Lexis for Microsoft Office

The Best in the Business at Both Ends

Kommentare: Overall, Lexis is the industry leader in legal research and Microsoft Office is the industry leader in any kind of document typing or word processing. Therefore, the marriage of the two has created an experience that makes legal writing faster, more efficient, and with less distractions than ever before.

Vorteile:

Takes the excellent legal research program LexisNexis and increases functionality with Microsoft Word. These two industry giants engaged in this way increases the efficiency of any legal document drafted. The ability to look up and cite cases within the Microsoft Word screen results in less hassle having to transcribe the information from one page or Lexis print-out to the Microsoft Word window. As well, the built in Shephard's citation tool will allow lawyers and students alike to ensure they are utilizing the most relevant information.

Nachteile:

While the price of LexisNexis is high, if users own both LexisNexis and Microsoft Office subscriptions, this add-on is free to use. While it can be hard to learn at first, most of the features are intuitive. That said, like most Microsoft Office add-ons, all of the features of the LexisAdvance website are not available on Lexis for Microsoft Office, so it may still be necessary to pull up the website, such as when you have saved the relevant cases to a client folder and would like to pull them out of the folder.

Allows for More Efficient Drafting for Lawyers

Kommentare: Helps cut staff/attorney time when it came to formatting and finalizing legal briefs for filing.

Vorteile:

I used LexisNexis for Office for a few years at my old firm and I really enjoyed having the specific legal tools available to me. For those who do not know, Lexis is a leading provider of legal research tools for lawyers (case law, pleadings, etc.). This application lets you do a few things that significantly cut costs for attorneys and their staff. Most notably, it will create the much-dreaded table of authorities that you need to include in your federal (and some state) briefs. In addition, it lets you integrate your legal research needs right into your draft document, which was helpful (but not critical).

Nachteile:

Lexis is expensive and the Office add-on alone will likely not justify the cost for the vast majority of lawyers. But if you find yourself doing a fair amount of litigation and/or legal research, this would be a good tool to have.

This is a plugin for Word that is supposed to help you cite check legal briefs.

Vorteile:

In theory this should help you and save you time if you have a Lexis account. It provides links to the cases cited, provides some cite checking and bluebooking assistance.

Nachteile:

The cost is so high. While this comes with your subscription to Lexis, the cost of Lexis alone is so high.

Amazing Product by Lexis

Kommentare: Overall, this product saves so much time and headaches. I can do double the amount of work in half of the amount of time with Lexis for Microsoft Word. Drafting documents and compiling research into motions is now a breeze!

Vorteile:

This product is one of the best that Lexis has put out. It saves users a large amount of time by giving features that were unheard of on Lexis before. Motions and Pleadings can be Shepardized in Word itself. Further, tables of authorities can be created with the program, which saves so much time. The best feature is the ability of the program to convert PDF documents into Word Documents.

Nachteile:

Because this is a Microsoft product, it does not work extremely well with Mac. It also does not integrate well with Google or other applications.

I'm happy to have worked with Lexis

Vorteile:

Great, I'm happy to have worked with Lexis for Microsoft Office. Very good services, fast and effective and with a wide variety, satisfied 100%, I am not disappointed at all.

Nachteile:

I really do not have any complaints about this company, without a doubt I will continue working with them, very good services offered.