Integrated Software for Corporate Law Departments and Law Firms

March 9, 2022 – LOS ANGELES – Law company Elevate announces the 2.0 release of the Elevate ELM, bringing legal operations software for requests, projects, RFPs, contracts, billing, and spend management onto one platform with embedded AI, reporting, and analytics. The Elevate ELM readily integrates with the legal tech point solutions already used by customers.

“The Elevate ELM addresses the need of law departments and law firms for an easy-to-use system to manage their legal operations,” said Sharath Beedu, VP of Products at Elevate. “Elevate has extensive experience consulting and providing services, and we understand the key activities and desired outcomes. By using a ‘design for delight’ approach with extensive customer input, we built the Elevate ELM from the ground up to meet the needs of law departments and law firms for a flexible, data-driven platform.”

“We selected Manage Matters, which is on the Elevate ELM platform, in 2018.  Since that time, the technology has streamlined our processes, providing partners with the data they need to manage their matters,” said Donney Seow, Chief Operating Officer at Hogan Lovells.

“Lawyers and legal ops want easy-to-use solutions to get the job done for the businesses they serve,” said Liam Brown, Founder and CEO of Elevate. “The Elevate ELM is an integrated platform for law departments and law firms to operate efficiently, collaborate effectively, and use data to improve business outcomes.”

 

About Elevate

Elevate is the law company. We help legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together. Our multi-disciplinary professionals provide consulting, technology, and multi-language services to more than 100 of the world’s best-known Global 1000 corporations across all sectors (including technology, pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, and consumer products) and more than 30 Global 100 law firms. Learn more at elevateservices.com.

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Modern and intuitive, Lexis+ UK brings advanced technologies that deliver improved legal insights whilst enhancing user experience

LONDON, 9 March 2022 – Today, LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of legal information and analytics, has announced the official launch of Lexis+ UK. This feature-rich tech solution gives legal professionals access to advanced research, technology-aided insights and practical guidance, all in one easy-to-use ecosystem.

Lexis+ UK brings together the UK’s largest legal research database, containing unique content such as Halsbury’s Laws of England, Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia and Atkins’s Court Forms and combines these with specialist practitioner texts, the most complete collection of enriched Case law in the UK and the power of the market-leading LexisNexis Practical Guidance content. The simplified layout cleanly emphasises essential information and tasks, making it faster and simpler for lawyers, knowledge professionals and students to get to the answers they need.

For the first time, this enormous collection of legal intelligence can be effortlessly accessed through one powerful search. Search Term Maps let users visually pinpoint key sections of content, cases and documents, jumping straight to the most relevant parts. Search Trees graphically illustrate how search terms are applied, making it simple to find what users need. Lexis+ Answers uses AI-powered technology to analyse natural language questions and offer immediate answers.

Lexis+ offers a range of innovative tools and features that make accessing legal content faster and easier. Legislative Timeline graphically presents amendments to a Legislative Act so lawyers can see at a glance what has changed and when. Pinned Sources give one-click access to regularly consulted publications, taking users straight to the relevant points in texts. Lexis+ has been built with collaboration in mind, Work Folders provide dynamic workspaces that can be shared with colleagues, holding user-generated document annotations and information.

“We are delighted to launch Lexis+ in the UK,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis UK and North America. “Its intuitive and powerful user experience has already proven invaluable in other markets around the world.”

“In today’s climate,” Fitzpatrick continued, “Lawyers increasingly rely on technologies that make them more effective, efficient and informed practitioners. Lexis+ is a bold step forward in providing lawyers with solutions that integrate into their workflow, improve their productivity and their ability to deliver timely and strategic counsel.”

Over the months ahead, LexisNexis will continue to add new features, content and product integrations to Lexis+ to ensure an optimal experience is provided to all users and all customer segments. This will include Legal News Hub, an integrated presentation of news from the industry-leading and authoritative MLex and Law360 brands, which are uniquely available from LexisNexis.

Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer, LexisNexis UK and North America commented, “Lexis+ UK has been designed for the ways that lawyers work. Deeply integrated product components, cutting-edge technologies and modern design elements put LexisNexis applications, content and data that lawyers need right at their fingertips.”

Pfeifer continued, “Regardless of where or how a user starts a legal task, they will be guided to the information that best addresses their legal question. By taking a customer-centric approach to product development, Lexis+ UK delivers a premium legal research experience that is powerful, intuitive and easy to use.”

For more information on Lexis+ UK, visit www.lexisnexis.co.uk/lexis-plus/media-enquiries.html.

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About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that helps customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 160 countries with 10,400 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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Announcing FTR RealTime: An Automated Speech-to-Text Transcription Service for Courtrooms 

LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2022—For The Record continues a 30-year legacy of ground–breaking legal technology with the release of FTR RealTime. The sophisticated, speech-to-text transcription service maintains pace with the spoken word while processing dialects, complex legal terminology, and multiple languages. With unprecedented accuracy of up to 95%, FTR RealTime eliminates the need to hire costly specialists for same-day transcription services. For The Record will debut FTR RealTime at Legalweek 2022. 

“Providing a searchable, instant written record is a critical step in modernization for the legal justice system,” said Tony Douglass, President of For The Record. “And after six years of testing and refining technology to do just that, FTR RealTime is ready. This automated transcription service will be revolutionary in terms of efficiency and access.” 

