News item, April 2008....Online services have not totally replaced the printed word - yet

LexisNexis has announced that it is now launching the fifth edition of Halsbury’s Laws. The new edition will be contained in 102 volumes which is a graphic indication of the inexorable growth of the law and the amount of new material which is being incorporated. There will be new volumes on Rights and Freedoms, Matrimonial and Civil Partnerships, Sports Law, Sentence and Sentencing, Information Technology, Consumer Protection, Immigration and Asylum, Environment and Public Health, and Licensing and Gambling.

Halsburys Laws was previously published by Butterworths which is now part of LexisNexis.
- The first edition was published in 1907, and contained 31 volumes.
- The second edition published 37 volumes between 1931 and 1942.
- The third edition published 43 volumes between 1952 and 1964.
- The fourth edition published 56 volumes between 1973 and 1987.
- The fifth edition will be 102 volumes.

With over 1,000 staff in the UK and 13,000 worldwide, LexisNexis is a global professional information provider. The UK division of LexisNexis is well known as a professional publisher of both online and print resources, and incorporates many familiar brands, such as Butterworths and Tolley. They are a major provider of legal, tax, business, academic and public sector research and current affairs information. More recently LexisNexis has restructured to reflect its growing portfolio of integrated solutions for the professional market and family of LexisNexis now incorporates some very well known brands such as Interaction, Visualfiles and Axxia. As part of this restructure, the solutions are grouped under 4 main “pillars”

1. Client Development. This includes such products as InterAction, Company Dossier and Nexis, the huge world wide news resource.

2. Research and Knowledge. This section includes the vast LexisNexis Butterworths platform that gives access to comprehensive legislation resources, such as Halsburys Statutes, Halsbury's Laws, EF&P, Atkin's, All England Law Reports, Stone's Justices' Manual, Civil Court Practice (Green Book) and many others. The strengths of the LNB platform are the powerful and detailed searching and cross references facilities, its practice area approach and the sheer range of resources available. Also included in this section are some new services such as EU Tracker, and the Legal Conferences & Training section of the group who provide both online and face to face training and conferences.

3. Practice and Productivity. This includes the relatively recent KnowHow service, which provides legal know how precedent material and updates written by lawyers for lawyers and all cross-referenced to the main LNB platform. Other products included here are the Visualfiles portfolio which support matter and file management, eDisclosure and Comtax.

4. Risk and Compliance. The firm has developed products to support Know Your Customer initiatives to include LexisNexis KYC ID - Know Your Customer for enhanced customer due diligence on corporate entities and individuals and Client Acceptance: Visualfiles.

My thanks to Ann Hemming for this text.

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