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Information Professional Update
Issue 10, October 2007

1. Hunting Season is Over! Now Track Deals (Even Private Placements), Takeover Defenses Via lexis.com® M&A Practice Center
2. Research the World’s Major Patent Authorities—all of them—With New TotalPatent™
3. Lexis® Search Advisor Evolves; Search Across Multiple Content Types Simultaneously
4. Accomplish More (and Cover More) With New CourtLink® Options
5. Even More? Yes, Now Count on Closer Integration Between Your CourtLink and lexis.com Research
6. Connect with Top Practice Experts At LexisNexis Insurance Law Center
7. Emerging Issues Resource Compiles Case Law, Regulatory and Legislative Vitals in Each Practice Area
8. Registration Open for Mealey’s™ Subprime Mortgage Litigation Conference
9. Redesign Invoice Reports, Pay Online and More With New PowerInvoice™ Service Features
10. New CaseMap® Reporting and Linking Features Enhance Connection Between Discovery and Effective Litigation Planning
11. A Tab is Born! LexisNexis® Total Litigator Has a New Location
12. Search Sub-Tabs Get New Monikers
    

Hunting Season is Over! Now Track Deals (Even Private Placements), Takeover Defenses Via lexis.com® M&A Practice Center

You often get the job of hunting down the details—the best prototypes for structuring deals, the best practices for assessing client takeover defenses as well as the best defenses for clients engaged in unsolicited takeover bids. The corporate governance specialists rely on your fact-finding ability. Even the client development team can depend on your “eagle’s eye” for flushing out qualified prospects.

But it can be very difficult to find trophy data on transactional deals, corporate defenses and private placements. Sure you can go to SEC filings, but you may have to check hundreds of filings to get to the right facts. Now our expanded partnership with FactSet® makes it easier.

FactSet hones in for you, compiling and standardizing fundamental financial data on tens of thousands of companies worldwide. You search at a very granular level, using standard fields and language. (You can even find examples where specific tactics are not used.) Instead of rooting through hundreds of filings, you can focus on a dozen pertinent deals.

Hunting season is over! You can provide the vitals for analyzing deal risk and returns, takeover defenses and due diligence—in more depth and in less time.

FactSet is a leading provider of global financial and economic information. Mergerstat®, which provides detailed information on publicly announced mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, has been available through lexis.com for several years. Now joining Mergerstat is:

• MergerMetrics™: Analyze countless qualitative aspects of M&A deals.

• SharkRepellent™: Gain access to takeover defense profiles.

• Deal Advisors: Get information on executives involved in M&A activity.

• Public Offerings Transactions™: Gather information on public and secondary public offerings.

These new FactSet resources are located throughout lexis.com, in a variety of applicable corporate and practice area menus.* They are available through the new LexisNexis M&A Practice Center. (See September LexisNexis Information Professional Update.)  Here’s an overview of each new FactSet source available through lexis.com:

FactSet MergerMetrics™

MergerMetrics summarizes voluminous SEC filings into a standardized profile with searchable fields. You can analyze and screen countless qualitative aspects of M&A deals, meet complex due diligence research needs and use the data in a variety of tasks. MergerMetrics powerful search functionality is particularly helpful when analyzing highly negotiated key aspects of merger agreements, including deal protection mechanisms.

And all of the many fields you can search are available online. Just go to the MergerMetrics online source description and view the sample document. (Click the “i” icon next to the menu listing.)

It’s easy to identify precedent transactions and gain immediate access to important language from within the merger agreement. For example:
ENTER: governing law PRE/1 south carolina

Once you have found your precedent, link to Mergerstat data to get the quantitative aspects of the deal, including details on law firms and attorneys involved in the deal. Armed with the deal data, you’re ready to pull the SEC filings that meet your criteria.

To find examples of deals that do not contain a specific provision: (You can’t search an EDGAR® document for something not mentioned in the document.)
ENTER: termination fee upon shareholder disapproval PRE/1 no AND deal structure PRE/1 forward triangular

To analyze the most recent advisor fees and termination fees for deals with a controlling shareholder:
ENTER: controlling shareholder PRE/1 yes

To evaluate post-deal structures for target companies:
ENTER: T-COMPANY(prentiss properties)

To find precedent deals where IBM was the acquiring company:
ENTER: B-COMPANY(international business machines)

FactSet SharkRepellent™

SharkRepellent gives you in-depth details on the takeover defenses of U.S. public companies—more than 4,500 U.S. incorporated public companies including the Fortune 500, S&P 1500, Dow Jones Industrials, NASDAQ 100, and IPOs from 1999 to the present. SharkRepellent is updated daily.

