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Lexis^® Practice Advisor

Practical Guidance From Leading Practitioners For Transactional Matters

Attorneys need to handle transactional matters as efficiently as possible. Lexis^® Practice Advisor is built specifically to provide guidance and information on the topics, transactions, and perspectives that matter most.

How can Lexis^® Practice Advisor help you stay efficient?

Get a head start on drafting — access hundreds of relevant forms, sample agreements, and drafting notes directly related to the topic and task at hand.
Simplify your routine — manage transactions quickly and efficiently with easy access to practical guidance, checklists, model documents, and legal analysis.
Stay up to speed — keep pace with new issues or refresh your knowledge in areas of law and tasks you haven’t practiced recently.

Now available: Securities & Capital Markets and Mergers & Acqusitions offerings, including Lexis^® Market Tracker.

New Practical Guidance Content

New, practical content built to meet the needs of attorneys and in-house counsel who handle transactional matters to help them accomplish tasks that are central to their practice.
Written and enhanced by attorneys who are currently in practice including former in-house counsel.
Includes jurisdictional coverage for the most important States based on the topic at hand.
Content includes current and trend-setting guidance.

'On Point' Cases, Codes and Analytical Material

Cases and codes deemed most relevant to the topic are selected by leading practitioners, so transactional attorneys can quickly reference the primary law information when needed.
Access to well established, analytical materials from leading treatises such as Matthew Bender and Collier are provided. Our leading practitioners and internal attorney team have identified and included the specific sections of the treatise or legal analysis that are most relevant to the transactional legal practice and topic.

Intuitive Navigation

The Lexis® Practice Advisor interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, with available practice areas listed at the top of the page, related topics in the left panel and a simple search box on the right.
Little or no training is required.

Focus Your Expertise on What Matters Most

Lexis® Practice Advisor helps attorneys including in-house counsel better manage routine transactions so they can focus their expertise on what matters most, whether it be expanding their practice, taking on new matters or advising clients.

Advise and Draft With Confidence

Lexis® Practice Advisor enables transactional attorneys to confidently advise, negotiate and draft more effective documents, more efficiently by providing step-by-step practical guidance, checklists and model documents that reflect current practice trends.

Access To Innovative Content

Lexis® Practice Advisor combines exclusive new practical guidance content written by leading practitioners including former in-house counsel, with the in-depth resources of Lexis specifically built for attorneys who handle transactional matters.

Get Up to Speed Quickly

Lexis^® Practice Advisor helps junior attorneys or new in-house counsel become familiar with new matters quickly so they can start billing, which in turn frees up senior attorneys so they spend less time training new associates and more time growing their practice. Lexis Practice Advisor can also efficiently refresh senior attorney’s knowledge on transactional matters they haven’t done as recently. This all adds up to increased profitability.

Each of the below categories contain a unique collection of content authored by leading practitioners in the relevant practice area, and is updated on an ongoing basis to help you keep up to speed on the most current and leading practice trends.

