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LexisNexis Launches InterAction® for Office 365®

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – LexisNexis® InterAction®, a leading client relationship management (CRM) solution purpose-built for legal and professional services, today launched InterAction® for Office 365®, an advanced, high-performing application that embeds CRM data into existing workflows across Microsoft® Outlook, Excel and Word. Available for both desktop and subscription versions of Office, this application harnesses the power of a firm’s client relationship data, delivering it at the right time so professionals can update, access and consume client relationship data within their natural workflow at their desk or on the go.




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LEAP and LexisNexis Announce Joint Venture in Practice Management Software

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX and a leading global provider of information and analytics, and LEAP Legal Software, have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to support the growth and development of PCLaw® and Time Matters®, leading Law Firm Practice Management (LFPM) software solutions for small-to-medium sized law firms.




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LexisNexis Legal & Professional Awarded 2019 Achievement in Customer Excellence

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced it won a 2019 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award in the Voice of the Customer category. This honor recognizes LexisNexis’ commitment and innovative approach to soliciting real-time customer feedback to deliver an exceptional customer experience.




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LexisNexis Launches Context for Courts, Delivering Venue-Specific Insights for Data-Driven Litigators

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of Context for Courts, the first expansion of the award-winning contextual case-law analytics solution available through Lexis Advance. Context for Courts delivers deep insights into the rulings and language most cited by more than 5,000 U.S. state and federal courts so litigators can determine how best to argue their case and where to file it for the greatest potential for success. Context is a key component of the Lexis Analytics™ suite of products that gives lawyers greater knowledge through data-driven insights.




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LexisNexis and Knowable Announce Joint Venture

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Knowable, one of the leaders in enterprise contract intelligence. Knowable was spun off from Axiom Global Inc. in February 2019. Mark Harris and Alec Guettel, Axiom’s co-founders, will lead Knowable as CEO and CFO respectively. Knowable will operate independently, but will benefit from access to LexisNexis’ leading brand, resources, and infrastructure. The partnership will further enable LexisNexis to help customers improve decision-making and achieve better outcomes.




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LexisNexis Launches Enhanced CourtLink Docket Research Solution on the Lexis Advance Platform

Raleigh, NC -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the integration of its CourtLink court docket and document solution into Lexis Advance, the company’s flagship legal research platform. CourtLink’s unmatched docket coverage and market-leading functionality are now available via the Lexis Advance platform and mobile app, making it an even smarter litigation intelligence choice.




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LexisNexis Announces Fourth Round of Legal Tech Accelerator Participants

Raleigh, NC -- LexisNexis® today announced that nine participants were selected in its fourth Legal Tech Accelerator program. The program was started to give startups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. In line with the broad LexisNexis vision to transform the way law is practiced, each of the nine accelerator participants – Civvis, ClearstoneIP, Courtroom5, Discovery Genie, DueCourse, JDoe, Lawgood, TermScout and Tusk – is driving innovation in a distinct area of the law.




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Lexis Advance Preferred by Next-Generation Lawyers

New York, NY -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional today released results from an independent study of 5,061 U.S. law students that shows Lexis Advance is preferred over Westlaw for legal research. The survey of law students at 201 ABA-accredited U.S. law schools was conducted to better understand future lawyer attitudes, behaviors, and key drivers of user preference in relation to legal research.




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United Nations Foundation Honors LexisNexis CEO Mike Walsh with Global Leadership Award for Advancing Rule of Law

New York, NY -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional, today announced that Mike Walsh, CEO of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, will receive a Global Leadership Award from the United Nations Foundation in recognition of the company's contributions to advancing the rule of law globally.




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LexisNexis State Net Launches Major Upgrades, Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

Sacramento, CA -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional® announced significant upgrades to the State Net® platform, which the world’s leading companies, associations and law firms rely on to monitor, comply with, and respond to legislation and regulation. State Net provides unmatched content, speed, and analytics, helping government affairs and compliance professionals act quickly and confidently. With today’s announcement of search, content, design, and analytical improvements, State Net extends its leadership in legislative and regulatory tracking and engagement.




