CRIV CONNECTION

The CRIV Semiannual Call with LexisNexis® took place Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

Participants: Monique Gonzalez (CRIV Liaison to LexisNexis); Carolyn Bach (Sr. Manager, Knowledge & Research and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis); Simon Weierman (Sr. Director, Large Markets, LexisNexis); Vani Ungapen (AALL Executive Director); and Michelle Hook Dewey (AALL Executive Board Liaison to CRIV)

This update includes news and product enhancements released between June 2023 and December 2023.

COMPANY UPDATES

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional:

• LexisNexis® Legal & Professional released the results of its International Legal Generative AI Survey, which found that nearly half of the legal profession believe GenAI will transform the practice of law. The survey asked 7,950 lawyers, law students, and consumers across the U.S., UK, Canada, and France about their general awareness, impact on the practice of law, and use and adoption of generative AI.
• Recognized as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index® (DEI), the world’s most comprehensive benchmarking tool for Fortune 1000 and Am Law 200 organizations to measure disability workplace inclusion efforts, identify areas of improvement, and benchmark progress against industry peers.
• Published the LexisNexis® Product Performance and Customer Satisfaction Rates Study by PwC, a leading international professional services firm. LexisNexis commissioned PwC to focus on a Metric Assessment as an independent third party. The study highlights the process for reviewing and validating methodologies used as metrics to compare performance in legal technology.

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Lexis+ AI™

LexisNexis launched Lexis+ AI™ for U.S. customers, a generative AI solution that transforms legal work by delivering fully encrypted, secure interactions in a familiar, easy-to-use interface with linked hallucination-free legal citations that combine the power of generative AI with proprietary LexisNexis search technology, Shepard’s® Citations functionality, and authoritative content.

• Developed with commercial preview users from leading global law firms, corporate legal departments, small law firms, and U.S. courts, Lexis+ AI™ answers are grounded in the world’s largest repository of accurate and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis.
• Lexis+ AI provides comprehensive results in seconds—versus minutes, making it faster than any other legal generative AI solution available today.
• The solution’s AI capabilities were built internally at LexisNexis with world-leading tech partnerships, enabling the company to rapidly introduce new features and technology in a native environment and provide customers with a seamlessly integrated ecosystem.
• Lexis+ AI is the only legal generative AI solution with citations linked in its responses, providing trusted legal results backed by verifiable authority. Customers can give instant feedback within the product to continually improve product performance, content relevance, and overall product accuracy.
• Lexis+ AI features conversational search, intelligent legal drafting, insightful summarization, and document upload capabilities, all supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.

Visit the Lexis+ AI product page or Join the Complimentary AI Insider Program to learn more.

Lexis® Snapshot

• LexisNexis introduced a new generative AI service called Lexis® Snapshot that alerts users to summaries of legal documents across the LexisNexis portfolio. The new Lexis Snapshot service utilizes the power of generative AI to deliver summarized complaint filings for civil cases across the U.S. Federal District Courts.
  • Snapshot delivers key insights including the nature of the case, plaintiff and defendant information, alleged harm, and requested remedies, which saves hours of research time and accelerates both business development opportunities and response time.At launch, the Lexis Snapshot service can be added to the CourtLink® service, with a view to expand the service to additional products and document types within the LexisNexis generative AI-enabled legal product ecosystem in future releases.
  • The Lexis Snapshot service is currently available to preview for CourtLink customers through the end of 2023.

Visit the Lexis Snapshot product page to learn more.

Lexis® Create

• Lexis® Create launched in support of drafting for both transactional and litigation workflows, enabling drafting capabilities and bringing insights from LexisNexis directly where legal professionals work and extending its long-standing relationship with Microsoft®. Lexis Create is available as an add-on for Microsoft Word that puts Practical Guidance and Market Standards content, Shepard’s Citations, AI-powered Clause Intelligence, and other powerful recommendation and collaboration tools directly into the legal drafting workflow.
  • Lexis Create was updated to incorporate the Generative AI capabilities of Lexis+ AI, further increasing the speed and ease of legal drafting.
  • Additional improvements were released to Lexis Create to improve the quality and efficiency of proofreading and redaction capabilities.

Visit the Lexis Create product page to learn more.

