This summer I set up trial subscriptions to Bloomberg Law and Lexis as my firm prepares to renegotiate our Westlaw contract. These trials have offered me a chance to do head-to-head comparisons of these three legal search products and come away with some idea as to how they stack up against each other.
I am still gathering and analyzing the data but will be posting my thoughts, as well as some of the feedback I received from our attorneys, in the coming days. But here’s a sneak peek with some initial thoughts about Lexis Advance.
Lexis is no stranger to us, since up until a few years ago, Lexis was a large part of our research arsenal. However, with the introduction of Lexis Advance, as is the case with features West introduced with “Next” – some of the changes are exciting and offer improvements while other changes still need refinement.
One intriguing Lexis Advance feature is the product of a collaboration between Lexis and Microsoft. This has produced a feature that allows users to access Lexis while reading an email in Outlook or working from a document in Word. Attorneys love this feature since it allows them to respond to an email or attached document without having to actually sign-on to Lexis in order to conduct basic research when responding to an email or checking a brief.
As I said, more to come soon.
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