Repo rate now stands at 5.15%, lowest in nine years. A sixth cut this year would mark the longest streak of consecutive rate cuts since the current interest rate framework was introduced 20 years ago

NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of content and technology solutions, today announced that it has been recognized by The National Law Journal and Corporate Counsel in their annual “Best of” awards for legal technology in 2018. The Corporate Counsel and The National Law Journal Best of awards are chosen by the publications’ readers and by working professionals in the legal industry.

RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® today announced that it is accepting applications for the third cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. The program is designed to give start-ups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. The accelerator leverages LexisNexis deep expertise in legal, technology and start-up domains, and industry-leading market position to advise and incubate program participants.

Raleigh, NC—LexisNexis today announced that six participants were selected in its third Silicon Valley 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 six accelerator participants – Attune Capital Group, Digitory Legal, Disputly, Justis Connection, Procertas and Specifio – is driving innovation in a distinct area of the law.

RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of information and analytics, and OpenCorporates the largest open database of companies in the world, are today announcing a new collaboration which adds OpenCorporates legal entity data to the Nexis® Data as a Service portfolio.

Raleigh, NC – LexisNexis today announced that it is accepting applications for the fourth cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. The program is designed to give start-ups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal tech industry. The accelerator leverages LexisNexis deep expertise in legal, technology and start-up domains, and industry-leading market position to advise and incubate program 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.

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.

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.

MENLO PARK, CA –- LexisNexis® today announced that nine new technology start-ups have graduated from its 12-week Legaltech Accelerator Program, which helps promising companies quickly gain traction in the rapidly evolving legal tech industry.

New York, N.Y. --LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, received a score of 95 percent, on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. LexisNexis is proud to be among the ranks of more than 1000 major U.S. businesses that were also rated this year.

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.

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.

Don't opt for the moratorium unless critical, advises Charlie Lee, founder and CEO, True Balance.

The company will also phase out Classic' entry sedan to make way for the new mid-size car that was showcased at the Delhi Motor Show in February this year.

La polimerización frontal, una nueva estrategia sintética, disminuye el coste energético

Company expects to slim its home country head count by 600

The first goal is to thwart the outbreak, but researchers also hope for new insights into combating the virus

With EPA regulation overturned in court, companies seek political backing for reducing HFC use domestically

The startup is developing allosteric activators to increase levels of the vital metabolic molecule coenzyme A in pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration

Additive facilitates numerous pharmaceutically relevant reactions through unknown mechanism

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On its 15th anniversary, ACS outreach program expands to a weeklong celebration

Water loss from the gypsum crystal surfaces is a primary degradation pathway

Improvements to device may eventually cut external power demands for buildings by 50%

Chemjobber on when hoarding chemicals and lab equipment becomes a problem

Textured catalyst prevents gas bubbles from clinging to surfaces

Cation gets a conductivity boost by capturing its counterion

The difference is small but significant.Apple is disrupting the market by cutting price but it is not abandoning its premium positioning altogether, says Kanika Datta.

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