For The Record developed FTR RealTime specifically for courtroom applications by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) from top-tier platforms—such as AWS and Microsoft—to millions of hours of acoustically optimized legal proceedings. The highly specialized software emerging from this process not only delivers reliable transcription, it also links the written word with the corresponding audio for review and automatically stores records in the cloud for security. In courtrooms using For The Record’s audio and visual recording solutions, FTR RealTime service can be activated and operational in a day once configured. The transcription service will soon be available in courts around the world. 

According to Michael Rose, CEO of For The Record, “FTR RealTime is a technological leap in the speech-to-text market that will make a significant impact on our legal justice system. Judges will have a searchable record at their fingertips. Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants will have an automated tool that provides accessibility similar to CART. Lawyers will have the records they need to work on appeals. The potential limitless.” 

About For The Record 

For The Record is the global leader in digital audio, visual, and record-keeping innovations for the legal justice system. Over three decades, the company has modernized more than 30,000 courtrooms across 70+ countries. For The Record’s recent innovations include the world’s first cloud-based recording management system; an online transcript ordering platform; real time speech-to-text transcription; and a virtual justice platform that observes traditional court protocols. With the goals of accelerating justice and enhancing accessibility, For The Record continuously develops new courtroom technology. 

For The Record: The Sound & Sight of Justice. www.fortherecord.com 

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DISCO has released its Legalweek 2022 Video Series. DISCO leaders provide an overview of the latest product and feature enhancements, discuss the company’s global growth and expansion, and describe how DISCO empowers industry partners to deliver better outcomes to corporate legal organizations.

In the first video, DISCO Chief Executive Officer Kiwi Camara provides a company update and explains what excites him the most as DISCO enters its tenth year of business.

To view the complete series, visit DISCO’s YouTube channel!

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New York City, March 8, 2022

ActiveNav, a leading data privacy and governance software provider, is pleased to debut its hybrid-cloud Inventory™ solution at Legalweek 2022 to enable Privacy and Compliance teams to quickly identify toxic sensitive data hotspots and prioritize their minimization efforts. Developed with the goal of achieving Zero Dark Data™ across all types of repositories, ActiveNav’s Inventory™ discovers and maps user-generated data in minutes for compliance with a range of privacy regulations, including GDPR, CPRA and others.

“A comprehensive data inventory is a fundamental component of many legal and compliance routines. Knowing where data and systems exist has typically been identified by humans, but today, technology is being used to support human knowledge that tends to have natural flaws,” said Eric Derk, Managing Director of Forensics at Ernst and Young, LLP. “Besides the wasted time spent creating and maintaining manual, static inventories, there is a high cost of human resources and risk of error associated with this approach. Siloed methods do not provide holistic views of an entire data universe, and unknowingly put organizations at risk, resulting in a false sense of security that leaves organizations vulnerable to the exposure of sensitive data.”

ActiveNav’s Inventory™ rearchitects data discovery, transforming it from a cumbersome, episodic chore to a persistent, always-on approach that monitors the compliance risk posture of any enterprise. Inventory™ solves preparedness issues by mapping vulnerable hotspots of sensitive data and generating toxicity heat maps using customizable scoring.

Inventory™ enables organizations to:

  • Discover, score and monitor user-generated data across commonly used applications like Microsoft SharePoint and Teams, as well as email, workplace collaboration platforms and on-premise file shares.
  • Assess their compliance risk profile using customizable, prebuilt rules to prioritize and highlight “toxicity hotspots” in their data universe via a single pane of glass.
  • Apply AI to allow teams to maintain an accurate, holistic view of their data risk profile.
  • Leverage the Microsoft Azure SaaS stack for industry-leading security, performance and scalability.

New Privacy Laws and Lack of Preparedness Create Urgency

The passage of newly enacted privacy laws in California, Colorado and Virginia has exacerbated the need to take a more automated, persistent approach to managing sensitive data in user-generated content systems such as Microsoft Teams and Slack. In today’s compliance landscape, Privacy and Compliance departments know they must be prepared to act quickly, putting sensitive data visibility at the top of the priority list.

Results from a recent Osterman Research survey corroborate this new sense of urgency. This recent study found that almost “90% of respondents say discovering sensitive data is a high or medium priority in their organization.” Organizations in three industries—healthcare/pharma, technology, and financial services—were more likely to say discovering sensitive data was a high priority.

“Historical sensitive data discovery efforts have failed and are in need of a major reboot,” said Peter Baumann, CEO and Founder of ActiveNav. “Privacy and Compliance teams are fooling themselves into believing they have the right solutions for discovering sensitive data, but they often don’t know what data they should be protecting and how they should protect it. Inventory™ shines a light on the problem in an automated, persistent way that originates from our decades worth of work helping the largest enterprises monitor and manage sensitive data.”

About ActiveNav
ActiveNav is a data privacy and governance software provider and innovator of the hybrid-cloud data mapping solution, Inventory™, which enables users to identify toxic data hotspots and prioritize their minimization efforts through risk scoring and unique heat maps. With ActiveNav, organizations can map, clean, classify, quarantine, and delete sensitive, redundant, obsolete, and trivial data. Hundreds of leading companies and government agencies trust ActiveNav to help them control sensitive data and support compliance with various data privacy regulations such as the CPRA and GDPR. ActiveNav, Inc. is headquartered in the DC metro area and has offices in Europe and Australia. For more information, please visit ActiveNav.com or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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