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Outside Counsel Guidelines can be a singularly effective tool for managing outside counsel. When reducing outside counsel costs, improving matter oversight, increasing billing efficiency and promoting better communications with outside counsel are th...

I’ve been thinking lately about the Rule Of Law. Not just because it’s what my job indirectly affects every day, by greasing the skids of projects for our clients and promoting the practice of law, but the lar...

Hello InterAction Customers! The LexisNexis InterAction training team will be taking our in-house InterAction classes on the road in 2017! The InterAction for Application Administrators and InterAction for Marketing Professionals and Data Steward...

Do you have questions you would like answered in a private session with a Trainer at LexisNexis? Do you have a question that requires a deeper dive than what is possible in a public setting? The “Buy a Trainer” session is set up as a priv...

As you may know LexisNexis University is your one stop shop for all your training needs when it comes to the InterAction, Juris, Time Matters, and PCLaw products. Over the years we have spent much time refining the site in order to get our clients t...

Every New Year offers a clean slate to do things better in the future. For solo and small firm attorneys, this is especially true when it comes to managing the firm’s year-end accounting process. According to Tyler Chapman, financial analyst and busi...

Hello InterAction Customers! The LexisNexis InterAction training team will be hosting our in-house InterAction for Application Administrators class in downtown Chicago, February 14-16 and May 9-11. As most of our classes are held in Raleigh, NC, w...

Register here for our free InterAction Reporting Webinar, Wed, Jan 25, 2p-3p Eastern. My reporting stream of consciousness (feel free to wear your beret and turtleneck, and snap along): Analyze, interpret, understand, data, pretty, fancy, Excel, me...

Drew Sammeth, Client Educator, LexisNexis: Four months ago I left my law firm as an InterAction Administrator and joined LexisNexis as a client trainer for InterAction. I am thrilled to work directly with clients, passing the knowledge and tips...

In the eDiscovery world, data size and time are two factors that can impact a project. With the right tool a project doesn’t have to be as daunting as most people might think. It’s Monday morning and your manager drops off a one terabyte hard drive o...

Ever since the concept of synchronized transcripts was introduced to the litigation industry, creation of smaller clips from larger media files has never been easier. While this concept can greatly reduce the amount of time litigation support profes...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which over the years has been followed by a variety of other federal, state, and local “open records” laws. In the interest of democracy, we expect our gov...

In many working environments today electronic signatures have become a common practice in the United States and around the world. Digital signature technology was invented in the 1970’s as a solution to sending secure uncrackble messages. Electronic ...

I will be the first one to admit that I have a HUGE problem. Staying organized. Every day, I tell myself that this is the day to get myself organized, and keep it that way. I start the day off thinking how disorganized my desk and computer look. I te...

What is Concatenation? Concatenation is the joining together of two or more Concordance Desktop databases, allowing users to view multiple databases as if they were one database in Concordance Desktop. Benefits of concatenated databases Large re...

As administrators of any database, it’s always a struggle to keep an eye on your users and databases. As data continues to grow in the eDiscovery world, so are the responsibilities of those managing that data. More and more, we are seeing an increase...

Over the years I’ve been asked hundreds if not thousands of questions about Time Matters, one in particular that often surfaces especially when individuals are evaluating the program is related to what type of environment it can work in. “Can Time M...

Isn’t it great when something you’re used to suddenly surprises you? I teach Juris to lots of people, and there are times in my classes where I notice I’ve surprised people with a feature or tool they didn’t know about. Here are two such ...

Creating matters, reviewing invoices, searching; sure you can do that. Now, let’s take your skills to the next level. Here are some underutilized features to increase operational efficiency and visibility into your data. Most of these features are...

What does it really mean for the non techie folks working through mountains of data in the litigation world? There is so much talk about technology that it gets jumbled and difficult to determine what the right path for you and your business would b...

The opening question of this manifesto is “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” the point being that not enough of us are initiators when it comes to trying something new in our jobs or in our lives. The title comes from a st...

A few months ago, at a restaurant in Houston, I overheard a Senior manager (SR) interviewing a candidate (CD) for a project manager position. SR:”Tell me about your ability to multitask.” CD: “I single-task. Multitasking project ta...

In case you missed it, click here to watch the May 6th webinar on this topic. I often hear from my clients that they don’t have enough time or resources to manage data quality in InterAction the way they’d like to. And when they want advice, the...

We are always striving to improve at LexisNexis University in everything we do. Our main focus is always on developing and delivering world class training curriculums to our clients and now we have released new product specific training homepages to...

Harvard Law School announced on October 29, 2015 that it is digitizing its entire collection of United States case law and that it will make the collection available online for free, with help from its partner Ravel Law. Its ENTIRE collection! Free a...