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Lexis+ Pinpoint Makes it Easy to Conduct Practice Area and Fact/Issue Based Research

Complete hours of research in minutes! Lexis+ ® Pinpoint is a unique practice-area specific solution that helps researchers find resources pertinent to the issues, topics, and facts specific to the topic they’re researching. Search results are presented in a visual (and customizable) dashboard that enables users to quickly get a comprehensive overview of the landscape of available material and allows them to ...
14 May 2025

International Coverage on Lexis+ and Lexis

Did you know/remember that Lexis+/Lexis has coverage of a large number of countries around the world? On the landing page, click the International tab in Explore Content: You’ll see the countries for which we have the most coverage/content types. Next, click the View All Countries and Regions link: What comes up next is the full listing of countries for which we have legal and law-related content: ...
8 May 2025

Easily Find Segments for Searching Specific Content Types

While Lexis+/Lexis regular users typically know their preferred segments to use for more specific searches in their most frequent content types, what about requests that come through to search something less familiar? Our Advanced Search templates can provide! Start by clicking the Advanced Search link on the landing page of either Lexis+ or Lexis: Lexis+: Lexis: Then click the link at the top that says ...
30 Apr 2025

How to Surface all the Documents from a Source

There is an easy way to retrieve all the articles or documents from a single source on Lexis ® /Lexis+ ® . Simply pull up the desired source: Then click on the three dots next to the sources name, selecting “Get all documents for this source.” Now you have a full results set with all the documents for this source. If you have any questions, please check with your Knowledge & Research ...
24 Apr 2025

Leveraging Lexis+ Answers

Discover the power of extractive AI with Lexis+ Answers, a tool designed to provide direct answers to your legal research questions. Instead of merely highlighting potentially relevant sections in documents, Lexis+ Answers extracts and delivers precise answers, along with a document-based results list. Using Lexis+ Answers: Type "copyright infringement" into the search bar. Notice that you don't need ...
17 Apr 2025

Happy National Library Week – Announcing Our Cartoon Caption Contest Winners!

The KRC team really enjoyed all the captions you submitted in honor of National Library Week! Voting closed last night, and the winners are . . . 1 st place – “Libraries Draw Communities Together” submitted by Cathy Hardy (Fenwick & West) 2 nd place - "Come Celebrate National Library Week - Let Libraries Draw You In!" submitted by Kathleen Agno (NYU School of Law) 3 rd place - “Whether ...
10 Apr 2025

Vote for Your Favorite National Library Week Cartoon Caption!

Thank you to everyone who submitted a caption for our National Library Week cartoon! Please submit your vote for your favorite caption by 5:00 pm ET on Wednesday, April 9 th using this form . Winning captions and authors will be announced on April 10 th in InfoPro. For reference, the cartoon and captions for voting are shown below, but please submit your vote via the form. Potential captions: "You think ...
2 Apr 2025

Discover Charitable Donations Made by a Specific Company

Don’t forget to submit your caption by 3/28 for our National Library Week Cartoon Caption Contest ! Tasked with finding the charitable donations that a specific company made? Lexis ® /Lexis+ ® has you covered. Select Company & Financial under Explore > Content . Then, select the Mergers and Acquisitions/Donations category. Here you can select from the sources for locating donation information ...
25 Mar 2025

Get up to Speed Quickly with First Year Associate Resource Kit

Don’t forget to submit your caption by 3/28 for our National Library Week Cartoon Caption Contest ! Ever get a research question in an unfamiliar area of law (and need to read up on the basics quickly)? Consider using a Practical Guidance First Year Associate Resources Kit ! Not only will this describe the basics of the practice area, but it will also link you to a variety of more in-depth material (and maybe ...
20 Mar 2025

Caption Our Cartoon in Honor of National Library Week!

This year’s theme for National Library Week is “ Drawn to the Library .” In honor of that, we want to invite you to create a caption for our cartoon below, which we generated in Canva. Between now and March 28 th at 11:59 p.m. ET , please use this form to submit up to three captions for the image below. Be creative, silly, or serious – just have fun with it! We will then share the top three ...
13 Mar 2025

Strengthen Your Search Results Using “Search Within Results” Segments

The ability to fine tune your search results has never been easier on Lexis+. The Search Within Results post-search filter gives you the ability to include or exclude certain keywords. But you can get even more specific by using the advanced search segments once you click into that search box. The segments are unique pieces of a document such as Party Name, Court, or Attorney Name. By default, the Search Within Results ...
6 Mar 2025

Two New Resources to Help you Manage and Track Government Changes

In today’s world of constant news and announcements from the federal government, keeping track of all the details can be challenging! Practical Guidance has added two new resources to help you track of the announcements, and the potential impacts they may have in legal and regulatory areas. Trump Transition Resource Kit – provides an overview of practical guidance covering the impact of legal, regulatory ...
27 Feb 2025

