Meet the big timesaver that delivers lexis.com® within your firm’s portal: LexisNexis® SharePoint® Web Parts Stay within your firm’s Microsoft® SharePoint® environment and gain access to the content and functionality of lexis.com® resources that your firm uses most—without directly going to the lexis.com site.

With LexisNexis® SharePoint Web Parts, ease of use can be the new reality for law firms, with customizable Web parts created to gain access to the LexisNexis resources you use most—Shepardizing™ a citation; ordering and receiving one or many Shepard’s® reports or full-text legal documents; tracking cases, finding topical news articles and browsing treatises. Even gain access to CourtLink® Web parts to gain access to CourtLink and Alert results.

It’s never been simpler or more secure to tap into lexis.com without actually signing in to the service. You can choose how your users will get to the Web parts, choosing one of two options:

• thealmost-automaticSSS/SSOmethodthatdoesn’trequireauthentication,or

• thecookiemethodthatinvolvestheIDandPasswordsign-inscreen.

Either way, it’s streamlined accessibility to your firm’s Web parts.

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Contentcustomization

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Google™

search widget

Firm directorysearch widget

Personalizationcapability forportal users

LexisNexis Research Web Part

CourtLinkAlerts WebPart

Here’s what’s available You can tailor your firm’s intranet portal or practice-area landing page with the Web parts that your firm wants readily available. Your firm’s users use the Web parts without entering lexis.com and can preview content of a target database before starting a billable session.

There is no cost for SharePoint Web parts if the content you’ve selected is included in your current LexisNexis subscription. No research charges are incurred until lexis.com is actually used.

Your SharePoint administrator downloads the chosen Web parts and, depending on preference or practice area, will configure common properties of the Web parts, for example, Sign-OnType,CompanyClientIDs,ClientIDpopup,MaximumNumberofTOCSourcesaslinksandmore.

As the resident information professional, you free up your valuable time. You can even customize help messages with your personal search tips to help your users to perform more independent research.

OncetheSharePointinstallerisrun,yourSharePointadministrator can individually download the Web parts you want. Presently, you can choose from:

• Get & Print—Orderdeliveryofsingleormultiplecitation;

• Table of Contents (treatises)—Browse and search the table of contents or the full text of these secondary sources. ThisWebpartiscustomizable;

• Shepard’s® Citations Service—Retrieve Shepard’s reports and the full functionality of lexis.com;

• lexis.com General Search (customizable)—Search pre-selected, customizable sources;

• CourtLink Alerts—SpecifyyourcriteriaforaLitigantand/orNature of Suit alert and link to more details about the docket, party,lawfirm/attorneyorjudge(seenextpage);

• CourtLink Track—State your criteria and view existing dockets of interest. Link to the CourtLink docket from this Web part as well.

Why consider LexisNexis SharePoint Web Parts? • Gainaccesstothecontentandfunctionalityof lexis.com

resources you use most often.

• Staywithinyourfirm’sportalwithoutopeningmultipleapplications.

• LexisNexisCustomerSupportplusonsiteLexisNexis field service engineers available for installation help.

• NoextrachargeforWebpartswhenthecontentis part of your LexisNexis subscription agreement.

• CourtLinkWebpartsletyoulinkdirectlytodetails ontheparty,lawfirm/attorneyandjudge.

• Asecureandseamlesslog-inprocesswithmultipleauthentication options.

• CustomizableWebpartsthatyourSharePointadministrator can configure, based on preference or practice Area.

TolearnmoreaboutLexisNexisSharePointWebParts,contact your LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant or your LexisNexis account representative.

Think à la carte! Customize several Web partsCustomization is as simple as asking for other sources that you want to comprise each of these Web parts. LexisNexis field service engineers work directly with your administrator toprovidetherequestedsources.Youradministratorplacesthese sources in the appropriate Web part. For example, if your firm’s focus is Intellectual Property, you can add copyrighttreatisestotheTableofContentsWebpartandanintellectualpropertynewslettertotheGeneralSearchWebpart.TheWebpartdoesn’tchange…onlythesourcesthat you select for it.

TheWebpartsearchresultsdisplayintheCiteformat.When you click on the citation link for a listed document, you will move to a separate, full document view in lexis.com (see next page).

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Getting details from a CourtLink Nature of Suit Alert After you specify your alert criteria, the Web part displays newly filed cases. Use LexisNexis® atVantage™ to retrieve aprofilereportonanentityintheParty,LawFirm/AttorneyandJudgecolumns—justclickonanametolinkout.

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LexisNexisatVantagealsoprovidesdozensofWebpartsthatyoucanaddtoSharePoint.TheseWebPartsaregroupedas:

• atVantageProvider

• atVantageMoreLikeThis

• atVantageGeneralSearch

• atVantageInlineSearch

Rely on your administrator Your SharePoint administrator is responsible for the basic nuts-and-bolts setup of Web parts, with LexisNexis field service engineers available foronsiteinstallationassistance.LexisNexisCustomerSupport—availablevirtually24/7—isalsoavailabletohelpyourusersgetthemostfromtheir Web parts.

In addition to installation and configuring preferences, your administrator will address:

• Authentication—AuthenticatinguserstosigninbyusingtheCookieorSingleSignOnmethod.

• Client Matter Options—Setting Client Matter options for the various Web parts, including optional, mandatory or both.

SP 2010 System Requirements Hardware and Software• Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 with SP2 or later,

or Window Server 2008 R2• .NET3.5orlaterwithSP1installed• SQLServer®2005withSP2orlater,orSQLServer2008.

(SQLmustbe64-bit.)• Microsoft®OfficeSharePointFoundationServer2010

orMicrosoftOfficeSharePointEnterpriseServer2010.• MicrosoftIIS

Browser Support• InternetExplorer®7(32-bitand64-bit)• InternetExplorer8(32-bitand64-bit)• Mozilla® Firefox®3.6onbothWindowsandnon-Windows

operating systems• Safari® 4.04 on non-Windows operating systems

(limited support)NOTES:YoumustbetheMicrosoftOfficeSharePointFarmadministrator or have server administrator rights to perform the LexisNexis Web parts installation tasks described in this document. Before you install the LexisNexis Web parts, you must have your Web application and a site collection ready.If your Web application is using claims-based authentication, please make sure the Claim to Window Token Service is started on all Web front-end servers from SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, and make sure the authentication provider on your system is set properly.

SP 2007 System Requirements Hardware and Software• MicrosoftWindowsServer2003StandardEditionR2,or

WindowsServer2003EnterpriseEditionR2• WindowsServer2008withSP2orlater,orWindowServer

2008 R2• .NET3.5orlaterwithSP1installed• SQLServer2005withSP2orlaterorSQLServer200864-bit.• MicrosoftOfficeSharePointServer2007withSP1andSP2or

WindowsSharePointService3.0• MicrosoftIIS

Browser support• InternetExplorer7(32-bitand64-bit)• InternetExplorer8(32-bitand64-bit)• MozillaFirefox3.6onbothWindowsandnon-Windows

operating systems• Safari4.04onnon-Windowsoperatingsystems

(limited support)NOTE:YoumustbetheMicrosoftOfficeSharePointadministratoror have administrator rights to perform the LexisNexis Web parts installation tasks described in this document.

Tech check! Is your firm ready to install and download LexisNexis SharePoint Web Parts? Makesureyou’regoodtogobyreviewingthesetechnicalrequirements.

• CompanyProfileWebparts

• IndustryProfileWebparts

• FirmProfileWebparts

• LawyerProfileWebparts