I posted a request several months ago for people's opinions about
comparing Litigation Monitor and atVantage. Many thanks to those who
responded. It took us several months to reach a consensus, but we
decided to renew our subscription to Litigation Monitor for another
year. We did two trials of AtVantage several months apart, and while it
improved substantially between the two tests, the state court coverage
is still insufficient to meet our needs.
AtVantage has several prospecting features that our Marketing group
likes. The link to corporate counsel is nice, but didn't appear to be
much more than the same information in Martindale-Hubbell. The news and
company information links were helpful and appreciated, but we didn't
find them to be provide particularly unique information. The developers
were able to implement several functionality upgrades that we requested
before our second trial, such as being able to filter results by
plaintiff or defendant, which was very important to the Marketing
department. We are a regional law firm, and initially our searches
found that sometimes one service was better in our states, and sometimes
the other was. AtVantage seemed to have better results in California
than Litigation Monitor, but doesn't have Oregon state courts yet.
We have had some technical problems with Litigation Monitor the last few
months because the filtering options can either kick you out or tie up
the browser; if I had to filter very much, it was easier to get out of
the program and start over from scratch. This can be frustrating and
time-consuming.
We would like to see some improvements in both products over the next
year. One area we found lacking in both services is figuring out that
we're searching a trade name instead of a corporate name - we need to go
elsewhere (for us it's our Hoovers subscription) to find out that
connection. But we decided that we could not replicate the court
coverage we're currently able to search with Litigation Profiles on
AtVantage - the additional material in AtVantage was not enough to move
us over to the Lexis product.
Thanks, Laurie
Laurie Daley
Librarian
Bullivant|Houser|Bailey PC
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