Lexis Nexis Group is a corporation providing computer assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services. The pioneered electronic accessibility of legal and journalistic documents. In 2006 the company has the world’s largest electronic database for legal and public record related information.
The story of LexisNexis starts in western Pennsylvania in 1956, when attorney John Horty began to explore the use of CALR technology in support of his work on hospital law at the university of Pittsburgh health law center. The OSBA singed a contract with Data Corporation, a local defense contractor, to build OBAR based on the OSBA in 1967.
On April 2, 1973, MDC publicly launched LEXIS at a press conference in New York City, with libraries of New York and Ohio case law as well as a separate library of federal tax materials.
In 2013 the smart Meeting won the Stevie award for sales and customer service. As well as in 2014 Nexis won the SIIA CODE Award for best Business information solution.
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