By Geoffrey D. Ivnik, Esq. | Director of Marketing LexisNexis There are few professional oversights as damaging to a lawyer’s career as missing key legal precedent when representing a client. The legal news site Above the Law reported that a team of lawyers...
If you are a corporate compliance officer, government relations professional — or serve as legal counsel to someone who is — there is perhaps nothing more important than having access to current and accurate information regarding proposed legislation...
No matter the size of your firm – even those with thousands of attorneys on staff – litigation is complicated. For smaller firms, the challenges are magnified exponentially. Often working with limited resources, small and mid-sized firm litigators...
The newest addition to the Lexis+™ ecosystem, Litigation Analytics joins Legal Research, Practical Guidance and Brief Analysis as the industry’s only end-to-end litigation experience. From understanding your judge’s behavior and courtroom trends...
Product liability-related court activity is trending up. Way up. In fact, a 2020 analysis revealed that it had increased over 300 percent. But it’s tough to pin down exactly what’s driving this trend. Product liability matters are multi-faceted...
Both Lexis ® and Lexis+ ™ demonstrate that artificial intelligence-powered legal research is a game-changer for lawyers and their firms, helping them find relevant information faster, more efficiently and cost-effectively. Artificial intelligence (AI...
When it comes to being efficient with time and resources, litigators from small law firms must generally be a bit more adaptive than those from larger firms. For this reason, small law firm litigators are no strangers to AI and machine learning. Why? Because many...
Transactional lawyers spend a significant amount of their time advocating for, negotiating and structuring deals on behalf of their clients. By relying on artificial intelligence and technology resources, the time required for performing due diligence, background...
Signaling the next evolutionary leap in LexisNexis ® research solutions, Lexis+™ fuses powerful legal research tools, legal analytics, brief analysis and practical guidance into a single, user-friendly interface. Read as Lexis Plus, the Lexis+ service...
Fuel Your Tax Law Practice with Vital Practical Guidance and a Trove of Legal Resources. It’s no secret that tax law is constantly in flux. And every election cycle brings potential changes to federal, state and local tax codes. To further complicate things...
Powerful Online Legal Research for Product Liability Cases Picture this: your law firm is presented with a potential product liability case. First, you’ve got to spend hours researching to see if there’s a viable product liability claim to build...
Were you the 1L with six different highlighters…like, yellow for holdings, green for facts, pink for dissents? Did you tend to jot down important notes in the margins? Flash forward 15 years, and you probably still highlight and annotate key passages in...
Remember those comic book superheroes with X-ray vision? Well, the Lexis service doesn’t give you capabilities that powerful (yet!), but it does have some handy online legal research tools that are pretty darn close. And just like X-ray vision, these visualization...
Pull together valuable data to better understand clients and offer unprecedented insights. It’s no secret that legal analytics resources are becoming ingrained in seemingly all aspects of the legal profession. And if you work with business entities/companies...
When citing another case to point to precedent in your favor, relying on good law is critically important. That’s what makes Shepard’s Citations Service so valuable. Through an intuitive citation symbols and notes format, it’s a powerful legal...