Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company and a leading global news and business information provider, and LexisNexis Group, a leading global legal news and information services and products provider, today announced that LexisNexis will provide Factiva's world-class global content collection to legal professionals at law firms worldwide.
Beginning March 1, 2005, LexisNexis will provide Factiva content on an exclusive basis to law firms including those in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore, as well as courts; state/ provincial and local governments; and law, tax and accounting schools in the United States and Canada.
The agreement allows LexisNexis to expand its well-known current news and business information offerings, totaling approximately 20,000 global sources, to its attorney customers with unique content available only through Factiva, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, as well as 9,000 other sources from around the world. For the first time, LexisNexis users at law firms will enjoy access to the full text of The Wall Street Journal, a critical information source for legal researchers.
LexisNexis provides online legal research services to a large portion of the global legal market including most of the top 250 law firms in the United States and Canada, as well as sole practitioners, law students and courts.
In addition, LexisNexis has a leading online and publishing presence in Australia, France and the UK.
Legal professionals, librarians and para-professionals in law firms and court systems will be able to use the familiar LexisNexis interface to search a much broader range of today's leading business news sources including those from Factiva and to receive automatic updates on news about subjects of special interest. LexisNexis will begin informing law firm customers in the United States and other countries how they can establish access to Factiva content via LexisNexis as of March 1."LexisNexis continues to enhance its core online legal research business, and this exclusive alliance with Factiva brings even greater breadth and depth to our total research system for lawyers," said Andy Prozes, chief executive officer, LexisNexis Group, and member of the Reed Elsevier board of directors. "No matter where our customers are in the world, we feel confident they will acknowledge and embrace the information sources Factiva brings to LexisNexis and a successful law practice."