LexisNexis^® Energy Resources: Power Your World

Due Diligence / Compliance

Reduce time and expense on investigations.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—OFAC Compliance: 5 Challenges You May Face In 2015
• Law360^®—How Russian Sanctions Impact Energy And Financial Cos.
• Law360^®—5 Dodd-Frank Reforms That Keep Energy Attys Up At Night
• Law360^®—Don’t Undervalue Environmental Due Diligence
• Law360^®—4 Antitrust Tips For Bidding On Land For O&G

Productivity tools

• Lexis Diligence^®—Vet and monitor clients, agents, partners, suppliers, investments and other third parties. Research entities, explore associated entity interests and develop an entity profile with ease—all with a single search.
• LexisNexis SmartLinx^®—A single-search investigative tool that combs through billions of public records in
  seconds—locating names, addresses, phone numbers and other information that helps establish connections between people, locations and businesses.
• LexisNexis SmartWatch^®—Get a panoramic view of risk indicators facing your suppliers far and wide. Don’t stop with financial information. Examine news plus economic, societal, legal, legislative, cultural, environmental, political, geopolitical, geological and meteorological factors that affect your suppliers in ways balance sheets can’t reveal.
• CourtLink^®—Docket research and tracking for millions of federal, state and local court records. Create strategic profiles on judges, attorneys, litigants and the nature of suits for case assessment. Know who is litigating and why. Gain actionable intelligence with access to billions of docket entries.

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Regulatory / Legislative

Monitor and manage regulatory activity for pending as well as enacted legislation.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—Energy Legislation And Regulation To Watch In 2015
• Law360^®—Fracking Bans Don't Trigger Civil Authority Coverage
• Law360^®—Cyberattack Insurance Challenges Confront Energy Sector

Productivity tools

• Lexis^® Securities Mosaic^®—Real-time federal laws, rules, agency materials, industry news and guidance–including a Dodd-Frank Tracker, law firm memos on all aspects of federal legislative and regulatory actions, and more.
• Lexis^®—The next-generation, online legal research solution with flexible search options across extensive legal, news and business information with integrated workflow and analytical tools.
• State Net^®—Review, manage and share targeted legislative and regulatory information on critical business issues. Assess the impact of proposed legislation and regulations, influence pending matters and reduce compliance risk.
• 50-State Surveys—Review every state’s current law—statutes, regulations and court rules—in one document. Ensure you’re compliant in all 50 states without conducting 50 searches.

Analytical resources†

• FERC Decisions—Access consent orders, proposed consent agreements, court orders, letter orders, decisions and opinions from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Know when and how FERC sets rates, assesses charges and issues licenses impacting the natural gas, oil, electric and hydroelectric industries.
• Public Utility Reports—PUC decisions, augmented with value-added case synopses, headnotes and other editorial enhancements; a LexisNexis^® exclusive and the “gold standard” for those who practice in the world of energy, utilities or telecommunications.
• Williams & Meyers Oil & Gas Law—The most authoritative and comprehensive treatise on the law relating to oil & gas. Frequently cited by the courts and highly regarded by oil & gas attorneys, the treatise monitors changes to the law as well as new and developing areas. Includes expert guidance on: conveyancing, oil & gas leases, implied covenants, pooling and unitization, division and transfer orders, gas purchase contracts as well as drafting instruments, making title examinations, administering estates, and preparing wills and trusts.
• Moore’s Federal Practice^®—A flagship treatise on federal civil, criminal, appellate and admiralty procedure written by the judges, lawyers and professors who write and amend the federal rules. Cited in over 40,000 decisions, Moore’s Federal Practice provides full text of the federal rules and extensive commentary and analysis, as well as cases interpreting the rules. Includes: expert opinions on issues that are unclear or unsettled and the authority you need to take a position, the current state of the law and more.
• Powell on Real Property^®—Authoritative, national coverage of real property law that the courts look to and cite. Includes: unmatched, in-depth analysis of pertinent case law, statutes and regulations clearly explained in more than 130 chapters and several practice guides covering the gamut of real estate issues.
• United States Code Service—Published statutory code for the United States of America and all general and permanent laws enacted by the United States Congress.
• Deering’s California Codes Annotated—Statutory code for the State of California and all general and permanent laws enacted by the California Legislature. Note: Archives are available from 1991.
• Ballantine & Sterling CA Corporation Laws—The top authority for step-by-step guidance concerning the formation, operation and dissolution of business and non-profit corporations and partnerships. Complete coverage of important tax considerations affecting corporate practice, including: a summary of federal taxation of corporations and partnerships; tax planning tips; and consideration of special tax issues, tax planning strategies and techniques for closely held corporations.
• Premier Federal Agency Materials—The deepest insights into U.S. agency policies including press releases, speeches, testimonies, working papers, guidelines, interpretations and agency newsletters. Collections include: Energy & Utilities Law and many more.

