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It’s critical to use the right online legal research tools to help you conduct thorough legal analysis, answer legal questions and increase productivity.
But what tools work best for lawyers? Using the advance search engine technology offered by the Lexis® service, along with its extensive online legal library of case law, you can efficiently search through primary sources such as cases and statutes as well as authoritative secondary sources.
Put simply, Lexis is an online resource that enhances your legal research skills by letting you scour a massive online law library of case law and other valuable legal content. The Lexis service offers plenty of advantages over the other options available to attorneys and other legal professionals. Think of it like a legal writing and research workflow assistant that you can take anywhere, thanks to the Lexis mobile app.
But its value goes far beyond mere content and portability—here’s why.
Leveraging technologies that once were considered science fiction, LexisNexis is revolutionizing the legal industry. Savvy lawyers are already harnessing legal analytics to research more effectively and gain insight that’s never been seen in a courtroom before.
The Lexis service packs plenty of state-of-the-art legal analytics capabilities. Take the Ravel™ View feature for instance. It helps you spot trends and understand the law better than ever before with intuitive language analytics and visualization tools.
Conduct a more powerful search when you incorporate the machine-learning power and intuitive visualization tools within the Lexis service.
Easily scan down your search results page to find exactly what you’re looking for using Search Term Maps. This powerful visualization tool inside the Lexis online legal research service uses a straightforward color-coding scheme.
Quickly see what areas of law are discussed in the case and find similar cases with More Like This Headnote. This feature runs a search for similar cases in your jurisdiction and filters providing you with a curated list of other cases that may benefit your research.
Build your strategy on solid legal footing. Shepard’s® Citations Service, one of the industry’s most trusted legal citator, is built in to the Lexis online legal research service—and is exclusively available with LexisNexis.
Get a case’s Shepard’s treatment and most-cited headnotes right on your search results screen.
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Instead of rows of text, the Ravel View in Lexis turns your search results into an intuitive, color-coded chart.
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