Last year, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of legal information and analytics, announced the official launch of Lexis+ UK. This feature-rich tech solution is a response to the overwhelming demand from legal practitioners for seamless integration between online legal research and practical guidance.
Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer, LexisNexis UK and North America, commented, “Lexis+ UK has been designed for the ways that lawyers work … Deeply integrated product components, cutting-edge technologies and modern design elements put LexisNexis applications, content and data that lawyers need right at their fingertips. By taking a customer-centric approach to product development, Lexis+ UK delivers a premium legal research experience that is powerful, intuitive and easy to use.”
Bringing together the Lexis Online Legal Research Service and the Lexis Practical Guidance, legal professionals have, for the first time, access to advanced research, technology-aided insights, and practical guidance, all in one modern, user-friendly ecosystem. Users also benefit from the advantage of permanent storage within Lexis+ and easy collaboration with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders.
Lexis+ UK brings together the UK's leading legal research database and the power of the market-leading LexisNexis Practical Guidance content into one connected legal world.
No matter where a lawyer is working or the screen size, LexisNexis wants its platform and content to work intrinsically within a client's workflow. To enable this, we have created Lexis+, a single platform for all our content, uniquely bringing the power to access legal research, practical guidance, news and more in just one powerful search.
Lexis+ UK is available to access via PC/laptop as well as mobile devices for lawyers on-the-go
Practice Notes provide in-depth guidance on completing specific legal tasks
The all-in-one Lexis+ offers:
• Fast and easy research – a range of innovative tools and features allow effortless access to a massive online law library, plus powerful case law, making access to legal intelligence faster and easier. Search Alerts, watch for updates on topics you pick, and send alerts straight to your inbox.
• A modern and user-friendly layout – the simple interface and clutter-free design are the first things lawyers notice about Lexis+. Clean visual aesthetics and a simplified layout emphasise essential information and tasks, making it easier and faster for legal professionals to navigate all the available tools and capabilities. Colours, icons, text arrangement and the overall layout, ensure this online legal research service is easy and intuitive.
• New and enhanced features – search algorithms have been fine-tuned to allow users to type nuanced legal questions into the Lexis+ search box and receive better-targeted answers. With Search Within Search, users can search within a search as many times as they require until they get the detail they need. The Boolean Builder feature allows advanced Boolean searches guided by handy prompts.
• The latest technology and visualisation tools to speed up your workflow – visualisation tools break down your search to show why certain terms are missing from the results set and enable you to customise and control your searches. LexisSmart Precedents allow you to create tailored documents consistently and quickly.
• Leading-edge analytics and data-driven insights – the data revolution is here, and savvy lawyers use big data to make informed decisions and choices about their legal strategies. Lexis+ boasts robust data and legal analytics tools, allowing lawyers to draw data-driven insights into their legal work. Lexis+ can also reveal aspects you may have overlooked, or need to research in more depth.
• Practical Guidance – access to practice resources, such as annotated forms, practice notes and checklists, helps lawyers to build practical knowledge by leveraging the combined expertise of thousands of practising lawyers. Questions such as “What task would you like to accomplish today?” jumpstarts your research with a trove of data-driven practice resources.
PRACITCAL GUIDANCE SOLUTIONS
Lexis+ UK offers practice notes, precedents, and forms with clear guidance across 36 practice areas and alerts to keep you updated. LexisSmart Precedents gives users access to thousands of forms and precedents written by market-leading experts and allows you to create tailored documents consistently and quickly.
Practical Guidance helps you speed up all aspects of your legal work with tools and guidance that help you deliver faster and add more value. The Lexis+ Practical Guidance experience is intuitive and easy to use. It will help you win cases, close deals, and grow your business – all while saving time and reducing risk.
ONE POWERFUL SEARCH
You can now search like never before, because Lexis+ UK offers access to the UK's most comprehensive legal research database, containing unique content such as Halsbury's Laws of England, Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia and Atkins's Court Forms, combined with specialist practitioner texts and the complete collection of enriched case law in the UK.
Lexis+ UK is the only provider of All England Law Reports and the Official Transcripts, they also publish the ICLRs including the Weekly Law Reports, resulting in over 600,000 cases all within one single platform. Halsbury's Annotations provide the authoritative statement of the law backed by the original primary sources, helping you interpret complex legislation.
Donald Munro, Partner at Harper Macleod, said: “The in-depth content allows us to drill down more deeply across our practice and obtain better quality analysis.”
With legislation trackers, you can track the status of key legislation and market developments. Historical versioning and legislative timelines will let you see exactly what has changed in legislation over time. Results for legislation searches are streamlined, making it much easier to get to and understand. Lexis+ UK also features a Brexit toolkit and guidance notes, making it easier to stay ahead of the changes and timelines.
For the first time, users can also effortlessly access this enormous collection of legal intelligence through one powerful search.
