LexisNexis Adds Customization Tools to Its CounselLink Solution for Corporate Legal Departments

Easy-to-Use Configuration Tools Enable Users to Manage All of Their Legal Matters More Efficiently and Effectively

April 23, 2013 — NEW YORK, LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional (www.lexisnexis.com), a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced enhancements to its CounselLink^® matter management and e-billing legal department software that enable authorized users to add and customize various fields and screen views within the application. These User-Configurable Data Fields (UCDFs) combined with a powerful new rules engine, streamline and improve a corporate legal teams’ ability to manage all their legal matters.

“By giving users the ability to customize the way they interact with matter data inside the CounselLink application, we’re giving them an efficient way to personalize the user experience and save time and money by doing the customization work themselves,” said Jonah Paransky, vice president and managing director for LexisNexis CounselLink. “There is a clear market need for matter management solutions that offer individual lawyers the flexibility to tailor the way they access and view matter data so we’ve created a simple but powerful set of customization tools inside of CounselLink to deliver that flexibility.”

Easy to use “drag and drop” configuration options enable users with little or no programming experience to design their own custom screen layouts. Additional configuration options can be used to create business rules that among other things, dynamically change the types of fields available for data entry to help improve the speed and accuracy of data capture.

System administrators also have the flexibility to create and configure different matter templates to meet the needs of various practice groups within the legal department. This enables users within each group to view and access relevant information more easily without having to navigate through multiple screens and data fields that are not relevant to their needs.

HyperionGP Research’s recently published, MarketView^™ Report, entitled Enterprise Legal Management: Electronic Billing and Matter Management Systems for Corporations, has recognized LexisNexis as an Advanced Solution provider. In assessing CounselLink, HyperionGP noted that “LexisNexis has significantly enhanced the CounselLink solution, both in core e-billing and matter management. Clients can expect a steady stream of innovation coming from LexisNexis’ corporate software development center of excellence.” A copy of the full report can be found at www.hgpresearch.com.

LexisNexis^® CounselLink^® is an industry-leading matter management, e-billing and legal hold solution for corporate legal department leaders. The software enables corporate law departments to more effectively and efficiently manage their matters and legal spend, while at the same time optimizing their outside counsel relationships. The service consists of comprehensive matter management functionality, robust e-billing capabilities, actionable reporting and analysis tools, and various outside counsel collaboration features. More information about CounselLink matter management and e-billing software can be found at www.counsellink.com.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content and technology solutions that enable professionals in legal, corporate, tax, government, academic and non-profit organizations to make informed decisions and achieve better business outcomes. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. Today, LexisNexis harnesses leading-edge technology and world-class content, to help professionals work in faster, easier and more effective ways. Through close collaboration with its customers, the company ensures organizations can leverage its solutions to reduce risk, improve productivity, increase profitability and grow their business. Part of Reed Elsevier, Inc. LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 100 countries with 10,000 employees worldwide.

LexisNexis helps professionals at law firms and legal departments of all sizes manage the business element of their practice with innovative software and mobile solutions for customer relationship management, competitive intelligence gathering and assessment, time and billing management, matter management, client analysis, legal holds and more.

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Frank Strong, 919-415-3071
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