LexisNexis® Total Practice Solutions: Why?
By Cindy Spohr
Look at the historical foundation of LexisNexis® products and services, and you’ll find it carefully centered on online research. And you can probably guess the reasons for its origin.
When LexisNexis services entered the legal market place, legal professionals were frantically looking for new ways to manage the exponential growth of case law, globalizing company information and news, proliferating regulations and much more. Simply put, manual research wasn’t working well any more.
And legal practice evolved, embracing new technology that brought billions of up-to-date documents—legal, news, business—right to your desk … then to your home office … then to your wireless device.
The evolution continues.
In fact, now legal organizations need more than fast access to a world of information for building cases, ensuring compliance and negotiating deals. The competitive nature of the profession demands astute business acumen as well as sound legal advice. You’ve seen it—in the requests for tools to increase client numbers, to manage the practice to better returns, to control litigation processes and costs. All in addition to access to state-of-the-art research tools.
So, by listening closely to LexisNexis customers and understanding how these needs are evolving, LexisNexis has expanded its foundation. We aggressively pursued strategic acquisitions and product development initiatives so now LexisNexis can provide Total Practice Solutions.
LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions reach beyond research-specific products and focus on helping legal practitioners achieve excellence in the practice and business of law.
I talked with you about LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions in the January LexisNexis Information Professional Update, outlining the basic components of Total Practice Solutions. And in last month’s edition, you got your first look at LexisNexis Total Litigator 1.0, a cornerstone of one pillar of LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions. You’ll be hearing more from your LexisNexis account executive and your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant.
This month, to help you better understand LexisNexis Total Practice Solutions, turn to page 06:22. LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant Bridget MacMillan talks more about the LexisNexis Client Development portfolio. On page 06:24—at the center of this month’s Update—get an overview of LexisNexis products and services organized to help you engage—and succeed—in each area of legal practice.
Sincerely,
Cindy Spohr, Senior Director
LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group