Find out how well-defended a company is with the SharkRepellent proprietary Bullet Proof Rating System, which quantifies relative defense protection and allows you to quickly find companies with strong or weak defenses.

You can even study the impact of takeover defense and corporate governance choices on stock prices. Use Historical Quotes available through lexis.com to get stock prices by day as well as trending charts.

Identify available fields for searching SharkRepellent by viewing the sample document on the SharkRepellent online source description. (Click the “i” icon next to the menu listing.)

To view the Bullet Proof Rating and anti-takeover defense structure in effect for a given company:
ENTER: COMPANY(international business machines)

To find companies with strong anti-takeover defenses for precedence research (In ratings of takeover defenses, 1 is weakest, 10 is strongest.):
ENTER: bullet proof rating PRE/1 8! OR 9!

To find companies with weaker takeover defenses that could benefit from your firm’s corporate structuring programs:
ENTER: bullet proof rating PRE/1 1! or 2!

You can even generate a LexisNexis® Alert on key clients, monitoring to see if their rating has changed or if any takeover defense activity has occurred over a given time period, including new adoptions and amendments:
ENTER:  COMPANY(microsoft) OR COMPANY(international business machines) OR COMPANY(general electric)

After viewing your results, click the Save as Alert link at the top of the screen. Monthly is a good frequency. 

FactSet Deal Advisors™

With Deal Advisors, you can quickly gather competitive intelligence about the law firms, attorneys and financial advisors employed by your clients (and prospective clients) for M&A deals. Deal Advisors covers 25,000+ executives, giving you high-level details on their deal involvement. You also get links to Mergerstat  for more in-depth information.

Find available fields to search by viewing a sample Deal Advisor report available in the online source description. To search for deal advisors by company:
ENTER: client PRE/1 comcast

To search by industry specialization areas to see which companies are driving M&A activity for the industry:
ENTER: industry PRE/5 cable

To obtain a list of deals associated with a particular attorney or firm for competitive intelligence or conflict checking:

Find deals by attorney:
ENTER: smith white jones
or
Find deals by law firm:
ENTER: smith PRE/2 william

FactSet Public Offerings Transactions

Get details on public and secondary public offerings, including IPOs currently in registration. Information fields provided in these reports include:

• Target company name

• Address and phone number of company headquarters

• CUSIP (global ID used by financial markets)

• Region/Country

• Deal type and deal value

• Offer date

• Industry

• Legal advisors for target and issuer

• Underwriters, auditors, co-leads (co-book) & managers & shares allotted to each

• Co-lead manager

To find Public Offerings for a specific company:
ENTER: company(goodyear)

To find FactSet Public Offerings Transactions in a particular industry, use the SIC segment or search keywords for a particular industry:
ENTER: industry PRE/1 wholesale

To find Public Offerings in which a specified law firm was the issuer:
ENTER: smith jones PRE/3 legal counsel to issuer

To find Public Offerings in which a specific law firm was the advisor/agent/syndicate:
ENTER: smith jones PRE/2 legal counsel to advisors/agent/syndicate

*FactSet resources are not available to law school and government subscribers.

Research the World’s Major Patent Authorities—all of them—With New TotalPatent™

New TotalPatent is the most comprehensive, searchable, online collection of first-level patent information in the world—three times more full-text patent resources than any other online provider.

Your patent practitioners can now turn to TotalPatent* to gain access to the full text of 22 authorities and the bibliographic and abstract data from 96 authorities—both searchable in the language of publication and in English-language machine translations. Plus get images, legal status, citations and patent family data.

Use TotalPatent from LexisNexis to:

• Review claims in patents—often the most crucial element of a patent—from virtually all of the major patent authorities around the globe. Many of these claims have never been seen before in electronic form!

