If LexisNexis has violated your rights under the FCRA, please contact the consumer protection lawyers at Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C. We are ready to help you fight back and correct errors in your LexisNexis reports. Get free legal help today by filling out a case review form or by calling us at 1-877-735-8600. If you`re currently on a plan with a legal research provider, there`s still hope. You should call your sales representative, let them know you are aware of the new prices and push them to match. Sales reps often have a lot of leeway in pricing (more than they`re willing to allow first), and the last thing they want to do is lose a customer. Use the same negotiation skills you use in your day-to-day work as a lawyer. It`s uncomfortable, but it can save you thousands. Another option is to switch to one of the new legal research providers such as Casetext. You may find, like thousands of law firms, that new products have much more to offer for much less money. But first, to answer a question that may come to mind: why should we at Casetext, a new competitor of LexisNexis, report on this news? We do this for several reasons. First, we want to help lawyers like you have access to affordable legal research, even if it comes from our competitors.
High-quality representation often requires high-quality legal research, and since it is now more affordable thanks to LexisNexis, this is great news for the profession and our clients. Second, now that LexisNexis is finally transparent with its prices and offerings, for the first time, a true apple-to-apple comparison of prices, content, and features between Casetext and LexisNexis is possible. For many lawyers, we believe we are the best option. Accurint`s target audience is insurance companies, where they market their ability to validate claims and combat fraud, waste and abuse. But the plaintiffs` lawyers also use it. What you don`t want is for the insurance company to have more information about your customer than you do. Yes, sometimes our customers don`t tell us the truth. But more often than not, they forget the previous claims. In any case, failure to provide accurate information about previous legal claims you have made during interrogations or testimonies may be fatal to you. LexisNexis` new pricing is an important milestone for the legal research industry and a smart response to pressure from new legal research providers.
We recommend using it if you want to work with LexisNexis – or even if you want to use it to reduce the prices of your already existing contract. Most lawyers absolutely hate this business practice. This is unfair and it only goes to take you as much as possible. But LexisNexis and Westlaw can get away with it because until recently there was no real competition for legal research. Most avocados swallow the bitter pill of unfair, opaque and high prices. The pressure on LexisNexis and Westlaw from competitors like us is immense. In the last 9 months alone, more than 3,000 law firms from LexisNexis and Westlaw have switched to Casetext to conduct legal research – and we`re just one competitor. Fastcase and Casemaker, free with membership in many state and local bars, are getting better and better and have to abandon traditional legal research platforms. In fact, part of the reason LexisNexis` new pricing is so important is that you can finally seamlessly and easily compare legal research tools on pricing, contract terms, coverage, and features. Traditionally, former legal research providers negotiate every legal research contract in secret, so you`ll need to sign a confidentiality agreement on the prices and other terms of your contract. They do this to extract you the maximum possible price. If you don`t know what the market price is, they will keep raising the price until you shout ”uncle.” You could end up paying twice as much as a peer for exactly the same service and coverage, and you won`t be smarter.
While Accurint is also available to law enforcement, lawyers, government agencies, nonprofits, and other businesses, collection is the main sector. Debt collection agencies find all this information useful when trying to collect a claim. However, there are laws that prevent debt collectors from using scaremongering threats to force you to make payments. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) protects you from harassment through debt collection. LexisNexis has released transparent self-service pricing for its core legal research product for small businesses. That`s a big deal – it could be a way for your business to save thousands of dollars a year, and it`s a change in the way LexisNexis has been doing business for a very long time. But don`t take our word for it – run it yourself here with a two-week free trial. If you like what you see, we have a plan that allows you to get case text essentially for free for the remaining time of your LexisNexis or Westlaw contract. Casetext automates litigation tasks to help lawyers effectively ensure high-quality representation.
Here are the phone numbers of the LexisNexis and Westlaw sales lines: If you use Accurint for Legal Professionals, are you sure you`re browsing the most comprehensive public records database in the industry? What has changed? In recent years, new entrants offering new innovative solutions have changed the dynamics of the market. Casetext is one of them. We are open and transparent with pricing – and you can buy online with a credit card without dealing with a seller (unless you want training or a step-by-step procedure, which we are happy to offer). Our prices are $65 per month if you sign up for an annual plan, or $89 per month if you sign up month-to-month. There`s only one price tag for the platform, and it gives you everything — all federal, state, briefs, articles, and more; and advanced artificial intelligence technology, CARA A.I. Research that has no other platform. If you agree with the three-year lockout, are aware of the additional $25 per month fee, and are willing to limit your searches strictly to your plan, you should take advantage of the offer. In 2014, LexisNexis paid $13.5 million in a class action lawsuit approved by a federal judge in Virginia. The group`s 200 million members filed a lawsuit against LexisNexis, claiming that the company sold its Accurint reports to collection agencies and did not treat those reports as consumer reports as they should have done under FCRA terms.
LexisNexis has taken an extraordinary step that is important to most lawyers, and little has been reported about it. Wherever Lexis has a product, Westlaw has one. Its product, CLEAR, is used for jump tracing, fraud investigations, etc. We haven`t had much experience with CLEAR, except to hear that some lawyers use it. One thing Westlaw claims, and I wouldn`t be surprised if this were true because it`s a strength of Westlaw, is that CLEAR has intuitive navigation and simple filter settings. I wrote this article eight years ago. From our point of view, not much has changed, except for a new weapon that we use. White Pages Premium has proven to be incredibly helpful when it comes to finding those accused of car accidents. At just $9.95 per month, with a single first and last name, you can access not only a mailing address and phone number, but also other phone numbers, previous mailing addresses, and parents` names, which can be a source of additional insurance coverage. Honestly, it`s a bit scary to see how much information you can get with a White Pages Premium account.
What frustrates me is that many of these providers continue to switch to ”minimal” or ”monthly” fees. TLO now requires you to plant $300 per year (in addition to the one-time fee of $60), even if you only run 3 searches that would have cost $9. If you have an active practice that does a lot of research each month, the minimum requirements are paltry. But if you have solo exercise and rarely do research, the minimum monthly requirements hurt. Big salespeople had to do something before they lost all their customers. Old and bad business practices couldn`t resist the pressure that companies were putting on them with transparent, affordable, all-inclusive, and self-service pricing. This article describes the new prices, some ”gotchas” to watch out for, and how you can take advantage of the new plans, whether you`re a LexisNexis subscriber or not. To understand why this is an extraordinary step of LexisNexis, it is worth briefly going into history. The pricing plan is available online here.
It`s not easy to find on their website – as far as we know, it`s only accessible through online ads, not through the LexisNexis website. .