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Commercial & Contracts

Save time drafting, re-drafting and negotiating contracts.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—6 Industries Primed For M&A This Year
• Law360^®—Is Your Energy Contract At Risk In Texas?
• Law360^®—What Transactional Lawyers Can Learn From Novelists

Productivity tools

• Lexis Practice Advisor^®—Leverage unique insights on topics most critical to in-house counsel, written and enhanced by practicing attorneys, including former in-house counsel. Access well-established analytical materials from leading treatises such as Matthew Bender^®—including specific sections of the treatise or legal analysis that are most relevant to the transactional legal practice and topic. Modules include: Corporate Counsel, Real Estate,
  Mergers & Acquisitions, Labor & Employment, Intellectual Property & Technology
  , Texas Business & Commercial, California Business & Commercial and more.

Analytical resources†

• Rabkin & Johnson Current Legal Forms with Tax Analysis—A wealth of sample forms, drafting guidance and expert legal commentary you require to draft documents. Covers corporate, commercial, intellectual property, employment, real estate and more.
• Warren’s Forms of Agreements^®—Save considerable drafting time with customizable forms that cover nearly every business legal transaction. Find a host of sample agreements and alternative clauses, along with the practical advice necessary to make quick informed decisions when faced with a new type of agreement. Numerous well-defined, well-prefaced forms covering nearly every transaction that an attorney will encounter in a business practice. Topics include: business organizations, real estate, intellectual property and more—plus a section dedicated to boilerplate clauses to help you customize forms. 
• Energy Law and Transactions—Covers all traditional energy sources, such as oil, gas, electricity and coal, as well as nontraditional such as hydroelectricity, solar, nuclear, biomass and cogeneration. Discussed from exploration and production through transmission, distribution and final consumption by the end-user. The perfect reference and transactional resource for the legal and business-related aspects of energy transactions. Practically written with model forms, tariffs, checklists, illustrations and tables, it is the ideal tool for drafting energy leases and buy-sell contracts and handling mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, tax, commodities, accounting, business, consulting, public utilities and international transactions.
• Corbin on Contracts—An exhaustive analysis of all the rules of contract law, including all exceptions and variations. Cited in the opinions of federal and state courts literally thousands of times, this exhaustive exposition of all the rules of contract law has for more than half a century helped attorneys understand what the rules mean and how they can be used in daily practice.
• CA Legal Forms Transaction Guide—Step-by-step guidance through all non-litigation business transactions, from drafting through filing of all requisite forms. Keep abreast of current developments in CA and federal tax and legislation that impact your day-to-day practice; administrative regulations and procedures; relevant judicial decisions; and shifts in the general business environment.

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Securities

Find deal & filings precedent to extract insight, understand market terms & provisions for complex transactions and uncover & explore risk factors used in recent securities registrations and filings.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—An Illustrative Lesson In Make-Whole Litigation
• Law360^®—Top 5 Securities Cases Of 2014: No Halliburton II

Productivity tools

• Lexis^® Securities Mosaic^®—A trusted and powerful online resource for the latest event-driven corporate and securities content, with efficiency tools, current awareness resources and expertise designed for securities practitioners and researchers who are focused on SEC compliance, disclosure, transactions and regulation. Get fast access to a unique blend of information and resources—much of it updated in real time.
• Lexis Practice Advisor^®—Securities & Capital Markets Offering—Leverage unique insights on topics most critical to transactional attorneys and in-house counsel, written and enhanced by experienced securities attorneys. Access comprehensive coverage of securities filings and transactional topics with new practical guidance, checklists, practice tips and hundreds of expertly drafted and enhanced forms, as well as SEC forms and Blue Sky Filing forms. Relevant insights include Matthew Bender^® treatises, emerging issues, administrative materials and more. It’s everything you need to manage a securities deal or filing from start to finish.

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Patent

Get a 360-degree view to track, screen, evaluate, procure, protect and optimize patent assets.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—Are Patent Trolls Now Targeting The Energy Industry?
• Law360^®—Patent Cases To Watch In 2015
• Law360^®—Oil Rig Builders Can't Dodge $650K Exhaust Patent Verdict

Productivity tools

• PatentOptimizer^™—Construct well-tailored patent applications that yield stronger, more defensible patents. An effective analysis tool during litigation, quickly deconstruct online-issued patents and pinpoint ambiguities, issues, or problems that have previously gone undetected.
• Patent Advisor^™—A powerful suite of services that offers a data-driven, systematic approach to IP portfolio management, evaluation of external IP counsel and patent prosecution. The online data intelligence tools combine statistics, modeling and data mining to analyze past patent applications in order to better predict how similar IP services and applications may develop.
• TotalPatent^®—Protect your intellectual property and optimize its potential with the most comprehensive and relevant, yet easy-to-use, patent research, analysis, and retrieval system available anywhere.
• Lexis Practice Advisor^®—Intellectual Property & Technology Module—Practical guidance content and unique insights on the topics that are most critical to in-house counsel written and enhanced by practicing attorneys, including former in-house counsel. Access well-established, analytical materials from leading treatises such as Matthew Bender^® including specific sections of the treatise or legal analysis that are most relevant to the transactional legal practice and topic.

Analytical resources†

• Chisum on Patents—Whether you’re applying for a patent, appealing a patent application denial or litigating patent infringement, Chisum on Patents puts authority on your side. Chisum on Patents is also the most cited treatise in patent law today cited more than 800 times by the U.S. federal courts and twice as much as the nearest competitor since it was released in October 1978.
• Patent Office Rules & Practice—Get detailed rule-by-rule analysis of the Patent and Trademark Office Rules of Practice. Included is the text of the rules contained in Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, interpretations of their meanings and explanations of their effect on practice with citations to relevant case law. Covers every area of PTO practice. This essential reference provides patent registration applicants with guidelines on the practices and procedures relating to the filing and review of patent applications filed in the Patent and Trademark Office. Also includes the Patent and Trademark Office’s Rules Book.

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Labor & Employment

Stay on top of issues and developments to set policies and build compliance strategies.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—Labor And Employment Cases To Watch In 2015 - Law360
• Law360^®—Labor & Employment Legislation, Regulation To Watch In 2015

Productivity tools

• Lexis^®—The next generation, online legal research solution with flexible search options across extensive legal, news and business information with integrated workflow and analytical tools.
• LexisNexis^® Legislative and Regulatory Alerts & Summaries—An automated resource to monitor and assess new and changing laws and regulations. Receive timely notification of the updates most relevant to you—plus on-the-spot insight summaries whenever needed. Modules include: Labor Relations, Employment Discrimination and more.

Analytical resources†

• Labor and Employment Law—the definitive and complete guide to Labor and Employment law—it is the only work of its kind, providing comprehensive coverage, both federal and state, from A to Z, in one 11-volume set. It includes quality analysis on all aspects of labor and employment law, from well-known topics such as union elections and sexual harassment, to lesser—understood subjects like employment arbitration, wage and hour law and employee privacy.
• Larson’s Worker’s Compensation Law—The premier source for analysis of workers' compensation law. Comprehensive and authoritative, Larson’s is used by all state commissions and cited, with great frequency, by courts in all states. For over 46 years, Larson’s has been the most trusted name in workers’ compensation legal analysis. Provides the now standard framework by which workers’ compensation law is organized and understood. Covers the nuts and bolts of workers' compensation, as well as newly developing areas of the law. Discusses the variations in state law and their consequences and much more.
• Workers’ Compensation Laws CA—Referred to as the leading treatise by the state’s appellate courts, offering the most detailed analysis available of the full range of workers' compensation issues in California. Rassp & Herlick, cited in over 90 published opinions, brings together all the primary source requirements for each issue, along with how-to instructions, unique commentary and coverage of the law and recent trend developments. Contains liberal reference to interpretive case law and the latest legislative and regulatory changes—including comprehensive, up-to-date discussion of the SB 899 and SB 863 reforms.

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Matter / Legal Spend Management

Take control of legal spend and other key factors that drive legal department results and outcomes.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—Secrets To In-House Cost Control

Productivity tools

• CounselLink^®—A legal spend and matter management system that tracks key trends and cost drivers, as well as provides productivity and collaboration tools in order to accomplish more with less.

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Litigation Management

Set litigation strategy with confidence to outside counsel as well as provide expert counsel to internal stakeholders.

News, views and practical perspectives

• Law360^®—Energy Cases To Watch In 2015
• Law360^®—Environmental Cases to Watch in 2015

Productivity tools

• CourtLink^®—Docket research and tracking for millions of federal, state and local court records. Create strategic profiles on judges, attorneys, litigants and the nature of suits for case assessment.

Analytical resources†

• Benders Federal Practice Forms—The most comprehensive set of forms available on the market. All of the civil and criminal forms are up to date, including compliance with all recent amendments to controlling procedural rules, and comply with the standards of practice in federal courts generally. This resource provides a complete range of litigation forms needed for practice in any federal court from federal district courts through and including the Supreme Court of the United States.
• CA Forms of Pleadings & Practice—The guide to all remedies and defenses in CA courts and agencies. Get detailed analysis of the law along with timesaving forms, checklists and research guides. Keep up to date on all aspects of procedure in civil actions and proceedings from pleadings to appeal including: complaints, answers and demurrers; attachment; discovery; summary judgment; extensive motions and orders; mandate and prohibition; enforcement of judgment; and appeal.

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