• Stay updated on new technology and your competitors’ activities with alerting
  and profiling tools that monitor industry trends and developments.

• Save time and improve efficiency by gaining access to 50 million compressed, multi-page, searchable PDF documents.

• Create powerful and precise searches with a wide range of searchable fields, coupled with choices of operators and wild cards.

• Reduce results to one invention per family by grouping and sorting records by patent family.

• Rely on expert commentary and proprietary analytical content from leading industry authorities such as Chisum on Patents, Milgrim on Licensing, and more.

• Retrieve specific documents quickly and easily by patent number.

• Download fast—with the ability to export patent data into Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets, Microsoft® Word and other leading formats.

• Structure work folders by saving, organizing, annotating and sharing personalized lists of patents.

• Download in bulk by importing key bibliographic fields quickly.

• Utilize analytics tools to create graphical maps and bar charts online, as well as allowing offline analysis of results with 3D graphs and charts.

And TotalPatent tops its powerful functionality and deep content with many valuable ease-of-use features. For example, find search forms for research novices as well as experts to aid critical prior-art research, patent prosecution, researching infringements, identification of licensing opportunities or R&D.

TotalPatent also offers a range of customizable user preferences, including multiple layout options for viewing results. Scan each document’s full text and images simultaneously! 

Best of all, TotalPatent works well with other LexisNexis products, such as PatentOptimizer™ software, the Patent Research Tasks page, the REEDFAX® service, CourtLink and more.

TotalPatent subscribers can access this resource directly from a link on the lexis.com Patent Area of Law page. Ask your LexisNexis account executive for more details.
 
*TotalPatent is not available to law schools.

Need more information …
about the TotalPatent research solution available through LexisNexis?
Click here.

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Lexis® Search Advisor Evolves; Search Across Multiple Content Types Simultaneously

The SEARCH ADVISOR tab is gone. In its place, discover a new subtab under SEARCH—Search by Topic or Headnote. More importantly, you’ll also discover new, more powerful research options available under Search by Topic or Headnote.

For example, now you can choose the topic you want to research and customize the types of sources and jurisdictions you want to search—all in a single search. (What a perfect option for researchers who don’t know exactly where to start their research or those who want to easily see all the coverage for a given topic—quickly.)

That’s right. One search in Search by Topic or Headnote can combine primary law—cases, codes and regulatory materials—across multiple jurisdictions, premium Matthew Bender® analysis, law reviews and more. (Additional content will be added weekly through the rest of the year.)

Now more than 120 national and state analytical titles are part of Search by Topic. This translates to the comprehensive and authoritative analysis contained in more than 530 volumes, more than 6,200 chapters and close to 107,000 sections of explanatory text connected to 16,000+ available topics and subtopics.

Select your topic just as you did with Search Advisor. Choose a recently used topic, enter a search, e.g., fair /5 use, or drill down through one of 50+ practice areas one layer at a time through Tables of Contents.

Option 1—Search across Sources

The search box makes sources selection and research a 1-2-3 process.

First select your jurisdiction. If you’d like multiple jurisdictions, e.g., Federal, plus Colorado and Texas, click the Select Multiple link.

Then select your sources. Click the Select Sources button and move to a resource list for this subtopic—Case Law, Statutes and Regulations and Analysis, Law Reviews and Journals. Click the checkboxes next to the sources you’d like to include and click OK. (A behind-the-scenes search has already been run, and the sources that appear in Select Sources are relevant to your topic.)

You can add additional search terms, but step three is optional. (And you can link to a variety of Search help.)

Search results for multiple-source searches are delivered in an easy-to-follow tabbed format, with an at-a-glance summary by content type under the All Results tab as well as individual tabs for each content type. Navigate to the content you’re most interested in. (You’ve seen the same type of tabbed result set if you’ve used LexisNexis Combined Search.)

Option 2—Search by Headnote

The search box offers an alternative way to generate a summary list of relevant cases on a specific topic. And note, this box automatically retrieves all LexisNexis® Headnotes classified to the topic as well as cases that discuss the topic, even if there isn’t a specific headnote.

Just select a jurisdiction. You can add a date restriction if you choose. Then click Retrieve All.

Once you receive your LexisNexis Headnotes on your subtopic, you can alter the display several ways.

