…TITLE: LEXIS NEXIS

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Subject Name: Principles & Practice of Management

Academic Year: 2022-2023

Semester: I

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STUDENT NAME

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Dr. Sushant Kishore Waghmare

Assistant 698Professor of Management

MAHARASHTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, NAGPUR

 Table of Contents

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1 Introduction

2 Research Methodology

3 Data Interpretation & Analysis

4 Conclusions

5 Bibliography

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INTRODUCTION

Lexis Nexis is a firm that sells data analytics products and numerous databases that
can be accessed on various online portals, including computer-assisted legal research
(CALR), consumer information, and newspaper. In the 1970s, LexisNexis launched a
legal and journalistic document more reachable electronically. Since, 2006, the
 company holds the world’s largest electronic database of public-records and legal–
related data.
RESEARCH DESIGN

i. Research Problems

The problem addressed in this research is how to do an analysis of a firm working in the

legal domain.

ii. Research Methods

It involves the use of earlier gathered data, which is a secondary form of data. To

analyse the data, the researcher employs theme patterns. Without any intervention,

the study's data were gathered. The sampling technique influences the accuracy of the

research's data.

iii. Research Aim and objectives

 To learn how to analyze legal firms.

 To understand the firm's functions, structures, and managerial policies.

 To know the firm field of expertise, and key people of the firm.

 To know the history of the firm.

 To know about the aim, missions, and works in different fields of the firm.

 To know what skills firms, expect from employees should acquire.

iv. Research Questions

 What were the aims of LexisNexis in its initial stage?

 How does the firm evolve while achieving its goals?

 What is the firm’s history?

ANALYSIS
HISTORY
RELX (formerly known as Reed Elsevier) is a parent company of LexisNexis.
According to Trudi Ballard Hahn and Charles P. Bourne, LexisNexis (originally
known as Lexis) is historically remarkable as it was the 1st of one of the information
services to think of a future in which a large population would directly deal with
computer databases as a substitute for professional intermediaries like librarians.
Other information services firms during the 1970s faced structural, financial, and
technological hindrances and were forced to flee to the professional intermediary
mode until the early 1990s.
The LexisNexis began working in western Pennsylvania in 1956 when attorney John
Horty set about to explore the uses of CALR technology in aid of his work on
comparative law at the University of Pittsburgh Health Law Centre. Horty was
shocked to learn how much state hospital governing laws varied across the United
States, so he started creating a computer database to assist him to keep track of
everything.
In 1965, Horty’s work persuaded the Ohio state bar association (OSBA) to
autonomously build its CALR system, Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR). In
1967, OSBA contracted with a data corporation (a local defense contractor), to
develop OBAR on the bases of OSBA’s written specification. Data began to execute
OBAR on Data central, a collective full-text search system created in 1964 as Recon
Central to assist U.S. Air Force intelligence analysts in searching text summaries of
the information contained in aerial and satellite reconnaissance images.

In 1968, data corporation was purchased by mead corporation (paper manufacturer)

