LibraryCo Selects LexisNexis Canada to Provide Ontario Lawyers with Access to the New Quicklaw Full Service Package
Lawyers Can Now Access Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, The Canada Digest, and the QuickCITE Case and Statute Citators
TORONTO, January 13, 2010 – LexisNexis Canada, a leading provider of information and services solutions to law firm, corporate, government and academic professionals, announced today that LibraryCo, which funds the Ontario County and District law library system to deliver quality information services to Ontario lawyers, has selected LexisNexis® Quicklaw™ Full Service to meet the legal research needs of lawyers across the province.
Through their membership in The Law Society of Upper Canada (with which LibraryCo works in consultation), member lawyers across Ontario now have library access to the Full Service package on the Quicklaw™ online legal information service. LexisNexis Quicklaw Full Service includes Halsbury’s® Laws of Canada, The Canada Digest, the QuickCITE™ Case Citator and Statute Citator, the brand-new Canada Quantums, 100+ current awareness LexisNexis® NetLetters™, a comprehensive primary law collection, and more.
“With Full Service now available in all of Ontario’s district and county law libraries, lawyers across the province have access to a restructured Quicklaw package that provides them with the most essential information they need to serve their clients,” said Alan Dingle, vice president, Marketing and Business Development at LexisNexis Canada. “Members of the Law Society can now take advantage of a comprehensive new set of relevant, current and authoritative information, spanning multiple areas of law and including the full Halsbury’s collection, at their district and county law libraries. In addition, lawyers outside major metropolitan areas have remote access to a proprietary case law collection, proprietary NetLetters™ and The Canada Digest on the Quicklaw service.”
The Full Service package includes the following and more:
- The complete online collection of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, providing the black-letter statement of Canadian law today
- All 52 titles of The Canada Digest, with 900,000+ case summaries organized by area of law
- All 10 titles of the brand-new Canada Quantums, covering quantum awards from all English-speaking common law jurisdictions
- Solicitor Forms & Precedents and Williston & Rolls—Court Forms to help draft customized documents with ease
- 100+ proprietary and licensed current awareness NetLetters
- 800+ domestic and international law journals for supplementary analysis and insight
- Canada’s most extensive collection of full-text court and tribunal decisions dating back to the 1800s
- The QuickCITE™ Case Citator, enabling researchers to validate the authority of cases and containing more than 1 million unique cases and over 2.8 million individual treatment relationships
- The QuickCITE™ Statute Citator, permitting customers to validate and research legislation in minutes, and including judicial consideration of Canadian constitutional documents and the most current revision of statutes in every jurisdiction
- The Wrongful Dismissal Notice Searcher, helping researchers locate succinct records of wrongful dismissal cases using a variety of criteria
- Canadian Legal Words & Phrases, now including Commonwealth and Latin terms, to broaden one’s research scope
Powerful and intuitive search functionality permits researchers to perform routine tasks such as finding a case, locating a statute or noting up a case, as well as to conduct more advanced research. Whether professionals need to identify supporting case law, research a question of procedure, or collect background information for factual discovery, the helpful and unique search and navigation functionality available on Quicklaw enables accurate, on-point and thorough research. Through regular enhancements, Quicklaw remains the most efficient way to access trusted legal information.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.
LexisNexis Canada Inc. (www.lexisnexis.ca) provides information and services solutions that serve the changing needs of professionals in law firms, corporations, government and academic institutions. LexisNexis offerings include the Quicklaw™ online legal research service; Butterworths® print and CD ROM titles and newspapers for legal, accounting and other professionals; the Lexis and Nexis research services for global online legal, news and business information; and leading solutions in Practice Management, Client Development and Litigation Services.
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Media Contacts:
Tracy Smith
LexisNexis Canada Inc.
613-238-3499, ext. 202
tracy.smith@lexisnexis.ca
Martha Foote
LibraryCo
1-866-340-7578
mfoote@libraryco.ca