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The tracking tool leverages the power of Nexis Newsdesk^™ to allow users to explore ESG trends and conduct customizable searches

NEW YORK— June 30, 2022—LexisNexisâ has unveiled a new, free-to-use Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) media and news tracker that helps brands to better understand their ESG story. Powered by Nexis Newsdesk^™, the tracker allows users to analyze how their brand or company’s ESG efforts feature in global news coverage, as well as to track overall trends in the ESG conversation—all with the click of a button.

 

See LexisNexis’ ESG media and news tracker in action at www.LexisNexis.com/ESG.

 

“For most organizations, ESG efforts have quickly gone from ‘nice-to-have’ to an area that impacts everything from consumer brand perception and investor interest to recruiting efficacy,” said Tom Biddle, General Manager, Media Intelligence at LexisNexis. “ESG should be a critical factor in every organization’s communications strategy, and this new tracker helps users to evaluate how their tactics are being received in real-time, in the real world.”

 

Real-time Coverage

The Nexis ESG tracker includes a simple search bar that serves up the top 15 ESG-related news stories that reference almost any company or brand. This information is sourced in real-time from the Nexis Newsdesk platform, tapping into nearly 100,000 news sources written in over 90 languages from around the globe. The tracker can also be used to conduct multiple searches, allowing users to create quick comparisons between their ESG efforts and those of competitors.

 

Powerful Insights, Visualized

 

The tracking tool also offers deep dives into meaningful ESG-related trending topics. These themes are visualized in an array of charts and graphs, providing a snapshot of subjects ranging from executive pay and environmental stories to workplace diversity, bribery and corporate giving. The tracker also analyzes which companies received the most positive recent coverage for their diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts, breaking down how major organizations like Deloitte, Amazon and Bloomberg are being covered.

 

What Investors Care About

Today, investors want to know that the companies they’re investing in are not only successful but sustainable. As a result, ESG has become an important factor for evaluating the health of companies—with many investment firms paying close attention to ESG ratings. Media coverage factors heavily into these scores, and the Nexis ESG tracker allows users to quickly and efficiently analyze the most-covered ESG-related topics and how specific companies factor into that coverage.

To experience the Nexis ESG tracker first-hand, please visit www.LexisNexis.com/ESG

 

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional^® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 10,500 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

 

About Nexis^® Solutions

Nexis^® Solutions, as part of LexisNexis and the global RELX corporate family, connects customers to market-leading data through a flexible suite of scalable solutions, including our award-winning, flagship Nexis^® research platform. By enabling fast access to a vast universe of enriched data with intelligent technologies, Nexis Solutions empowers business, media, non-profit, government and academic organizations worldwide to quickly discover actionable insights that enable confident, performance-driving decisions.

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NEW YORK – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced that Lexis+, has been named the Best Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Content Solution of 2022 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. The CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative business technology products across the country, and around the world.

Lexis+ is a feature-rich, premium legal solution that integrates advanced research, practical guidance, litigation analytics, brief analysis, legal news and enhanced tools with a modern user experience to deliver greater efficiency and better outcomes.

“This award underscores our commitment to providing an intuitive, all-in-one legal experience based directly on customer feedback,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland. “Lexis+ delivers data-driven insights in an easy-to-use ecosystem, resulting in improved productivity, refined attorney workflows and enhanced ability to deliver timely and strategic counsel.”

Lexis+ leverages artificial intelligence developed by the company’s Lexis Labs team. Highly tuned machine learning models for legal use cases power technology-aided insights for lawyers in features like Lexis Answers and Brief Analysis.

“Our deployment of AI technology ensures that our users can be confident that they have thoroughly analyzed a legal issue,” said Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer, LexisNexis North America, UK & Ireland. “By combining world-class content with the latest in machine learning, lawyers find answers to legal questions faster and with greater confidence that they haven’t missed the proverbial needle in the haystack.”

“Even during these tumultuous times, business application, software, service and product providers continued the industry’s long tradition of developing and marketing innovative solutions to meet business needs,” said SIIA President Jeff Joseph. “We are proud to recognize this year’s class of CODiE Award winners. They truly represent the best of the best in a highly-competitive and ever-evolving market.”

Acknowledged as the premier awards program for the software and information industries for over 35 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards are produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software, education, media and digital content industries. Lexis+ was honored as one of 46 winners across the 45 business technology categories, including seven leadership categories recognizing outstanding companies, individuals and teams.