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Mergers & Acquisitions
- With practical guidance from leading M&A practitioners, you get full coverage of the topics, transactions and perspectives that are critical to helping you manage M&A matters efficiently from start to finish.
- All your core activities are covered, including:
  - Due Diligence: get access to checklists, due diligence templates and related practical guidance articles.
  - Document Drafting: get hundreds of annotated agreements, sample forms, alternative clauses and emerging issues.
  - Deal Negotiation and Structuring: Lexis® Market Tracker provides easy access to more than 1,000 recent M&A transactions and over 900 deal points, enabling you to search with precision, comparing the latest deals, terms and provisions, and extract insights instantly.
- All content is written and selected by practicing M&A attorneys and includes coverage of key public and private transaction topics such as:
  - Structuring and Planning
  - Preliminary Agreements
  - Stock Purchase Agreements
  - Public Merger Agreements
  - And more
- Click here to view the Mergers & Acquisitions Brochure
- Click here to view the Mergers & Acquisitions Table of Contents
- Meet our M&A Authors
Securities & Capital Markets
- With practical guidance from leading Securities practitioners, you can handle transactional securities matters efficiently and confidently. Content is tailored specifically to your workflow, including:
  - Document Drafting: get easy access to annotated agreements, sample forms, alternative clauses and checklists, along with practical guidance that will help you understand key steps and required documents for securities matters.
  - Compliance Review: stay informed of the latest developments in securities law with easy access to SEC regulations and administrative materials, including no-action letters, releases and SEC staff interpretations.
  - Compliance Filings: prepare SEC filings with confidence with access to SEC filing forms and checklists.
- All content is written and selected by practicing Securities attorneys and includes coverage of key topics such as:
  - Private Offerings
  - Rule 144A/Regulation S Debt Offerings
  - IPOs and Follow On Offerings Blue Sky Requirements
  - Periodic Reports
  - And more
- Click here to view the Securities & Capital Markets Brochure
- Click here to view the Securities & Capital Markets Table of Contents
- State Securities REgulations-Blue Sky Laws
- Exclusive Compensation Disclosure
- Meet our Securities & Capital Markets Authors
Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy
- The Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy module provides attorneys who handle transactional matters with practical guidance, annotated forms, sample briefs, pleadings and motions, as well as access to authoritative Collier^® content and other treatise materials. It enables junior attorneys to get up to speed quickly on new matters and allows senior attorneys to expand their practice or keep up-to-date on changes in the law. It also can complement a legal research subscription which provides all the cases, codes and full treatises to help attorneys with deeper analysis and litigation related research.
- All content is written and selected by leading practicing attorneys on the latest bankruptcy topics, including coverage of:
  - Asset Purchase Agreements
  - Plan of Reorganization and Disclosure Statement
  - Debtor-In-Possession Financing
  - Proofs of Claim
  - Prepackaged Bankruptcy
  - Loan and other Debt Workouts
  - And more
- Click here to view Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy brochure
- Click here to view Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Table of Contents
- Meet Our Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Authors
Corporate Counsel
- The Corporate Counsel module covers issues that are relevant to in-house counsel, covering 18 areas of law to assist with a broad range of legal matters. It includes exclusive practical guidance content and access to the most relevant information from across the Lexis portfolio including authoritative Matthew Bender content. It helps reduce in-house counsel’s reliance on outside counsel by providing content-rich tools to help them stay up to date with legal issues and trends.
- All content is written and selected by former in-house counsel on key topics, including coverage of:
  - Commercial Contracts
  - Employment
  - Business Taxes
  - Corporate Goverance
  - And more
- Click here to view the Corporate Counsel brochure
- Meet our Corporate Counsel Authors
California
- The California module is the first jurisdictional module for Lexis® Practice Advisor. The topics covered address the specific needs of a California practitioner, or practitioners serving California-based clients. It includes all new practical guidance content and access to the most relevant information from across the Lexis portfolio, including authoritative Matthew Bender and California Legal Forms content. It is a complementary module to the Business & Commercial offering.
- All content is written and selected by leading California attorneys on key topics, including coverage of:
  - Purchase and Sale of a Business for the California Attorney
  - Commercial Real Estate Leasing
  - Entertainment Law –Managers, Agents and Attorneys
  - New California Entities
  - And more
- Click here to view the California brochure
- Read the California Press Release
- Meet Our California Authors
Business & Commercial
- The Business & Commercial module includes topics related to commercial, contracts and corporate practice, offering access to topic-based overviews, practical guidance, forms, relevant cases and codes, and authoritative commentary from leading practitioners. It provides immediate access to core business law information by practice area and topic that will help you save time and increase efficiency.
- All content is written and selected by leading practicing attorneys on the latest business law topics, including coverage of:
  - Purchase and Sale of Business (Private Company)Acquisition by Asset Purchase, Stock Purchase or Merger
  - Business Financing
  - Protecting Trade Names, Trade Secrets and Works
  - Commercial Contracts
  - Business Taxes
  - Corporate Housekeeping
  - And more
- Click here to view the Business & Commercial brochure
- Read the Business & Commercial Press Release
- Meet Our Business & Commercial Authors

