More law students now look towards LexisNexis as a major source of all legal information. The company baits these students with various incentives, like free service, in hopes to win them over as future customers.

LexisNexis is a leading provider of legal information and services solutions. It helps students reduce the time and effort taken in plowing through the volumes of electronic information by offering easy access to case collections and statutes around the world.

When possible, students like Jessica Drewitz, a 3L at the University of Dayton School of Law, and Casie Hollis, a 2L at UD, prefer to navigate LexisNexis even though other competitive options are available to them.

Other resources like Westlaw and other voluminous stacks heaped on shelves in the law school library are often given second preference even though these resources also supply free information to law students.

LexisNexis has already established its credentials among mainstream legal professionals and continues to make rapid forays within the law school community in order to ensure continual business.

Besides containing all current U.S. statutes and laws, the Lexis database also provides access to foreign law cases and statutes from the U.K., Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, France, Mexico, and the European Union.

Lexis is also a repository of nearly all published case opinions dating as far back as the 1770s. It also stores all freely available unpublished case opinions since 1980.

What attracts students to LexisNexis is the program’s ease, speed, and ability to seamlessly continue its use as a lawyer. “What they use now as students has applicability in their future professional lives, too,” opines D. Scott Koorndyk, Senior Director of LexisNexis law school markets.

Students also get immediate help from the "live support" button, a real-time instant messaging system that helps student access a LexisNexis employee anywhere, anytime. LexisNexis services span across continents, and its 13,000 employees serve customers worldwide. It commands a work force of about 3,000 alone in the Dayton area.

Apart from providing professionals in the legal arena with research services, LexisNexis also serves a wide range of professionals working in the risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets.