As I reported yesterday, LexisNexis has acquired legal-research start-up Ravel Law. One of Ravel’s most significant projects over the past two years has been its collaboration with Harvard Law School to digitize Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, said to be the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American cases anywhere outside…
Breaking: LexisNexis Acquires Ravel Law
In major legal-industry news, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced its acquisition of Ravel Law, the legal research, analytics and visualization platform that empowers users to contextualize and interpret large amounts of legal information to uncover valuable insights.
Rumors of the impending acquisition have been circulating for weeks. This morning, I spoke with Jeff…
In Possible First, New Lexis Advance CivPro Practice Guide Includes Embedded Videos
In what it says is an industry first for a legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.
The new practice guide, The Wagstaffe Group Practice…
LexisNexis Firm Manager Will Go Dark on Oct. 31, 2017
LexisNexis will turn off its Firm Manager practice management platform on Oct. 31, 2017. This follows news reported here in January that LexisNexis was discontinuing sales and suspending development of Firm Manager.
A LexisNexis spokesperson said that the company will continue to support and operate the platform until Oct. 31, but that…
Former LexisNexis VP Named to Lead Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions
Wolters Kluwer today announced that Jonah Paransky has been named executive vice president and general manager of its ELM Solutions business, a part of its Governance, Risk & Compliance group. ELM Solutions provides enterprise legal management software to facilitate workflow and collaboration in law firms, corporate legal departments and insurance claims…
New Legal Tech Accelerator Names First Five Startup Participants
A new Silicon Valley legal technology accelerator launched by LexisNexis today named five startups selected to be its first participants.
As I wrote here in December, LexisNexis launched the accelerator to help give legal tech startups a leg up. It is based in the Menlo Park offices of
Survey Finds Virtual Dead Heat in Lawyers’ Use of Westlaw, LexisNexis and Fastcase
Westlaw and LexisNexis are typically viewed as the dominant leaders among legal research services. But a recent survey found that Fastcase is in a virtual dead heat with Westlaw and LexisNexis among smaller-firm lawyers.
The just-released information comes from a survey conducted in 2016 by law practice management company Clio. The survey asked…
News from #Legalweek17: New Lexis for Microsoft Office Is Natively Designed for Office 365
At Legaltech in New York today, LexisNexis is unveiling a new cloud-based version of Lexis for Microsoft Office that is natively designed to work with Microsoft Office 365. The new version provides direct access to Lexis research and citation tools from directly within Microsoft Word Online from both desktop and mobile…
News from #Legalweek17: Lexis Advance Now Integrates Lex Machina’s Analytics
Ever since LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the plan has been to integrate Lex Machina across a range of LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Today at the Legalweek conference in New York, LexisNexis officially launched the first stage of…
Breaking: LexisNexis to Discontinue Sales of Its Firm Manager Practice Management Platform
LexisNexis is discontinuing sales and suspending development of its Firm Manager practice management platform.
The company sent an email yesterday to consultants and others in its partner network notifying them of the news. The email said:
…Wanted to share a recent choice we’ve made to increase investment in a number of key BLSS
News from #Legalweek17: New Integration Combines Lexis Search Advantage and Lexis Practice Advisor
In advance of Legaltech New York, which starts tomorrow, LexisNexis today announced a new integration of Lexis Search Advantage and Lexis Practice Advisor.
Lexis Search Advantage is an application that allows a law firm or legal department to conduct a search across all its internal work product and content and LexisNexis content simultaneously.…
Blue Hill Gives More Details on ROSS Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking Report
Following my post earlier this week about the benchmark report published by Blue Hill Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of their own. The author of the report, David Houlihan, principal analyst at Blue…