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Your lexis.com^® case-law search now brings you more relevant content—automatically—providing access to more relevant content, offering greater insights, and giving you more value from your LexisNexis^® subscription. LexisNexis^® Related Content acts as a virtual roadmap to more rich editorial content—even to sources you may not have considered—with no additional source selection or searches required!

A single search looks across multiple jurisdictions and multiple content types. LexisNexis Search by Topic or Headnote compiles a thorough overview on your legal topic, pinpoints relevant case annotations, and builds a case digest, including the latest federal and state decisions.

Now when you verify a code section from USCS—or from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont—with Shepard’s^® Citations Service, you can take advantage of a new, all-inclusive Shepard’s statute report covering all subsections. See vital references at a glance with new exclusive Shepard’s Summary for Statutes, and link quickly to the major actions that undermine a statute.  

If only you knew what the competition was thinking during contract negotiations. OK. You can’t read minds. (Or put the Psychic Friends Network on retainer.) But what if you could research in the file cabinets of every major contract negotiator in the nation and supply your deal makers with the results?  Turn to new LexisNexis^® Precedent Search to find out.

You’ll find court-approved headnotes and summaries only at lexis.com^®. And you’ll find the corrected opinion text there first—at least a week before official advance pamphlets (several weeks before other publishers’ advance sheets), and up to 15 months before other publishers’ corrected online, Web, and printed text. Court-reported edits, including cite and quote changes, appear online at lexis.com within 24 hours. Why should you care? 

CaseMap^® Fact & Issue Management Tool, a central repository for critical case knowledge, can be used to organize information about the key facts, documents, cast of characters, issues, and case law in every matter. CaseMap makes it easy to capture and manage these case details and to use them to create practical, polished work product that promotes collaboration and communication between members of the litigation team.

Across your firm, model documents provide a solid foundation for effective, profitable work. But documents in a large system can become disorganized quickly and easily. Misclassified files can be hard to find. And there’s no time for laborious searching. More than ever before, each document collection needs a sound structure, strong security and true document “findability.” Your firm gets just that with Lexis Document Profiling.

Do you or does someone in your firm spend a significant amount of time putting together electronic newsletters to share internally? LexisNexis^® Clipper powered by Ozmosys^® could be the answer.  It’s the ideal current-awareness solution that fits any firm’s needs to create and distribute timely, stylized newsletters.

Often, your first step when dealing with a new matter is to do some research within your firm’s internal documents. So how do you know that this research is providing comprehensive results? That it’s finding existing pleading, depositions, memos, deal documents, and motions written by in-firm experts as well as other types of information maintained by the firm? That it’s looking for information in e-mail and Web sites? A document management system (DMS) doesn’t provide this kind of enterprise-wise search capability. Think Lexis Search Advantage.   Read more …

You can now take reports from LexisNexis^® Dossier Suite and include them on your own site, or include a link to a report in an e-mail, a PDF document, or a Microsoft^® Word or PowerPoint^® document. These reports will update automatically so that your site always contains the most up-to-date data. Dossier Publishing Manager helps you share vital business intelligence within your organization.

Based on feedback from customers like you, all of the critical LexisNexis^® expert witness content that you used to see within the Briefs, Motions, Pleadings and Jury Verdicts section of the lexis.com^® menu now appears on a single new page.

The challenge? Protect valuable intellectual property assets. LexisNexis offers a full suite of solutions for creating and protecting patents with efficiency and confidence.

Cell phone use has reached a critical mass. In some states, researchers estimate that 25 percent of households rely on cell phones—without land lines. Even in households with traditional land lines, more people are using a cell phone number as their primary contact number. So finding and tracking hard-to-locate people via these numbers may be a good option. The Alternate Phone Numbers source gives you a variety of helpful information.

LexisNexis offers more expert witness resources than any other provider!

You know the outcome of a case can ride on an expert’s credibility … or lack thereof. That’s why you must uncover the strengths and weaknesses of any expert involved in your case. To help ensure that your expert witness research is as thorough and as accurate as possible and that you don’t waste time doing it, LexisNexis^® provides access to the largest, most comprehensive collection of expert witness information—published and unpublished, public and private—available anywhere. And tools to help you use that information effectively.

It’s easier with LexisNexis real property enhancements

Real property information and valuation tools are crucial across practice areas for a variety of transactions. In the volatility and uncertainty of the current economic crisis, there’s an even greater need for resources to help your firm counsel your clients in making informed decisions, minimizing risk, and maximizing opportunities when real property is involved. Why turn to lexis.com^® for your real property information and risk assessment needs?