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"The State of LexisNexis"

This post was written by John Heckman: "It's been a while since I've written about Lexis Nexis. Interestingly, several people have written with observations or questions about what I think may be going on.

The first thing to note is that LN continues to push PCLaw as the low end practice management, complete with baseball hats and ad campaigns on Craig's List using slogans like "Practice Manager for hire: 23 years experience. 31,393 references. Loves doing everything you hate to do." While there are also ads for accounting, note that this one does not even mention time billing and accounting.

There have also been concerted efforts to combat bad publicity. Loretta Rupert, former chief architect of the failed Billing Matters program, is reduced to answering questions on a listserv whose existence used to be studious ignored by LN and most Certified Consultants. We are assured that everything is (or will be) just fine, and if Service Pack 2 for Time Matters 10 did not fix a lot of issues (the Worldox link, for example), these will be addressed in SP 3..."

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Source: Does It Compute? 16 April 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).