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LexisNexis Launches QuickFind with Auto Link to Improve Legal Research Productivity
Enhanced Version of QuickFind Desktop Tool Links Legal Researchers to Case Law and Adds Value to Law Firm Electronic Resources
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, July 18, 2005 - LexisNexis Canada Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive and authoritative legal, news, and business information and tailored applications to legal and corporate researchers, today announced the launch of LexisNexis® QuickFind™ with Auto Link–a productivity tool to help lawyers, law firms, and legal departments increase efficiency and productivity by retrieving case law information from citations in electronic documents. Now, firms and organizations can use the new Auto Link add-on tool to embed case law links in their electronic resources—thereby increasing the value of the organizations’ internal data.
The QuickFind with Auto Link tool automatically delivers case law to a user’s desktop and embeds links to full-text cases cited in internal documents. Legal researchers can link to a case directly from a case citation in an electronic document, and save the time and money they would normally spend to search for and photocopy cases cited in documents. Cases are automatically downloaded in a Web browser window from the LexisNexis® Quicklaw™ online legal research service.
The new QuickFind with Auto Link solution consists of an enhanced version of the QuickFind tool previously launched to customers of the Quicklaw™ service. QuickFind allows users to select a citation in an electronic resource such as a word processor document or an email message, and click the QuickFind icon to retrieve a case or validate its authority using the QuickCITE™ case citator on Quicklaw. Now, firms can submit their internal documents via Auto Link, and the tool securely scans the documents for case law citations and adds links to full-text court and administrative tribunal decisions.
"Auto Link enables seamless access to cases from a law firm’s internal memoranda databases and other internal electronic document collections," said Alan Dingle, vice president, marketing and communications, at LexisNexis Canada. "Firms and organizations can work more productively because employees do not need to take the time to search for and copy cases cited in internal documents."
The previous version of QuickFind was launched in 2001, and Dingle said many Quicklaw customers are subscribers. "Customers say QuickFind provides them with a fast, efficient way to retrieve or note up cases. They no longer need to interrupt their work to search for a case or make a note of a citation and search for the decision later." He said the new Auto Link component increases organizational productivity by further encouraging employees to link automatically to case law rather than use traditional, less efficient means of finding and exchanging copies of cases.
The QuickFind with Auto Link tool, available in English- and French-language versions, recognizes citations for a comprehensive range of court decisions and a growing number of administrative tribunal cases. QuickFind with Auto Link is available as an add-on subscription to Quicklaw customers. The new Auto Link tool comes with QuickFind at no additional charge.
In 2001, QuickFind won the Canadian e-Content Award, sponsored by Information Highways magazine, for Best Desktop Information Management Product. For more information about QuickFind with Auto Link, please visit www.lexisnexis.ca/quickfind.
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.
LexisNexis Canada Inc. (www.lexisnexis.ca) provides legal and corporate researchers with comprehensive and authoritative online and print information services and solutions, including the LexisNexis® Quicklaw™ online research service for Canadian legal information; LexisNexis® Butterworths print and CD-ROM titles and newspapers for legal, accounting, and other professionals; the LexisNexis® Total Research System for global online legal, news, and business information; and solutions that serve the needs of law firms and organizations in desktop productivity, practice management, and client development. With offices in 10 Canadian cities, LexisNexis Canada is a member of the North American Legal Markets division of LexisNexis Group.
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