Locate Top Competitors for a Company

Lexis ® and Lexis+ ® provide detailed company information to help you locate top competitors for a specific company. Select Company & Financial under Explore > Content . Then, select the Company Profiles category. Here you can search all the available sources providing company profile information. A few popular sources for these details include D&B, GlobalData Company Profiles, Hoover’s, LexisNexis® ...
20 Feb 2025

Utilize Practice Centers for Curated and Relevant Content

The Explore Content box beneath the search bar offers a myriad of ways to begin your research. One of our favorites is located under the Practice Area tab. While Practice Area pages offer great resources, you can delve even further into specific content by clicking on the Practice Centers link at the bottom of the list: Lexis ® Practice Centers cover a variety of jurisdictions, practice areas, and industries. ...
12 Feb 2025

Trackers in Practical Guidance

If you are ever tasked with tracking or monitoring statutory, case law, and regulatory developments in key legal topics, take a look at the Trackers in Practical Guidance to see if the work has already been done for you! Trackers are found in the Tools & Resources list by clicking on View All: And then scroll to the Trackers: Then you will see the list of 143 topics in alphabetical order: You can scroll ...
6 Feb 2025

Search Terms Map View When Evaluating Results

When you are evaluating the results of a terms & connectors search on Lexis+, take advantage of the Search Terms Map (STM) view to see where the search terms appear in the document, see how they clustered together, and you can use the map to move through the occurrences of the search terms. In this example, the search terms are: Moen, headquarters, and move. You can see that each of the terms are a unique color ...
30 Jan 2025

Lexis+ Code Compare Functionality Available for Court Rules

Court Rule Compare allows users to choose current versions of (federal or state) court rules and compare them against archived versions in seconds. It works exactly like Code Compare. This exclusive feature is only available on Lexis+ ® and Lexis+ AI ® To use Court Rule Compare: When in a court rule, select compare versions. The feature will automatically compare the current version to the most ...
23 Jan 2025

Using the USCS Popular Names Table to Locate Federal Statutes

Frequently we may know the popular name of a statute, but not it’s citation. The Popular Names Table makes it easy to find not only the statute, but also amendments to that statute. To access the table, type Popular Names Table in the search box and click on the title when you see it appear beneath the search box: Note that you can pin or favorite this source to find it quickly. In the search box for the ...
15 Jan 2025

Law360 Pulse Leaderboard Analytics

Create custom analytics focused on the firms you are most interested in! If you are tasked with researching and uncovering competitive intelligence on other law firms, add the new Law360 Pulse Leaderboard Analytics tool to your toolbox! The Leaderboard Analytics tool allows you to select your firm, and then up to 8 firms to compare with; focus on demographics like revenue and other financials, and also on attributes ...
3 Jan 2025

Lex Machina Litigation Footprint

If you are tasked with researching a company or individual as part of a business development pitch or in preparation for a case, and you want to understand the litigation history of that entity, check out the new Lex Machina Litigation Footprint tool! You’ll find it on Lex Machina, under the Parties tab: In the example below, you see a high-level overview of the litigation activity at the top of the page, ...
18 Dec 2024

Submitting a Case to Lexis

Have you ever been asked by an attorney to submit a case to Lexis? If so, you can now easily do it from within Lexis+! From the Research Experience landing page, use the Explore Content pod, and go to the Tools tab. There you will find a link titled, “New Case Request”: Click on that link, and you’ll be taken to a form to submit, and you’ll have the option to attach the case. Also, you ...
12 Dec 2024

CRIV/LexisNexis® Semiannual Update - December 2024

The CRIV Semiannual Call with LexisNexis® took place December 4, 2024. Participants : Monique Gonzalez (CRIV Liaison to LexisNexis); Lindsey Watson (Sr. Manager, Knowledge & Research and Faculty Programs, LexisNexis); Simon Weierman (Sr. Director, US Legal, LexisNexis); Vani Ungapen (AALL Executive Director); Shamika Dalton (AALL Board Member) This update includes news and product enhancements released between ...
9 Dec 2024

CourtLink Alerts Center now includes CourtLink Snapshot

If you have added Snapshot to your Courtlink subscription, not only will they be included in the email list of new cases, now you will find Snapshot included in your CourtLink Alerts Center, too. Snapshot summarizes complaint filings in civil cases from the U.S. Federal District Courts and select State Courts and delivers key insights including the nature of the case, plaintiff and defendant information, alleged harm ...
5 Dec 2024

Enter Case Correction Requests with One Click

Occasionally, an opinion may be missing information or need updates. We’ve made it much easier to submit case corrections to opinions on Lexis. From the Explore Content menu, select the Tools tab. Then click on the Case Correction Request link to be taken to the form: Enter the relevant information and upload any attachments and then click Submit: For additional information please reach out to your Knowledge ...
20 Nov 2024

Special considerations for publications and articles

With 39,000+ sources, LexisNexis ® news coverage is one of the most comprehensive news offerings available, including access to the New York Times ® , The Wall Street Journal ® , and other key sources for legal news. However, there may be times when you search for an article on Lexis and can’t seem to find it. Below we explain a few reasons this may occur. “Missing” articles that appear ...
12 Nov 2024