To view the full list of this year’s CODiE Award winners, go to siia.net/codie/business-technology-winners.

For more information on Lexis+ features and pricing, please visit www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/home.page.

About the SIIA CODiE^™ Awards

The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence.  For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 10,500 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

 

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N.C. Child and Family Improvement Initiative Already Proving Successful

North Carolina, June 14, 2022 – As part of the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative, launched on May 1, 2022, North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) have assembled North Carolina child welfare subject matter experts and thought leaders to create a statewide solution to the current pressing challenges of the service delivery system.
 
Responding to the most significant issues raised by members of the General Assembly, county Departments of Social Services (DSS), providers and families, the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative will create ease of movement for children who relocate throughout the state to ensure continuity of care without delay or interruption and will alleviate administrative burden on providers who are involved in those inter-county movements.
 
Immediately following launch of the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative, the LME/MCOs have quickly developed nine critical objectives for a statewide model that will support seamless access to quality care for children in foster care, regardless of where they live in North Carolina.
 

• Establish a statewide provider network to ensure access to residential treatment and the other services these youth need.
• Ensure a standardized, seamless process for children moving from one LME/MCO region to another or changing custody to a new DSS.
• Establish rapid access to care by reducing authorization barriers for residential treatment.
• Increase capacity for crisis care across the state.
• Co-locate LME/MCO care managers across North Carolina’s County and regional DSS offices, tailoring the approach to the unique needs of each county DSS.
• Establish a standardized reimbursement rate at 100% of the rate floor for out-of-network community-based providers.
• Adopt standardized child-specific In Lieu Of Services across all LME/MCOs.
• Develop a standardized, statewide referral system for all residential and Therapeutic Foster Care providers.
• Standardize case escalation frameworks in collaboration with local DSS departments.

 
“We applaud the rapid collaboration from the state’s LME/MCOs to develop a coordinated statewide strategy so that children and families who are in the foster care system have a seamless experience of quality care,” said Kevin Leonard, Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC). “The immediate and significant efforts of the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative support the NCACC’s request that NCDHHS pause implementation of a statewide CFSP, which would allow time for LME/MCO results to be measured, and also would allow all stakeholders an opportunity to have dialogue that will assist in developing a long-term and sustainable solution to best serve the children in foster care programs across the entire state.”
 
The LME/MCOs plan to vet these objectives with key representatives from local DSS agencies and service providers over the coming weeks to gather their input and finalize a plan for full implementation. Karen McLeod, president and chief executive officer of Benchmarks, an umbrella non-profit advocacy group for children and family service agencies, praised the development of the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative saying, “We are really pleased that the LME/MCOs are working collectively to prioritize youth in foster care.” McLeod stated that Benchmarks looks forward to working with the group to vet the objectives, which are designed to improve the administration of services behind the scenes. The commitment of all six LME/MCOs to partner on a shared health care model for youth in foster care “will go a long way toward providing statewide continuity of care for these children,” McLeod added.
 
John Eller, Director of Social Services for Mecklenburg County Government adds, “Departments of Social Services (DSS) need solutions to the current challenges we are experiencing and more readily available access to services for the children and families in our community will help us with prevention both ‘upstream and downstream.’ Between the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative, planning being done by NCDHHS, support from the General Assembly, and advocacy from providers, counties and their DSS agencies, we hope all of these efforts coupled with Medicaid Transformation will culminate into a cohesive system reform that complements each component. We applaud the LME/MCOs for engaging DSS stakeholders in the Initiative. We look forward to participating in these discussions and seeing the Initiative’s collective objectives achieved.”
 
As the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative workgroups continue their efforts in the coming days and beyond, more details, including dates for delivery of the objectives, will be shared. The immediate improvements resulting from this partnership will be fully functional before the December 2022 launch of the North Carolina Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Tailored Plans.
 
ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA LME/MCOs
North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) are responsible for managing Medicaid, state and local funding for North Carolinians who are uninsured or who receive Medicaid and seek services for mental health (MH) needs, substance use disorders (SUDs), intellectual/ developmental disabilities (IDD), and traumatic brain injuries (TBI).
 