UPDATED PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Lexis+®

• Lexis+® (US) was recognized by the annual SIIA CODiE™ Awards, as the winner of Best Legal Solution.
• Additional content resources were added to Lexis+ (and Lexis®) to expand the scope of coverage across the leading global and authoritative legal content collection:
  • Added Connecticut, New Jersey, and Louisiana state statute indices for a total of 42 topical indices available on Lexis+.Added 64 new Native American Case Law collections in 2023, of which 57 are exclusive to LexisNexis.Released 93 additions to the Native American Statutes and Codes collection, of which 72 are exclusive on Lexis.Added more than two million briefs, pleadings, and motions (BPM) citing references to Shepard’s reports. Five new Federal Court Motion and Brief sources were added to Shepard’s.Added nearly 50,000 WL parallel citations to the LexisNexis caselaw collection, enabling users to leverage Westlaw, LexisNexis, or other citation formats to find cases on Lexis+ or utilize for citing a case in court.
  • Rolled out 1,800+ new individual source publications within 2023 (YTD). View the list.
• Released multiple improvements to product features across Lexis+:
  • The LexisNexis SmartLinx® Comprehensive Person Report was enhanced with new feature functionality and a modernized user interface to offer new content, expanded alert capabilities, and added functionality for users to control the display of data. Brief Analysis:
    • Now includes Recommended Arguments, an exclusive feature that surfaces highly relevant argument text, pulled from millions of filed motions in the Lexis+ database.Added further citation verification capabilities to clearly identify case citations that don’t match any citation in our database, aiding in the discovery of possible AI-hallucinated citations generated by use of public generative AI models.Updated Quote Check feature to provide more clear and accurate information regarding the source of the quote (i.e., the name and location of the case as it appears in Lexis).Improved Brief Analysis motion recommendations by including party role as an actionable procedural data point. This provides better clarity with matching motions (e.g., when multiple motions with the same name were decided in an opinion, the motion by the party of interest is noted as the matching motion). Depth of Discussion indicators to the Brief Analysis “Cited in Your Document” tab, guiding users to cases that have been heavily discussed in an uploaded document.
    Legal News Hub released a new article view for Law360® articles that brings the majority of Law360.com features into Lexis+.Released an optional ability to set a Default Jurisdiction for every Search by user.Released the Parallel Citation feature, which provides parallel citations for any input citation.Added the capability to quickly filter and view all citing agency decisions in Shepard’s reports. As Shepard’s agency coverage continues to expand, this feature displays the agencies more prominently and in a more useful, intuitive way.
  • Lexis+® Pinpoint
    • Extended the coverage and improved the performance of Pinpoint for litigation focused research.
    • Added two new practice areas: Civil Procedure and Bankruptcy.
    • Lexis+ Pinpoint has been named as a finalist in the category of Litigation Technology in the 2024 LegalWeek® Leaders in Tech Law Awards (announcing January 29).
• Added Agreement Analysis to the Lexis+ ecosystem to aid transactional attorneys with a new tool that harnesses the power of extractive AI, leveraging expert legal content and seven million clauses to help quickly analyze, negotiate, and finalize transactional agreements. Agreement Analysis draws from Practical Guidance and SEC Content to analyze and make recommendations to improve agreement language associated with mergers, stock purchase, and asset purchase agreements.

CourtLink®

• Added the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, expanding U.S. coverage.
• Made available the UK High Court of Justice and Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the first international courts available within the CourtLink service for U.S. clients.
• Launched improvements for easier updating of Claims and Creditors data when working with U.S. Bankruptcy dockets. 

