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Thomson Reuters Unveils Next Generation of Westlaw, Aiming to Make Legal Research Results More Precise

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Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It means search results that better match not just the legal issue, but also the outcome, fact pattern, cause of action, motion type and outcome, party type, and area of law.

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When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’

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Reading and writing articles published in academic journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration and explain differences in approaches and results.

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ABA Antitrust Content Now Available on vLex (And We Have An Exclusive Demo of How It Works)

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The legal research company vLex and the American Bar Association are today announcing a partnership to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform. Watch the video here.

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Legal Publisher and AI Studio Launch Joint Venture ‘To Revolutionize the World of Legal Problem Solving’

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Lachance is a long-established leader in legal publishing and legal research whose career has included stints leading North American operations for the global legal research platform vLex and as president and CEO of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII). MyJr Preview. and Canadian cases.

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LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses

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When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered by legal research company Casetext with its CARA brief analysis tool and followed by companies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law.

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LexBlog Creates ‘Open Legal Blog Archive,’ to Preserve Blogs for Search, Citation, Syndication and Posterity

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The archive aims to be a centralized database of all credible legal blog posts worldwide, and accompanying metadata, accessible via the web, RSS feeds, and an API. While the archive will benefit those who read and research blogs, it will also benefit blog publishers by raising their profiles, O’Keefe says.

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Women of Legal Tech: Dyane O’Leary

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Topics such as security, mobile lawyering, document metadata, electronically stored information, legal research analytics, and automation aren’t merely “nice to know” topics as they might have been decades or even years ago. What do you see as the most important emerging tech, legal or not, right now?

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