Introducing Lexis® Market Tracker

Lexis^® Market Tracker, powered by Matterhorn, allows you to search, compare, and analyze the latest deals, terms and provisions, so you can execute your Mergers & Acquisitions transactions from a position of strength and negotiate deals with confidence. With Lexis^® Market Tracker you can:
- Quickly and precisely identify deal and negotiation trends.
- Search and compare transactions that are relevant to the deal at hand, extracting insights instantly.
- See statistical analytics of your search results, quickly and easily.
- Search with precision across 900 deal points so you can get to the deal elements that matter most.

Click here to view the Lexis^® Market Tracker brochure.
Click here to watch the Lexis^® Market Tracker video.

Features and Benefits

Simplify your routine
- Easily locate and compare transactions across 900 deal elements, and view statistical analytics of your search results.
- Narrow your search with unprecedented granularity using target, industry, acquirer, value, negotiated terms and many other criteria.
Get up to speed quickly
- Access the most current M&A deal facts and documents so that you can see what is being negotiated almost instantaneously and stay on top of the changing M&A landscape.
- Provide the best client advice by staying current with practice trends relating to M&A deal terms, provisions, language and clauses.
Fast Drafting
- Draft your deal documents efficiently and confidently with quick access to on-point market tested precedents and their specific clauses and language.
- Quickly compare deals and extract insight instantly with customized reports directly related to the issues at hand.

Lexis^® Market Tracker is available within Mergers & Acquisitions at no additional charge.

Lexis® Market Tracker Tutorial

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Lexis Market Tracker Tutorial 2

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Lexis Market Tracker Tutorial 3

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Lexis® Practice Advisor Overview Video

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Corporate Counsel Tutorial

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Corporate Counsel Module

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Expertise At Your Fingertips

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View A Product Demonstration

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Lexis® Market Tracker Tutorial[4:57]
Lexis Market Tracker Tutorial 2[3:04]
Lexis Market Tracker Tutorial 3[3:00]
Lexis® Practice Advisor Overview Video[5:10]
Corporate Counsel Tutorial[5:58]
Corporate Counsel Module[4:24]
Expertise At Your Fingertips[3:48]
View A Product Demonstration[4:42]

Click the links below to read articles about Lexis® Practice Advisor from leading industry publications:

Lexis Practice Advisor Bulks Up with new M&A. “What’s Market” and Securities Content
Dewey B Strategic
March 27, 2013

Lexis Practice Advisor Modules Plus Market Tracker
LawSitesBlog.com
March 27, 2013

Lexis Practice Advisor – Corporate Counsel Module
By Toby Brown
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
November 16, 2012

Lexis Practice Advisor Counsels GC
By Sean Doherty
Law Technology News
November 5, 2012

Lexis Practice Advisor Gets California Module
By Sean Doherty
Law Technology News
August 9, 2012

Lexis Practice Advisor Takes on Bankruptcy
By Sean Doherty
Law Technology News
May 4, 2012

Lexis Launches ‘Practice Advisor’ for Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy
By Bob Ambrogi
LawSitesBlog.com
May 3, 2012

Less Is More Focused: Lexis Practice Advisor
By Jared Correia
Attorney at Work Blog
February 2, 2012

Christy Burke Covers LegalTech 2012: Feature podcast interview with Suzanne Petren-Moritz
Podcast by Christy Burke
Legal IT Professionals
January 31, 2012

Size matters: Lexis & Thomson
By Evan Koblentz
Law Technology News
January 30, 2012

LegalTech Hit by Tidal Wave of Product News
Law Technology News
By Evan Koblentz
January 30, 2012

Success Breeds Competition or Lexis Announces Practice Advisor
By Toby Brown
3 Geeks and a law Blog
January 12, 2012

New LexisNexis Resource Reaches Out to Transactional Lawyers
By Sean Doherty
Law Technology News
January 12, 2012

Question: How will Lexis Practice Advisor help me as an attorney or in-house counsel who handles transactional matters?
Answer: Lexis Practice Advisor is designed to enable attorneys and in-house counsel to better manage their transactions efficiently by getting up to speed quickly on new issues and staying up-to-date with the latest market legal trends.