The default view is Digest View, which displays the case cite list, sorted by court/date, with an overview and relevant headnotes.

You can display only cases with headnotes. Click the Show Headnotes Only link. Or move directly to cases without headnotes on your subtopic, but with in-depth discussions on your subtopic. Just click the In-Depth Discussions link. You’ll get a list of up to 15 best cases based on a natural-language algorithm.

You can also see the most frequently cited cases in your results. Click the Sort By drop-down box in the upper-left corner of your results screen. Select Frequently Cited. When the new result screen displays, a parenthetical follows each case name and offers citing information (e.g., Cited in 8 of 151) and a link to the decisions that cite that case.

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Accomplish More (and Cover More) With New CourtLink® Options

CourtLink content and functionality has expanded* to include:

More Search Options

Looking for docket documents to assist in initial case assessment and due diligence? Now you have two options for retrieving documents when you select the Document Search button available in CourtLink under the CourtLink SEARCH tab: Document Finder and new Document Text Search.

While Document Finder searches the content of more than 85 million civil dockets from U.S. District Courts, Document Text Search performs a full-text search of more than 2.6 million documents from selected state and federal cases across the United States. (Approximately 95 percent of this resource is content from state courts.) Use the W/n connector and/or the * wild card. Implied AND connectors require all search words to be included in the results. You can also enter phrases in quotation marks.

More Exclusive Federal Documents for Immediate Download

Now it’s easier and faster to get federal and state court documents because CourtLink dockets now link to an expanded database of online court documents.

“Online” indicates that the document is available for immediate download from multiple sources. And now you have three online source options:

• PDF: Download electronic copies of documents provided by the court immediately.

• Enhanced: Mealey’s editors hand pick the most recent, relevant and noteworthy briefs, pleadings and motions in high-demand practice areas going back to 2002. Then these documents are enhanced with the full LexisNexis editorial treatment, including the citations and links to case law. These documents are also available for immediate download. (You must have a lexis.com ID and password to access these enhanced documents.)

• Runner-Library: Documents previously retrieved by the CourtLink® Document Retrieval Service runners are available electronically and can be downloaded immediately. 

Plus, if documents are not available electronically, you can still utilize the Runner option, and the document can be ordered from the CourtLink Document Retrieval Service, staffed by expert researchers who specialize in frequent communication and customer satisfaction.

If multiple formats for a single document exist, choose any available format. A step-by-step document-ordering “wizard” will walk you through ordering documents in various formats.

More Data—Judgments—Available in CourtLink Strategic Profiles

More than 391,000 judgments spanning 100,000+ U.S. District Court civil cases have been integrated into CourtLink® Strategic Profiles, giving you a fast, easy way to view and use a collection of judgment information by Judge, Attorney/Firm, or Litigant.

Perfect during early case assessment, you can use the judgment information in any type of Strategic Profile:

• Use Judicial profiles to become aware of ruling tendencies. Has your judge been more favorable to the plaintiff or defendant? 
  What percentage of the time? 

• Use Attorney/Firm profiles to quickly identify cases that have favorable or unfavorable decisions.  Where has an individual litigator or firm been most successful? 

• Use Litigant profiles to discover if your prospective client already has a tendency to win certain types of cases in court.

• Use a Nature of Suit or Court profile to determine the case life cycle or time to resolution.

More Alert and Track Enhancements

Now CourtLink® Alert and Track results can be sent to any e-mail address—even those without a CourtLink account! (And no log in is required to view results.) Also customize the subject line of your results e-mail.

Your e-mail recipients will also notice that the results sent are the actual docket sheets and not case results. Busy attorneys can view dockets—no clicking through a result list.

These new enhancements apply to individual Alerts and Tracks. They do not interfere with other Alert/Track e-mail preferences.

More State Courts Now Available 

Advanced searching capabilities, Alert and Track functionality, and Strategic Profiles are now available in these state court jurisdictions:

• California (Orange Superior Court)

• California Appellate and Supreme

• Massachusetts Appellate and Supreme

• Texas (Denton District and County Courts)

*CourtLink information is not available to law schools except via LexisNexis Strategic Profiles.

