CRIV CONNECTION

Author: Monique Gonzalez, Assistant Dean and Director of the Law Library and Information Technology Services at Louisiana State University

The CRIV Semiannual Call with LexisNexis® took place December 4, 2024.

Participants: Monique Gonzalez (CRIV Liaison to LexisNexis); Lindsey Watson (Sr. Manager, Knowledge & Research and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis); Simon Weierman (Sr. Director, US Legal, LexisNexis); Vani Ungapen (AALL Executive Director); and Shamika Dalton (AALL Board Member)

This update includes news and product enhancements released between July and December 2024. See a complete and detailed list of updates here.

Company Updates

• Federal Judiciary Contract: Secured a seven-year contract to provide Lexis+ AI access to all U.S. federal judges and staff.
• Protégé Legal AI Assistant: Introduced in August as the third generation of Lexis+ AI, it offers personalized support and is verified by user feedback.
• Canadian Rollout: In July, Lexis+ AI was launched in Canada with enhanced legal research tools. In September, Lexis+ AI was extended to French-speaking Canadian legal professionals.

New Products & Services

• Lexis+ AI Mobile App: Available for download with features like “Ask a Legal Question” and “Summarize a Case,” draft generation, and mobile-to-desktop sync. The Lexis+ AI Mobile App enables transformative legal work on the go and is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play for Lexis+ AI subscribers 

Updated Products & Services

• Lexis+ AI (US): Introduced enhancements like multi-jurisdiction support, inline contextual passages, AI summaries for codes, and more. Over 80 percent of the most utilized content available in Lexis Research is available through Lexis+ AI. Kicked off the Protégé Commercial Preview test period with participation from large law firms, small law, state and local government, law schools, and more. Feedback from user participation will shape the future product rollout targeted for Q1 2025.
• Online Research: New features in Lexis+ AI include improved inline footnotes, expanded Lexis Answers with Matthew Bender treatises, enriched administrative materials with metadata, and enhanced statutes with Shepard’s Regulation Alerts, and real-time archives for Codes.
• Lexis® Create: Enhanced drafting functions for improved redaction and proofreading.
• CourtLink® & Lexis® Snapshot: Expanded complaint summaries across U.S. state courts, providing faster insights for users. Also added Snapshot summaries to alert results for quick insight into each case in alert results.
• Lex Machina®: Full federal district court dataset released all applicable findings, remedies, and damages for approximately 500,000 federal district court cases comprising the final 15 percent of the civil federal dataset, thereby achieving its full federal district court coverage. Also released new litigation trend reports in Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report and Trade Secret Litigation Report
• CaseMap® Cloud: Rebranded as CaseMap+, with new document summarization and linking features, and iManage integration.
• Law360®: Launched Pulse Leaderboard Analytics to benchmark firm performance and customize comparisons across key metrics.
• Nexis Newsdesk™: Updates for better management of newsletters and alerts.

Law School Updates

• Lexis+ AI: All tasks available to students and faculty with new webinars on AI integration and legal tools. Reach out to Lindsey Watson (lindsey.watson@lexisnexis.com) for the recordings if you are not a law school faculty member
• Please reach out to your law school Lexis rep for an updated list of content that has been added and removed from Lexis in 2024.

Resources for Legal Professionals

• Lexis+ AI Demo: Available through LexisNexis representatives.
• Lexis+ Certification: New certification programs for information professionals launching in spring.

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