When creating a Table of Authorities, a judge or your firm may prefer a simplified style for listing the page numbers associated with each citation. One such style is the use of “passim” to show multiple instances of the same citation throughout...
As you are doing research and looking at documents in full text, you might have wished for an option to mark the document for delivery before you move onto the next document in your results. Here’s a helpful tip. You can put any document you are...
Is your firm transitioning to Lexis Advance® from WestlawNext®? We’ve made it easier for you: Go to the new Advanced Search form via the link above the big red search box and then click on the FAQ on the right-hand side. There’s...
Have you ever needed a swift and easy way of building your search on Lexis Advance® or wondered which segments are available per content category? With our new Advanced Search, you can build your search with key terms using segments and build your...
One of the last steps before finalizing a brief, contract or any legal document is proofreading. We all know how tedious, numbing and ineffective manual proofing is from our own personal and professional experience. LexisNexis has teamed up with Microsystems...
Are you ever challenged with formatting a document, like a brief for court, and required to make permanent hyperlinks to the citations? If you have faced this request, you more than likely completed this task manually, which was no doubt tedious and inefficient...
When you are performing a news search on a public company, you have probably noticed a proliferation of stories about the company’s stock price fluctuations and ratings. If stock research is not the focus of your search, I have a suggestion for...
If you’re like me, then you were highly impressed with the Shepard’s Grid when it first debuted. It’s easy to read, colorful and a timesaver when viewing the citing decisions on a Shepard’s Report. What if you wanted to share the...
Have you ever been asked by an attorney to submit a case to LexisNexis? I was recently asked how to do that, and was pleasantly surprised to find an email address where you can send the document. If you ever need to submit a case to LexisNexis, you can...
You are a great searcher. No, you are an expert searcher. Putting together the right terms with the right connectors is what you do! Most of the time, perhaps, you are moving from project to project creating new searches as you go, but sometimes, there...
Did you know that it’s even easier to Browse Sources on Lexis Advance®? You can do so right from the red search box. Lexis Advance enhancements have included the search box giving it improved source recognition. Simply begin typing the title...
Did you know that Topic Summary Reports are now searchable on Lexis Advance®? You can filter your search results to view just Topic Summary Reports. Here’s how: From your results list, choose Secondary Materials as your content category ...
If there’s a source you often search in, you can save it as a favorite for future searches, in one of two ways. To save a source as a favorite from the source list: 1. On the Lexis Advance® home page, select the Browse pull--down menu...
Did you know that noise words are handled differently on Lexis Advance® and lexis.com ®? lexis.com ignores noise words in non-case law Boolean searches, but Lexis Advance only ignores noise words in natural language searches. This means that your...
If you’re like me, you like keeping your fingers on the pulse of what’s happening within Lexis Advance®—and let’s face it, there have been so many good enhancements and content-adds lately that it’s tough to keep up....
Yes, you can narrow law reviews by date! Date information is important when you are researching law reviews, but you may not always see it in your results list. When you are looking at your results list in the Secondary Materials category, you will...
Video tutorials are now available on the following topics: Navigating LexisNexis® Newsdesk Setting up Searches in LexisNexis® Newsdesk Narrowing Results in LexisNexis® Newsdesk Sharing Articles with LexisNexis® Newsdesk...
Did you ever want to deliver the PDF version of your documents from Lexis Advance? Original Source Images and PDF versions are available in Lexis Advance in multiple content types. You will find many of these in court documents in the Briefs category...
The JUDGES Segment One of the most useful segments available to you if you are researching a judge is the JUDGES segment. Use this segment in these content categories: Cases Administrative Materials Briefs (for Briefs, Motions and...
Never miss a new law or regulation. On Lexis Advance, you have the ability to set Pending Legislative Alerts on Code sections to be notified of new bills and changes to existing bills that impact codes or specific statutes. When you find a bill or code...
You now have the ability to combine sources with the click of a button on Lexis Advance®. After browsing sources and narrowing your results, you can add all sources as search filters and have the ability in making them a favorite as well. Take some...
Use a partial citation to jump directly into the USCS Table of Contents! Did you ever just want to jump into the USCS Table of Contents starting with a particular title? You can do that now in Lexis Advance® with minimal steps. Just type in the partial...
Ever need to just deliver a cite list and want to include the underlying attachments and not have to open them up? Now on Lexis Advance there is a new option under delivery that gives you the opportunity to print/email or download underlying documents...
LexisNexis® Tip Sheet from the Insights and Practical Tips Webinar Series Presented by Gayle Lynn-Nelson and Michael Saint-Onge Set up Legislative Alerts by stages in legislative process Use the search box to pull up legislation...
LexisNexis® Tip Sheet from the Insights and Practical Tips Webinar Series Session 3: Shepard’s ® for the Librarian Presented by Bridget MacMillan and Michael Saint-Onge When using the Appellate History map turn on Document #s...