Question: How will Lexis Practice Advisor help me start my drafting?
Answer:The forms within Lexis Practice Advisor are easy to find and are specifically designed to provide a starting point or alternative perspective for drafting documents, offering guidance including context, drafting notes, alternative clauses and step-by-step instructions on how to complete them.

Question: Who is the Lexis Practice Advisor team?
Answer: Lexis Practice Advisor is built by our team of experienced transactional attorneys who have recently joined LexisNexis, legal editors who have brought you trusted authoritative content from Matthew Bender and Collier, and contributing leading practitioners and former in-house counsel. In addition, we have harnessed world class LexisNexis technology built for the legal market. Lexis Practice Advisor continues our tradition of innovation through collaboration with our customers.

Question: How is Lexis Practice Advisor different than Lexis Advance or Lexis.com?
Answer: Lexis Practice Advisor is a practical guidance resource that has been specifically created for transactional attorneys. The content has been written and selected by practicing attorneys as well as an internal editorial team including former attorneys. The expert guidance and “how-to” information complements an existing Lexis Advance or Lexis.com subscription, where customers can access deeper research content when required.

How is Lexis® Practice Advisor different than other products in the market?
Answer: Lexis® Practice Advisor is unique based on a combination of factors including:

Leading attorneys currently in practice who contribute the new practical guidance and expert forms within the product. Over 100 current practitioners contribute their valuable expertise and insight to Lexis Practice Advisor.
Comprehensive coverage of key topics including the start to finish, guidance and model documents on a given transaction.
It is the only practical guidance product that provides selected, relevant primary materials and legal analysis matched to the specific topic.

Question: What makes these forms different than forms customers can find on Google or other online sites?
Answer: The forms within Lexis Practice Advisor offer expert guidance, including annotations, drafting notes, alternative clauses and step-by-step instructions on how to complete a form. They have been written, selected and enhanced by leading practicing attorneys, so you can be confident they are comprehensive, reliable and current. Lexis Practice Advisor forms are “starting point” documents identified as pro-buyer, pro-seller and neutral, unlike many online forms which are often completely negotiated to reflect specific deal or transaction terms between parties.

Question: How is Lexis Practice Advisor priced?
Answer: Lexis Practice Advisor is an annual flat fee subscription by practice area module, making it predictable. It is a fixed annual charge based that takes into consideration the number of attorneys within a practice area and can be billed monthly, making it very affordable.

Lexis Market Tracker

Question: What is Lexis Market Tracker?
Answer: Lexis® Market Tracker is a new, unique offering providing access and analysis of the terms and provisions of recent M&A transactions. With Lexis Market Tracker you can determine market standards and trends for over 900 highly negotiated deal elements, so you can confidently counsel clients and structure and negotiate the terms of M&A transactions. The robust search function allows you to quickly pin point specific deal types, sample agreements and clauses with ease so you can draft deal documents quickly and efficiently.

Question: How is Lexis Market Tracker priced?
Answer: Lexis Market Tracker is part of the annual flat fee subscription to the M&A module of Lexis Practice Advisor. Pricing of the M&A module is a fixed annual charge based on the number of attorneys within the practice area and can be billed monthly, making it very affordable.

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Customer Testimonials

Lexis Practice Advisor is a great place to start legal research, as it lays out the topics very clearly. The site is very well organized so you can quickly find what you are looking for which is a valuable asset in helping to increase practice efficiency.

—Anthony Napolitano, a senior attorney at Buchalter Nemer.
Customer Testimonials

I think Lexis Practice Advisor is a great resource that provides fundamental information for in-house practitioners at your fingertips. I could see making good use of it in my day-to-day activities because it ties everything together in one location and it’s easy to navigate.

—A. Brad Busscher, General Counsel at Incapital LLC, a BETA tester of the Corporate Counsel module.