Understanding Lexis Advance Pricing and Law Firm BillBack

Understanding Lexis Advance® Pricing and Law Firm Bill-Back Practices

Who Pays for Your Use of Lexis Advance® at the Firm? There are two types of costs associated with your research on Lexis Advance: 1 2 Costs to your firm Costs that some firms choose to charge to their clients 2

During your Summer Associate work and the first 6 months after you graduate, you are entitled to use your Lexis Advance Law School ID at no cost to your firm or clients. Free Summer Associates Access: Free access for Graduates: 3

When using a Law Firm ID, the vast majority of your research will not cost your firm additional money. 99. 9% of documents accessed on Lexis Advance are included in the firm’s flat-rate subscription [CATEGORY NAME]: [VALUE] 100% of all other activities (eg Searches, Alerts, and Shepard’s reports) are included in the firm’s subscription.

Firms work with Lexis. Nexis to include the content they need in their flat-rate subscription. Example subscription options a typical Small Law firm will consider: Included Content Approx. Monthly Cost for a Solo Attorney Option 1: • Single State Primary Content $100 Option 2: • Single State Primary Content • Federal Primary Content • Secondary content specific to the firm’s practice area $225 Option 3: • • Option 4: Eg Cases, Statutes, Administrative Materials All State Primary Content Federal Primary Content Secondary content specific to the firm’s practice area Public Records $275 Add-ons, such as Lexis Practice Advisor®, Lexis ®for Microsoft Office®, Search Advisor, Newsdesk, Securities Mosaic, ALM, Tax Analysts, Wall Street Journal, etc

If you ever need to access content outside of the firm’s subscription, you will first be notified of the cost. If Outside of Subscription Document Access Charge Primary Law Agency & Administrative Materials, Bill Text, Cases, Codes, Court Rules, Dockets, Statutes and Legislation, Registers, etc News (26, 000 sources) National News (Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post ) Regional News (AZ Business Gazette, AZ Capital Times, AZ Republic) Newswires (Dow Jones, Associated Press, Business Wire) $2 $3 Secondary Materials (Tier 2) Most Matthew Bender titles, Jury Verdicts & Settlements, Law Reviews and Journals, Jury Instructions, Jurisprudence, Emerging Issues, CLE Course of Study Materials, Dictionaries, Treatises, Legal News, etc. $50 Secondary Materials (Tier 1) Premium Matthew Bender titles (Chism, Nimmer, Colliers, etc) and CCH materials $90 The only way to access a document outside the firm’s subscription is to click the “Get it Now” button which always displays the price:

Sample screenshot of Get it Now as displayed in Lexis Advance when using a law firm ID. If Outside of Subscription

40% of firms choose to bill their clients for online research. There an infinite number of ways that firms can choose to bill clients for online legal research activities. Here are some of the most common: Common Bill-back Models Details 1 Document Access charge Only • Firms discount rates by an average of 50% when allocating Document Access Charges back to their clients. 2 Document Access charge plus Search charge • The average bill-back rate is $40 when firms choose to bill -back for the search. 3 Primary Law only • Some firms bill-back only for primary law research and do not bill back for analytical content such as Matthew Bender titles. Lexis. Nexis provides firms with an application called Power. Invoice that allows them to customize their bill-back model and download usage data into their invoicing system.

Sample screenshot of Client ID screen If Outside of Subscription