The LME/MCOs are the cornerstone of North Carolina’s public MH/SUD/IDD/TBI managed care system designed to improve quality and timely access to care for individuals and families.Established by the General Assembly in 2011, the LME/MCOs are built on a 50-year legacy of county area programs with deep local, community roots. The LME/MCOs ensure access to high quality provider networks, strong community collaboration to support robust System of Care, and budget predictability through the efficient and effective use of public funds and resources.
 
North Carolina’s LME/MCOs include:
Alliance Health
Eastpointe
Partners Health Management
Sandhills Center
Trillium Health Resources
Vaya Health

• 15 restaurants in Miami, Orlando and Tampa earn MICHELIN Stars, including L’Atelier de JoËl Robuchon Miami with two MICHELIN Stars
• Selection also highlights 29 Bib Gourmands, plus two special awards
• 118 restaurants, 35 different cuisine types in the selection

 

ORLANDO, Fla., June 9, 2022 — The inaugural edition of the MICHELIN Guide Miami, Orlando and Tampa has been revealed, with inspectors finding 14 One-MICHELIN-Star restaurants and a Two-MICHELIN-Star restaurant.
“As you can see, Miami, Orlando and Tampa have very much to offer to international food and wine enthusiasts,” said Gwendal Poullennec, International Director of the MICHELIN Guides. “These talented chefs and their committed teams create culinary experiences matched only by the amazing attractions of each city. This very first selection of the MICHELIN Guide in Florida highlights glittery Miami, storied Orlando and breathtaking Tampa, offering a unique blend of international cuisine and Florida flavors. Local foodies as well as travelers will enjoy exploring these mesmerizing and rich Florida culinary destinations.”
 
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon Miami, led by Director of Culinary Operations Alain Verzeroli, received two MICHELIN Stars. Here’s what the inspectors had to say about it:
 
L’Atelier de JoËl Robuchon Miami (French cuisine)
The menu offers both tasting portions and large plates; but go with the seasonal prix fixe. The bread basket is a lovely opener, arriving in advance of such thrilling bites as a seared sea scallop with toasted spices. The Design District setting bears all the beloved hallmarks with its counter and open kitchen.

Here are the One MICHELIN Star restaurants, with inspector notes from each (inspector comments in full on the MICHELIN Guide website and mobile app):
 

Ariete (Miami, Contemporary cuisine)
Chef Michael Beltran’s Coconut Grove mainstay is immediately welcoming with a menu that weaves together Cuban and French influences to dazzling effect.

 

Boia De (Miami, Contemporary cuisine)
A neon-pink exclamation mark that glows above the front door is impossible to miss. Surprising is certainly an apt descriptor for Chefs Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer’s distinctive and impressive menu.

 

Cote Miami (Miami, Korean cuisine/steakhouse)
Owner Simon Kim and his team know what they’re doing in this highly stylized Korean steakhouse, which almost feels like a temple to beautifully marbled and aged beef, much of it on display in a nearby room.

 

The Den at Sushi Azabu Miami (Miami Beach, Japanese cuisine/sushi)
Tucked away in the Stanton South Beach hotel through Sushi Azabu’s dining room and behind a sliding door is this intimate temple to sushi. Fish flown in a few times a week is treated and dressed minimally, often with just a single brush of nikiri.

 

Elcielo Miami (Miami, Colombian cuisine)
The menu offers diners a taste of traditional Colombian cuisine presented in a modern and dramatic manner. Colombian-born Chef Juan Manuel Barrientos’ culinary artistry has garnered international fame, with various locations, including Washington, D.C.

 

Hiden (Miami, Japanese cuisine)
This spot is indeed hidden in the thick of bustling Wynwood. Chef Shingo Akikuni sticks to tradition, sourcing most of his product from Japan — beautiful slabs of tuna, sweet botan ebi and generous portions of uni are highlights in a tasting menu that never feels stuffy or overly reverent.
 

Le Jardinier Miami (Miami, French cuisine)
Stylish from head to toe, this dining room is a celebration of the seasons. The menu is a study of vibrant tastes and smart compositions that pack big flavor minus the heaviness.
 

Los FËlix (Miami, Mexican cuisine)
This is cooking that sends guests on a gustatory trip — at the hands of servers who are armed with ample information about the provenance of each ingredient. Recent highlights have included hearty pork cheek carnitas with myriad salsas and snapper crudo topped with shavings of jicama and avocado aïoli.
 

