LexisNexis finally got it right - and it only took them a decade or so. With the recent release of Shepard's Brief Suite, they have finally made the process of getting a brief out the door infinitely easier to accomplish.
We were the first firm to download and purchase the Brief Suite program. The suite contains BriefCheck, FullAuthority, StyleCheck and the cool new tool dubbed "Shepard’s Link" which locates all of the citations in your Word document and marks them as hyperlinks to the source material - and also creates a link to the Shepard's treatment for that citation.
Thankfully, the old tools finally have the bugs worked out in this release. It seemed that whenever Lexis would update its CiteCheck software, they'd take two steps forward and one step back - adding new features, but dropping off something you had come to rely upon. With the new FullAuthority, it is now easier than ever to generate a table of authorities.
I've been lobbying Lexis for well over a year to make briefs more accessible via Pacer. How cool would it be to find a case on Lexis and then simply be able to click a button in order to load a copy of the briefs that resulted in the opinion you are now reading? The technology is all there - so why hasn't it happened? It seems this is one area in which WestLaw seems to be making the greatest strides.
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