Press Releases — July-September, 2004

Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. Enhances Firm’s Knowledge Management Capacity With LexisNexis^® Total Search
Florida-based law firm to realize broad-based benefits from expansion of LexisNexis^® Total Research System

BOSTON, MA, July 12, 2004 - In a move to enhance its knowledge management capabilities, Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. selected LexisNexis^® Total Search to provide integrated search and knowledge management functionality to the firm and its staff. The announcement was made during the 97^th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries held in Boston on July 10-14.

LexisNexis Total Search is a Web browser-based application that expands the boundaries of the LexisNexis^® Total Research System by allowing users to search the lexis.com^® service and the law firm’s internal work product simultaneously, fully utilizing the intellectual property and collective expertise already residing within a firm.

With LexisNexis Total Search, Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. attorneys and employees can quickly and easily find relevant work product – including existing pleadings, transactional materials, memoranda and motions written by in-firm experts – together with trusted information from LexisNexis. These secure and confidential single searches deliver results from Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. and LexisNexis sources and are presented for easy reviewing and seamless navigation, irrespective of the source.

Additionally, LexisNexis Total Search provides cross-referencing and integration between LexisNexis content and Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.’s internal work product. Users at the firm now will have the Shepard’s^® treatment integrated into their internal work product, and when case law is cited in other internal work product, it is identified along with a link to the citing document. These features greatly enhance the productivity and efficiency with which Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. attorneys and employees approach research and drafting tasks.

“We’ve always kept our firm ahead of the fast paced technology curve in order to provide our clients with the best, most cost-efficient service possible,” said Gary A. Poliakoff, President of Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. “LexisNexis Total Search helps us deliver the type of service our clients have come to expect.”

LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, is able to unlock Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.’s critical knowledge assets with LexisNexis Total Search. With this powerful knowledge management tool, Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. attorneys and employees will realize multiple benefits not available from any other application, including:

• Integration of Shepard’s on-point results with internal work product and LexisNexis content in real time to help ensure the highest degree of accuracy and confidence.
  
• Complete system integration within weeks, not months.
  
• A high level of security for controlling document access and entitlement, and maintenance of confidentiality for Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.’s most important assets.
  
• Reliance on more than citations to achieve cross-referencing between lexis.com and the firm’s internal work product.
  
• Ability to search comprehensive LexisNexis news, business and financial materials as well as cases and codes.