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LexisNexis Launches Context, Advanced Judge and Expert Witness Analytics

RALEIGH, NC – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional today announced the launch of Context, a powerful, A.I.-enhanced solution that delivers insights on judges and expert witnesses to help attorneys best prepare, present and argue their case. Context is a key component of the new Lexis Analytics™ suite of products that gives lawyers greater knowledge through data-driven insights.




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LEAP and LexisNexis Announce Joint Venture in Practice Management Software

NEW YORK, NEW YORK — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX and a leading global provider of information and analytics, and LEAP Legal Software, have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture to support the growth and development of PCLaw® and Time Matters®, leading Law Firm Practice Management (LFPM) software solutions for small-to-medium sized law firms.




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LEAP and LexisNexis Close Formation of Joint Venture in Practice Management Software

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX and a leading global provider of information and analytics, and LEAP Legal Software, have closed the transaction forming the PCLaw | Time Matters joint venture, announced on May 8, 2019.




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LexisNexis and Knowable Announce Joint Venture

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, part of RELX, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture with Knowable, one of the leaders in enterprise contract intelligence. Knowable was spun off from Axiom Global Inc. in February 2019. Mark Harris and Alec Guettel, Axiom’s co-founders, will lead Knowable as CEO and CFO respectively. Knowable will operate independently, but will benefit from access to LexisNexis’ leading brand, resources, and infrastructure. The partnership will further enable LexisNexis to help customers improve decision-making and achieve better outcomes.




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LexisNexis Awarded Contract with United States Federal Judiciary

Washington, DC – LexisNexis Legal & Professional® today announced it was awarded a new contract as a primary information provider to the United States Federal Judiciary to provide more than 20,000 Federal judges, their support staff, and other Federal Judiciary employees with full enterprise-wide unlimited access to the broadest possible range of primary legal, secondary legal, news, business and journals, people and public records content, and analytics.




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LexisNexis State Net Launches Major Upgrades, Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation

Sacramento, CA -- LexisNexis Legal & Professional® announced significant upgrades to the State Net® platform, which the world’s leading companies, associations and law firms rely on to monitor, comply with, and respond to legislation and regulation. State Net provides unmatched content, speed, and analytics, helping government affairs and compliance professionals act quickly and confidently. With today’s announcement of search, content, design, and analytical improvements, State Net extends its leadership in legislative and regulatory tracking and engagement.




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LexisNexis® Juris® financial management solution and ClientPay® team up to reduce the time and cost of credit card processing and improve the payment acceptance process for law firms

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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Contemporary art and disability studies [electronic resource] / edited by Alice Wexler and John Derby.

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.




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This is not a hoax [electronic resource] : unsettling truth in Canadian culture / Heather Jessup.

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019]




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A global history of architecture [electronic resource] / Francis D.K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash.

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2017.




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Radical gestures [electronic resource] : feminism and performance art in North America / Jayne Wark.

Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)





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July 31: New deadline to pay property tax

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.




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Punjab: ASI shoots dead Kabaddi player, sacked

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.




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Japanese auto parts maker FCC Company buys half of stake in Rico Auto

Japanese auto parts maker FCC Company has purchased its Indian partner Rico Auto's 50% stake in their equal joint venture.




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Maruti Suzuki posts highest market share in more than a decade in July

Not only that, the maker of the Alto and WagonR in July produced more vehicles than ever before in its history.




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Janssen to pay up to $1 billion for BeneVir




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ACS and French Chemical Society jointly award inaugural Franco-American Lectureship Prize




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Wilmer J. Stratton




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Infografías Periódicas: Pastilla de jabón vs. gel de baño

El profesor de Química y bloguero de Compound Interest Andy Brunning explica los parecidos y las diferencias entre ambos productos de baño.




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SOCMA head Jennifer Abril wants to take the trade association back to its roots

The nontraditional leader of the specialty chemical manufacturers’ association wants to steer it back to its traditional values




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Chemjobber’s mailbag

Chemistry blogger answers reader questions on job hunting, changing grad schools, and more in this edition of Bench & Cubicle




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Economy buoys Japanese chemical makers

Strong demand and Chinese environment controls lead to robust earnings




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James D. Crum




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Astellas restructures Japan operations

Company expects to slim its home country head count by 600




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Project SEED scholar Michelle Melo

Passionate about forensic science, this chemist got the job she always wanted




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Arkema sticks with adhesives in Japan




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Meet the Janelia chemist crafting glowing molecular tools for neuroscientists

Luke Lavis’s lab teaches old dyes new tricks at the HHMI campus




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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation supports ACS Project SEED




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Perstorp forms 3-D printing joint venture




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Lonza consolidates its New Jersey R&D




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Obituary: George J. Baumgartner




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Obituary: Rajendra Rathore




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JGC develops new ammonia production process




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Nobel Laureates Paul D. Boyer and Jens C. Skou die at 99

Biochemists were two of three who shared 1997 prize for work related to adenosine triphosphate




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ACS Board actions from the June executive meeting




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Nobel laureates Jens C. Skou and Paul D. Boyer die at 99

Biochemists were two of three who shared 1997 prize for work related to adenosine triphosphate




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Enzyme conjugate synthesizes DNA

Method is possible replacement for phosphoramidite-based DNA synthesis




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Project SEED scholar Ganesh Karunakaran

An early interest in science morphs into a career fueled by international finance and economics




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Dow Chemical wins $1 billion judgment against Nova Chemicals

An Alberta court agrees with Dow that Nova’s operation of an ethylene joint venture was self-serving




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Unicode Consortium releases new science emoji

Nine new science-themed emoji will soon be available on a number of platforms and mobile devices




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Evonik cuts jobs in cost savings




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Meet <i>Science</i> magazine editor Jeremy Berg, chemist and proud data wonk

Policy leader talks about publishing, the scientific enterprise, and how chemistry fits into it all




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Obituary: James Terner




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Catalent acquires drug services firm Juniper




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Regulus cuts jobs after oligonucleotide safety setback




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Janelle Ayres, Neal Devaraj, and Sergei Kalinin win Blavatnik Awards




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India’s Supreme Court slams lack of action to address Taj Mahal deterioration




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Obituary: Joseph Zimmerman




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Project SEED scholar Marc McKithen

From one bench to the next, Project SEED scholar Marc McKithen reflects on his career in chemistry and law