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09042014 · Post by **09042014** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:11 pm

Big firms should have both

zugzwanger · Post by **zugzwanger** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:20 pm

You are nuts if you are actually seriously rankings firms on this!

West > Lexis, although I do like Lexis's activate passages button sometimes I'll actually just go into Lexis to use that. I heard Lexis is supposed to be improving a bunch of functionality etc. so it might not be a big difference in the future.

Holly Golightly · Post by **Holly Golightly** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:22 pm

Westlaw Next and Lexis are each wonderful in their own ways. Westlaw Classic is god awful.

cookiejar1 · Post by **cookiejar1** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:06 pm

Anonymous User wrote:But I really dislike the lexis interface.. it gives me a headache.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvmYNLBWwd0

scholarlyprance · Post by **scholarlyprance** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:30 pm

sublime · Post by **sublime** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:31 pm

Holly Golightly · Post by **Holly Golightly** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 1:37 am

I hope the people who are saying westlaw is better are referring to westlaw next.

brotherdarkness · Post by **brotherdarkness** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:17 am

A. Nony Mouse · Post by **A. Nony Mouse** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:22 am

brotherdarkness wrote:
Holly Golightly wrote:I hope the people who are saying westlaw is better are referring to westlaw next.
Do non-boomers actually use Classic? I've never used the basic versions of either Westlaw or Lexis. Rumor has it Westlaw is nixing Classic and I assume Lexis will follow suit. Good riddance.

Next didn't come out until after I graduated, so I spent law school using Classic. I did a focus group thing giving my responses to Next during 3L (they paid like $200) and my response was basically WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THIS NOW.

Holly Golightly · Post by **Holly Golightly** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:47 am

brotherdarkness wrote:
Holly Golightly wrote:I hope the people who are saying westlaw is better are referring to westlaw next.
Do non-boomers actually use Classic? I've never used the basic versions of either Westlaw or Lexis. Rumor has it Westlaw is nixing Classic and I assume Lexis will follow suit. Good riddance.

I use westlaw next and lexis classic, but in different ways. I use westlaw next if I'm not totally sure what I need and take advantage of the google search. I use lexis if I know exactly what I need but don't have a cite. I also like Lexis's shepardize better than westlaw's citing references.

Hutz_and_Goodman · Post by **Hutz_and_Goodman** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 9:01 am

Big firms will have both and you will likely use them both for different tasks because of the fee arrangements the firm has negotiated.

Nebby · Post by **Nebby** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:43 am

The FedAgency I'm at this summer has Lexis and it makes me cry. Thankfully, I have my WestlawNext access over the summer. Whoever is in charge of sales to the Feds at Thomas Reuters needs to be fired for slipping up this bad.

Cobretti · Post by **Cobretti** » Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:23 pm

cookiejar1 wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:But I really dislike the lexis interface.. it gives me a headache.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvmYNLBWwd0

lol i knew you'd be in this thread

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