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Your role has transformed. It is more expansive and more vital than before technological and economic shifts changed legal research forever. LexisNexis® was on the vanguard of that shift decades ago and has been ahead of the curve ever since. In addition to managing information resources, demands on your research expertise have increased. Your role continues to expand in current awareness, market intelligence, knowledge management, business development, due diligence and even teaching lawyers about legal research. Rely on LexisNexis® to anticipate shifts in your profession and provide solutions to help you succeed.

Conduct legal research

Research people, organizations & markets

Monitor new resources & solutions

Provide technology solutions

Guide associates

Share information

Conduct legal research

Whether you are doing the work yourself, supporting an attorney or teaching associates, you can rely on our solutions to search and thoroughly evaluate precedents, develop and validate new theories, or unravel an opponent’s position. These LexisNexis® solutions provide time-tested insights, slash research time and give you and your colleagues unflinching confidence as you search and examine points of law.

Lexis Advance®

Get time-proven legal research tools in a clean, modern design. Conduct authoritative research, develop a smart case strategy and deliver sound transactional guidance. Straightforward tools help you find the precise information you need from federal and state cases and codes. Save time with legal case summaries and headnotes that reflect the holdings and language of the court. Find legal definitions, applicable burdens of proof and standards of review. Analyze issues over time with our exclusive visual Legal Issue Trail™.

Shepard’s® Citations Serviceat Lexis Advance®

Find cases that deal with issues relevant to yours, and ensure the precedents you are citing have stood the test of time. Experienced attorney-editors adhere to strict standards in developing Shepard’s validation and analysis. Easily Shepardize® cases, codes and more, then view the history of cited decisions in a map or grid format with Shepard’s®® Graphical—a Lexis Advance® exclusive. Unlike some services that cover only negative treatments, Shepard’s covers positive treatments with the analysis phrase “followed by,” leading to additional support for your point of law.

Lexis Practice Advisor®

Whether the matter relates to litigation or business transactions, Lexis Practice Advisor® offers access to vital tools, trustworthy analysis and practical guidance. Consult checklists, drafting notes, alternative clauses and sample agreements on myriad topics.

Lexis® Securities Mosaic®

This service brings together securities, federal regulatory, disclosure and legal transaction information. Easily find SEC filings, comment letters, no-action letters, private placements, agreements, model documents and agency documents, laws and rules, as well as news and law firm memos.

CourtLink® Strategic Profiles

Gain insight on the litigation history of judges, experts, litigants and opposing counsel—as well as trends related to specific natures of suit—with easy-to-read graphs, data charts and facts. CourtLink® Strategic Profiles help you develop legal case strategy, vet new hires, draft more successful pleadings and motions and make settlement recommendations.

LexisNexis® Briefs, Pleadings, Motionsat Lexis Advance®

Timely, topical court documents help you build on previously drafted insights related to significant legal issues. The LexisNexis® collection of legal briefs, motions, pleadings and jury instructions are retrieved from noteworthy cases identified by experienced legal editors at Matthew Bender® and Mealey’s™. These invaluable resources link directly to opinions and other key documents.

LexisNexis® Expert Witness Profiles

Research this vast collection of expert witness summary reports. Find trends, biases and details that will help you select the right expert for your case, or disqualify one being presented by opposing counsel.

LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Resources

Draft patent applications with confidence. Apply innovative search and analytical tools to a world-class database. Rely on authorities like Chisum on Patents, Gilson on Trademarks®, and Milgrim on Trade Secrets®. Conduct prior-art searches across international databases, news and business sources, and scientific and technology journals from revered publishers such as Elsevier®. Access litigation filings too—all from a single source.

Mealey’s™ Litigation Reports

A trusted source and the premier provider of litigation news since 1984, Mealey’s™ provides unbiased coverage of significant legal developments through more than 50 highly targeted reports—many of which focus on narrow but emerging subjects simply not covered elsewhere. Rely on Mealey’s to study the latest activity, commentary and trends in complex litigation around the U.S., frequently with links to underlying briefs and arguments.

LexisNexis MedMal Navigator®

Help formulate a winning medical malpractice strategy with assistance from an interactive dashboard that combines medical and legal content, standard of care analysis, case assessment, verdicts and settlements and a directory of experts.

LexisNexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer

Confidently determine the value of a case and see how similar claims have fared. Rely on data from far more verdict reports than any collection out there. Know your assessment also is supported by data from Matthew Bender® What It’s Worth data, Mealey’s™ Litigation Reports and ALM®—publisher of The National Law Journal® and many other respected periodicals.

LexisNexis® State Net®

This solution enables you to reduce risk by identifying and assessing legislative and regulatory activity. Benefit from single-source access to thousands of documents and resources collected, edited and linked for relevancy by experts with deep-domain experience. Use State Net® to store, analyze, segment, track and report on relevant legislation and regulations.

Research people, organizations & markets

Strong facts make strong cases, but the volume of information out there is astounding. With LexisNexis® solutions you can clear the clutter, making sure you have the background you need on people, places and things by combining sophisticated search technologies with vast collections of data you can count on.

Lexis Advance®

Need to evaluate trends, risks and opportunities for your firm? Get time-proven legal research tools in a clean, modern design. Straightforward tools help you research developments coming out of courts, legislatures and regulatory authorities. Track legal news and emerging issues, as well as companies, clients and competitors.

LexisNexis® Public Recordsat Lexis Advance®

Robust search, analytics and reporting tools help you gather business intelligence on people, companies, assets and property. This collection of public and proprietary records encompasses more than 46 billion records. Specialized LexID® linking and LexisNexis® SmartLinx® reporting technologies help you build insights on people, companies and organizations.

