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LexisNexis is attacking lower - cost legal research services as lower quality as well, but the attack misses the mark.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

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The three - day convention features panel and keynote speakers highlighting various aspects of financial services including alternative lending and credit, B2B payments and finance, blockchain technology, data and algorithm - based innovation, digital banking and personal finance, economic inclusion and financial health, entrepreneurship and investing, real - time cross-border payments, insurance tech, issuing innovations, legal and regulatory issues, marketing and customer experience, mobile wallets and payments, new market research, next gen retail and commerce, PSO, as well as security and fraud.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

Donna began her Federal Government career as an Attorney - Advisor with USDOT's Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) / Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and was responsible for legal services related to the transportation of hazardous materials.

Each of these legal research services markets itself as a member benefit to state and local bar associations.

But he wants to go further, and is convinced the firm can «commercialize its back office,» offering its operations center as an outsourcing service for other law firms, handling administration, IT and even basic legal research for them.»

That article was my head - to - head review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase, the two legal research services that market themselves to bar associations to offer as a -LSB-...]

ALM and Fastcase and work out an arrangement to provide Smart Litigator subscribers with a special Fastcase subscription rate as a replacement legal research service.

I developed these methods as part of the technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare moLegal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal aid cases (a judicare model).

Westlaw and LexisNexis are typically viewed as the dominant leaders among legal research services.

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

Nearly a year ago, this blog first reported that legal research service Fastcase would launch an artificial intelligence sandbox for law firms — a testing environment where firms would have access to various AI platforms and data sets, as well as be able to bring in their own data.

That is when Westlaw will formally unveil its most sweeping overhaul since its move to the Web and LexisNexis will announce what it says will be a major new product for legal professionals, even as it prepares to announce an overhaul of its own research service at a date yet to be specified.

As time has passed, things have changed and, for better and worse, continue so to do, so that some of the solutions and research products and services coming onto the market are more likely to have been conceived in university computer departments rather than in legal practice or faculties of law.

In England and Wales, the CMA Report provides important insight but the ongoing research capacity of the Legal Services Board is important as is the fact that this research is not just from the lawyers» perspective.

As a result, the centralized legal research unit LAO LAW, at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), is a true support service, but CanLII islegal research unit LAO LAW, at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), is a true support service, but CanLII isLegal Aid Ontario (LAO), is a true support service, but CanLII is not.

While still in law school, he represented clients in disability and discrimination cases as a member of Harvard's clinical programs, worked as a research assistant for Professor Christine Jolls and volunteered as a summer legal intern at the Whitman - Walker Clinic, a community - based center providing a range of health care services in Washington, D.C.

As discussed in detail in Part III, today total public spending for the Legal Services Corporation and other legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nLegal Services Corporation and other legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related nlegal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related needs.

Amnesty International International Secretariat research on the human rights impact of legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

We hope to shatter those barriers by providing a artificially intelligent legal research service that is as easy to use as sending an email.

We've seen many invoices from law firms that include one generic description of the services provided, such as «document preparation,» «legal research,» or «contract review.»

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

As I reported last May, Judicata recently came out of several years of stealth mode to unveil what it had promised would be «a better legal research service.»

As a general matter, virtually every state bar allows lawyers to mark up the cost of legal research and writing services, so long as the overall costs are reasonablAs a general matter, virtually every state bar allows lawyers to mark up the cost of legal research and writing services, so long as the overall costs are reasonablas the overall costs are reasonable.

Is it possible for lawyers or law firms to now use the free Google Scholar service as their sole form of legal research?

In consideration of the fact that no clear justification has been provided to substantiate the amount claimed and the fact that I regard legal computerized research, unless otherwise proven, as office overhead expense as it compares to the subscription services law firms library had to maintain in the past and which were also considered office overhead, the disbursements claimed for electronic legal research are not allowed.

Handshake has integration partnerships with with products such as The Firm Directory, news - monitoring service Manzama, and legal research service LexisNexis.

The new tool became available today as part of a package of updates to the LexisNexis legal research service Lexis Advance.

Generally, as I've also found in past years, posts about legal research services are popular.

For example, legal research, as a specialized support service provided by career research lawyers, is a far more competent and cost - efficient way of producing legal opinions than relying of students» legal research.

HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.

I've published this «CanLII solution» to the unaffordable legal services problem in more detail, as a paper on the SSRN network (the Social Science Research Network), which provides free downloads, and also as a shorter blog post on Slaw.

Support services like LAO LAW are necessary: (1) to solve the unaffordable legal services problem that is shrinking the legal profession; (2) to provide legal research materials and services as good and easily available as they are anywhere else; (3) to ease the difficulties of sole practice, particularly in remote areas; and, (4) to reduce the claims LAWPRO has to pay for.

In their prime, online services and loose - leaf services were each seen as the panacea for all that was wrong in the world of legal research.

Later that year, it introduced a broader service at the lexis.com domain called Xchange which combined legal research with other features such as discussion forums and secure document exchange.

The company's products and services will serve as a complement to Thomson West's collection of litigation resources, analytical content and legal research technologies currently available on Westlaw.»

For an hourly rate, their virtual paralegals can assist with tasks such as legal research, but also administrative services like website and logo design, accounting services and contracts.

The technology to automate the production of headnotes (for example) will continue to improve, and since that technology will have much wider application (in parsing communication more generally as part of advancement in the fields of human - machine interaction and artificial intelligence research), it is unlikely that commercial legal reporting services will end up controlling that technology.

To varying degrees, CanLII and the fee - based legal research services have found a way to manage these issues — at least insofar as their retail publication of case law is concerned.

«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers, such as research, in which lawyers comb through legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»

As well as urging government and the Legal Services Board to undertake proper research on the effect of referral fees, Council has decided that the society should argue that referral fees do not have a place in markets for legal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of legal.As well as urging government and the Legal Services Board to undertake proper research on the effect of referral fees, Council has decided that the society should argue that referral fees do not have a place in markets for legal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of legal.as urging government and the Legal Services Board to undertake proper research on the effect of referral fees, Council has decided that the society should argue that referral fees do not have a place in markets for legal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of legLegal Services Board to undertake proper research on the effect of referral fees, Council has decided that the society should argue that referral fees do not have a place in markets for legal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of Services Board to undertake proper research on the effect of referral fees, Council has decided that the society should argue that referral fees do not have a place in markets for legal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of leglegal services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of services and that payment of referral fees by all providers of legallegal...

As part of Jackson Lewis's ongoing commitment to legal technology innovation and client service, the firm will be deploying the ROSS Intelligence AI legal research solution firm - wide in 2018.

While significant cloud - based eDiscovery and legal research tools like Nextpoint and Fastcase did not seem to register with respondents as being cloud services, the most popular legal - specific cloud products named by respondents included the following list of practice management cloud services: Clio (16.5 percent), RocketMatter (3.4 percent), MyCase (1.7 percent), and Bill4Time (1.7 percent).

Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of legal services as agents to North American lawyers at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are document review or analysis, large drafting projects or legal research or client bulletins that do not require specific «local» knowledge).

That article was my head - to - head review of Casemaker vs. Fastcase, the two legal research services that market themselves to bar associations to offer as a benefit to their members.

As part of our work, we looked at how client expectations are changing and noted in our research that their experience with other services providers is, not surprisingly perhaps, influencing what they expect from the legal profession.

While I was there, I spoke briefly with David Harriman, the CEO of Casemaker, the legal research service offered as a member benefit by some 25 state and local bar associations.