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“The new normal” in law firms demands a relentless focus on efficiency. Even complex transactional work offers opportunities for process improvement. Lexis is expanding the offerings of Practice Advisor and taking aim at market share now held by Practical Law Company (PLC) a UK company which was recently purchased by Thomson Reuters.Lexis Practice Advisor is
The March issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations is out. Articles focus on legal project management in various contexts, Litigation, Knowledge Management, Research, Process Improvement.
This past week Lexis quietly acquired the a collection of 55 titles from Oxford University Press US Law Division. Now before you get too excited here’s the bummer – the collection does not include one of my personal favorites, the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations by
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On Friday, Judge Rakoff tossed out the lawsuit brought by intellectual property lawyer Edward White last year against Lexis and Westlaw, according to a story in Thomson Reuters News and Insight. White claimed that Lexis and Westlaw had violated copyright law by including his copyrighted legal documents in their online services.( Edward White v. West Publishing Corp, U.S.
The January issue of Practice Innovations is out. Here is a list of the new articles:
Making Attorneys Champions of Data and Information Usage, Andrew M. Baker, Director or Legal Technology, Seyfarth, Shaw,LLP
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure: A Sneak Peak at Westlaw Analytics, Brian Knudson, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Thomson
Thomson Reuters is no slouch when it comes to monitoring, but monitoring is not an area where they were regarded as cutting edge. Westlaw has developed a number of monitoring products over the years, Westclip for legal and news updates, Keycite Alert and West docket alerts. All reliable and unexciting tools that seemed a response
