LexisNexis® Briefs, Pleadings & Motions

LexisNexis now offers one of the most relevant collections of searchable federal and state Briefs, Pleadings, Motions and other court filings available—with two and one half the number of federal pleadings and motions of any competitor! Whether you are looking for a relevant document to assist in drafting or researching, or want to dig deeper for initial case analysis and due diligence purposes, you can rely on Briefs, Pleadings & Motions to meet your needs.

In addition to our select collection of briefs, pleadings and motions, Document Finder on Courtlink® contains 76.5 million civil proceeding entries in the U.S. District Courts with access to the resulting online and runner documents.

• Save hours researching and writing documents when a topic has already been thoroughly researched and written on in a previous matter.
• Gain insight into the judge’s reasoning.
• Develop arguments taken from similar cases.
• Gain valuable insight by reviewing appendices which contain critical information not in the reported opinion.
• Gain an advantage by utilizing intelligence available on a judge, attorney or client involved in a particular case.

• Get up to speed fast on emerging issues.

From a given brief, pleading or motion, you can link to any related case opinion. Conversely, when you’re reviewing a case opinion, you can link to available briefs, motions and pleadings. And you can use LexisNexis Total Litigator® to search the brief, pleading and motion collection directly or as part of a user’s drafting task. 

To access our Select collection of Briefs, Pleadings & Motions through LexisNexis Total Litigator:

1. Go to www.litigator.lexisnexis.com and sign on.
2. Select Draft, File & Serve.
3. Click Briefs, Pleadings & Motions.
4. Select a jurisdiction from the pull-down menu in Step 2.
5. Select a source from the pull-down menu in Step 3.
6. Enter your terms in Step 3 and click Search.
   

OR

1. Select Draft, File & Serve.
2. Click Drafting Resources.
3. Select Jurisdiction, Practice Area, Drafting Task and Document Type.