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.

Raleigh, NC -- The need for organizations to mitigate an evolving array of third-party reputational, regulatory, financial and strategic business risks, has driven an innovative partnership between Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) and  Nexis® Solutions. The partnership will see Blue Prism’s connected-RPA platform integrated with Nexis Diligence™, in order to help organizations improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entity due diligence process with intelligent automation capabilities.

Raleigh, NC—LexisNexis® CounselLink®, a leading cloud-based enterprise legal management solution for corporate legal departments, today announced the launch of its new CounselLink® FastTrack option in collaboration with the capital solutions provider LSQ. CounselLink FastTrack, powered by LSQ, is an innovative approach to financial and vendor management that helps law firms get paid quickly while providing extended payment terms and cash back on invoices to firm clients. This is the latest development in CounselLink’s ongoing efforts to revolutionize the way corporate legal departments run their business and help general counsel demonstrate their strategic value to the C-suite.

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.

LEGALWEEK NEW YORK – A new study examining the use of legal analytics reveals an increase in adoption among law firms and individuals, and a deeper understanding of the value it can deliver to their practice and clients.

LEGALWEEK NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, will gather innovators from the technology and legal industries to discuss developments in artificial intelligence (AI), legal analytics, and data-driven practices during Legalweek New York, the legal industry’s preeminent technology conference and expo (Feb. 4-6; New York Hilton Midtown; Booth #2100).

Menlo Park, CA — Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of its award-winning Legal Analytics® platform, Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today announced an exciting new expansion into state court analytics. Consisting of more than 870,000 cases in Los Angeles County and Harris County (Houston metro area), the new modules give practitioners critical insights about judges, courts, law firms, individual attorneys and parties in state courts. By leveraging its Attorney Data Engine and other natural language processing technology, Lex Machina is the only legal analytics provider able to utilize state court documents to provide comprehensive coverage about the behavior of judges, law firms, attorneys, and parties in state courts.

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.

New York, N.Y. — Knowable, a Contracts Data Management company and the world’s largest translator of contracts language into structured data, today announced the launch of its new platform. Knowable’s intuitive platform for finding and accessing contract information helps organizations turn their contracts into consumable data and practical insights that support better business decisions, and a more modern approach to risk management. 

NEW YORK – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced two free resources from Law360® and Lexis Practice Advisor® to help legal professionals, lawmakers and business leaders become better informed and successfully navigate the legal issues and intricacies surrounding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

NEW YORK – LexisNexis Legal & Professional®, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the launch of Context Company Analytics, the fourth module of the award-winning Context platform, now available to subscribers on Lexis Advance®.

RALEIGH – Juris, a premier billing, accounting, and financial management software for law firms, has officially endorsed ClientPay®, an award-winning cloud-based credit card and eCheck payment platform as the premier choice for Juris users. Law firms can now provide their clients with the capabilities to pay their invoices in less time, without mailing checks or picking up the phone. ClientPay® is equipped to allow users to tailor a payment solution for their A/R department that can save time and money. On average, firms that switch to ClientPay® save 17% on processing fees and spend 50% less time on payment management. Firms get paid faster and staff are freed from the burden of manual payment processing.

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'It is crucial to understand that the ultimate goal of your investments isn't to pay lesser tax, but to create long-term wealth for you and your family,' says Satyen Kothari, founder and CEO, Cube Wealth.

'Presently market is falling down due to coronavirus. Shall I invest now or wait? Also please suggest some companies?'

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

Even as you fight the ongoing health challenge, here are some tips to strengthen your personal finance in the time of coronavirus.

Multi-cap funds are best suited to exploit the present market scenario as they are free to invest across all market capitalisations and sectors, says Naveen Kukreja, CEO and co-founder, Paisabazaar.com.

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Liquor is going to cost more in Himachal Pradesh as the State Cabinet decided on Friday to levy Additional License Fee (COVID Cess) on the sale of liquor in the State.

Preliminary investigations revealed that as many as 5,500 cases of IMFL which had been seized by Haryana Police waas found to have been missing. While officials from the excise and taxation department are compiling records and taking inventories to quantify the details of missing liquor which was seized by them.

Nuh district gave a sigh of relief for health authorities who were continued to be disappointed as 22 new more cases were found in Haryana which took state total tally to 647. Besides Gurugram, other districts from where fresh cases were reported include Faridabad, Sonipat, Jhajjar, Panipat, Jind and Fatehabad.

With Punjab governor and Chandigarh administrator V P Singh Badnore clearing the proposal, now the owners of both residential and commercial properties will be able to pay their taxes for the current financial year with rebate till July 31, said an official on Friday.

After professionals working in private companies, teachers working in private schools of the Tricity are facing salary cuts. While a few schools have deducted around 40% of teachers’ salaries, many are yet to pay salaries at all. Most school teachers get their salaries by the seventh day of the month. This time, many teachers of various schools had not received salary till Friday. DAV Schools are among those which have deducted salaries.

The UT administration has rejected requests of private taxi operators to allow them to operate in the city at a time when coronavirus has hit the business of web-based taxis and private tours and travellers. Following the guidelines of the ministry of home affairs (MHA), the administration has the representation made by private taxi operators, as cabs and private taxis are not allowed in the “red zone” — a label, according to the government, for a place having a high number of Covid-19 cases.

Deputy commissioner Girish Dayalan has allowed restaurants and eateries to open only for home delivery and takeaways. The DC said all eateries will have to take permission before opening. He said they will have to make social distancing markings outside their premises for those coming for takeaway.

A Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) on Thursday night shot dead a prominent Kabaddi player Arvinder Jeet Singh Padda in Lakhan Ke Padde village and injured another youth. Following arrest of the accused ASI and his associate on Friday, Kapurthala SSP Satinder Singh dismissed the former from service.

About 250 members of 40 Muslim families from Bidhmira village in Haryana’s Hisar district embraced Hinduism on Friday and performed the last rites of a 80-yearold woman according to Hindu customs. Earlier, about 35 members of six Muslim families also embraced Hinduism at Jind’s Danoda Kalan village on April 18.

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is posing a huge challenge for Punjab farmers who are facing labour shortage due to the exodus of migrants to their native states. However, it also offers a rare opportunity to diversify to other crops from water-guzzling paddy in the coming kharif (summer) season, according to officials and experts.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

As Punjabis stranded abroad continue to register themselves with the state government to facilitate their return to the state, the number of requests have risen to total 3,500 from around 90 countries.

With farmers indulging in stubble burning post wheat harvesting season, pollution is back to haunt the residents of Zirakpur, who had been enjoying clean air following restrictions on plying of vehicles during the ongoing lockdown.

Following the detection of fresh coronavirus positive cases from Chamba and Kangra districts, chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday interacted with panchayat pradhans of various gram panchayats of these two districts through video-conferencing and sought their support.

Senior BJP leader, former Union minister and former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Shanta Kumar on Saturday said that before Covid-19 outbreak it was being claimed that India is fastest growing economy in the world and figures among top five richest countries and crores of people have been brought out of poverty but now coronavirus pandemic has brought out the truth.

Punjab and Haryana high court has directed all the advocates to adhere to proper dress code while appearing in e-courts via videoconferencing for hearing of their cases. Advocates have been directed to not to record, store or broadcast any of court proceedings as these are strictly prohibited.