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SEC Filings from the Securities Practice Center
Finding helpful precedent documents in the sea of thousands of SEC filings used to take considerable effort and expertise using lexis.com® segments. Leanne Battle, Senior Librarian Relations Consultant, shares this news: the Securities Practice Center has made it easy!
You can access the Securities Practice Center from the Area of Law by Topic page (Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > Securities) or from the new Transactional Advisor tab (Transactional Advisor > Securities Practice Center).
Choose "Determine Your Strategy." The template at the top of the page allows you to select Periodic Filings/Reports, Offering Documents or Agreements. The list of available filing types will populate according to your search selection. Choose your filing type (8-K, Proxy Statement, Stock Agreement, S-4, etc.) and click Go. If you have additional information such as a company name, clause language or industry code you can include those as well. The precise search that lexis.com® constructed displays on the results page in the FOCUS™ box so you always know exactly what search occurred. Finding SEC filings has never been so easy.
Sharing Online Search Strategies Using the History Link
Here is an easy way to share online research strategies with colleagues so that you don't duplicate work.
- Log on to the LexisNexis® services at www.lexis.com, and click on the History link in the upper-right corner.
- Unless you've done all of your research today, you'll need to click on the Archived Activity tab.
- You can choose to Sort results by Client ID or Date
The sort function allows you to view specific groups of searches by client/matter number or by date. Once you're pleased with your filtered results click on the View Printable History link. Now you can use your browser function (File; Send Page by Email) to send your search strategies to the other librarians who need to see them.
How to Find Restatements
The American Law Institute created the Restatements to summarize common law on a wide variety of topics. Restatements are secondary authority, but are given additional weight due to the number of times they are cited within judicial opinions. They are extremely useful to practitioners in helping to understand unfamiliar topics. LexisNexis carries Restatements on the following subjects:
- Agency
- Conflict of Laws
- Employment
- Foreign Relations
- Judgments
- Property
- Restitution
- Torts
- Trusts
- Unfair Competition
Restatements are located on the LexisNexis® Services at www.lexis.com using the following path:
Legal > Secondary Legal > Restatements of the Law
Restatements are separated into two files: one for case citations and the other for rule sections and commentaries. For example, you can find Rule 12 of the Second Restatement of Contracts by using the following path to retrieve the source:
Legal > Secondary Legal > Restatements of the Law > Contracts > Restatement 2d, Contracts - Rule Sections
Use the following segment search to retrieve Rule 12:
rule(12)
If you want to find a particular topic in a Restatement, you can either run a free-text search or run a segment search to find a particular rule dealing with a particular topic. For example, to find the rule in the Second Restatement of Contracts which defines the word contract, run the following search:
rule(contract and defin!)
Each rule in a Restatement contains a link at the top of the rule to case citations. Clicking this link will bring up case summaries for cases that cite to the particular rule. You can also locate cases by searching in the Case Citations file for the Restatement. Use the following path to locate the Case Citation file for the Second Restatement of Contracts:
Secondary Legal > Restatements of the Law > Contracts > Restatement Contracts & Restatement 2d, Contracts - Case Citations
Each case citation provides a summary of the case, a link to the case itself, and a link to the text of the rule. To locate case citations that deal with Rule 12 of the Second Restatement of Contracts, run the following search:
rule(12)
For more information on searching Restatements on LexisNexis, visit the LexisNexis Knowledgebase.
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