Lexis for Microsoft Office

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.

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.

Kommentare: Our office only uses Lexis, and it has been a huge help to have Lexis directly integrated into Word when conducting legal research and creating other legal documents.

Vorteile: My favorite thing about Lexis for Microsoft Office is that it means that I don't have to have several windows/tabs open at once when constructing legal documents. When I discovered this functionality, I was blown away and couldn't believe I hadn't been using it sooner. My favorite function is the "Find All" feature when you're in Microsoft Office on the top right of the Lexis tab. It automatically highlights the rule you've written and finds all relevant citations using that rule. While this may seem simple/obvious, it's SO GREAT. I have loved using this add-on to Office.

Nachteile: So far, there's nothing I would change. It has only made life easier.

Kommentare: I am mostly using this for doing research to search for items for reenacting and for presentations., which is very handy. Nothing I can see so far.

Vorteile: What I like the best about this software is it is fairly easy to navigate. I never seem to have an issue using this program at all.

Nachteile: There is nothing the least that I like about this software as I have never had a problem with it.

Kommentare: My overall experience with Lexis for Microsoft Office has been AMAZING! It has made drafting legal documents 1,000 times easier!

Vorteile: As a law student, we have to write and research a lot! But Lexis for Microsoft Office made this much more easy to do! While writing, you don't have to have a million tabs open, you can just use the Lexis add on and search right inside Microsoft Word! I highly recommend this for anyone in the legal profession!

Nachteile: There is nothing that I dislike about Lexis for Microsoft