The LexisNexis services at
www.lexis.com provide the most expansive, often exclusive, set of integrated legal research tools, as well as legal, news, business and public records content. With LexisNexis, legal professionals can:
Better serve clients with access to the most thorough case law research available.
LexisNexis gives you access to the world’s largest online collection of current headnoted and Shepardized™ case law—40% more summarized and headnoted cases over the past 20 years than the nearest competitor.
Find the most relevant information faster.
Numerous design innovations enable LexisNexis to maximize your efficiency and accelerate your legal research:
- Case summaries, headnotes and core terms let you quickly assess the potential relevance of a case before reading it in depth.
- Shepard’s® citations offers concise at-a-glance summaries of case treatment and legal opinions, making validation of case law faster and easier.
- SmartLinx® technology lets you probe billions of public records in a single search, then delivers comprehensive reports that establish connections between persons, locations and businesses.
Zero in on a specific jurisdiction or area of law.
With LexisNexis, you gain primary and secondary sources and legal news for more than 50 practice areas. In addition, the LexisNexis services provides access to nearly 30 jurisdiction—and practice area-specific research tasks pages. View sources for your practice.
Search with unsurpassed flexibility.
LexisNexis has the power and flexibility needed to accommodate the full spectrum of research styles, with options ranging from freeform “natural language” searches to advanced searches using Boolean logic.
Be sure you have the facts you need for discovery and vital transactions.
LexisNexis services provides a searchable collection of more than 3.8 billion public records, including information on people, personal assets, business records, court dockets and other filings. You also get the complete collection of federal and state statutes, and an exclusive and exhaustive collection of business news, including The Wall Street Journal®, Dow Jones® and The New York Times®.
Get intelligent guidance on where to find more information relevant to your research.
With sophisticated indexing of cases, keywords and legal concepts, LexisNexis goes beyond simply returning search results to provide suggestions and guidance on where to find additional cases and analytical materials related to your research.
- Suggested Terms and Connectors automatically surfaces terms related to your search, making it easy to modify and sharpen your queries.
- Search by Topic or Headnote allows you to search across a wide variety of content types to provide both the broad and deep view of your legal topic—all in a single search.
- More Like This helps you quickly find cases whose text, citation patterns and headnotes are similar to other on-point cases.
Minimize rework with ready access to previous searches and recently used sources.
With LexisNexis, you won’t waste valuable time trying to recreate recent research, or find recently used sources. With the LexisNexis History feature, all your searches for the past 24 hours are instantly accessible, and searches for the past 30 days are available on demand. You can even save searches you need to re-run frequently. And with the Recently Used Sources feature, your last 20 sources are automatically stored and instantly available on your starting page.
Get up-to-the-minute alerts on new case developments, court filings and more.
With LexisNexis services, you can be the first to know about late-breaking information affecting your cases, clients and practice. The LexisNexis® Alerts feature lets you receive automatic e-mail notification when there is new information on the cases, companies, people or topics you specify.
Cases, Statutes & Administrative Materials
- LexisNexis® Headnotes and Case Law Summaries are available on more than four million U.S. and state cases, including unreported cases.
- Lexis® Search Advisor, a legal classification system built for the 21st century practice of law, covers 16,000 legal topics.
- Complete collection of federal and state statutes with "Official Publisher" status in 17 jurisdictions.
- The United States Code Service and Lawyer's Edition for Supreme Court decisions are available through www.lexis.com exclusively.
Exclusive
- Only Shepard’s® Citations Service gives true depth of coverage with True Positive and Questioned Validity treatments.
Analytical Materials & Secondary Sources
- Leading/exclusive content written by experts and cited by more courts than any other. Collier, Chisum, Moore, Nimmer, Appleman, Larson, Gilson, Weinstein and others.
Exclusive
- Briefs, motions, pleadings and verdicts information valuable for trial preparation. Also discover 15 years of U.S. Courts records and state court records from CourtLink®.
- Restatements, Jurisprudences, including American Jurisprudence 2d plus hundreds of U.S. and Canadian law reviews.
- Treatises and analysis from leading publishers including CCH®, BNA®, Tax Analysts Inc., National Institute for Trial Advocacy and more.
Practice-Specific Resources
- Primary and secondary source and legal news for more than 50 practice areas.
- Research Tasks pages—for nearly 30 practices areas and nine jurisdictions—highlight critical practice resources.
News & Business Sources
- 31,000+ financial articles on public and private businesses daily.
- Analysis from Dun & Bradstreet®, Dow Jones®, Hoover's®, Standard & Poor's®, etc.
- SEC filings from LIVEDGAR™.
- Need to understand the historical pricing of a stock or bond? Turn to Historical Quotes with coverage back to 1970.
- 200+ newswires, including exclusive worldwide coverage from Dow Jones and Reuters® as well as other regional and industry newswires.
- Same-day and archival coverage from the world’s most influential newspapers as well as local news worldwide.
- Program transcripts from the BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox—and 100+ more.
- Influential full-text blogs—more than 300.
Public Records
Streamline factual discovery with 3.8 billion public records! LexisNexis public records resources include:
- People Information
- 50-state person locator with telephone numbers
- Driver license records (subject to privacy laws
- Professional licenses
- Voter registrations
- Social Security Administration death records from 50 states plus selected states marriage and divorce records
- Criminal history records and inmate indexes
- Business Records
- Business finder with more than 12 million U.S. entries
- Incorporation, limited partnership and limited liabilities companies information
- Fictitious business names and DBA registrations
- OFAC master list of suspected terrorists, block and exposed persons and more
- Assets (Real Estate and Personal)
- Real estate/tax assessor records (current and archived), deed transfers and mortgage records
- Motor vehicle registrations (subject to privacy laws)
- Boat and aircraft registrations
- Court Filings
- 50-state bankruptcy and UCC judgment records and federal and state tax liens
- Jury verdicts, settlement and arbitrations