for $6 million to gain domination of its inkjet printing technology. Arthur D. Little
was hired by the consulting firm to study the business probabilities in data center
technology. Arthur D. Little conveyed a team of experts from New York to Ohio led
by H. Donald Wilson. Jerome Rubin, a Harvard-trained attorney with 20yrs of work
experience was included in Mead’s request for a practicing lawyer on the team. The
subsequent analysis found that the non-legal market was non-existent, the legal sector
had potential and OBAR needed to be reconstructed to successfully utilize the market.
During that time, when multiple users were online, OBAR searches frequently took up
to five hours to complete, and the system's initial terminals were noisy Teletypes with
slow transmission rates of 10 characters per second. In 1970, The initial OBAR
terminals were later replaced with CTR text terminals. OBAR was also facing
problems with quality control; later, Rubin recalled that its data was “surprisingly
dirty”.
The Information systems division of the data corporation was restructured by Mead
into a new Mead subsidiary called Mead Data Central (MDC) in February 1970.
Wilson was appointed as president and Rubin as vice president. A year later, OBAR
fades from history after Mead acquires the OSBA’s interest in the OBAR project.
After Wilson took up the charge, he became unenthusiastic to execute his own study’s
recommendation to desert the OBAR/data central work to date and start over. In
September 1971 Mead’s management demoted Wilson to vice chairman of the board
(i.e., a non-functional role) and promoted Rubin to the president of MDC. Rubin
propelled the legacy Data central technology return to Mead corporation. Until 1980,
Under a newly organized department, mead technical laboratories, data central
continued to operate as a service bureau for non-legal practice.
Rubin hired a team to develop a completely new information service to be exclusively
dedicated to legal research. He coined the name lexis from “lex” the Latin word for
“law” and “IS” for “information”. After several repetitions, the original operator and
performance description/specification were finalized by Rubin and the executive
president Bob Bennett in 1972. The implementation of the specification as a working
computer was supervised by Edward Gottsman (system designer). In addition, Rubin
and Bennett developed a business plan, a marketing strategy, and a training program
while coordinating the necessary keyboarding of the legal texts to be given through
LEXIS.MDC’s corporate headquarters was shifted to New York City, while the data
center continued its work in Dayton, Ohio. Lexis was the first information service to
directly interact with end users. Rubin later comprehended that they were trying “to
remove the librarian barrier”. We aim to get the LEXIS site on every lawyer’s desk”.
At a time when computer knowledge was uncommon, MDC ran extensive marketing,
sales, and training initiatives to convince American lawyers to utilize LEXIS.
On April 2, 1973, in New York City MDC publicly launched lexis at the press
conference, with libraries of New York and Ohio case law as well as a separate library
of federal tax materials. By the end of 1973, lexis data had reached over two billion
characters in size and the entire united states code, as well as the United States, reports
from 1938 through 1973. By the end of 1974 lexis was running on an IBM370/155
computer device in Ohio supported by a set of IBM 3330 disk storage units that could
store over 4 billion characters. Its communications processor could operate over 62
terminals concomitantly with a transmission speed of 120 characters per user. Lexis
was able to execute up to 90% of searches within less than 5 secs on its platform. Over
400 users were trained and over 100 text terminals were deployed to various legal
offices (i.e., law firms and govt agencies).
In 1975 lexis ‘s database had grown to 5 billion characters and could operate 200
terminals simultaneously. In 1976, the lexis database comprises case law from six
states and various federal materials. MDC earned a profit for the first time in 1977.
In 1989, Toyota when introduced the Lexus brand of luxury vehicles, As purchasers
of premium goods (like attorneys) would confuse "Lexus" with "Lexis," Mead Data
Central filed a lawsuit against Toyota. Customers were asked to recognize the uttered
word "Lexis" in a market research poll. According to survey results, only a small
percentage of respondents thought of Toyota's premium automobile division and a
nominal number of people thought of the computerized legal search system. A judge
gave the verdict against Toyota, and the company appealed the decision. In 1989,
Mead lost on appeal when the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit held that there was
little chance of consumer confusion. The two businesses are friendly business
partners today, and in 2002 they launched a joint campaign dubbed "Win a Lexus on
Lexis!".
Mead sold the LexisNexis system to Reed Elsevier in December 1994 for 1.5 billion.
In 1997, LexisNexis acquired 52 legal titles including the lawyer’s edition owned by
the Thomas corporation.
In February 2020, LexisNexis transitioned its database services to amazon web
services.
Expertise of firm
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and
business data and analytics that aids customers to increase prolificacy, improving
decision-making and result, and advancing the rule of law worldwide. They aid
lawyers to win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and
grow their practices. They assist corporations in better understanding their markets
and halt bribery and corruption within their supply chains. They colabe with the top
global associations and customers to help gather evidence against war criminals and
provide instruments to combat human trafficking. they endeavor to advance the rule of
law over the whole world. Their teams are combining unparalleled legal and business
information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our
customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule
of law.
Products & services
1. A revolutionary legal digital reference tool
With Lexis Red work efficiently and elastically. An instinctive and reliable
research tool serving you with convenient offline and online access to your
legal library via tablet, laptop, or PC. Now it is available on iOS, windows, and
Android.