Lexis Diligence™

Find the full story behind an organization or individual. Learn from legal news, litigation history, public records, bankruptcy filings, persons of interest, sanctions, politically exposed individuals, financial records and more.

LexisNexis® Litigation Profile Suite®

Uncover and assess detailed information on expert witnesses, your opposition and your judge—all from one source. Generate and share graphical snapshots and reports of past performance and patterns of behavior that can influence your strategy. Access information on hundreds of thousands of experts and a vast collection of verdicts and settlements.

atVantage™

Stay on top of business trends and gather competitive intelligence. This innovative business development tool will give you a clear perspective on new business and strategic growth opportunities, and the complete picture of your competitive landscape.

Accurint® for Legal Professionals

Find people and businesses, assets, properties and connections, precise contact information and relevant legal activity. This advanced search solution scans billions of records, billions of unique name/address combinations and hundreds of millions of phone numbers, mobile numbers, email addresses and vehicle titles.

Lexis® Securities Mosaic®

Securities and capital markets intelligence are essential to keeping your firm informed. This trusted resource gives you real-time and historical SEC and SEDAR® filings and information, plus analytical tools to help you quickly compile the clearest picture of evolving and developing compliance, transactional, disclosure and regulatory activity.

Monitor new resources & solutions

With so many new ways to fulfill your important responsibilities in the firm, it is critical to keep track of them so you don’t miss an important opportunity to improve your firm’s effectiveness. Let us keep you current on product improvements and new solutions that will make a difference to your operation.

LexisNexis® InfoPro Community

Keep up to date on the solutions and developments coming your way from LexisNexis®. Visit our InfoPro to get the LexisNexis® Information Professional Update for access to product information, instructive videos and the latest product literature—all in one place. Check out LexisNexis® InfoPro Weekly for new products and features, new content, fresh product literature, and training programs and webinars.

Provide technology solutions

Technology and research innovations keep coming, and it is among your many duties to make sure your firm takes full advantage of them. LexisNexis® offers an array of solutions to keep your colleagues current, to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, and to give them access to important tools no matter where they are.

Lexis® for Microsoft Office®

Dramatically reduce the time needed to draft, review and respond to legal documents. Access authoritative LexisNexis® resources and employ convenient tools to check citations, create tables of authorities and more—all within the Microsoft® Word and Outlook® software you use every day.

Lexis® Search Advantage

Integrate trusted content with enterprise-wide internal documents to streamline, expedite and validate your legal research. Incorporate Shepard’s Signal™ indicators and links to case and code citations in your internal work product—and be sure you’re not missing relevant information.

LexisNexis® Digital Library

Gain access to primary law, desk books, code books, treatises and more, not only on your desktops and laptops, but on tablets and smartphones too. Purchase, update and distribute publications electronically with easy access to title usage reports. Overcome rising overhead and physical space constraints with LexisNexis® Digital Library.

LexisNexis® Mobile Solutions

Whether you’re at the courthouse or on the road, you can have the latest, trusted legal, news and business insights at the tip of your thumb. Conduct legal research, receive alerts and even manage your practice. Specifically designed for your mobile device, our essential apps, mobile sites and eBooks help you make more-informed, on-the-spot decisions—wherever you are.

LexisNexis® Publisher

This powerful solution sifts through a multitude of databases, websites, newspaper archives and trusted publications, then pulls the results together in a digital backgrounder just for you. Get a regular business intelligence briefing on attorneys and firms, companies or individuals, industries and markets, or governments and organizations—all from vetted, edited and trusted resources.

Guide associates

How can you help make sure the new generation of attorneys has the tools they need to start their journey at your firm on the right foot? Rely on LexisNexis® solutions to help get them on their way with intuitive search tools, authoritative guides, case summaries, sample documents and much more.

Lexis Advance®

Get time-proven legal research tools in a clean, modern design. Conduct authoritative research, develop a smart case strategy and deliver sound transactional guidance. Straightforward tools help you find the precise information you need from federal and state cases and codes. Save time with legal case summaries and headnotes that reflect the holdings and actual language of the court. Find legal definitions, applicable burdens of proof and standards of review. Analyze issues over time with our exclusive visual Legal Issue Trail™.

Lexis Practice Advisor®

Whether the assignment relates to litigation or transactions, Lexis Practice Advisor® offers access to vital tools, trustworthy analysis and practical guidance. Consult checklists, drafting notes, alternative clauses and sample agreements on myriad topics.

Share information

Keep your firm current with tools that monitor new developments relevant to its practice areas and clients. Get this information in front of the right people at the right time—efficiently and effectively. LexisNexis® solutions enable you to scan vast databases, set up alert systems and get important information to the people in your firm who need it most.

LexisNexis® Publisher

This powerful solution sifts through a multitude of databases, websites, newspaper archives and trusted publications, then pulls the results together in a digital backgrounder just for you. Get a regular business intelligence briefing on attorneys and firms, companies or individuals, industries and markets, or governments and organizations—all from vetted, edited and trusted resources.

Lexis Advance® Alerts

Stay on top of legal and business news and distribute critical information quickly. Use intuitive online tools to search our collection of legal news, business, financial and public records information provided by authoritative sources from around the world. Save key searches as alerts to receive updates on the timetable you choose—even in real time. You can even set up a Shepard’s Alert® to stay on top of cases and statutes.

The CourtLink® Service with Alerts and Tracks

CourtLink® docket and document research tools help you monitor litigation by searching across the full text of more than 168 million federal and state court dockets and documents with a single click. Filter your search for additional precision and receive timely alerts and tracks on new and ongoing case filings.