Stubborn Seed (Miami Beach, Contemporary cuisine)
Stubborn Seed is sexy and sleek with its industrial chic décor and glass-fronted display kitchen. Chef Jeremy Ford brings the heat, and his ambitious and brashly creative cooking is best enjoyed by way of the tasting menu.

 

The Surf Club Restaurant (Surfside, American cuisine)
Located within the elegantly restored landmark, now in league with the Four Seasons, The Surf Club is a prime location for Thomas Keller’s first Florida venture. Sauces are what this team does best, starting with the scallop crudo with buttermilk-basil dressing; followed by the brilliantly reimagined Maine lobster thermidor with sauce Américaine.

 

Capa (Orlando, Steakhouse)
At the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World; this steakhouse also flaunts a decidedly Spanish accent. Kick things off with ace tapas before indulging in a main dish, like flame-kissed ribeye with tamarind-ancho sauce.

 

Soseki (Orlando, Fusion/sushi)
This tiny operation with Chef Mike Collantes at the helm is an ideal illustration of a contemporary meal expressed by way of an omakase. A laser-like focus on local Florida produce results in a menu that changes monthly.

 

Kadence (Orlando, Japanese cuisine/sushi)
The omakase opens with hot dishes and cool sashimi. This is food that’s free-spirited, yet manages to honor the classic methods. Pacing is on point in sashimi like hamachi and hirame. Nigiri, like snapper with lemon and sea salt, will have you yearning for more.

 

Knife & Spoon (Orlando, Steakhouse)
This iteration from Chef John Tesar inside the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes, is the picture of plush. Care and skill are the hallmarks of this team, as they turn out contemporary steakhouse fare woven with seafood.

 

Bib Gourmands
The MICHELIN Guide inspectors found 29 restaurants worthy of the Bib Gourmand designation, which recognizes great food at a great value. These are restaurants where one can have two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for under $49. There were 19 in the Miami area, seven in the Orlando area and three in the Tampa area.

 

 

 

 

Special Awards
In addition to the highly anticipated Bib Gourmand and Star awards, the Guide announced two special awards. Sommelier of the Year, presented by Wine Access, was awarded to Victoria James and her team at Cote Miami. The Exceptional Cocktails Award was awarded to Ruben Rolon and his teams at L’Atelier de JoËl Robuchon Miami and Le Jardinier Miami.
 

 

The MICHELIN Guide Star Revelation event is presented with the support of Capital One.
The 2022 Miami, Orlando and Tampa restaurant selection will join the MICHELIN Guide selection of hotels, which features the most unique and exciting places to stay in Florida and around the world. Visit the MICHELIN Guide website, or download the free app for iOS and Android, to book unforgettable hotels and make restaurant reservations through partners OpenTable, Resy and SevenRooms.
 

 
 

About Michelin North America, Inc.
Michelin, the leading mobility company, is working with tires, around tires and beyond tires to enable Motion for Life. Dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility and sustainability, Michelin designs and distributes the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its customers’ needs. Michelin provides digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences. Bringing its expertise to new markets, the company is investing in high-technology materials, 3D printing and hydrogen, to serve a wide variety of industries — from aerospace to biotech. Headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, Michelin North America has approximately 22,500 employees and operates 34 production facilities in the United States and Canada. (michelinman.com)
 
About Capital One
At Capital One we’re on a mission for our customers – bringing them best-in-class products, rewards, service, and experiences. Capital One is a diversified bank that offers products and services to individuals, small businesses and commercial clients. We use technology, innovation, and interaction to provide consumers with products and services to meet their needs. Through Capital One Dining and Capital One Entertainment, we provide our rewards cardholders with access to unforgettable experiences in the areas they’re passionate about, including dining, music and sports. Learn more at capitalone.com/dining and capitalone.com/entertainment.

