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Big firms should have both

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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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