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Nexis® Solutions and Blue Prism Team-Up to Help Clients Mitigate Third-Party Risk and Automate the Entity Due Diligence Process

Raleigh, NC -- The need for organizations to mitigate an evolving array of third-party reputational, regulatory, financial and strategic business risks, has driven an innovative partnership between Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) and  Nexis® Solutions. The partnership will see Blue Prism’s connected-RPA platform integrated with Nexis Diligence™, in order to help organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entity due diligence process with intelligent automation capabilities.




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LexisNexis Launches New Digital Library Experience in Collaboration with OverDrive

New York, NY—LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced comprehensive updates to its LexisNexis® Digital Library platform, which now has a completely redesigned interface and a number of beneficial new features that subscribers have been asking for. The LexisNexis Digital Library, a platform offering one of the largest collections of legal eBook publications, now includes a more personalized home page for individual users, better tools for managing notetaking and offline reading capabilities that are tailored to legal librarians and legal professionals.




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Lex Machina Launches State Law Modules, Extending Its Groundbreaking Legal Analytics to State Courts in California and Texas

Menlo Park, CA — Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of its award-winning Legal Analytics® platform, Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today announced an exciting new expansion into state court analytics. Consisting of more than 870,000 cases in Los Angeles County and Harris County (Houston metro area), the new modules give practitioners critical insights about judges, courts, law firms, individual attorneys and parties in state courts. By leveraging its Attorney Data Engine and other natural language processing technology, Lex Machina is the only legal analytics provider able to utilize state court documents to provide comprehensive coverage about the behavior of judges, law firms, attorneys, and parties in state courts.




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Lex Machina Celebrates 10 Years of Legal Analytics, Bringing Greater Knowledge, Efficiency and Transparency to the Legal Industry

Menlo Park, CA — Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today announced the 10-year anniversary of the introduction of Legal Analytics® to the commercial legal market. Originally a public interest project at Stanford University, Lex Machina created a groundbreaking technology that has indelibly changed both the business and practice of law. Lex Machina is now the de-facto standard for legal analytics, and its award-winning technology is used by major corporations, such as Eli Lilly, Facebook, Microsoft, Nike, Luxottica, Uber,  and SAP; litigation finance firms like Burford and Bentham IMF; and 74% of the Am Law 100 with firms such as White & Case, Ropes & Gray, Ogletree Deakins, Jackson Lewis, Wilson Sonsini, as well as many boutique law firms.




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Knowable Launches New Contracts Data Management Platform

New York, N.Y. — Knowable, a Contracts Data Management company and the world’s largest translator of contracts language into structured data, today announced the launch of its new platform. Knowable’s intuitive platform for finding and accessing contract information helps organizations turn their contracts into consumable data and practical insights that support better business decisions, and a more modern approach to risk management. 




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LexisNexis Offers Free, Comprehensive COVID-19 News Coverage and Practical Guidance Content from Law360 and Lexis Practice Advisor

NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced two free resources from Law360® and Lexis Practice Advisor® to help legal professionals, lawmakers and business leaders become better informed and successfully navigate the legal issues and intricacies surrounding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).




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LexisNexis Expands Award-Winning Context Platform with Context Company Analytics on Lexis Advance

NEW YORK – LexisNexis Legal & Professional®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the launch of Context Company Analytics, the fourth module of the award-winning Context platform, now available to subscribers on Lexis Advance®.




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LexisNexis® Juris® financial management solution and ClientPay® team up to reduce the time and cost of credit card processing and improve the payment acceptance process for law firms

RALEIGH – Juris, a premier billing, accounting, and financial management software for law firms, has officially endorsed ClientPay®, an award-winning cloud-based credit card and eCheck payment platform as the premier choice for Juris users. Law firms can now provide their clients with the capabilities to pay their invoices in less time, without mailing checks or picking up the phone. ClientPay® is equipped to allow users to tailor a payment solution for their A/R department that can save time and money. On average, firms that switch to ClientPay® save 17% on processing fees and spend 50% less time on payment management. Firms get paid faster and staff are freed from the burden of manual payment processing.




