Context and Lexis Advance Honored by SIIA Business Technology 2019 CODiE Awards

June 18, 2019 — NEW YORK, NY — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced that two of its products – Context and Lexis Advance – were finalists in the 2019 SIIA CODiE Awards, underscoring the company’s commitment to customer-driven product innovation.

Context, the first legal analytics product that uses machine learning and natural language processing to turn complex litigation language into data, was a finalist in the “Best Emerging Technology” category. Lexis Advance, a premium service that transforms the way attorneys conduct legal research by offering innovative features and functionality in conjunction with industry-leading content, was a finalist for “Best Legal Solution.”

Launched in 2018, Context is a powerful, A.I.-driven technology that delivers never-before-seen insights on judges and expert witnesses to help attorneys best prepare, present and argue their case. Deployed across tens of millions of court documents, Context analyzes and extracts key information to arm lawyers with contextual knowledge about a judge or expert witness through data-driven insights to better inform their litigation strategies.

Lexis Advance is a comprehensive legal research tool that provides users with access to more than 60,000 trusted legal, news, business and public records sources. The legal research platform is flexible enough to allow users the option of entering keywords, using a Boolean approach, or advanced, form-based searching. The use of special solutions for problems unique to searching legal information differentiates Lexis Advance and other online legal platforms. Lexis Advance received the CODiE Award for Best Legal Solution in 2017.

For 2019, LexisNexis had five products nominated as finalists, including two winners. LexisNexis Newsdesk® won “Best Content Search & Discovery Solution,” and LexisNexis PatentSight® won in the “Best Big Data Reporting & Analytics Solution” category. This is the third-consecutive year that LexisNexis Newsdesk has won the coveted award.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries, recognizing product excellence. CODiE Award winners represent companies producing the most innovative products, technologies, and services in software, information and business technology.

“There is no better validation than recognition by your industry peers. We are humbled and honored to be recognized for providing innovative resources that help legal professionals do their jobs more efficiently and effectively,” said Jeff Pfeifer, vice president, product management, LexisNexis Legal & Professional. “We are committed to providing the industry with innovative yet practical tools that help them to solve everyday business problems and deliver the best results.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-recognized awards program. For over 30 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards have honored thousands of software, education, information and media products for achieving excellence and innovation in technology. It is the only peer-recognized program in the business and education technology industries, so each CODiE Award finalist and winner receives incredible market validation for a product’s innovation, vision, and overall industry impact.

For more information about the CODiE Awards, visit https://www.siia.net/codie/. For details about the winning products, visit https://www.siia.net/codie/2019-Finalists.

About the SIIA CODiE™ Awards
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit http://www.siia.net/codie.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 130 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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