Jean P. O''Grady (LexBlog United Kingdom)

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional has announced that Lexis+ AI™ is now available to U.S. customer’s Given the legal market skittishness about both the security and reliability of Generative AI, (GAI) the Lexis + AI launch meeting for the legal press focused on how Lexis+ AI will deliver encrypted, secure and reliable results. Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product...

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional Law360 is bringing audio to legal news. Starting today every Law360 story that is published will include a link to a complete audio version of the story. Lexis has collaborated with an Amazon technology called Polly which can simultaneously translate every story to audio as it is published. This feature is being...

Tuesday morning law librarians around the country began fielding inquiries from lawyers complaining of slow response times and access problems on Westlaw. The disrupted services included: Westlaw, Westlaw Edge, Westlaw UK, Practical Law US and UK, Practical Law Connect, Data Privacy Advisor. After almost 7 hours of  interrupted access and colossal slow response times, Thomson...

I was traveling this week, so I will provide a summary of some legal information and technology highlights. Fastcase and Florida Bar Launch Case Alerts Fastcase which seems to have a weekly product launch or feature enhancement – did not disappoint this week. On Tuesday they announced that in collaboration with the Florida Bar they...

The October issue of Thomson Reuters’ Practice Innovations has been released. Practice Innovations is a quarterly publication which focuses on best practices and innovations in law firm information and knowledge management for legal professionals. Here is a  list of the latest articles: Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Law: A Distributed Disruption, By Rohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future Research, London,...

In the past year MLex has launched two “hot topic” newsletters: Brexit Market Insight and White House Watch which are positioned at the vortex of regulatory uncertainty and designed to helplawyers and corporate leaders mitigate regulatory risk. I interviewed    MLex’s founder and CEO Robert McLeod and reported on the evolution of the MLex service and its...

Last October Thomson Reuters announced the acquisition of a UK based company Business Integrity which had developed a document assembly product called Contract Express. According to the press release the product had already been adopted by an impressive list of Magic Circle” and Am Law 100 firms. The product offers enterprise licenses for large law...

 Wolters Kluwer  has won the “Brexit  Legal Publishing Sweeps” with their  title “Britain Alone! Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU” When the citizens of the UK voted in favor of leaving the European Union last week, they unleashed a firestorm of “news” and commentary consisting to two major elements- a litany...

Just as I was contemplating topics for Library Week,  I had a chance to review a 2014 study which provided at least of one perspective on “Why Libraries Still Matter.” The global architectural and design firm Gensler recently published a compilation of their Research Reports and one the reports asks “Why do students really go to...

The October Issue of Practice Innovations has been released. Great mix of articles on distruptive forces and innovative approaches to the practice of law. Sketching the future– Axiom, Valorem, Riverview, LegalZoom: Is this the New Model?by Andy Daws, Riverview Law and Kelly M. Brown, Morrison and Foerster Law Firm Busines Professionals: New Rodes, New Titles, New...

The most recent issue of  the British Legal publication The Lawyer, includes a series of articles which predict global and regional trends in the legal profession. This is a follow up to a 2008 article which attempted to predict the legal world of 2013. They provide a scorecard on their 2008 predictions. For this issue,...

“The new normal” in law firms demands a relentless focus on efficiency. Even complex transactional work offers opportunities for process improvement. Lexis is expanding the offerings of Practice Advisor and taking aim at market share now held by Practical Law Company (PLC) a UK company which was recently purchased by Thomson Reuters.Lexis Practice Advisor is...

Today Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis released almost simultaneous announcements that they were acquiring specialty legal information companies. TR announced the acquisition of  PLC Practical Law Company and Lexis Nexis announced the acquisition of Knowledge Mosaic. Today’s post will focus on the TR/PLC deal. TR and PLC PLC is a private company based in the UK...

I recently discovered a BBC comedy called Yes Minister which is a biting satire of government “efficiency” and bureaucratic decision making. Although it is now more that 25 years old  and set in the UK, it seems wickedly a propos of the  current crisis.As we watch Congress and the President struggle with the “fiscal cliff” here are a few...