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• One on One Telephonic Consulting is available to schedule a personalized meeting to help you learn how to use LexisNexis® and sharpen your existing search skills by focusing on your area of interest/area of law to make the session as valuable as possible. We have introductory, intermediate, advanced and topical sessions as well as sessions designed to fulfill CLE obligations (varies by state). Please see the CLE Course Summary below for more information. To schedule your personalized session, please go to LexisNexis® Telephonic Consulting.
  
  
• Onsite group consulting sessions can be arranged in major metropolitan areas. Please contact Monica Loya for more information at (281) 373-0371 or monica.loya@lexisnexis.com.

Search Assistance Literature and Resources:

• Training Literature
• Online Directory of Sources
• Product literature and manuals for lexis.com®
• Paralegal Certificate of Mastery Program (PDF)

Summary of LexisNexis® CLE Courses:

Applied Discovery
Understanding the difference between electronic evidence and paper evidence; legal issues related to electronic discovery; responding to an electronic discovery request.

Bankruptcy Research
Review of finding cases, regulations, bankruptcy-related information, news and analysis; bankruptcy act, legislative history and rules; statutory materials (federal and state); law review articles; ALR annotations.

Citator Research
This class provides you with a basic knowledge of the LexisNexis® Citator services. You learn to use the following features: LEXSEE®, LEXSTAT®, LEXCITE®, Auto-Cite®, and SHEPARD'S®.

Client Development
Overview of existing/prospective clients; Secretary of State information; legislative/regulatory environment; finding financial reports, patents, UCC and tax lien information, criminal and Civil litigation information; finding information on Private Companies/Subsidiaries or affiliates, financial and key executives.

Corporate & Securities
This course is designed to teach applications for the LexisNexis® corporate & securities materials. It focuses on finding SEC materials, reviewing trends, locating full-text SEC filings and some due diligence.

Corporate Cost Effective Research
This course is designed to teach applications for locating corporate materials. It covers the following topics: EDGAR filing & access disclosure, Corporate libraries and files, the CODES library, Corporate Investigation and also cost effective searching.

Exploring the Environment
This course is designed to teach applications for the LexisNexis® environmental materials. It covers the following topics: general caselaw, statute and regulatory research, site records, environmental agency decisions, consent decrees, EPA guidance documents, Superfund records, compliance and enforcement records, federal agency decisions, BNA publications, news publications and litigation disclosures.

Factual Discovery
This course is designed to be poised to impeach expert and ordinary witnesses; discover strategic facts relevant to your case; easily create convincing, powerful visual trial and deposition exhibits; discover facts on jurors; locate witnesses to subpoena.

Insurance Research
Locate and verify the facts you need fast: name and address verification; person lookup; using timesaving features such as, SmartLinx™; how to find information on businesses; news; vehicle information; and public records information.

Intellectual Property
This course is designed to highlight the features and benefits of Folio Views in an intellectual property environment. Topics covered: patent retrieval & integration, client and competitor patent infobases, electronic trial notebook & pendings index, work product retrieval & electronic cite checking (blue book & tables of authority).

Labor & Employment
This course is designed to teach applications for the LexisNexis® labor & employment materials. It will focus on locating caselaw, regulations, federal administrative agency decisions and opinions, labor & employment publications, monitor pending legislation, legislative history, court settlements and jury verdicts, arbitration materials and US Supreme Court briefs.

Legal Research using the Internet
This covers for the beginner a quick overview of the “web”; private services; caveats on web research; primary law; legal search engines; legal humor; professional associations; and news and information.

Lexis® I
This class provides a basic working knowledge of the LexisNexis® services. Skills included are how to develop a search request, find cases and other documents by topic and find cases by cite or by party names. In addition, you learn to use SHEPARD'S® Citation Service to determine that your cases are "good law."

Lexis® II
Building on the techniques learned in the introductory class, this session emphasizes time efficient and cost-effective searching tips. Skills include how to bypass menu screens using short cuts, narrow searching with segments, focus on a specific word(s) within an original search and refine searches with advanced connectors.

Lexis® Update
This class is a refresher of the information and techniques learned in LEXIS® I and LEXIS® II, as well as an update of new features and capabilities added to the database since previous training.

Litigation Intelligence using CourtLink®
Learn how to use docket information to: aid in business development efforts; to avoid liability; to help research cases and strategize litigation; and to serve clients more effectively.

Litigation Strategies & Solutions
This course is designed to teach litigation strategies & solutions. It focuses on the following topics: research background of opposing counsel, reviewing articles on a particular subject matter, verdict summaries, litigation records and financial standing of opposing clients, newsletter review, corporate overviews, locating or investigating expert witnesses, public records usage and arbitration materials.

Mergers & Acquisitions
This course is designed to teach applications for the LexisNexis® Mergers & Acquisitions materials. It covers the following topics: Applications, SEC filings & Due Diligence.

Nexis®
An introduction to searching news and business sources, this class emphasizes connectors, moving around in documents, focusing on a specific word(s) in research results and printing. During the training session, sample searches are performed in the NEWS library and others

Public Records
This course is an overview and searching of Corporation Information Library (INCORP) : Provides access to records on active and inactive limited partnerships and corporations registered with the offices of the Secretary of State or other appropriate agencies; Liens Library (LIENS) : Provides access to current information extracted from Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 filings on personal property; Locator Library (FINDER) : Contains information for finding individuals, companies and professionals; Docket Library (DOCKET) : Provides access to court indices, docket information, judgment information and bankruptcy filings from county courts; Verdicts Library (VERDCT) : Aids litigation preparation by providing quick and convenient access to selected online verdict and settlement information for civil cases nationwide.

Tax Research
This course is designed for the tax practitioner and focuses on the following topics: general tax information, how to stay current on tax issues and client information, financial information and public records.

Time Matters®
Time Matters® combines the following essential elements in one package: legal research; case/client management; calendar, email and task management; docketing; document management; document automation; and billing/expense tracking.