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Permissible Uses and Public Records

Need a refresher on permissible uses and public records on LexisNexis? This tip from the Weekly Tips from Librarian Relations Consultants will be of interest to you.

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LexisNexis, the world leader in public records information, takes its responsibility seriously. LexisNexis safeguards this information by requiring users to indicate whether or not they have a permissible use under the Driver Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB) anytime they access public records information.

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Dictionaries on lexis.com

Don't forget about the dictionary resources available on lexis.com? This tip from the Weekly Tips from Librarian Relations Consultants will be of interest to you.

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Under the Reference section of the Legal tab at lexis.com there are several dictionaries available on a wide range of subjects useful to the law librarian. Here are just some of them:

Ballentine's Law Dictionary—a source that contains over 40,000 definitions of legal terms "based on the actual construction of those terms by courts of last resort, with each case cited to the page on which the definition appears."

Legal > Reference > Law > Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations...

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The LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars for January 2010

Here's a great way to have a productive coffee break from the comfort of your own desk: The LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars.

These webinars are on the house and they're quick 20-minute format makes it easy for you to fit one into your day. You can choose from a whole menu of sessions, review a Coffee Break you've already attended, or view any previously held Coffee Break when it suits your schedule.

Upcoming Coffee Breaks for January include:

Lexis.com® Boot Camp: 20 Minutes to More Cost-Effective Legal Research (1/27/20010 3:00 PM EST)

Take your legal research skills to the next level when you attend this 20-minute Webinar, during which you’ll discover tools and techniques for more efficient, cost-effective research via lexis.com®. You’ll learn how to:

• Find and print the precise document you need with the Get and Print feature
  
• Use the FOCUS™ feature to pinpoint key words and terms within documents included in your search results, even if they weren’t included in your initial search
  
• Find similar headnotes in other cases quickly and easily with the More Like This feature
  
• And more!

CLICK HERE to find out more about the LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars and to see a list of on-demand Coffee Breaks.

LexisNexis Gets High Marks for Customer Service in Recent Survey

The Law Librarian Blog recently posted the results of the LLB's Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors: BNA, LexisNexis, West and Wolters Kluwer survey in this post: LLB's Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors Survey: Customer Services Findings for BNA, LexisNexis, West and Wolters Kluwer. LexisNexis received high marks in the survey.

The survey asked two key questions with regard to customer service:

1. In terms of detailed and trustworthy information about their products and services in vendor literature and direct communications, how would you rate your vendors?
2. In terms of responsiveness to issues and their prompt resolution for products and services, how would you rate your vendors?

For both questions, LexisNexis and BNA received the highest marks. "However way you look at it, BNA and LexisNexis "get it" when it comes to customer service. Congratulations to the employees who make this happen day in and day out and to both companies' management for recognizing that if legal information is moving in the direction of commodization even for editorial content, brand loyalty will be increasing based on quality customer service."

Read the entire post LLB blog post here: LLB's Rate Your Legal Resources Vendors Survey: Customer Services Findings for BNA, LexisNexis, West and Wolters Kluwer.

New Shepard’s Reports for USCS

Take a tour of the new Shepard’s Reports for USCS in the March 2009 Keeping Current Column on the LexisNexis Info Pro site.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

New Shepard’s Reports for USCS: Look What You Can Do …

Newly designed Shepard’s reports for USCS sections present all the citing references in one, comprehensive report. Yet you can easily see at a glance how vital history and citing references affect your statute. Shepard’s expert attorney-editors still apply the full spectrum of treatment analysis for statutes, including “followed” treatment and “unconstitutional.” But now you have a new signal indicator just to alert you to possible issues with your section.

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The LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars for March 2009

Here's a great way to have a productive coffee break from the comfort of your own desk: The LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars.

These webinars are on the house and they're quick 20-minute format makes it easy for you to fit one into your day. You can choose from a whole menu of sessions, review a Coffee Break you've already attended, or view any previously held Coffee Break when it suits your schedule.

Upcoming Coffee Breaks for March include:

• Find Agreements & Clauses Fast With Precedent Search (3/18/2009 12:00 PM EST)
  
  How much time do you spend searching for or drafting the right agreement and related clauses?
  As market conditions continue to change so do deal structures, and long gone are the days where “cookie-cutter” deals made structuring agreements a simple task. Clauses like material adverse change (MAC) are being negotiated and drafted like never before, and today’s lawyers need quick and easy access to a large variety of ever-changing deal agreements, clauses and defined terms. Today’s lawyers also need to see what kind of deals, and the clauses and provisions which reflect those deals, are currently in the market.
  
  Precedent Search provides deal attorneys the ability to search model documents at a deep level, which they can use in drafting their own deal documents. Search through and locate specific types of agreements, clauses or defined terms that are on point, quickly and easily.

