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Benefits

Better serve clients with access to the most thorough case law research available.

LexisNexis gives you access to the world’s largest online collection of current headnoted and Shepardized™ case law—40% more cases over the past 20 years than the nearest competitor.

Find the most relevant information faster.

Maximize your efficiency and accelerate your legal research through:

• Case summaries, headnotes and core terms - letting you quickly assess the potential relevance of a case before reading it in depth.
  
• Shepard’s® citations - offering concise at-a-glance summaries of case treatment and legal opinions, making validation of case law faster and easier.
  
• SmartLinx® - public records reports probe billions of public records in a single search, establishing connections between persons, locations and businesses.

Zero in on a specific jurisdiction or area of law.

Access primary and secondary sources and legal news for more than 55 practice areas and nearly 30 jurisdictions. View sources for your practice.

Search with unsurpassed flexibility.

Develop searches for your research style - options ranging from freeform “natural language” searches to advanced searches using Boolean logic.

Be sure you have the facts you need for discovery and vital transactions.

Search a collection of billions of public records, including information on people, personal assets, business records, and locations .You also get the complete collection of federal and state statutes, and an exclusive collection of business news, including The Wall Street Journal®, Dow Jones® and The New York Times®.

Get intelligent guidance on where to find more information relevant to your research.

Go beyond simply returning search results to provide suggestions and guidance on where to find additional cases and analytical materials related to your research with sophisticated indexing of cases, keywords and legal concepts.

• Suggested Terms and Connectors surfaces terms related to your search, making it easy to modify and sharpen your queries.
  
• Search by Topic or Headnote allows you to search across a wide variety of content types to provide both the broad and deep view of your legal topic—all in a single search.
  
• More Like This helps you quickly find cases whose text, citation patterns and headnotes are similar to other on-point cases.
  
• Featured Content highlights relevant LexisNexis content within the context of the search.
  

Access previous searches and recently used sources easily.

Don’t waste valuable time trying to recreate recent research, or find recently used sources. With the LexisNexis History feature, all your searches for the past 24 hours are instantly accessible, and searches for the past 30 days are available on demand. You can even save searches that you need on a regular basis. And with the Recently Used Sources feature, your last 20 sources are automatically stored and instantly available on your starting page.

Get up-to-the-minute alerts on new case developments, court filings and more.

You can be the first to know about late-breaking information affecting your cases, clients and practice. LexisNexis® Alerts lets you receive automatic e-mail notification when there is new information on the cases, companies, people or topics you specify, even for Shepard’s reports.

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