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LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ to the Rescue: Verdicts and Settlements Stories

Formulating the perfect search when looking for news stories specifically related to verdicts, settlements and decisions can be difficult. When your search terms are be somewhat generic or appear frequently throughout the document, the ability to isolate those words to the portion of the story that really captures the verdict or decision can be frustrating. Mega News, Verdicts and Settlements Group source on lexis.com makes that task a lot easier.  Mega News, Verdicts and Settlements containsa combination of news and legal news sources published in the United States with premium content. It also contains wire services where more than 60% of the stories originate in the United States.  This source provides access to over 3.5 million news stories with additional content being added daily.

Mega News Verdicts and Settlements employs LexisNexis’ powerful SmartIndexing Technology™.  SmartIndexing is an extremely valuable tool to use with searches in LexisNexis news and business content. By retrieving more relevant results you are able to get to the information more quickly and efficiently than when using a less-targeted search strategy.

The following SmartIndexing segments will retrieve stories in Mega News Verdicts and Settlements that are focused on the following topics:

• VERDICTS – stories related to decisions of judges or juries on issues of fact in criminal or civil trials.

terms (verdicts) and (wrong! /s dismiss! or terminat!) and date aft

• SETTLEMENTS & DECISIONS - stories related to rulings, judgments, court-ordered awards, outcomes of negotiations and alternative dispute resolution and out-of-court settlements.

terms (settlements & decisions) and (construct! /3 defect! /p mold)

• DECISIONS & RULINGS - stories related to final and preliminary decisions, findings, awards and rulings by judicial bodies.

terms (decisions & rulings) and (law firm or attorney /5 malpractice or misconduct!)

To access Mega News Verdicts and Settlements on lexis.com, click on:

News and Business/Combined Sources/Mega News Verdicts and Settlements