• Uncover Assets, Judgments and Liens: Using Public Records to Bolster Your Bankruptcy Research (3/18/2009 3:00 PM EST)
  
  Unleash the full power of LexisNexis® Public Records in your bankruptcy research. Assess financial stability with access to bankruptcy, judgment and liens, and UCC filings nationwide and confirm bankruptcy asset lists by reviewing assets online such as real estate, motor vehicles and boat registrations. Or determine other individuals and businesses associated with the bankruptcy petitioner. In this webinar, you will discover how public records can bolster your bankruptcy research, saving time and strengthening your case.

• Impact of New Tax Legislation? Be the First to Know (3/19/2009 12:00 PM EST)
  
  Monitoring tax news and trends can be a daunting task, especially in today’s legislative environment with complex and frequently changing codes and regulations along with flow of new administrative rulings. Heightened IRS enforcement and collection efforts make it more important than ever to minimize the risk of tax controversy with the IRS or state revenue agencies.
  
  Attend this 20-minute webinar to learn how the ground-breaking LexisNexis® Tax Center with Tax Analysts’ Tax Notes Today and State Tax Today can help you stay current on the latest tax law and policy changes.

• Open Web Searching without the Frivolous Results – Find Out How! (3/19/2009 3:00 PM EST)
  
  Researching legal issues on the open Web? Save time and weed out irrelevant results by starting your research on Lexis® Web (beta)—the new, FREE, legal-specific search engine that serves up open Web content, only from reliable legal sites vetted by LexisNexis attorney editors. Get the most out of your Web legal research with Lexis Web, featuring state-of-the-art filtering tools unavailable on other search engines. This webinar will walk through searching, filtering results, and how to best utilize Lexis Web in your research process.

CLICK HERE to find out more about the LexisNexis® Coffee Break Webinars and to see a list of on-demand Coffee Breaks.

LexisNexis® Government E-Learning Series for January 2009

Don't forget about the LexisNexis Government E-Learning series. LexisNexis Government E-Learning webinars are fast, effective, and best of all -- they're accessible right from your desk. You can link to information on the series from the right sidebar of the Government Info Pro - just click the red Government E-Learning series badge.

JANUARY CLASSES

Thursday, January 15th at 11 am and 2 pm

Best Practices in Litigation Using LexisNexis® Courtlink® -- LexisNexis® CourtLink® offers innovative tools—including Strategic Profiles, Document Retrieval, Search, Track and Alert—that can be used throughout the litigation workflow to help you argue your cases more effectively and gain a strategic advantage.

Thursday, January 22nd at 11 am and 2 pm

What Can Shepard's® Do For You? Shepard's® is more than case law. Come learn how to customize your Shepard's® report, set up a Shepard's Alert, and take advantage of detailed Shepard's® Headnotes. Because Shepard’s® is conveniently integrated into the LexisNexis® services at www.lexis.com, it’s easy to jump right to relevant cases, statutes, secondary sources and court documents that cite your authority.

Thursday, January 29th at 11 am and 2 pm

Not Sure Where To Start? Get Quick, Comprehensive, and Relevant Results with LexisNexis® Search by Topic! Reverse your research and start with the topic first - then customize your search by choosing the jurisdiction and types of sources in a single step! Find out how LexisNexis® Search by Topic automatically shows you sources relevant to your topic and jurisdiction once you choose your topic from our comprehensive taxonomy.

DON'T FORGET! On-Demand Classes are pre-recorded webinars available for your convenience. Choose from Courtlink, Company/Financial Research, the new Public Records enhancements, and more.

Just click HERE to access the recorded classes.

LexisNexis Discovery Workflow Webinar

Learn Best Practices and Industry Trends in Litigation Tailored for Government!

Join LexisNexis for a dynamic 1-hour webinar sharing best practices for driving more efficient workflow and winning case strategies:

LexisNexis Discovery Workflow Webinar
Monday, December 15 - 12:00 P.M. EST

You'll learn about the latest workflow strategies being used to better connect all relevant aspects of a case from beginning to end-including tools and techniques that will help you:

• Streamline discovery with early and ongoing case assessment
• Find, organize and connect facts and issues faster and more efficiently
• Enhance communication and collaboration within your immediate team or throughout your agency
• Better assess case strengths and strategies, while keeping costs low

You can view this flyer for additional information.

LexisNexis Acquires IDEX, Inc.

A recent LexisNexis press release announces the acquisition of IDEX, Inc., a leading provider of expert witness content in the legal market.

Press Release Excerpt:

LexisNexis^® Expands Litigation and Client Development Portfolio with Market Leading Expert Witness Content

LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced that it has acquired IDEX, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Based in Overland Park, Kansas; IDEX is a leading provider of expert witness content to the legal market.  The company maintains an authoritative, exclusive database of more than 1,000,000 records on 200,000-plus experts - including expert profiles, testimonial histories, verdict awards, settlement amounts, authored content, and expert depositions and court testimony. 

The acquisition solidifies the position of LexisNexis as a leading provider of expert witness identification and evaluation information. New content from IDEX^® complements expert witness data currently available from LexisNexis^® through market leading directories, court dockets, documents, briefs, and public records offered through its lexis.com^®, Martindale-Hubbell^®, LexisNexis^® Total Litigator, CourtLink^®, and CaseMap^® platforms.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ENTIRE PRESS RELEASE.