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Lexis Integrates with Microsoft Office

February 9, 2010

Later this year, lawyers with Lexis subscriptions and Microsoft Office will be able to use Lexis within the comfy confines of Microsoft Word and other applications. The integration should allow attorneys to stay within one program when drafting briefs, rather than clicking back and forth. If you use Word and Lexis, the integration will make [...]

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Legal Research with Google Scholar

November 19, 2009

The next time you to need to legal research, consider using Google Scholar. Google Scholar has a rather impressive library of judicial opinions, and if you have a citation you can probably find it. The information is more raw, however, and Google Scholar does not organize the results in the same manner as Westlaw or [...]

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The Debut of Bloomberg Law

October 17, 2009

The duel between LexisNexis and Westlaw is about to become a three-way battle—Bloomberg Law rolls out later this month. Bloomberg Law’s claim to fame is integrating real-time news and business bulletins with legal content. The service also has comparable features to Westlaw and LexisNexis—case law search, citation check, headnotes, etc. Whether or not Bloomberg Law [...]

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Public interest law grads now get LexisNexis for free

May 15, 2009

In response to feedback (including some from yours truly) from bloggers, students and law school administrators, LexisNexis has expanded the free legal research services it is providing to law school graduates doing work for the public good. Kudos to LexisNexis for the quick turn-around. Last week the company was offering free legal research services through [...]

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LexisNexis has gone paperless

August 25, 2008

Kudos to LexisNexis for its efforts to reduce paper waste! At a moot court orientation session at the University of Minnesota Law School this morning, the LexisNexis rep showed up and—this blew me away—did not hand out a single sheet of paper. The Westlaw rep, meanwhile, made a huge book available. Mercifully, they did not [...]

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Revisiting Time Matters

March 3, 2008

A little over a year ago, I posted about my frustration, both with the speed and stability of Time Matters with Billing Matters Plus v7 and with the CIC Solutions Forum, which purports to be a place where users can get support from certified consultants, but where my post about how to speed up TM7 [...]

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