Bigger law firms will continue to use Westlaw and Lexis for a long time.
Campaigns routinely vet prominent supporters through public records, typically computer searches using Internet search tools Google or Lexis-Nexis.
Simple searches on sites such as West and Lexis Books reveal that such guides are readily available, and with good reason.
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It uses computer algorithms to perform all the case indexing now done by the thousands of human editors at Westlaw and Lexis.
When Lexis Nexis revealed the massive loss of personal data shares in its parent company, Reed Elsevier, dropped in value by only one per cent.
In the 10 years Berry was missing, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper published 36 articles about her, according to a search of electronic news archive Lexis-Nexis.
Lawyers working with the Lexis legal research service can also get an e-mail whenever a case is filed relating to a particular client or legal issue.
Our power rankings are based on a proprietary formula weighing salary, number of press clips returned on Lexis-Nexis, and by gauging popularity from searches on Dow Jones Interactive and Google.com.
The army of lawyers and editors at Westlaw and Lexis do this now, coding cases with helpful symbols like red flags to warn lawyers that a particular section of a case is no longer valid.
On April 11, information provider Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier (nyse: RUK - news - people ), revealed that up to 310, 000 U.S. citizens may have had personal information stolen, including names, addresses, Social Security and drivers' license numbers.
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