2. Lexis read- your digital legal library

 State acts

 Commentaries titles

 Madras law journal & labor law journal

 Universal bare acts

 Commentaries packages

3. LEGAL RESEARCH
i. Print publication
  Civil
 Criminal
 Corporate
 Constitution & administration
 Taxation
 Law dictionaries
 Banking & Finance
 Arbitration & mediation
 Information technology
 Labour service
 others
ii. Journals
 Labour law journal
 Madras law journal(civil)
 Madras law journal (criminal)
iii. Online solution
 Academic universe
 Lexis.com
 Lexis India
 Practical guidance

LEXISNEXIS CAREERS
 Our Work Area
LexisNexis has a workplace culture to value diversity, encourage innovation,
respect individuals, and promotes a safe and healthy work environment.
 LexisNexis employees
LexisNexis is perpetrated to help its employees to achieve the goals and
objectives they desire both professionally and personally. They offer a
comprehensive benefits program and a wide range of professional development
programs for an employee’s future expectations.
More than 13,000 employees across more than 20 nations work for the LexisNexis
Group, which provides services to clients in more than 100 nations. Employees
collaborate across departments, cultures, and locations to create services, products,
and solutions that empower clients to make decisions with confidence. Our
employees collaborate daily as a single team throughout the world. They are a
network of local experts who are driven to find solutions, achieve outcomes, and
push the limits of knowledge.
 LexisNexis Workplace Diversity
LexisNexis is dedicated to promoting commercial ties with minority- and women-
owned companies and providing equitable employment opportunities. With regard to
race, colour, religion, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, marital status,
medical condition (including cancer-related illness), sexual orientation, citizenship
status, age, status as a disabled veteran, status as a veteran of the Vietnam War, or any
other characteristic protected by law, LexisNexis is committed to providing a
 workplace where employees and prospective employees are treated with respect and
dignity. LexisNexis forbids any form of harassment or discrimination based on any of
these protected characteristics, in accordance with our policy.
 In order to uphold its commitment to equal work opportunities, LexisNexis maintains
written affirmative action programmes to ensure that the employees are hired and
treated fairly throughout their work experience, from recruitment and selection for
hire through compensation, promotions, and terminations.
 LexisNexis Workplace Health
One of LexisNexis' fundamental values, "valuing our people," is demonstrated in how
we handle worker health and safety concerns. Health and safety are no longer
perceived as a burden of compliance but rather as crucial to the well-being and
productivity of our workforce. All LexisNexis workers are obligated to abide by the
Reed Elsevier Code of Ethics, which includes a section on the value of employee
health and safety. This guarantees that we will give every employee a secure
environment.
 Its code states that "...in addition, there are laws and regulations that impose
responsibility on Reed Elsevier to safeguard against safety and health hazards." This
commitment includes communication on problems relating to health and safety.
Through staff and work councils, we consult with employees across the globe on
health and safety problems, so we have created a network of Health and Safety
Champions to talk about policies and best practices.

CONTINGENCY THEORY
Contingency theory means an approach or an appropriate action developed
considering the external environment and internal need. In short contingency theory
talks about how and what should be the course of action in response to the events in
the environment. LexisNexis used a contingency approach as at the beginning of 1970
they started using the technology to provide data and information to lawyers on their
desks removing the barrier of a librarian. It was an approach to running in a changing
environment. There isn’t any universal principle of management or any best way of
performing things. Activity done by the manager depends on the circumstances and
environment. The contingent theory provides a suitable alternative approach for the
actions which are contingent on the external and internal environment. As my firm
analyzes the suitable and appropriate action in the use of technology in the field
providing customers with legal documents, journals, and research papers which was
which took a strong strategy formulation, ambitious and courageous decision making,
diplomatic leadership effective organizational improvement, and focused design of
organization structure.

TOP-LEVEL MANAGEMENT
1. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: MIKE WALSH

2. MANAGING DIRECTOR, ASIA: ERIC BONNET MAES

3. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER: JAMIE

BUCKLEY

4. PRESIDENT CONTINENTAL EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AND AFRICA

5. MANAGING DIRECTOR, PACIFIC: GREG DICKASON

6. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER: FEI FEI

7. CEO OF LEXIS NEXIS NORTH AMERICA, UK, AND IRELAND: SEAN

FITZPATRICK

8. PRESIDENT NEXIS SOLUTION: TOD LARSEN

9. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT HUMAN RESOURCE: AMY LIEDKE

10. PRESIDENT LEXIS NEXIS REED TECH AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

SOLUTION: ANDREW MATCH.

11. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL: IAN McDOUGALL

12. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: ANDY

McGROARTY

13. CHIEF INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY OFFICER: RONDA MOORE

14. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER: JEFF

REICH

15. EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATION: MARK RICE