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LexisNexis® Information Professional Update April, 2008
The newsletter specifically designed for legal information professionals

FYI Flash
It's Official! The lexis.com service Now Offers Some PDF Case Documents
Need a copy of the case that looks just like the book? Now you can link to a PDF image of the official reports version of some opinions available through lexis.com .* Just look for the View Official Reports PDF of This Document ($) link at the...

Spotlight On
New Law Firm Profiles at martindale.com® Dig Deeper into Practice Capabilities
Select the COUNSEL SELECTOR tab at lexis.com ® and move directly to the main screen at martindale.com .* There’s so much you can do from this screen: Check lawyer/law firm profiles. Tap into free, full-text legal articles. ...

Cover Story
New Tab Opens Access to martindale.com® -and to Newly Fortified Firm Profiles
When clients look to identify, evaluate and select the right legal counsel, they look to the Martindale-Hubbell® database of more than one million lawyers and law firms, accessible at www.martindale.com . According to Nielsen/NetRatings, martindale.com...

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Top 10 Lists Make it Apparent: Who's the Leader and Who's Getting Noticed
At the end of each law firm profile, discover where the firm rates on all current martindale.com Top 10 Lists, which feature the Top 10 firms by a number of criteria, including: litigation and mergers & acquisitions activity; rated...

What's in a Snapshot? At martindale.com, Get Decision-Making Facts
Here’s an additional feature to martindale.com law firm profiles—one that makes compiling and comparing essential firm details even easier. New Snapshot Reports capture Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings, litigation and transactional...

Take A Tour
Quick . Can You Find It at lexis.com®? Ask the LexisNexis® Directory of Online Services
You’re on reference desk this morning. You’re working on a research request, pausing only when your e-mail pings. A hot online request—the partner needs details before lunch—has just hit the inbox. The phone rings. Suddenly, over your...

Knowledge Exchange
New Online Annual Register of Grant Support Shows Who's Giving, How Much and How to Qualify
Here’s a new resource that has real potential for law-firm, academic and government agency/court librarians. Annual Register of Grant Support covers more than 3,500 grant-giving organizations. With each program entry (presented in list format), you’ll...

Extra Extra
Elsevier Full-Text Journals: New Total Tops 800
An additional 250 Elsevier journals have joined the collection* available through lexis.com. Get insights into highly complex technical and scientific issues for prior art research, medical malpractice—even for understanding environmental and economic...

For IPs Only
Who's Your InfoPro Inspiration? Tell us and WIN!
Tell us about someone in the librarian community who has inspired you … a librarian mentor or colleague, a library school teacher or an association member. Now’s your chance to honor the special someone who has been instrumental in your...