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LexisNexis Reaches New Milestone With 3 Million Case Summaries
Editors also update annotated statutes with creation of significant number of case notes
DAYTON, OH, February 23, 2004 - Legal editors at LexisNexis US, a leader in legal, news and business information services, have yielded their 3 millionth case law summary in a multi-year project to provide customers with comprehensive and authoritative coverage of cases from all federal and state jurisdictions.
LexisNexis case law editors have written 425,000 prospective case law summaries since the project began in 2001 and more than 2.6 million retrospective case summaries. The team, primarily composed of attorneys, has finished 70 percent of the nearly 4 million retrospective case summaries for the project, which will be completed sometime next year.
In the early going, case law editors concentrated on providing summaries that customers most often research on the lexis.com® service. Most recently they delivered comprehensive coverage by jurisdiction for the eight largest U.S. states - New York, California, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illinois.
As of today, they have finished summaries for all 11 U.S. circuit court districts at least going back 35 years; all substantive decisions in the Emanuel Law Outlines for contracts, corporations, constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, criminal law, evidence, property, secured transactions, and torts; and all substantive decisions cited in the Matthew Bender "Landmark" treatises.
"The case summaries project allows us to deliver a Total Research System that provides strong products like knowledge management, e-discovery and electronic litigation support that take customers beyond research. It demonstrates our continued investment in our comprehensive and authoritative content," said Lou Andreozzi, president and chief executive officer for LexisNexis North American Legal Markets. "The confidence customers have expressed in LexisNexis case summaries is based in great part on the quality of our nearly 600 case law editors and their work. They are dedicated to providing our customers with a demonstrably superior product by writing clear, concise summaries that help users determine quickly whether a particular case is pertinent to their research."
Another component of the case law editing project is the creation of case notes used in preparing annotated statutes published by LexisNexis. U.S. courts issue almost 100,000 substantive opinions each year. LexisNexis case law enhancement editors write both the summaries and the case notes on for all opinions, in addition to working on older case law.
This work has provided core content for a significant number of new annotated statute products including Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Connecticut, Missouri, and New Mexico. LexisNexis made the most recent release, Minnesota Annotated Statutes, available to customers at the end of January.
Case law editors must have a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school, along with strong, demonstrated research and writing skills. More than 90 percent of the editors have passed federal or state bar exams, and many have law clerk, legal research, writing and teaching backgrounds.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis™ is a global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com ), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based research service, LexisNexis, the company includes some of the world’s most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.
In the United States, LexisNexis™ Total Research System (www.lexisnexis.com) offers an extensive range of online and print legal and regulatory information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals reach confident decisions and comply with the law.
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