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Monday, 1st February 2010

A Sneak Preview: Lexis for Microsoft Office; Will Launch in Spring 2010

Mike Mintz writes:

The partner at a law firm gets an email about a pending litigation involving a major corporate client in a case about defective tires. He has a few choices at this point: (1) drop everything and start looking into the case, (2) delegate the task to an associate, or (3) click “Background” in Lexis for Microsoft Office. Choosing option “3? will highlight terms in the email that relate to the case and opens up a side panel with research results including documents from the Lexis system, firm articles, and web results, all in context.

Without ever leaving Outlook a lawyer can have hours of research presented to them with the click of a button. If the lawyer wants to suggest a term that wasn’t bubbled up by the tool, they can do that too and get even more results, which can then be filtered in context for what needs to happen next. The result is that the partner can hand over a focused stack of results to an associate. The associate is saved the tasks of figuring out where to start, researching, and culling results allowing them to do some real analytical work on what has been presented before handing it back to the partner for sign off.

Source: Martindale.com Blog

See Also: Official News Release

Lexis for Microsoft Office will launch for Microsoft Office 2007 in spring 2010, and will be available with Microsoft Office 2010. To access and use these capabilities, users will require a current LexisNexis subscription.


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