New LexisNexis® Alert Makes Staying Informed Easier Than Ever

The LexisNexis ECLIPSE™ feature, which allows you to update search results automatically, has a new name—LexisNexis® Alerts. Not only does Alerts replace the ECLIPSE feature, it adds new functionality that lets you receive updates from both Shepard’s® and LexisNexis® CourtLink®, as well.

It’s never been this easy to stay current on coverage of your current and prospective clients, relevant businesses, court cases and more. LexisNexis Alerts offers the convenience of news delivered directly to your desktop, as well as coverage from more than 20,000 news sources.

As of August 13, the ALERTS tab appeared at the top of the lexis.com® screen. The LexisNexis Alerts feature provides you:

1. More frequency and flexibility — An Alerts update can be delivered up to three times a day, providing you more timely updates to important breaking stories. Choose from the following options:
   • 1-3 times a day;
   • 1-3 times business days (M-F);
   • once a week (on the day and time you choose);
   • once a month (on the day you select).
      
2. De-dupe functionality — Check the Do not display duplicate documents and the LexisNexis Service will compare each document as it is retrieved with the other retrieved documents in your answer set. If over 90% of the text is the same, the document will be considered a duplicate and will not be delivered to you.
    
3. Alert “watches” — You can run an Alert even if your initial search doesn’t get results. You’ll know if a particular event occurs in the future, for example, an attorney managing a merger between X and Y companies, You can run an Alert to search news results each day for stories in which the two companies appear, together with the term “merger” to check if news on the merger has leaked out during the “silent period.”
    
4. “No new results” —You will be n otified that the search was run but there were no new results.
    

Instructions for Setting Up an Alerts update

1. Enter a search at www.lexis.com.
    
2. After you review your results, click the Save as Alert link at the top of your results screen.
    
3. Fill in the simple Save as Alert form
   a. Name your saved search.
   b. Select your update frequency:
       • Monthly (choose the date and time of day)
       • Weekly (choose the weekday and time of day)
       • Every business day (once, twice or three times per day)
       • Every day (once, twice or three times per day)
    
4. Choose your delivery option—online, printer or e-mail.
    
5. Would you like to be notified via e-mail when your search doesn’t retrieve new documents?
    
6. Choose to exclude any duplicate documents.
    
7. Would you like to be notified via e-mail each time your search retrieves new documents?
    
8. Click Save.
    

Each time your search is updated, you receive only new items. Your stored Alerts searches are listed every time you select the ALERTS tab, then the LexisNexis ALERTS sub-tab. From this sub-tab, you can:

• Edit or delete your saved search
• Run a FOCUS™ feature search on the most recent search results
• Review previous results
• Update your search on the spot

Shepard’s Alert provides timely updates on changes to the citing authorities of your Shepard's report cases.

Now you can use the Alerts tab to get regular updates on your Shepard's reports:

• Specify the type of information in which you’re interested inupdating with customizable parameters, for example, only negative treatment changes, new citing references, new citing cases, and more!
   
• Generate reports on the spot with the “Update Now” feature— before the next scheduled update
   
• View a comprehensive list of changes to the case since the Shepard's Alert was created using Alert History
   
• Temporarily suspend updates with the Pause feature—great for vacations!
   
• Select your own on line and e-mail delivery options
   
• Stay up-to-date on your Shepard's report cases and the citing authority's treatment when you want to and how you want to. Shepard’s alert provides you an amazing amount of flexibility to customize the reports to your needs.
   

Instructions for Setting Up a Shepard’s Alert

1. To request a Shepard’s Alert for a case you are viewing, click the Alert tab and then click the Shepard’s Alert tab. The citation of the case you were viewing will display in the Enter a Citation box. If you are not already viewing a case, click the Alert tab, click the Shepard’s Alert tab and type a citation in the box.
    
2. Click Set Up.
    
3. Fill in the Set up a Shepard’s Alert form
   a. Specify updates for any change, only negative changes or select a particular type of analysis
   b. Select your update frequency:
       • Business days (M-F)
       • Weekly
       • Every other week on a specified day
       • Monthly on a specified date
    
4. Choose your delivery option—online, printer or e-mail.
    
5. Click Continue
    
6. Confirm that your Alert request is correct and click Save.
    

Ask your LexisNexis account representative for more information on how you can use the LexisNexis Alerts tab to receive vital updates—automatically.