LexisNexis

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LexisNexis
legal form GmbH
founding 1977
Seat Dayton (Ohio)
Number of employees 10,000
sales approx. 2 billion euros
Branch Online databases
Website www.lexisnexis.de

LexisNexis is a commercial host specializing in providing information and technology solutions with full texts of international periodicals , press releases and business information . LexisNexis is also present as a provider of specialist databases with legal information, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon region .

Around three quarters of the more than 36,000 sources of information come from the field of business or the media and a quarter from the field of law. The database provider's customers are represented in almost all industries and functional areas. The areas of business development, communications, compliance, consulting, finance, legal, market intelligence, marketing, mergers & acquisitions, patents, research & information, risk management and sales are defined as the most important target groups in companies.

LexisNexis is part of the British-Dutch RELX Group . The company is the market leader in the USA and the British Commonwealth , has annual sales of around two billion euros and employs around 10,000 people. The company is a leading international provider of information solutions.

Corporate structure

LexisNexis is divided into the following organizational units, with one or more branches in each of the countries mentioned.

  • United States
  • Africa: South Africa
  • Europe: Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, United Kingdom (UK)
  • Canada, Russia
  • Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Mexico
  • Pacific: Australia, New Zealand
  • LexisNexis Asia: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

There are also sales partners in Denmark, Finland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain and Sweden.

LexisNexis Germany

Construction in Frankfurt

In 1991 LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH was founded. Until 2004, the company headquarters with around 20 employees was Frankfurt am Main . The main activities were in the area of ​​sales of the online database "LexisNexis Wirtschaft" and the acquisition of German-language news sources, which were integrated into the online products under license. In order to be able to provide own, especially legal content, the MBO publishing house in Münster and its call center in Rheine were acquired in 2002 .

Activity in Münster

In 2004, the company's headquarters were relocated to Münster , where around 200 to 300 permanent employees worked until the end of 2010 under the direction of Christian Fleck (until the end of 2007 managing director of LexisNexis Mexico); in January 2008 he replaced Olaf Hantel as managing director. Also in 2004 the legal online database LexisNexis Law was published. In 2005, LexisNexis Germany acquired ZAP-Verlag and thus massively expanded its portfolio in printed legal specialist literature. The ZAP books and magazines were usually part of the online databases. On November 16, 2010, LexisNexis Deutschland and Wolters Kluwer announced that LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH with the Legal and Regulatory divisions should be sold to Wolters Kluwer Germany (Cologne) at the end of 2010; the legal area in Germany with around 200 employees was then completely sold. With the sale of LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH at the end of 2010, the MBO-Verlag and ZAP-Verlag brands that had been absorbed into it were also transferred to Wolters Kluwer Germany . The online legal database has been marketed by Wolters Kluwer Germany under the new name Jurion Recht since February 2011.

New LexisNexis GmbH in Düsseldorf

The online business information area with the product categories Compliance, Research, Monitoring, Intellectual Property and Academic & Library have been the core business of LexisNexis GmbH in Germany since January 1, 2011. The categories include the following products and areas of application:

  • Compliance Solutions:
    • Lexis Diligence: Business Partner Review
  • Research Solutions:
    • Nexis: Research of business information
  • Monitoring Solutions:
    • LexisNexis Newsdesk: media monitoring
  • Intellectual Property Solutions:
    • LexisNexis TotalPatent: Patent research
    • PatentOptimizer: Development of patent applications
    • IP DataDirect Patents: Raw Patent Data
    • LexisNexis PatentAdvisor: Improved Patent Grant Process
    • LexisNexis PatentStrategies: Business Intelligence solution
  • Academic & Library Solutions:
    • Nexis: Research for universities and libraries
    • LexisNexis Academic: Juridically focused searches
  • Data as a service
    • Integration of raw data with "Nexis Data as a Service"

In 2014, around 25 employees worked in Düsseldorf (Heerdter Sandberg 30) as the company's location in Germany. The newly founded LexisNexis GmbH , which was outsourced from the former LexisNexis Deutschland GmbH, is located here . Managing directors are Michael Krake, Thomas Ogburn and André Weijde.