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Even More? Yes, Now Count on Closer Integration
Between Your CourtLink and lexis.com Research

CourtLink and lexis.com work more closely together than ever before. Now there are more links from your lexis.com research directly to CourtLink tasks. Now available:

GET A DOCUMENT on lexis.com Now Offers “Get a Docket”

Gain access to full dockets from 20+ years of federal civil litigation history—right from the GET A DOCUMENT tab on lexis.com. Now use the GET A DOCUMENT tab to retrieve CourtLink dockets and original source documents as well as case-law decisions and briefs, motions and pleadings.

When you choose the GET A DOCUMENT tab, select the by Party Name or by Docket Number subtab. For example, by Party Name offers three searching options, including CourtLink dockets. When you select the CourtLink Documents option:

1. Choose the Business or Person litigation type radio buttons. (The default is business.)
2. Enter party names. (Only one party name is required.)
3. Select the Court Type, e.g., U.S. Combined Federal Court Filings by CourtLink
4. (Optional) Enter a date restriction.
5. Click SEARCH.

Your results lists will include all available dockets in reverse chronological order by last filing date. Click on a docket number link to move to the full-text docket. (As you view the full-text docket, you can also use the Get Updated Docket link.)
Request full-text filings listed in the docket sheet. You can click:

• Online—and an online court PDF opens in a new window. (If there is a delay in downloading, you can click Return to Research and return in the suggested time frame by going to the Unopened Results tab of your History log and re-selecting the search link.)

• Runner—and move directly to the Online Runner Form.

GET A DOCUMENT docket requests are also saved in your Recent Results and Archived Results tabs in your History log.

Link to CourtLink Docket Sheets—From Your lexis.com Case Documents

Now when you view full-text cases online at lexis.com, look at the case heading. If the docket number is a link, e.g., Civil Action No. 98-1232 (CKK), click this link and move to the docket—in one step.

Review the docket, view online source documents (or order the documents) and return to your lexis.com research. Quick and efficient.

More CourtLink Sources Show on lexis.com Menus

Additional CourtLink docket sources now display on lexis.com menu screens. Now when you select a Court Records from CourtLink link listed on the menu screens, e.g., on many lexis.com Area of Law pages, you have additional source choices.
You can link directly to search specific court filings, for example:

• U.S. Supreme Court Filings (Full Docket)

• U.S. Combined Federal Courts Filings (Full Docket)

• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Filings (Full Docket)

• U.S. Courts of Appeals (Full Docket)

• U.S. Court of Federal Claims,

• U.S. District Courts, Civil and Criminal Filings (Full Docket)

• U.S. District Courts civil and criminal filings listed separately

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Connect with Top Practice Experts At LexisNexis Insurance Law Center

Word of mouth … it matters. Important business still comes to your organization via word of mouth. When one of your respected colleagues chooses to advocate something, you take notice.

It’s the principle behind the new LexisNexis Insurance Law Center. Now insurance practitioners across the Web can link to the vital LexisNexis resources they’ve always relied upon—plus they can also network with insurance practice experts. They can link to expert articles, rate them or even submit their own. They can blog on critical issues within their practice area and join other online discussions to hone their practice knowledge. They can check out specialty conferences and download podcasts for insurance practitioners, whether they focus on insurance coverage, compliance or defense.

In addition, the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center gives you and your insurance professionals the opportunity to learn about LexisNexis products and enhancements from the behind-the-scenes LexisNexis products specialists who built them. Attend a Q&A session or audio conference.

Get updated—and stay updated. Set alerts on center topics of interest. Or set up an RSS feed from a variety of center features.

To ensure the content stays varied and fresh, the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center is moderated by a special board of directors comprised of insurance practice-area experts as well as LexisNexis product and technology experts.

Take a closer look at the main insurance law center screen. The main elements are:

Insurance News: Get headlines from top insurance stories updated frequently by Mealey’s product experts. Click a headline and gain access to the first paragraph. Then log-in with your LexisNexis ID for the full text. Visitors can comment on the substance of articles, recommend them to others or e-mail the link. Also publicize your own cases, send a news tip and/or meet our newsroom staff.