Practical Guidance

• Released the new In-House Advisor module, which supports busy in-house counsel balancing legal responsibilities and business objectives, and includes practice notes, guides, and checklists for counsel.
• Released multiple new resource kits:
  • Public Interest, Pro Bono, and Non-Profit Resource Kit – This resource kit provides an overview of practical guidance for those working in the public interest space seeking resources to assist with a variety of issues, including Tenant’s Rights, Fair Housing, Employment Discrimination, Immigration, Criminal Law and Civil Rights, and Child Custody. It also includes guidance, resources, and best practices when providing pro bono legal services and when working with nonprofit organizations.Bank Failure Resource Kit – On March 10, 2023, California financial regulators stepped in and took possession of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and put it into FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) receivership, in what was the largest failure of a U.S. bank since 2008. On March 12, 2023, New York financial regulators took possession of Signature Bank and put it into FDIC receivership. On March 17, 2023, SVB Financial Group (the former parent of SVB) filed for Chapter 11 in the Southern District of New York. Attorneys across multiple practice areas are dealing with the fallout from these bank failures. This resource kit includes Practical Guidance materials on bank failures and related issues, including detailed practice notes, templates and checklists.Public Accommodation, Building and Website Accessibility Resource Kit – This resource kit collects Practical Guidance content on accessibility to public accommodations, buildings, commercial facilities, and websites.
  • Summer and First Year Associate Resources – Help your firm’s new associates get up to speed quickly. Recently updated, these kits share fundamental guidance to help young associates sharpen their research and writing skills, understand the basics, and find tools to help them hit the ground running.
    • First Year Associate Kits
    • Summer Associate Resource Kits
• Updated the Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resource Kit, which provides an overview of current practical guidance on generative artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, and similar tools and is updated frequently. It includes content for Data Security & Privacy, Civil Litigation, Commercial Transactions, In-House Advisor, EBEC, Capital Markets & Corporate Governance, Labor & Employment, Healthcare, Intellectual Property & Technology, and new Tax, Insurance, Trusts & Estates, and Federal Government sections. Top new additions include:
  • Artificial Intelligence Legislation TrackerGenerative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Federal and State Court Rules TrackerArtificial Intelligence Legislation State Law SurveyGenerative AI in Discovery: GPT Prompt Preservation and Production Best Practices (Federal)Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Best Practices
  • Use and No Use of Artificial Intelligence Permitted to Perform Contract Clauses
• Published new editions of the Practical Guidance Journal with coverage including:
  • Generative AI in Discovery: GPT Prompt Preservation and Production Best Practices
  • Generative AI in Litigation: 5 Key Considerations Before Using Generative AI
  • Patent Protection for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence Investment: Risks, Due Diligence, and Mitigation Strategies
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence, Data Minimization and Today’s Gold Rush
  • Market Intelligence: L&E and Real Estate Insights Revealed in the Practice Guidance Private Market Data Survey
• Released new State Jurisdictional Pretrial Civil Procedure coverage:
  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia
  • Nevada
  • Missouri
  • Louisiana
  • South Carolina
• New Soft Skills and Knowledge Management coverage; some examples include:
  • Litigation Business Pitches: Five Tips provides litigators with tips, strategies, and best practices for making new litigation business pitches.
  • Drafting Client Memos and Emails provides drafting guidance and covers topics such as effective drafting techniques, preserving privileges, and maintaining the security of your client communications.
  • A Judge’s Tips for Successful Pretrial Conferences offers insights on how to prepare for and handle pretrial conferences from a judge’s perspective (authored by Hon. Ronald Hedges (U.S.M.J. Ret.)
  • Professional Development: Life as a Knowledge Management Attorney provides guidance concerning the role knowledge management (KM) attorneys play at law firms, including common tasks KM attorneys perform and practical tips for prospective and current KM attorneys.
• Made new strategic checklists available for employers focused on combating antisemitism & islamophobia. The following checklists will help employers combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab sentiment in the workplace:
  • Antisemitism in the Workplace: Employer Strategies Checklist
  • Islamophobia in the Workplace: Employer Strategies Checklist
• Enhanced the Practical Guidance product experience:
• Search across all Practical Guidance video content directly from the Video Experience homepage to find relevant video segment without leaving the page.
• Shepard’s & Practical Guidance Integration – Users will now see when a case or statute has been cited by a Practical Guidance document.

CaseMap® Cloud

• Recognized by the annual SIIA CODiE™ Awards, winning Best Business Intelligence Solution. CaseMap® Cloud is a cloud-based fact management and case analysis solution that helps attorneys manage case documents, data, media, and craft case strategy for presenting a compelling case story.

Lex Machina®

• Rolled out product updates and expanded coverage:
  • Officially released its new federal practice area of class action litigation, which provides Legal Analytics for over 100,000 cases.
  • Launched Enhanced Legal Analytics for Oregon State Courts with Legal Analytics for nine Oregon Circuit Courts serving the following counties: Benton, Clackamas, Deschutes, Jackson, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, and Washington.
• 2023 Litigation Trend Reports – released multiple trend reports on Litigation activity (also available to non-subscribers):
  • Commercial Litigation Report
  • Torts Litigation Report
  • Real Property Litigation Report
  • Product Liability Litigation Report
  • Employment Litigation Report
  • Trade Secret Litigation Report
  • Insurance Litigation Report

  View and Download 2023 reports here.

Law360®

• Expanded its current content offering to include newswires focused on breaking news and analysis on legal and regulatory issues across the states of Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina.
• Launched Law360® Pulse for Canada, bringing exclusive industry-leading business of law news coverage and insights to Canadian legal professionals.

Intelligize®: Formed a Strategic Alliance with GAAP Dynamics, making their vast Accounting-Education library available on Intelligize for financial professionals to address the complexities of compliance and reporting.

Nexis Newsdesk™

• Insights tab: Top statistics shareable to Dashboard
• Newsletters: New summary text box available (Modern theme only)

Law School Updates:

• Interactive Citation Workstation (ICW) was refreshed on the Lexis+ platform and rolled out to Law Schools introducing new features and streamlined workflow.
• Lexis+ AI: Has been enabled for a select group of Law School faculty with the remainder receiving access soon. Visit the Lexis+ AI Faculty Resources page.
• New Public Records on Lexis+ page
• Legal Research & Writing Center has been updated

Resources for Legal Information Professionals:

• News Research Guide provides guidance on conducting advanced research in news content on Lexis+ and Lexis.
• Updated: Competitive Intelligence Research Toolkit and Expert Witness Research Toolkit
• Librarian Webinar Series Recordings, Fall 2023
• Lexis+ AI Demo: contact your LexisNexis Representative or request a demo here.
• Lexis+ Certification Program for Information Professionals: speak to your Knowledge & Research Consultant or LexisNexis Representative to learn more.
• Subscribe to InfoPro Weekly: Stay up to date on recent product enhancements, practice area and industry reports, webinars, and more that matter to law librarians.

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