|
Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L. Expands Information Sharing, Content Management Capabilities with LexisNexis Total Search
LexisNexis provides Dayton-based firm with flexible technology application hat leverages the firm’s superior work product, existing technologies
DAYTON, OH, November 22, 2005 - Following successful rollouts to leading-edge law firms across the country, LexisNexis U.S., a leading provider of total practice solutions to the legal industry, today announced that LexisNexis® Total Search has been selected by Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L., a 40-trial attorney business litigation boutique based in Dayton, Ohio. 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 allows legal professionals at Faruki Ireland & Cox 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. As a result, LexisNexis Total Search users at Faruki Ireland & Cox will be able to better deliver the highest quality work product to colleagues and clients more efficiently while providing strategic insight and greater control throughout the litigation process.
"Our clients count on Faruki Ireland & Cox to deliver creative, intelligent, progressive thinking and work product to achieve successful outcomes in litigation," said Jeff Cox, partner, Faruki Ireland & Cox. "We rely on the technology and capability of Total Search as well as several other leading-edge LexisNexis products to efficiently and effectively deliver our services."
According to Jeff Weaver, regional sales manager, LexisNexis, "Faruki Ireland & Cox is a recognized leader in the legal community for its use of technology to create efficiency and retain a competitive edge. We are extremely proud of our relationship with the firm, which dates back to the firm’s founding, and honored that they selected LexisNexis Total Search to fulfill their information and content management needs."
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.
LexisNexis Total Search v. 3.2 – the latest version of the application – provides enhanced ease-of-use for Faruki Ireland & Cox end-users, enabling them to:
- Easily search and retrieve prior internal work product precisely relevant to tasks-at-hand
- Cross-reference non-case law, non-law review/journal citations, including statute citations and covering patents, constitutions and other citation types
- Quickly narrow internal results by document profile data, including author, client matter, jurisdiction, and document type
- Search the firm’s internal document collections without accessing the LexisNexis service
"We are continually making enhancements to our already powerful LexisNexis Total Search application so that firms like Faruki Ireland & Cox can be assured they’re getting the most out of their internal work product," said Joe Swimmer, vice president, LexisNexis Total Search. "With this pairing of the firm’s technological innovation and LexisNexis Total Search, Faruki Ireland & Cox will be able to serve its customers at an even greater level of efficiency than before."
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 Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L.
Faruki Ireland & Cox has a diverse nationwide business litigation practice ranging from antitrust, securities, trade and competition related cases to intellectual property, litigation – including patent infringement, trademark and copyright disputes – class actions, environmental, employment and business torts, e-commerce and technology cases. With cases in state and federal courts across the United States, Faruki Ireland & Cox represents many of the nation’s leading businesses in high-stakes litigation. The firm is located on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton at 500 Courthouse Plaza, S.W. Inquiries should be directed to (937) 227-3700 or by accessing the firm’s Web site at www.ficlaw.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 achieve excellence in the business and practice of law.
|