Insider Perspective: In this informal writing area, LexisNexis subject-matter experts and outside authors, including LexisNexis subscribers, law professors and frequent speakers, write on insurance issues in their own voice. (Bylines and blogger photos may be included.) For example, LexisNexis legal news editors who have just received a tip about a new filing or ruling could post the tip here.

From the main Insurance Law Center page, click read more in the Insider Perspective Blog box and gain access to the Blog Center. Comment on posting substance, recommend postings to others or e-mail the link. Also find access to podcasts.

Expert Forum: Review expert commentaries. Read a brief description before clicking to purchase the full commentary. Also gain access to a repository of other free commentaries—then join the discussion by posting, recommending the commentary and/or e-mailing the link.

Movers & Shakers: Click to discover “people news” about lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments and members of the judiciary—promotions, new hires, new law-firm practice areas or office openings, firm mergers, judicial appointments, speaking engagements, awards, etc.  

Podcasts: These professionally produced, five-minute audio broadcasts that discuss important cases, rulings and legal trends, include interviews with top experts in the field. Find a weekly wrap-up for insurance practitioners!

Your Resources: Find one-step linking directly to vital resources available through the lexis.com Insurance Area of Law page:

• Appleman on Insurance 2d and Appleman on Insurance Law and Practice
• New Appleman Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law
• Miller’s Standard Insurance Policies Annotated
• Mealey’s Insurance Reports
• Emerging Issues in insurance, e.g., Climate Change. Find news reports, commentary, etc.
• Insurance JurisCharts—50-state surveys that let researchers compare state insurance rules and regulations on vital insurance issues
• Insurance briefs & pleadings
• Insurance cases, statutes and regulatory materials, including enacted regulations

Your Toolbox: These links take you to LexisNexis tools for Ensuring Compliance, Gathering Intelligence, Assessing Your Case, Draft Documents, etc. For example, link directly to LexisNexis Total Litigator to find an expert.

Our Communities: Get information about networking events, Mealey’s Conferences and additional online communities.

“Top” Sections: At the bottom of the Insurance Law Center screen, find listings of top law center searches, top emerging issues, top insurance blogs, top cases, etc., as determined by the Insurance Law Center board of directors. 

See the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center Now!
Whether you want to catch-up on breaking insurance news or emerging issues, comment on a topic or generate potential business-development opportunities, the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center can provide valuable resources for you and your organization.

Please join us today at www.lexisnexis.com/insurancecenter

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Emerging Issues Resource Compiles Case Law, Regulatory and Legislative Vitals in Each Practice Area

by Dianne Chambers, LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant

We’re all aware of the barrage of news detailing the national fallout from subprime mortgages. The impact of these transactions is far reaching, and the legal issues certainly overlap. Predictions indicated this type of fallout was inevitable, but only recently have we started to see how these issues are affecting us.  

Of course, this is not the only legal issue to emerge in 2007. New issues arise and surface to our list of “items to watch” constantly. And LexisNexis understands that librarians, attorneys and paralegals need to stay on top of these issues and
to get to the important data quickly and easily.

The most effective way to do this is to turn to the new Emerging Issues resource in your area of law.

Emerging Issues provides you with articles, case law, regulatory and legislative information, as well as expert commentary detailing specifics on the particular issue at hand. These sources will give you an up-to-date picture and well-rounded overview.

For instance, let’s say that you are working with an attorney who is practicing in the Bankruptcy practice area. This attorney has a client who is being impacted by subprime mortgages that have been financed by his company. He wants you to pull recent articles and analytical materials as quickly as possible.

It’s easy at lexis.com. Select the Bankruptcy area of law on the lexis.com menu screen. Then click Emerging Issues. There is an entire topic dedicated to Subprime Lending.

Click the link, and you can gain access to Mega News on Credit Regulations, Mega News on Subprime Mortgages, and the treatise Sommer on Foreclosures: Bankruptcy Issues

Create a terms and connectors search within these sources to retrieve recent information. For example:

SOURCE:   Mega News; Subprime Mortgages*
SEARCH:    HLEAD(private equity and subprime)

The HLEAD segment finds your search words in the article headline or lead paragraph.

