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1 Fast, easy and affordable online access to practical guidance, cases, legislation and quantum valuation tools for personal injury lawyers Lexis PSL Personal Injury Lexis Legal Intelligence

2 Lexis PSL Designed for the cost-conscious time-pressed lawyer, LexisPSL allows you to get on with the real practice of law. Through one easy-to-use website, LexisPSL provides you with all the practical guidance, Butterworths commentary, cases, consolidated legislation, forms and precedents you need to practise personal injury law more efficiently and confidently. Built on the heritage of Butterworths, Tolley and the collective knowledge of hundreds of our lawyers and authors, LexisPSL helps you free up fee-earning time to get on with the practice of personal injury law. Speed up and simplify your practice of law Developed by expert lawyers from firms like yours, LexisPSL gives you the guidance, forms and precedents for the matters you are dealing with enabling you to: Increase profit potential by taking on more revenue-generating work across a greater variety of matters Work more efficiently by getting the guidance you need to address complex legal matters quickly Control costs by reducing spend on multiple overlapping sources of legal information Keep up to date by receiving daily or weekly updates our service is constantly updated to reflect changes arising from case law and legislation Meet your deadlines by completing work more quickly and delivering within agreed timescales Reduce risk by ensuring you are more confident in the accuracy of your advice Unique coverage that no other provider can deliver LexisPSL delivers practical guidance plus cases, legislation and analysis that other providers simply cannot provide.

3 Our Personal Injury lawyers have: Identified the information and guidance essential to your practice areas Highlighted the significant issues Recommended best practice approaches Created practice notes, precedents and checklists to help you work more efficiently Organised all this information around meaningful topics that mirror the way you practise the law We have had the product in place for several weeks now. I have gone from sceptic to convert. The access that it gives at your fingertips to legal information I now feel is invaluable. I believe we will not look back and wish we had made the decision a long time earlier. Marc Folgate, Partner and Head of Personal Injury Litigation, Scrivenger Seabrook Sources quoted or referenced: Atkin s Court Forms All England Law Reports (PI) All England Official Transcripts (PI) All England Reporter (PI) Butterworth Personal Injury Litigation Service Civil Court Practice Common Law Series: Buckley: The Law of Negligence Common Law Series: The Law of Product Liability Common Law Series: The Law of Tort Halsbury s Laws of England Judicial Studies Board Guidelines Munkman - Employers Liability UK Parliament Acts (PI) UK Statutory Instruments (PI) Lexis Smart The smart way to complete forms and precedents. LexisSmart helps you save time and deliver better client service. Developed in partnership with Adobe and Business Integrity, LexisSmart helps you fill out forms and create quality draft documents more quickly and accurately than ever before. Available in: HotDocs Format PDF Format Word Format Browse comprehensive topic overviews for personal injury Search across types of content: Cases Legislation Forms Precedents Practice notes News analysis Personal Injury Toolbox Personal Injury Toolbox The PI toolbox has been designed to help you work more efficiently by ensuring that you have all the resources and tools you need at your fingertips. It includes: Quantum Case Database LexisCalculate A suite of nine quantum calculators Medical Drawings Medical Dictionary Clinical Abbrieviations Dictionary Drill down to the exact information and guidance you require by topic area Practice notes practical guidance and best practice drafted by our lawyers Butterworths key commentary for the topic selected with no additional subscription fee Precedents precedents with drafting notes written by our team of expert lawyers, plus selected key precedents from authoritative Butterworths titles Cases cases from our extensive collection of Law Reports Legislation essential consolidated primary and secondary legislation Sign up for a free trial at For more information visit

4 Built by lawyers for lawyers Tim Wakefield Barrister Tim has acted on behalf of Claimants and Defendants in a wide range of personal injury and medical negligence cases, including Employer s Liability, Local Authority, Disease and NHS Litigation Authority. Tim was admitted to the Bar in Following the successful completion of his pupillage at Crown Office Chambers, he regularly appeared in both the County and High Courts on interim applications, final hearings and detailed assessments of costs. The cases he handled ranged in value and severity from minor whiplash claims to very serious brain injury cases. Butterworths Personal Injury Publications Available online and in print to complement Lexis PSL Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service Relied upon by thousands of personal injury professionals, it offers expert guidance on a whole range of topics, from motor insurance, medical negligence and industrial accidents to character assessment of witnesses, personality changes, damages for scars and the effect of inflation on claims. Bingham & Berryman s Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases Covering all reported cases relevant to claims arising out of road traffic accidents, it is a unique combination of practical procedural advice, legal background and diversity of case summaries within, but not exclusive to, the context of motor claims. Munkman Employers Liability (15th Edition) Munkman is the leading authority and the most comprehensive and analytical text in its field. It is the ideal companion to Redgrave s Health and Safety. Now in its 15th edition, Munkman has been brought fully upto-date and takes into account such recent changes as the emerging areas of personal injury and stress. The Civil Court Practice Commonly referred to as The Green Book, this text is the essential guide to bringing, defending and appealing civil proceedings. It is an indispensable source of reference for all High Court and Country Court practitioners. It is straightforward and laid out logically with the rule located with each relevant practice direction and related commentary. Cook on Costs Cook on Costs 2011 is well established as a practical, friendly guide providing clear and straightforward explanations of every aspect (except criminal costs) of the remuneration of solicitors and barristers for every level of reader. Cook on Costs 2011 aims to explain the complexities of all aspects of the costs of contentious and non-contentious legal business. Anyone who wishes to understand the principles and practice of legal costs should not be without a copy. Sign up for a free trial at

5 LexisPSL is part of the Lexis Legal Intelligence suite, the power behind more profitable practice. Lexis Library The industry s most extensive and authoritative source of essential legal information. Offering you a single point of access to thousands of trusted legal and regulatory sources including Butterworths, Tolley s and Halsbury s, LexisLibrary is your one source for legal research. Lexis Learning Maintain your legal edge with training designed for time-pressed lawyers. Conferences, seminars and online training help you gain CPD points in a way that fits your schedule. Lexis Applications Manage and use information more effectively. LexisApplications, such as LexisCheck, LexisSmart and LexisCalculate, help your work to be more efficient and more accurate. LexisCheck reviews legal citations in your documents or web pages, flagging any that may be out of date or unreliable. LexisSmart takes the work out of form-filling and drafting, helping you turn transactional work around faster. LexisCalculate, a suite of nine quantum calculators, forms part of the PI toolbox; they can calculate quantum in a matter of seconds. Support We offer you the choice of two customer helpdesks: a Content Support Team, open 24 hours, 7 days a week; and a Technical Support Desk, to answer your technical queries. The LexisNexis Technical Support Desk is committed to providing you with a world class customer experience. Our aim is to supply reliable, accurate and timely information with minimum fuss to eliminate disruptions and ensure you gain maximum performance from our products. Our Content Support Team are available to help you get the most out of our products and services. They also offer assistance on our services functionality, such as document delivery and creating alerts. Sign up for a free trial today at Call us for more information on us for more information on lexispsl@lexisnexis.co.uk A division of Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd. Registered office 1-3 Strand London WC2N 5JR Registered in England number VAT Registered No. GB LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc. LexisNexis The information in this brochure is current as of March 2011 and is subject to change without notice.

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