Nicholas (Nik) Reed was two months out of Stanford Law School when he and classmate Daniel Lewis cofounded the legal research company Ravel Law. Becoming its COO, he helped drive its growth.
When LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017, he became vice president of product strategy, playing a lead role in…
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket research product that moves it to the Lexis Advance platform and that gives users more options for searching dockets while reducing the steps involved in doing so.
The move also means that users will be able…
Friday, Aug. 9, is the deadline for startups to apply for the fourth cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, a program designed to give start-ups a leg-up in the legal tech industry.
The accelerator runs September to December and is co-located in the Menlo Park, Calif., offices of Lex Machina and the LexisNexis Raleigh…
[Updated to include comments from Mark Harris, Knowable CEO, and Ritu Khanna, executive vice president, Global Strategy & Acquisitions, at LexisNexis.]
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Knowable, a company that uses machine-learning technology to help companies better understand their…
A legal analytics product being launched today by LexisNexis does something no other analytics product does: It analyzes the language of specific judges’ opinions to identify the cases and arguments each judge finds persuasive.
The new product, Context, also provides analytics on expert witnesses, and may be the most comprehensive product available for this…
A study released this week pitted two legal research platforms against each other, Casetext CARA and Lexis Advance from LexisNexis, and concluded that attorneys using Casetext CARA finished their research significantly more quickly and found more relevant cases than those who used Lexis Advance.
The study, The Real Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence…
What does it mean to practice data-driven law? On this episode of LawNext, I speak with Jeff Pfeifer, the LexisNexis vice president charged with driving overall product strategy for LexisNexis Legal and Professional, North America. Over the past several years, Pfeifer has spearheaded a series of acquisitions and product developments, all…
LexisNexis has been positioning itself in recent years as the leader in legal analytics. In addition to acquiring three legal analytics companies – Intelligize, Lex Machina and Ravel Law – it has been developing analytics of its own within various of its products.
Now, in a major move to integrate all those products and…
Legal research company Fastcase today announced that Steve Errick, who was most recently vice president and managing director for research information at LexisNexis, will join the company on July 1 as chief operating officer.
Steve Errick
Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO, told me that Errick is being brought on to help lead…
As I reported yesterday, LexisNexis has acquired legal-research start-up Ravel Law. One of Ravel’s most significant projects over the past two years has been its collaboration with Harvard Law School to digitize Harvard’s entire collection of U.S. case law, said to be the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American cases anywhere outside…
In major legal-industry news, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced its acquisition of Ravel Law, the legal research, analytics and visualization platform that empowers users to contextualize and interpret large amounts of legal information to uncover valuable insights.
Rumors of the impending acquisition have been circulating for weeks. This morning, I spoke with Jeff…
LexisNexis will turn off its Firm Manager practice management platform on Oct. 31, 2017. This follows news reported here in January that LexisNexis was discontinuing sales and suspending development of Firm Manager.
A LexisNexis spokesperson said that the company will continue to support and operate the platform until Oct. 31, but that…
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