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New items for Applied Social Sciences - CASS

Durham University Library




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7 tax saving mistakes to AVOID in new financial year

'It is crucial to understand that the ultimate goal of your investments isn't to pay lesser tax, but to create long-term wealth for you and your family,' says Satyen Kothari, founder and CEO, Cube Wealth.




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Your personal finance guide to fight coronavirus

Even as you fight the ongoing health challenge, here are some tips to strengthen your personal finance in the time of coronavirus.




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The feminist uncanny in theory and art practice / Alexandra M. Kokoli.

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.




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A theory of craft [electronic resource] : function and aesthetic expression / Howard Risatti ; foreword by Kenneth R. Trapp.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.




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A global history of architecture [electronic resource] / Francis D.K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash.

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2017.




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Radical gestures [electronic resource] : feminism and performance art in North America / Jayne Wark.

Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)




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Himachal CM seeks support of panchayat pradhans

Following the detection of fresh coronavirus positive cases from Chamba and Kangra districts, chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday interacted with panchayat pradhans of various gram panchayats of these two districts through video-conferencing and sought their support.




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French carmaker Renault shifts UK Duster unit out of India

Renault currently sells five models in India: premium sedan Fluence, the Koleos SUV, compact car Pulse and Scala sedan besides the Duster.




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Skoda holding back investment in India due to "uncertainties"

Czech carmaker Skoda today said it is holding back its future investments in the country citing 'uncertainties' relating to policy framework.




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M&M launches new Scorpio starting at Rs 7.98 lakh; to take on Duster & Safari Storme

Gearing to meet an increasing competition in SUV segment, M&M launched the new Scorpio priced between Rs 7.98-11.46 lakh (ex-showroom Mumbai).




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Toyota revives plan to launch Lexus in India

Toyota sells Lexus across all major markets, with US being the largest. It deferred the plan to bring Lexus here in 2012 because of high import duty and a sluggish local auto market.




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Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescence




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Merck partners with Moderna to test KRas cancer vaccines in humans

The pair hopes to stimulate the immune system to tackle tumors bearing mutant KRas proteins, one of cancer’s toughest targets




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ACS Portland Section hosts Women in Science Student Summit




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CarbonCure links with Airgas for concrete




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Cal Dooley to leave helm of the American Chemistry Council




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Chemists elected to National Academy of Sciences

Membership to NAS is among the most prestigious scientific honors in the U.S.




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Committee on Science: Exploring emerging scientific challenges and opportunities




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ACS and French Chemical Society jointly award inaugural Franco-American Lectureship Prize




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Bayer clears path to clinch Monsanto acquisition by divesting more to BASF

BASF will buy agrochemical and seed businesses for $2 billion




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Periwinkle gives up its cancer-busting secrets

Key enzymes in complex biosynthesis could enable alkaloid production




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Eurofins acquires Covance’s analytical services unit for foods




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CVC to acquire composites maker AOC and link it with Aliancys




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ACS outreach at the USA Science & Engineering Festival and March for Science




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CRISPR diagnostics company Mammoth launches




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Controlling CAR-T: How scientists plan to make the engineered T cell therapy safer, and work for more cancers

CAR T-cell therapy works wonders for some cancer patients. For others, it is a death sentence. To make the revolutionary therapy work for more people, scientists must devise better ways to control it




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IFF to buy Frutarom in flavor and fragrance consolidation

Natural ingredients play spices up flavor and fragrance sector




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Escient launches to tackle itching and anaphylactoid drug targets

The startup raised $40 million to target a class of GPCRs called Mas-related G-protein receptors, to treat neuroimmune and inflammatory conditions




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Lilly boosts immunotherapy pipeline with Armo BioSciences acquisition

The drug company will pay $1.6 billion to gain Armo’s IL-10 program




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IFF to buy Frutarom in flavor and fragrance consolidation

Natural ingredients deal spices up flavor and fragrance sector




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Polymers and composites made incredibly cheaply

Frontal polymerization approach reduces energy use significantly