

CaseMap Cloud Case Analysis Tools

• Now available in the cloud for user access from anywhere at any time to collaborate, organize, visualize and analyze case facts, issues and documents

Nexis Newsdesk

• Released a new, modern interface that aligns with the look and feel of Lexis+ and improves the user navigation and search experience
• Enhanced the Insights display with features especially helpful for business development—pop-ups with details on spikes in coverage, integration of topic and sentiment visualization, summary cards, geo maps revealing global spread and ability to download Insights PDF
• Enhanced the Saved Content Panel, including the ability to add an article to a search and ability for admins to add and manage groups of users here
• Enhanced sharing functionality, providing the ability to share multiple newsletters at once and improvements to clipping options
• Updated Nexis Newsdesk Mobile App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nexis-newsdesk-mobile/id1567099763
• Won SIIA CODiE™ Award for best Content Search & Discovery Solution for the fifth consecutive year

Nexis Diligence

• Released an updated visual design to improve the product’s ease of use and address customer feedback
• Launched a new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Custom News Search capability

LexisNexis® Dossier

• Enhanced to offer comprehensive reports on 350+ million public and private companies as a result of integration of CA.com content

New Resources:

• LexisNexis® Expert Witness Research Toolkit: checklists to help users find, vet and research expert witnesses
  
• Fall Librarian Webinar Series Recordings
  
• Nexis Newsdesk Certification Program: available for your law firm’s Nexis Newsdesk admins; please contact your LexisNexis Knowledge & Research Consultant to learn more.

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