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Lexis
What Is Lexis?
Lexis is an online legal research platform that powers case law research for legal professionals. It provides access to a robust collection of primary law content including statutes, regulations, case law, codes, and more. Lexis offers tools like Search Term Maps, Ravel View data visualization, and Shepard's Citations Service to enhance research. The platform aims to help legal professionals efficiently find relevant case law and validate results.
Who Uses Lexis?
Big law, corporate counsel, law schools, solo & two attorney firms, and specialized law.
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Reviews of Lexis
Excellent Product
Comments: Excellent
Pros:
It is more affordable and does the same thing and the web-based functionality.
Cons:
Excellent product but should include more modules.
Lexis Advance is the Second best Search Tool
Comments: If I wasn't using Casetext I would use this as my second choice. If I had a more broad based practice it might be good but the pricing was more mid-size firm than solo practice. and it was always increasing. it is good so I don't want this sound like it is a faulty program. for my $ I can get the same for less.
Pros:
I subscribed to Lexis Advance for many years. I enjoyed how it was associated with a browser search style. I thought it was very good at performing a deep search and was user friendly. The basic search subscription was mid-range for pricing and for a lot of legal work was easy to assign to specific clients for reimbursement. I like the depth of the search and the library you could search from was unparalleled. itis a great program for a large firm that can afford the overhead. I had some nice features for brief drafting and Sheppard was easy
Cons:
The price was too much for the amount of searching I was doing. It was cumbersome at the time for downloads and printing. I would have to pay for specialty libraries, and I could find some of those items for free with a simple google search.
Not Worth the Money
Comments: Just was too expensive.
Pros:
The identifying of cases overruling parts of the decision is very good.
Cons:
Almost too much emphasis cases overruling. Ended up spending a great deal of time searching through these cases only to find is was overruling some other insignificant issue.
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Fine Product, Be careful
Comments: I was happy with the product. Customer service is not interested because they have lots of new attorneys graduating to replace you. I struggled when payments ballooned and Lexis would not work with me to get it corrected.
Pros:
Solid product. Lexis has been in the game a long time. The product is a very good product. Top tier product and Lexis seems to work towards new products to assist with legal research
Cons:
You must be very careful with the sales aspect. Read all the fine print and don't overestimate your future earnings. Usually Lexis will offer a very reduced price for a year or two but then your monthly payment balloons. If you are secure in your ability to pay then don't worry as much. I do feel it is expensive for what you really use - kind of like many phones - lots of extras that you just end up not using.
Excellent Resource for Researching Current and Historical Addresses, Phone Numbers, and Relatives
Comments: I mainly use Lexis as the first resource for researching addresses, phone numbers and relatives, since it is the quickest way to come up with the historical data and relationships. Then I cross verify the results with other resources.
Pros:
The ability to look up phone numbers, current and historical addresses, and the addresses of relatives and associated persons, as well as business registration information.
Cons:
Results can be messy and confusing with multiple people showing up. Filtering down is a necessity. The philanthropic searches are not as up to date or comprehensive as other software.
