Lexisnexis Group acquires Courtlink Corp.LexisNexis A service that provides online legal and business information. Lexis was the first full-text information service for the legal profession. Nexis provides the archives of The New York Times as well as Wall Street industry analysis, public records, tax information, political analysis, SEC Group (Dayton, OH), a unit of Reed Elsevier, has finalized See finalization. the terms of a definitive agreement to acquire CourtLink Corp. (Bellevue, WA), a unit of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Capital Group and a provider of Web-based services for electronically filing legal documents and accessing and monitoring court records. No terms of the deal were given. The deal is subject to, among other things, approval be Court- Link shareholders. CourtLink claims to have been the first company to create a single online platform for both electronically accessing records and filing documents with the courts. The company has 90 courts online and adds over 1 million pages electronically filed and served per month. In Colorado, CourtLink developed and now operates the first and only state-wide electronic filing system. The service enables users to search and retrieve case information from more than 200 million records in 1400 federal, state and local court systems. CourtLink services include eAccess, eFile, and eFM, a software product for court case management systems. CourtLink targets its services to law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
CourtLink operations will stay in Washington. LexisNexis North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. president/ceo Lou Andreozzi said "we firmly believe the online services and emerging markets CourtLink has pioneered will bring temendous value to the legal profession at large.' |
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