LexisNexis Austria

LexisNexis Austria is a specialist publisher in Austria in the field of taxation, law and economics, which continues the tradition of the former publishing houses Orac and ARD under an international umbrella.

Databases

LexisNexis keeps all types of economic information in full text. This includes press releases, agency reports and press evaluations from the world's most important news agencies. The articles in most English-language and many German-language periodicals have been recorded by LexisNexis since the 1980s. LexisNexis makes the content of thousands of daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines available in full text. The database also includes industry information and market overviews, as well as company information from numerous specialized international and national providers.

Information about individuals includes biographies, public records, residences, and licenses, mostly from US citizens. To check business partners, LexisNexis also uses PEP, sanction and watch lists as well as other things. a. towards the EU Consolidated List, FATF, Interpol and OFAC. The media monitoring tools include digitized international print media and relevant websites as well as publicly accessible social media sources. Patent information and trademarks registered in the USA are also available in full text and with drawings.

Especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, LexisNexis maintains all types of legal full texts (decisions, articles, current legal norms, other official publications, commentaries), especially Anglo-American law. The US fundamental decisions held up go back to the 1770s; the publicly available US judgments decided since 1980 are completely contained in the database.

access

The online use of the databases can take place via the World Wide Web after the contract has been concluded . This usage is calculated according to the number of users, the selected sources and the search volume.

history

Mead Data Central founded Lexis, an information service for legal information, in Dayton, USA in 1973 . In 1980 Lexis was expanded to include the Nexis information service for media and business information. The German branch opened in 1991 in Frankfurt am Main . In 1994 the Reed Elsevier Group took over LexisNexis. LexisNexis has grown primarily through the takeover and integration of existing information providers such as MBO-Verlag (Germany) 2002, Les Editions du Juris Classeur (France) and Butterworth (Great Britain). In 2005, the German headquarters were completely relocated from Frankfurt am Main to Münster , and at the beginning of 2011 it was completely relocated to Düsseldorf .

On May 9, 2005, LexisNexis confirmed press reports that the personal data of approximately 32,000 users had become unauthorized to third parties. The company had to correct this number later, in fact it was about 310,000 users. The data was stolen from the Seisint subsidiary acquired on July 14, 2004 . The theft took place before the company was bought out and only became known afterwards.

Terminals

LexisNexis was already offering an online service in the USA in the 1970s. Input, output devices and dial-in nodes were manufactured in-house by LexisNexis for customers.

literature

  • Law Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Center for Information Law : "The big four: Online services for lawyers subject to a fee in the test - What do beck-online, juris, Legios and LexisNexis offer?", 2nd edition April 2006.
  • Matthias Kraft: Legal online databases in practice - a shopping aid . Soldan, Services for Lawyers, Essen, 2006.
  • Eleonore Poetzsch: Business Information - Online, CD-ROM, Internet . Potsdam: Verl. Für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2004, ISBN 3-935035-58-6 .
  • M. Stock, W. Stock: LexisNexis law and LexisNexis economy: source of information for the German market, Password , 4/2005, pp. 24–31, PDF.
  • M. Stock, W. Stock: Digital legal and economic information at LexisNexis . JurPC web doc. 82/2005, paras. 1–105, online text
  • LexisNexis: Company and Services . Information, Wissenschaft und Praxis, September 54 (2003) 364–365.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lexisnexis.de/taetigkeitsgebiete
  2. ^ A b Sabrina Becker: Cologne company buys LexisNexis in the Münsterschen Zeitung of November 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ Wolters Kluwer revives MBO Verlag from June 28, 2011 on wolterskluwer.de.
  4. ↑ Jurion law (called 2 July 2011) on wkdis.de.
  5. ↑ [1] , LexisNexis Germany, February 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ a b Imprint of LexisNexis GmbH (accessed on October 2, 2015).
  7. ↑ The data theft scandal in the USA is spreading , Die Welt , April 14, 2005.