Lexis Middle East Legal Research Platform & AI Assistant for the middle east

Lexis® Middle East

The definitive research tool for lawyers working in the Middle East.

The Middle East is a vibrant and rewarding business hub that legal practitioners can now fully tackle with Lexis® Middle East’s straightforward access to decisive online legal content in English.

Essential information you can’t get anywhere else

On top of fully amended and consolidated laws translated from Arabic to English by our strategic partner Sader Legal Publishing, and regulatory material for more than 100 freezones and agencies, Lexis® Middle East is the only platform that includes translations of all GCC gazette indexes and more than 18,500 case summaries.

Accomplish tasks faster with know-how from leading local practitioners

The Lexis® Middle East platform encompasses a complete up-to-date set of practical guidance tools and documents: Questions & Answers, Getting the Deal Through Country Guides, Precedents, Checklists, Toolkits, and more than 1,700 GCC-specific Practice Notes from Gulf Legal Advisor (GLA).

GLA makes your life easier by enhancing your research and getting you up to speed quickly on new or changing topics in your practice area.

Through practical guidance provided by expert lawyers, GLA gives you the what, how, and why of GCC laws and allows you to confidently advise, negotiate and draft more effective documents, more efficiently.

Content Highlights

Laws

Fully amended and consolidated laws in Arabic and English covering UAE Federal and all Emirates, plus Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and selected laws from Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon.

Gazettes

Access gazettes covering UAE Federal and all Emirates, plus Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Turkey.

Cases

Access 13,000+ expertly translated summaries, covering leading courts and tribunals across the UAE, GCC, and wider Middle East, including federal and cassation courts, financial centres, specialised commissions, and appellate bodies delivering clear, practical insight into how the region’s laws are applied in practice.

Current Awareness

Stay ahead with current awareness coverage through leading regional law magazines, arbitration journals, expert law firm newsletters, and daily-updated Middle East legal news, curated from 300+ trusted sources to keep practitioners informed of key developments, trends, and practical insights across the MENA legal landscape.

Practical Guidance

Covering arbitration, finance, corporate, construction, dispute resolution, regulatory, and industry-specific law across the Gulf and wider Middle East, with jurisdiction-specific guidance, freezone coverage, and comparative insights through platforms like Lexis Q&A and Getting the Deal Through.

Books

A powerful library of authoritative Middle East legal and business books, from Sader UAE Annotated Codes across civil, commercial, banking, labour, arbitration, insurance, and real estate law, to country-specific “Doing Business” guides and specialist titles on Islamic finance, capital markets, taxation, free zones, and regional investment, trusted by practitioners operating across the UAE, GCC, and wider MENA region.

Work at maximum efficiency with cutting-edge features

The new powerful search engine comes with numerous innovative features such as Fast track, Drilldown, Case Pathfinder, and dynamic tables of contents that have been designed for quick and easy access to the information that you need.

Stay on top of the latest developments

Access magazines like The Oath, Lexis Middle East Law Alert, Lexis Middle East Gulf Tax & Lexis Middle East HR Alert, regional office law firm newsletters like Al Tamimi & Co and Clyde & Co, and daily news updates drawn from over 350 local sources.

Receive alerts regarding any new content or content updates on the platform via our fully customisable alert module.

Support you can count on

With our GCC-wide team on the ground supported by our London and Paris offices, our team is on hand to assist you face-to-face or remotely to ensure that you make the best out of our solutions.

Regional Coverage

United Arab Emirates

Saudi Arabia

Qatar

Kuwait

Bahrain

Oman

Turkiye

Lebanon

Jordan

Morocco

Egypt

Iran

Libya

Iraq

Tunisia

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