 
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Andrew Festa
Michelin North America
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Devon Gunn
Capital One
devon.gunn@capitalone.com
Phone: 571-308-4762

Firms of all sizes, across  jurisdictions are buying into LexisNexis InterAction’s cloud vision as they adapt to a hybrid working environment

LONDON, U.K. / RALEIGH, NC, 7th June 2022 – LexisNexis InterAction, the leading client relationship management (CRM) solution specifically designed for legal and professional services, has demonstrated that adoption of its hybrid cloud platform is gaining significant momentum globally since the pandemic. Firms of all sizes, most notably across countries in Northern Europe, the United States, Chile, South Africa, Australia and India, are investing in the InterAction hybrid cloud solution, driven by the imperative to empower both attorneys and business development strategists to leverage firm-wide relationship intelligence with this business-critical CRM tool in  remote and hybrid working environments, triggered by the pandemic. Since January 2021, the solution has seen a 150 percent increase in the number of firms deploying the solution, with individual user numbers growing by 94 percent.

The most common reasons cited by firms for adopting LexisNexis InterAction’s hybrid cloud platform include trust in the reputation of LexisNexis as the gold standard in legal data management, a proven CRM solution for professional services firms, advanced relationship intelligence capability, sophisticated business development-related functionality, and workflow-driven integration with Microsoft Office. The hybrid cloud platform is being adopted, both by current clients and net new customers. Over the last 15 months, 15 new firms with over 3,268 combined users, have chosen InterAction for their relationship intelligence needs.

Magdalena Engel, Communications Manager at Carey, Chile’s largest law firm, explains, “We made the decision to move to the InterAction hybrid cloud application so that the lawyers can easily access InterAction, as they work remotely due to COVID; and for the IT department, to lessen their burden of keeping up with updates and patches. We have relied heavily on the InterAction Professional Services team to lead us on this journey. We have complete trust in the advice they offer, which is always with our best interests in mind.”

Despite the unforeseen disruption caused by the pandemic, InterAction customers have been able to successfully stay connected and collaborative with clients and maintain their focus on meeting expected service levels. This is evidence that InterAction remains the best CRM and business development tool for law firms – regardless of dispersed teams, firm sizes, jurisdictions and regional locations.

The number of users seeing the value and results of the InterAction hybrid cloud solution continues to increase. Many of the larger, multi-regional law firms are incrementally rolling out the hybrid cloud solution, positioning themselves ahead of their competition by harnessing the power of the Strategic Data capability offered by LexisNexis InterAction. This functionality is enabling firms to align their business development strategies and overall objectives, taking a data-driven approach to decision-making in today’s uncertain and still evolving post pandemic environment. With a dispersed workforce, this kind of cloud-based capability is viewed as business critical for commercial insight, business development, pipeline management and ultimately, client satisfaction.

Similarly, many small to mid-sized law firms who have ambitious plans to grow, are attracted to LexisNexis InterAction as they too can take full control over where data is stored, leveraging patented technology to securely access data where and when it is needed.

George Tsivin, General Manager, LexisNexis Legal Business Solutions, says, “Firms of all sizes and across all jurisdictions are buying into our modern, data-driven approach to CRM and business development, alongside our cloud vision for the InterAction platform. Our hybrid cloud InterAction solution has been designed to allow firms to adopt cloud capability, based on their business requirements and individual appetite for the technology. We don’t believe in an ‘all or nothing’ approach to the cloud. Rather than expecting customers to adapt their way of working to fit the application, our solution flexibly accommodates clients’ priorities. Clearly, our approach to cloud is resonating with the market.”

LexisNexis InterAction Hybrid Cloud combines the benefits of SaaS whilst offering customers full control over where their data is stored. Firms can select to store data on-premises behind a firewall, in a private cloud, or in a public cloud environment. LexisNexis’ patented methodology means that data is never stored at rest in the LexisNexis InterAction cloud. Powerful client relationship data is delivered when and where it is needed most, so firms can offer improved client service and a strong pipeline for new business opportunities. Designed with the way firms work in mind, the solution embeds vital client data into existing workflows, streamlining processes and improving user adoption and data quality across the entire firm. Private and secure mobile access to data and insights allows seamless access to the existing InterAction ecosystem on users’ chosen device, from anywhere.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional^® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 10,500 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About LexisNexis^® InterAction

LexisNexis^® InterAction^® is the leading client relationship platform for law and professional services firms. For almost three decades, InterAction has helped firms of all sizes drive business relationships, accelerate firm growth, and increase revenue by embedding client intelligence at the heart of every engagement. We aim to be a partner that helps you grow your book of business through an innovative portfolio that enables you to uncover value in your contacts while improving your ability to deliver meaningful relationship experiences. Discover more at interaction.com. 

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Nicole Merson
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