Where can you find external model documents to use in drafting compelling briefs, pleadings, and motions? Are you skilled in gathering intelligence on experts, opposing parties, attorneys, and judges? Where do you turn when you cannot find support for a particular legal argument?
Your ability to perform these tasks both comprehensively and cost-efficiently can impress senior attorneys, increase client satisfaction, and even enhance firm profits. But what resources can you tap to accomplish this work?
Strengthen your firm’s litigation strategies by using the LexisNexis® editorially selected collection of briefs, pleadings, and motions, along with CourtLink® Single Search. Through tools available only from LexisNexis, you can easily access this unique combination of dockets and court-filed documents to achieve a variety of objectives:
· Find legal arguments that may be unaddressed in traditional legal research sources, such as case opinions, treatises, and law reviews.
· Conduct more thorough investigations of experts, opposing counsel, and parties through review of court documents containing critical information that is often not included in case opinions.
· Gain insights about how a judge handles certain types of lawsuits.
· Draft quality briefs, pleadings, and motions by uncovering previously filed documents for use as templates.
LexisNexis editorially selected briefs, pleadings and motions
The LexisNexis collection of editorially selected briefs, motions, pleadings, jury instructions, and other key court filings comes from recent, leading cases that address unique issues, have generated publicity or may influence future litigation.
These resources are easy to access via the LexisNexis services at www.lexis.com or via LexisNexis® Total Litigator at www.totallitigator.com (also accessible via the Total Litigator tab on lexis.com®).
CourtLink Single Search
CourtLink Single Search simultaneously searches across more than 87 million federal and state dockets and over 3 million documents filed in state and federal courts. The pleadings, motions, notices, and other legal filings available via CourtLink are unique documents that supplement those in the LexisNexis editorially selected briefs, pleadings, and motions collection.
You can access CourtLink Single Search in any of these ways:
· In the upper left-hand corner of any CourtLink page, use the Search Multiple Dockets and Documents task box,
or
· On the home page of LexisNexis® Total Litigator, use the Dockets & Documents task box,
or
· In LexisNexis Total Litigator, select the Gather Intelligence tab, click the Experts option in the left navigation, and click the checkbox for Dockets & Court Documents (CourtLink).
After you access Single Search, getting results is easy:
From CourtLink or the home page of Total Litigator:
1. Enter one or more keywords in the box.
2. Click the Search Tips link if you want to learn more about how to construct your search.
3. Click Search.
4. Enter your Client Matter Code (optional). Click Submit Search.
5. Results from your search will appear in two tabs: one for dockets and one for documents. You can view these dockets and documents at no additional charge by checking the box or clicking the blue link.
6. To refine your search results, click the various categories to the left of the Dockets and Documents results tabs (e.g., Case Status, Case Type, Litigation Area, State or Court system).
Or from the Experts menu on the Gather Intelligence tab of Total Litigator:
1. Click the Dockets & Court Documents (CourtLink) checkbox.
2. Enter the expert’s name in the name boxes below.
3. Click Search.
Have both resources at your fingertips
Use both LexisNexis editorially selected briefs, pleadings and motions and CourtLink Single Search to gain greater efficiency as you help your firm out-prepare, outmaneuver and outperform the competition.