Currently there are Emerging Issues for the following practice areas:

• Banking & Financial Services
• Bankruptcy
• Commercial Law (UCC)
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environment
• Health Care
• Labor & Employment

More Emerging Issues are scheduled for release throughout the year to help you to keep on top of what’s new and what’s important. Review these sources periodically to see what has been added. If you need help with an area, or you’d like training and assistance, contact your local LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant or your LexisNexis account team.

*Mega News resources are not available to law schools.

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Registration Open for Mealey’s™ Subprime Mortgage Litigation Conference

Monday, October 29 – 30, 2007
Chicago (The InterContinental Chicago)
Conference Chairmen:
            Matthew Jacobs, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.
            Kevin LaCroix, Esq., Oakbridge Insurance Services,
            Beachwood, OH

Already the SEC, a number of attorneys general, the U.S. Dept. of Justice and N.Y. Stock Exchange have launched investigations against a number of subprime lenders. Homeowners are suing lenders, brokers and construction companies. Investors in mortgage-backed securities are suing major banks. The investment banks are turning around and suing the mortgage firms.

At Mealey’s Subprime Mortgage Litigation Conference, legal professionals will learn what to expect in the coming months so they can better prepare clients. Get a breakdown of the key players, the current suits and the critical insurance coverage issues arising out of subprime lending litigation, including how to negotiate settlement and attorney fees.

How will D&O coverage play out in the coming avalanche of litigation? Will dishonesty/criminal misconduct exclusions get carriers off the hook? How do you get multiple defendants—each of whom wants their own counsel—to cooperate? How is coverage affected when defendants go bankrupt?

Find the answers—and much more—pertaining to this growing area of economic risk and litigation. Plus get an opportunity to network with other attorneys, insurance executives, in-house counsel and expert economists. Whether at breakfast, lunch, or the networking reception, you’ll have ample opportunity to exchange business cards and ideas.

To register and/or to get more details
(including a conference brochure and agenda), go to
www.lexisnexis.com/conferences

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Redesign Invoice Reports, Pay Online and More With New PowerInvoice™ Service Features

The PowerInvoice service* gives you current, comprehensive billing data and invoice images right at your desktop. Gain access to up to six months of billing information and 24 months of invoices.

And the invoicing process is even easier. E-mail and print reports quickly. Change report layouts. Set up report Alerts. Even pay invoices online via credit card or electronic funds transfer. Here’s an overview:

New! PowerInvoice E-Mail Report and Print-Friendly Format
Now send any LexisNexis PowerInvoice report via e-mail. As you review a report, click the E-Mail Report link in the upper right. Enter e-mail addresses—up to 25. You can also customize with a subject line and a short message. File attachments greater than 5MB will be compressed automatically. You can also select a report attachment format, e.g., HTML.

To use the Billing Data and Invoice Print-Friendly Format, as you view a report, click the Printable Format link. It’s that simple. The tabular report is ready to print using your PC printer functions.

New! PowerInvoice Alerts
Automate the entire PowerInvoice reporting process! Eliminate the need to repeatedly generate standard daily, weekly or monthly reports. To save a PowerInvoice search, click the Save as Alert link. The alert set-up screen makes it easy to name your alert and pick an updating schedule. PowerInvoice reports can be e-mailed directly to you or to other individuals in the firm on the schedule you select. And you can request a monthly data file when a full month of data is finalized.

Once your alert is set, you can select the Alerts tab under Billing Data to see all of your Alerts. Click the alert name to view the alert parameters. Run an immediate report from the parameters, edit them or even suspend the alert.

New! User-Defined Layout
Download charges in a format that matches your time and billing system requirements. (And eliminate unwanted columns of data due to client bill-back policies.) The new User-Defined Layout options help you define which columns of PowerInvoice data to download—and arrange the columns in the order you desire. Just select the User-Defined tab under Billing Data. Then click Add to
add a new report format. (You can also edit or copy existing report formats.)

After you select your base report, e.g., Summary by Client, you can name the new layout, select which data columns to include—and in what order. You can also rename the report column headers.

New! Electronic Fund Transfer
Sign up and set an automated bank transfer of funds to pay your organization’s LexisNexis monthly invoice. (It can be an automatic process or you can first review the monthly invoice and manually begin the fund transfer process.)

