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Riezman Berger, P.C. Expands Its Online Research Platform with LexisNexis Total Search
LexisNexis Total Search helps St. Louis-based firm increase productivity, client response time
by leveraging firm’s superior work product with LexisNexis online content
DAYTON, OH, November 15, 2005 - In a move that will further support its established online research platform, Riezman Berger, P.C., which is ranked among the Top 30 law firms in the St. Louis region by the St. Louis Business Journal, has selected LexisNexis® Total Search for the firm’s information sharing and content management needs. Available from LexisNexis® U.S., a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, LexisNexis Total Search is a Web browser-based application that allows legal professionals to search the lexis.com® service and a law firm’s internal work product simultaneously.
LexisNexis Total Search helps legal professionals at Riezman Berger to further maximize the use of the firm’s most prized intellectual property – its internal work product – without changing current work practices or starting from scratch each time. This compliments Riezman Berger’s move to a completely online research platform several years ago and will help the firm to further increase productivity and client response time by its attorneys.
"Moving our firm to an online platform clearly offers a benefit to our clients, as attorneys are able to provide a quicker turn-around on client legal questions," said Nelson Mitten, Partner, Riezman Berger. "Of interest to corporate clients is that this online model saves them from paying ‘overhead’ costs, such as secretarial and paralegal staffing fees which are passed along in a client’s bill.
"LexisNexis Total Search is a perfect fit for our online research platform and will greatly enhance the effectiveness of our internal work product, helping us to continue to provide high-quality legal work at minimal cost to the client," Mitten added.
LexisNexis Total Search is the only tool available in the legal industry that provides end-users with cross-references between and within internal firm content and, more specifically, between particular point-of-law discussions within documents. Additionally, LexisNexis Total Search is the only information and content management tool that embeds Shepard’s® Signal indicators into current internal work product as well as LexisNexis content, allowing legal professionals to cite check with maximum efficiency. Through LexisNexis Total Search, these Shepard’s Signal indicators are updated every ten minutes.
Earlier this year, LexisNexis announced a series of enhancements to LexisNexis Total Search that provide significant advancements in ease-of-use and maintenance for administrators. These enhanced features include:
- Advanced and automated document filtering which allows administrators to set up filters based on document metadata
- Ability to schedule multiple start/stop times for each document source
- Ability to choose which metadata fields appear as categories in a search drilldown
- Improved and simplified product installation
LexisNexis Total Search v. 3.2 – the latest version of the application – also provides enhanced ease-of-use for Riezman Berger end-users, enabling them to:
- Cross-reference non-case law, non-law review/journal citations, including statute citations and covering patents, constitutions and other citation types
- Highlight and jump from search term to search term appearing in the search result set
- View abbreviated versions of large documents with links to the full documents
"These enhancements were made to LexisNexis Total Search in order to provide even greater flexibility of information- and content-sharing capabilities to our legal clientele," said Joe Swimmer, vice president, LexisNexis Total Search. "By employing LexisNexis Total Search across the firm, Riezman Berger associates are able to completely take advantage of their online platform and superior existing technology, realizing broad-based benefits and greater efficiency in their practice of law along the way."
The prominence of LexisNexis Total Search in the legal industry has been recognized by several leading industry organizations. Most recently, the application was awarded the 2005 CODiE Award for the Best Solution Integrating Content into an Application. Additional awards and recognitions include being named a finalist for the 2005 "Favorite New Legal Product" TechnoLawyer @ Award; the 2003 Basex Excellence Award, which recognized LexisNexis Total Search for leadership and technological innovation in the field of Collaborative Business Knowledge; and two consecutive placements on the KMWorld list of "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management."
LexisNexis Total Search is a vital component in the suite of LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions. This suite helps legal professionals achieve excellence in both the business and practice of law by providing better tools to increase productivity and profitability, and grow the practice. LexisNexis offerings are designed for the way legal professionals work, in all of the areas essential to their success, including Client Development, Research Solutions, Practice Management, and Litigation Services.
About Riezman Berger, P.C.
Riezman Berger is an "AV" rated law firm, the highest quality mark given by the independent law firm rating service of Martindale-Hubbell. Founded over a quarter century ago in 1974, the firm has always been known for its aggressive approach to client representation and the quality of the services it provides in real estate development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, estate planning, trial and appellate practice, and creditors rights. Riezman Berger is a full-service firm, with a client-service based practice that assists individuals and small companies and represents multinational organizations in all aspects of their enterprises.
Located in the Clayton business district of St Louis, the practice is local, regional and national in scope, providing service to clients wherever their legal needs may require. The firm’s lawyers are licensed to practice law in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Ohio, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Tennessee, California, Alabama, and the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) and in many of the Federal Districts and Circuits of the nation, and in most of the United States Bankruptcy Courts. The firm is frequently admitted upon special request to practice in the courts of other states as well. For more information, visit www.riezmanberger.com.
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® (www.lexisnexis.com) offers its customers total practice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and print legal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals grow their business, win cases and manage their practice.
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