Focus on Litigation: Four Steps to a Better Brief with Shepard’s^® Brief Suite

Spend valuable drafting time on developing arguments, not verifying information and agonizing over possible mistakes. New Shepard’s Brief Suite can check and verify—and do it faster and better than your current methods. With the click of a toolbar button, you can now:

• Uncover Possible Trouble Spots … as You Draft—Shepard’s Link™
• Match Your Work to Bluebook Standards in Seconds—Shepard’s^® StyleCheck™
• Verify Citations and Quotations in One Step—Shepard’s^® BriefCheck™
• Create a Table of Authorities Cited in Your Brief … no Formatting Needed—Shepard’s^® FullAuthority^®

Uncover Possible Trouble Spots as You Draft
Shepard’s Link (formerly LEXLink™) copies your brief or memorandum and pinpoints its citations—case law, law reviews, statutes. Then it adds Shepard’s Signal™ indicators plus links to the full-text documents and full-text Shepard’s reports. It even blocks and checks document sections.

Match Your Work to Bluebook Standards in Seconds
Shepard’s StyleCheck checks style against The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th Edition) published by the Harvard Law Review Association. Or select the California Style Manual. No citation marking needed! Shepard’s StyleCheck (formerly CiteRite^®) checks text and footnotes for case law, federal and state statutes, federal legislative history, model codes, uniform codes, law reviews, books, services, signals, short forms and complicated string cites.

Verify Citations and Quotations in One Step
Shepard’s BriefCheck (formerly CheckCite^®) collects your brief’s case-law and law-review citations, verifies them through Shepard’s Citations Service and Auto-Cite^® and generates a summary report that tags problem cites for immediate attention. Plus, it ensures all quoted case law conforms to the actual reported or existing language in the case-law opinion. Not only are quote errors reported, your BriefCheck report also provides the correct language.

Create a Table of Authorities Cited in your Brief—No Formatting Needed
Shepard’s FullAuthority prepares each cite for the table. Choose your table criteria. Cases and statutes as well as U.S. and state materials can be separated. Alphabetize by defendant or public party name and sort by category (case, statute or miscellaneous). Remove explanatory second parentheticals, expand abbreviations, and correct simple punctuation errors. No tagging or marking citations! FullAuthority underlines reporter abbreviations, case names and histories, and even locates short forms. Options make it easy to combine long- and short-form citations, add reporters, or specify alternative spellings.

For more information about Shepard’s Brief Suite, contact your account representative, call Customer Support at 1.800.543.6862, OR go to http://www.lexisnexis.com/briefsuitegetinfo.