Select Basic under the Invoices tab. Select an invoice. At the top of the screen, click the Register for Online Account Management link. As you register, you can elect to receive an e-mail indicating the firm’s monthly invoice is available in PowerInvoice. And you can opt not to receive the LexisNexis printed invoice.

If you select to not to have the payment made automatically, you search final invoices under the Basic tab and click Pay Now to begin the payment process.

New! PowerInvoice Pay by Credit Card
Use the same basic process as electronic fund transfer, i.e., after you select an invoice, click the Register for Online Account Management link. When prompted, select Credit Card Payment. You can also choose to have the payments made automatically or after your review, using the Pay Now function.

*The PowerInvoice service is not available to law schools.

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New CaseMap® Reporting and Linking Features Enhance Connection Between Discovery and Effective Litigation Planning

A good case strategy is developed early in the matter and continues systematically throughout the litigation. Yet most litigators don’t have enough time for effective early case assessment or enough resources to help them.

CaseMap software makes it easy to organize, evaluate and explore the facts, the cast of characters and the issues in a case. 

And now new CaseMap 7.5 software offers even better reporting features and helps litigators get more out of their discovery documents as they assess cases and plan their litigation strategy.

For example, a hallmark of CaseMap 7.5 is its expanded Bulk Send to CaseMap function. Find linkages with more than 30 discovery and litigation support tools, including:

• Concordance®, LexisNexis® Total Litigator and CourtLink
• WorldDOX®
• Adobe® Acrobat®
• Hummingbird® DM5
• LiveNote
• Worksite® (iManage) and many more

Chances are, one or more of the resources your organization already uses links seamlessly with CaseMap 7.5.

And now 20+ new Link Summary fields make it easier for attorneys and support staff to track the relationships between players in cases and in the documents associated with them.

CaseMap 7.5 also now offers a new Reports Menu so litigators can easily create polished and professional reports.

All of these new features mean attorneys can easily and confidently map and import their discovery data directly into CaseMap, then create specific and compelling documents for assessing a case, including strategic reports for clients. Also produce document indexes and other lists to respond to discovery requests received as part of casework.

Plus consider these additional CaseMap 7.5 enhancements, including:

• Import Issues From NoteMap®—For the first time, users can now import an Issue Outline authored in NoteMap directly into the CaseMap Issues Spreadsheet.

• The new On-The-Fly feature in Send to CaseMap saves time—eliminating the need to flip back to the appropriate spreadsheet to add people, places or things to CaseMap 7.5 that may not have been previously designated as Objects. Boost productivity and stay focused.

• Integration with CaseMap Report Publisher—Share and update case reports securely from multiple locations, even between geographically separated parties. (Report Publisher is sold separately.)

There are more enhancements to CaseMap 7.5 Get a complete list here.

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A Tab is Born! LexisNexis® Total Litigator Has a New Location

LexisNexis Total Litigator has moved (and is much easier to locate)! You can now gain access to all the features and benefits of LexisNexis Total Litigator under a new tab—right on the main lexis.com menu.*

The new tab design also gives you added functionality: You and your users can now set LexisNexis Total Litigator as your starting page when you sign on to lexis.com  Just click the Preferences link. Under Start Location, use the drop-down box and select Total Litigator. Then click SET.

You’ll also notice that, once you select the TOTAL LITIGATOR tab, there are red sub-tabs for each task, in addition to a Quick Search box, and quick links to news, podcasts and other litigation tools, such as File & Serve and CourtLink.

Click the Litigation Tools link and move to a selection screen where you can get more information or launch other vital litigation tools, including:

• CaseMap (a central repository for critical case-management knowledge—the case’s key facts, documents, parties, legal issues and case law) (See what’s new with CaseMap on page 07:111);
• TimeMap® (Transform vital litigation information into visual timelines);
• TextMap® (Create searchable databases of electronic transcripts from case depositions, examinations and other proceedings); and
• NoteMap® (Easy-to-create outlines—easier than the limited outlining features of word processors).

*The Total Litigator tab is not available to government subscribers

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Search Sub-Tabs Get New Monikers

Please note that now, when you select the SEARCH tab, the subtabs underneath have been renamed:

• by Source

• by Topic or Headnote (New! See page 07:102 for more information.)

• by Guided Search Form

• by Dot Command (previously Command Searching)

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