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Florida Judiciary Expands and Extends Legal Research Contract with LexisNexis
DAYTON , OH, November 04, 2004 - LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, today announced that the Florida Supreme Court has signed a two-year agreement for LexisNexis to continue providing legal research services to the Florida judiciary
Judges and their staffs at all levels of the judiciary, including the Florida Supreme Court, will have access to an expanded content collection from the LexisNexis Total Research System of online legal research products.
The new contract will provide access to the online system for approximately 1,500 users – 750 judges and 750 staff members – statewide.
“We are thrilled that the Florida Supreme Court has reaffirmed their confidence and trust in LexisNexis and our ability to meet the needs of the court and its constituents. We continue to build on the quality and depth of our state offerings with the addition of the Florida Forms and Jury Instructions,” said Bill Wilshire, Senior Director of Market Planning for LexisNexis.
As part of the agreement the Florida judiciary has access to the full LexisNexis library of cases, statutes, rules, regulations and other primary legal materials from all U.S. state and federal jurisdictions. The contract also includes access to the company’s valuable collection of public records, offered by the LexisNexis Total Research System. In addition, the contract has been expanded to include Florida Jury Instructions, Civil and Criminal, and the newly launched Florida Online Forms Collection, which now includes thousands of easy-to-use forms.
With the Total Research System, Courts users continue access to such legal tools as:
• Matthew Bender Florida treatises - authoritative, regularly updated analysis of Florida law written by Florida judges, law school professors, and leading practitioners
• LexisNexis Florida Annotated Statutes - the most current statute annotations available in Florida, containing links to case law, legislative acts affecting statutes, LexisNexis legal treatises, LexisNexis legal forms and the Florida Bar Journal
• Case Summaries – more than three million concise case synopses that are conveniently divided into Procedural Posture, Overview and Outcome
• LexisNexis Headnotes - the key legal points of the case summarized in language that closely follows the court's language
• Search Advisor – a topical research tool that utilizes a legal classification system made up of legal topics, organized into practice areas. Search Advisor provides easy access to cases, headnotes, law review articles, legal news, and legal analysis
• Shepard's® Citations Service – includes Shepard’s Signals and Shepard’s Focus Search
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a 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 Lexis® and Nexis® research services, the company includes some of the world’s most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, 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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