Companies

Today’s debut of Avvo may have been the most hyped new-product launch the legal field has seen in years. With $14 million in venture capital, a board of directors that includes former LexisNexis CEO Lou Andreozzi, and an advisory board made up of former ABA president Robert Hirshon and Stanford Law professor Deborah Rhode,…

Via Information Week comes this interesting item: A Massachusetts man was sentenced in Florida this week for hacking into the Accurint public-records database owned by LexisNexis. According to the U.S. attorney’s statement, the man will spend a year in prison and must pay restitution of $100,000 to LexisNexis and the Port…

LexisNexis today unveiled a new version of its consumer legal portal lawyers.com. An announcement said the site now has a more robust search engine for conducting searches for attorneys listed in the Martindale-Hubbell database. The new search tools include a “free text” query that allows more flexible searching by keywords, a “pick list”…

Way back in July and August 2005, I wrote a series of posts here about what I called the aging core of FindLaw. In the first post of the series, I started with this:

“FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet,

Bonnie Shucha reports at WisBlawg that LexisNexis is now picking up blog content in its Newstex database. The list of included blogs shows a mix of legal, business, political, media, technology and cultural blogs. This blog is not on the list, but my other blog, Media Law, is there.…

Via CyberJournalist.net, I learned that LexisNexis is offering a page of news stories about Hurricane Katrina free to non-subscribers. Says CyberJournalist: “This is a fantastic resource. The site pulls from more than 4,000 U.S. and international news sources.”…

LexisNexis will provide searching and viewing of TV news programs by summer’s end, it announced. It has teamed with Critical Mention, a Web-based TV search and broadcast monitoring service, to provide the feature.

According to the announcement, it will deliver searchable video and print news clips together through its pay-as-you-go research service,…

ResearchBuzz reports that LexisNexis now offers RSS feeds for its news releases. There are four feeds: All News, Business News, Legal News and Risk Management News.…

I have long been a fan of The Daubert Tracker. In fact, the site’s front page bears witness to this. Something I wrote about in The National Law Journal a few years ago appears as a quote at the top of the page (“A lawyer would be remiss not to check an expert…

Lawyers who have followed Matt Homann’s posts about LegalMatch will be interested to review the Attorney Match service launched yesterday by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell as part of its consumer-oriented Lawyers.com Web site.

A consumer looking for a lawyer enters the zip code and area of practice in which he or she…

The anacubis site also had this Feb. 26 press release about the release of its browser-based viewer for “visual research and analysis” of online information. According to the release, LexisNexis has incorporated the view into its SmartLinx public records link discovery application as a new way to visualize connections between organizations,…