Product updates, research strategies and special program news from the LexisNexis® Librarian Relations Group

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Now available at lexis.com® … Full-text ALM® sources, including The American Lawyer®

LexisNexis is now the exclusive online, third-party provider of the broad, full-text collection of ALM® legal content. That includes all of the ALM full-text legal news, practice area and early case-assessment resources you and your attorneys need to make insightful decisions and reach better outcomes. Introductory subscription pricing is now available to add these resources to your existing LexisNexis® subscription and transactional access is also available. Ask your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant or your LexisNexis account representative for more details. In addition to premier publications such as The American Lawyer® and The National Law Journal®, you can gain access to the full text of: • Must-have ALM regional and local news such as New York Law Journal®,

New Jersey Law Journal®, Delaware Law Weekly, The Legal Intelligencer® and many more, offering current decisions and verdicts, expert commentary and emerging trends.

• Respected practice-area treatises, guides and forms. ALM coverage joins an exclusive combination of premier publishers—Matthew Bender®, Mealey’s™, BNA®, CCH®, Tax Analysts Inc.—at lexis.com so you can better anticipate legal issues in a constantly changing business landscape.

• Superior early case-assessment intelligence. Your litigators can now prepare with the largest, most comprehensive collection of jury verdicts & settlements— more than 900,000 documents*, only from LexisNexis!

LexisNexis InfoPro Web site offers ALM literature for training …Go to http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/Literature-and-Reference-Materials/Literature.

Find a special section on ALM toward the top of the training literature page. Get tips for using ALM legal news sources, practice-area sources, and verdicts and settlements now available at lexis.com.

Inside … see where the ALM sources are located and get some librarian-caliber tips for using LexisNexis features with ALM sources.

Full-text features:

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LexisNexis® Information Professional UpdateThe newsletter designed for law librarians

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Included with this issue of LexisNexis Information Professional Update:Link to free-standing article PDFs—with more search examples and more helpful screen shots. Check it out and tell the editor what you think at barbara.byrd@lexisnexis.com.

New U.S. Code Title 51: Doing business in the final frontier Get the details on space commerce, earth observation and more. And when you research the new Title 51 via lexis.com, you can also tap into a comprehensive, section-by section list of repealed laws as well as a comparison table outlining the disposition of the former Title 15, 42 and 49 sections—with links to the “old” and “new sections” side by side. Read the complete article at http://law.lexis.com/infopro/Keeping-Currrent/LexisNexis-Information-Professional-Update-Newslet/archive5-2011.

Be an e-subscriber!Get LexisNexis® Information Professional Update delivered to your inbox. Link to article PDFs—and share the information—easily. Search text archives. No username or password needed.

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InfoPro Weekly Update: A quick, easy way to stay current on the LexisNexis® services and more LexisNexis has dedicated resources to help you stay updated on LexisNexis® services. The InfoPro Weekly Update is an e-newsletter delivered to your inbox that brings news on the latest sources and features added to LexisNexis services and much more. Read

more at http://law.lexis.com/infopro/Keeping-Currrent/LexisNexis-Information-Professional-Update-Newslet/archive5-2011.

SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO June 12 – 15 in Philadelphia. See LexisNexis at Booth 411! Explore new product features! Talk to the LexisNexis development teams and account representatives who specialize in the products you use most. SLA meeting attendees who view at least three LexisNexis product demonstrations will receive a thank-you gift.† See what you can view at http://law.lexis.com/infopro/Keeping-Currrent/LexisNexis-Information-Professional-Update-Newslet/archive5-2011.

Delivers lexis.com® to your firm’s portal: LexisNexis® SharePoint® Web Parts With LexisNexis® SharePoint® Web Parts, ease of use can be the new reality for law firms, with made-to-order Web parts that satisfy whatever research your firm most frequently performs—Shepardizing™ a citation; ordering and receiving one or many Shepard’s® reports or full-text legal documents; tracking cases, finding topical news articles. Even gain access to CourtLink® Web parts. Get the details at http://law.lexis.com/infopro/Keeping-Currrent/LexisNexis-Information-Professional-Update-Newslet/archive5-2011.