With Lexis+ UK, users easily discover what the law says and what to do about it, all in one place. Product examples include:
Find it faster with Search Term Maps
With Search Term Maps, you can easily spot your colour-coded search terms in your results. The unique visualisation software highlights search terms with colour-coded results, making legal research more intuitive and saving valuable time.
Users can quickly scan for what they specifically need within our legal content, visually pinpointing key sections of content, cases, and documents, skipping directly to the relevant section of the document they are interested in.
Whether you're a lawyer, knowledge professional or student, this powerful feature streamlines the search process and simplifies legal research like never before. You can effortlessly access and search a massive online law library, plus powerful case law, faster and easier.
Users can now use the Search Term Maps function across all content types to speed up their research and quickly spot the documents that'll help the most.
Introducing Lexis+ Answers Cards
Lexis+ Answers uses AI-powered technology to analyse natural language questions and offer immediate answers. Users save time with our unique algorithm which recognises questions and returns a result specific to that query. We use advanced machine learning, cognitive computing, and natural language processing technologies to deliver the most authoritative answer to your natural-language question, along with precise search results.
Utilise the Search Term Maps to easily spot your colour-coded search terms in the results
Designed to help lawyers get more comprehensive information from a query, Lexis+ Answers understands the intent of your question and delivers a precise answer in the form of an Answer Card. The Answer Card provides not only the answer, but also links to the specific text within the document that is the source of the answer and suggests related topics and concepts to help you expand your search. In essence, this feature allows lawyers to type nuanced legal questions into the Lexis+ search box and receive better-targeted answers.
Track your research with Research Maps
Lexis+ Research Maps visually represent your research journey, displaying each event with a corresponding icon and message bubble for additional details. By breaking down and analysing your search history, you can easily retrace your steps and identify the best content for different parts of your search.
The graphical representation is a helpful way to learn and inform future searches, making it an ideal tool for training purposes. Research Maps can save time, improve your search process, and enhance your legal research experience.
COLLABORATION AND WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT
In addition to offering a range of innovative tools and features that make accessing legal content faster and easier, Lexis+ has been built with collaboration in mind. Various features assist with workflow management and working with colleagues or clients on the same documents.
Lexis+ workflow tools such as checklists, calculators and flow charts speed up work and ensure accuracy, as Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis UK and North America says: “In today's climate, lawyers increasingly rely on technologies that make them more effective, efficient and informed practitioners. Lexis+ is a bold step forward in providing lawyers with solutions that integrate into their workflow, improve their productivity and their ability to deliver timely and strategic counsel.”
Lexis+ UK can be searched using natural language queries and is backed by AI-powered technology
Collaboration and workflow management tools include the following:
• Highlighting and annotations – With Lexis+, users can easily pick out and contextualise information on documents that are important to them by highlighting key points and making notes. By personalising our leading legal content, you make documents your own by adding notes and highlighting sections of text, and this will help save time when returning to the same document again.
At the same time, you improve collaboration and sharing amongst teams (large or small) through the power of shared highlighting and annotations.
• Work Folders – Lexis+ Work Folders provide dynamic workspaces that can be shared with colleagues. With Work Folders, you stay on the same page with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders without duplicating efforts.
The benefits of Work Folders are multi-fold. Users can create unlimited folders, save research, annotate documents, work in that folder, move or delete documents, and add notes which will be saved for future reference.
Also, by taking advantage of permanent storage, users can improve the efficiency of their workflow and document management.
Lexis+ Work Folders then enables users to collaborate seamlessly with the ability to share saved folders while personalising your content with your notes and ensuring its relevance to you. The ability to share folders avoids duplication, saving time and effort.
With increased capacity and the ability to retain folders for as long as you need, Work Folders will become an essential part of your team.
• Pinned and recent sources – Pinned sources give users one-click access to regularly consulted publications, taking you straight to the relevant points in texts. Which means you avoid wasting time searching for the same content repeatedly. Whether it be Halsbury Laws of England, Atkins Court Forms, The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, or The All England Law Reports, going to sources right where and when you need them saves time. With Lexis+, whatever you need is close at hand. Just pin your favourite books and resources or select from your recently viewed content.
WHY SAVVY LAWYERS USE LEXIS+
The easy and fast access to a massive law library and powerful case law, enhanced with practical guidance from the combined expertise of thousands of practising lawyers, plus efficient and easy workflow management, and collaboration, speaks for itself. Other points are:
• Research time is cut; there is no need to search anywhere else
• Research up-to-date case law and legislation with confidence
• Improved response time – workflow tools speed up legal work and ensure accuracy
• Reduced repetition
• Staying ahead of change – legislation tracker and court judgments are available within 24 hours of being handed down
• Delegating with confidence – empowering your team
• Advising with certainty – content from both Legal Research and Practice Guidance
In summary, Lexis+ helps lawyers quickly and easily answer legal questions, develop winning strategies, and accomplish tasks.
