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LexisNexis
- The LexisNexis Group provides information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax and regulatory information, via online, hardcopy print and CD-ROM formats. The global legal and information division of Reed Elsevier plc, LexisNexis Group combines dozens of brands that are leaders within their respective markets, including Butterworths, Les Editions du Juris-Classeur and Martindale-Hubbell.
- LexisNexis Group is the global legal publishing arm of Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch world-leading publisher and information provider. Sister business units provide global science, business-to-business and education publishing services for their markets. LexisNexis Group unites strong brands, pioneering technologies and premium information for customers in the legal, corporate, government and academic markets. More than two-thirds of its revenue is generated in the North American marketplace. At the same time the Group is the market leader in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth and major publisher in the legal, tax and regulatory markets in Continental Europe and Latin America.
- The Group is divided into four main operating units: North American Legal markets, U.S. Corporate and Federal markets, Martindale-Hubbell and the International Division. The division which comprises the Group's publishing assets, is regionally organized, in Europe, Asia-pacific and Latin America. These include the market-leading Butterworths companies in the UK and British Commonwealth, Les Editions du Juris Classeur in France, and many other companies that are household names in their markets.
- The Group's products are available via the World Wide Web, dial-up online, CD-ROM and hardcopy print. The thousands of titles available via LexisNexis Group products offer access to some of the most recognized and authoritative sources in the world today.
- A trusted source, LexisNexis Group offers targeted Web information solutions that can be integrated into customer business processes and systems. LexisNexis Web and dial-up online solutions combine searchable access to more than three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content. LexisNexis delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge-management solutions for the entire enterprise.
- The Lexis® service, the first commercial, full-text legal information service, began in 1973 to help legal practitioners research the law more efficiently. The companion Nexis® news and business information service launched in 1979 to richen research with recent and archival news and financial information. Since that time, the service has grown to become the largest news and business online information service, including comprehensive company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports. Providing access to thousands of worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, industry newsletters, tax and accounting information, financial data, public records, legislative records, data on companies and their executives makes the LexisNexis™ service an indispensable tool for gathering information and providing accurate answers.
What is Westlaw? Westlaw is the leading online legal research service, providing the broadest collection of legal resources, news, business and public records information. Westlaw helps legal professionals conduct their research easier and faster. Today, the best just keeps getting better as Westlaw content and search options continue to multiply, as do features that ensure manageable and relevant results, and Westlaw access grows from Web to wireless and beyond.
Westlaw® Wins 2002 Readers' Choice Award
Westlaw is the winner of the Legal Research Service category in the 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards conducted by Law Office Computing. Westlaw has won Law Office Computing's Readers' Choice Award six consecutive years and 7 times in the 8 year history of the award. Read the complete article for more detail.
The Verdict is in: ABA members prefer Westlaw® - Preliminary results of the ABA's 2001 Legal Technology Resource Center Survey indicate members' preference for Westlaw was greater than every other online legal research service combined. The results prove legal practitioners value the Westlaw differences that matter. For example, only Westlaw offers the West Key Number System® for precision searching. And users won't miss pivotal cases with the added search terms in West headnotes and case synopses.
At the root of the success of Westlaw is its content-cases and statutes, administrative materials, law reviews and treatises, attorney profiles, news and business information, and forms. With nearly 15,000 databases, more than 1 billion public records, more than 6,800 news and business publications from Dow Jones Interactive, and more than 700 law reviews, Westlaw is one of the most trustworthy and convenient online resources for legal professionals in the world.
Moreover, cases, statutes, and other legal documents published on Westlaw are editorially enhanced by West Group editors for more productive searching and research leads. These enhancements include such West Group exclusives as West topic and key numbers, headnotes, and notes of decisions.
Westlaw users
West Group recognizes that legal professionals have different legal research needs. We have therefore created tools that give Westlaw subscribers the ability to select the westlaw.com pages that fit their most common research needs. In addition we have begun developing Web sites for different communities of Westlaw users to provide them with information that is specific to their professions and needs.
Westlaw technology.
As Westlaw content expands, new Westlaw technology continues to make Westlaw efficient, flexible, and user-friendly. Chief among technology highlights are:
- the KeyCite citation research service and case finder;
- Web access to Westlaw via westlaw.com;
- Westlaw Wireless technology for handheld wireless access; and
- seamless integration of Westlaw into law firm intranets.
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