Opt out of print! It’s as easy as … going to the new Update print opt-out form at http://www.lexisnexis.com/trial/infoProOptout.asp.

You’ll still get your electronic version of LexisNexis Information Professional Update—with live links to PDF features. And the opt-out is for Update alone, i.e., it won’t affect other mailings—e-mail or print—you receive from LexisNexis.

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Where will I find ALM sources at lexis.com? As with most sources, the ALM news publications and treatises are cross-filed to the lexis.com pages where users can find them easily. For example, go to:

• The ALM link on the Legal tab. Move to a special ALM page with access to the ALM legal news publications and treatises (see the graphic).

• Major ALM news publications like The American Lawyer® and the ALM Pubs group source are listed right up front on the News & Business tab.

• Click the ALM link under Featured Content & Services on the News & Business tab.

• Appropriate state publications are included with the state page, e.g., find Texas Lawyer under Search News on the Texas subtab under Legal.

• Practice-area treatises are located in the appropriate area of law pages. You’ll find Ferrara on Insider Trading and The Wall on the Securities and Corporate pages.

Use the lexis.com Quick Tools box to find an ALM source The fastest way to select an ALM source? Just enter the publication name (or partial name) in the Quick Tools box available on many lexis.com screens. Click Find a Source. (If you’re sure of the publication name, add quote marks, e.g., “new york law journal,” to bring the resource to the top of the results list.

And the ALM sources you select are kept on your Recently Used Sources list. Click the Edit Source link on the Recently Used Sources box and retain your top ALM sources for handy access.

Can I include ALM sources in my custom group sources, e.g., New York Law Journal® and The New York Times®? Yes! You can combine ALM sources—up to 50, even selecting across menu pages. And the custom source you create will be saved on your Recently Used Sources list. Check the box next to the titles of the publications you require. (Any publications not available to combine have a grayed-out check box.)

Click Combine Sources.

Can I add the LexisNexis SmartIndexing™ Technology terms I regularly use in searches with ALM news publications? Yes. Use person, company, subject and geographic terms. The LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology terms subject look-up is available at http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/Training-and-Resources/SmartIndexing-Resource-Center.

What about the ALM verdicts and settlements? Where are they? What’s included? All available verdicts and settlements are available in one group source: MEGA™ Verdicts & Settlements (Including IDEX® and ALM). This source is also available via the Legal tab. LexisNexis subscribers asked for more access to more verdict and settlement intelligence. With the MEGA Verdicts and Settlements source, you now have access to more than 900,000* verdicts and settlements—perfect when your search needs to be exhaustive. In contrast, the Jury Verdicts and Settlements, Combined source offers about 300,000* verdicts and settlements.

When I search LexisNexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer or similar report products from LexisNexis, are ALM sources now included? Appropriate ALM sources will be added to LexisNexis Verdict & Settlement Analyzer, LexisNexis® Profile Suites and similar resources later this year.

Will additional ALM sources be added to the LexisNexis services? The ALM news sources and ALM treatises your researchers are likely to request are now available. Additional treatises will be added throughout the summer. Plus ALM expert directories will be available this year.

Your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant or your LexisNexis account representative can review ALM resources with you.

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LexisNexis® Information Professional Update

It’s a bigger pie! The new ALM full-text legal news collection available through lexis.com is much larger than the collection previously available via Westlaw®. You’ll find 63 percent more legal news sources*—more legal newspapers and magazines—plus blogs, including:

• ATLaw • BLT: Blog of the Legal Times • Chief Economist • Counter Culture • Daily Report • In the Know • Inside Track • LA Legal Pad • Legal Blog Watch • MultiViews

• Net Lease Insider • Practical Counsel • StreetSmart • Tex Parte • The Careerist • The Common Scold • The Legal Intelligencer Blog • The Ross Rant • TrendCzar • Work Matters

*Based on comparisons made in March 2011