Bridge the Information Gap Between News and Treatises with New Expert Commentaries
Ask the LexisNexis experts—and get a concise, complete answer based on today’s law.
As your attorneys specialize to meet marketplace demand, they—and you—find yourselves looking for more practice-area analysis to help keep current on rapidly evolving areas of law. An authoritative yet concise analysis of important cases, codes, statutes, rulings, emerging issues or legal topics is now available exclusively through new LexisNexis Expert Commentaries.1
The brain trust of LexisNexis authors—recognized experts who develop the respected Matthew Bender®, Mealey’s™ and Martindale-Hubbell® analyses—produce this highly specific content.
Each Expert Commentary offers three to six pages covering an important case, code, statute, ruling or similar component of the law. And Expert Commentaries cover cases coming out today.
More concise than treatises and more analytical than news, Expert Commentaries bridge the information gap between news and treatises, providing quick expert analysis of current developments in law.
And the resource is growing. Expert Commentary documents will be added to major decisions and to cover today’s vital legal issues.
Tips for Searching LexisNexis Expert Commentaries
Currently LexisNexis Expert Commentaries are available only on a transactional basis.
Link directly to Expert Commentary PDFs from case law, e.g., as you view the full text of Leggin Creative Leather Products v. PSKS, Inc., 168 L. Ed. 2d. 623 (2007) at lexis.com, just click the Expert Commentary $ link to move to the commentary PDF.
Research all available Expert Commentary simultaneously. Go to Expert Commentaries on the main menu screen of the lexis.com LEGAL tab (listed under Secondary Legal). In addition to all available commentary, note that several high-profile commentaries are listed for quick access.
Each Expert Commentary includes a brief online synopsis; that’s what you are searching. For example, to search Expert Commentary to find documents discussing anti-trust issues:
SOURCE: Expert Commentary
SEARCH: antitrust OR anti trust
Note: anti trust will also find anti-trust.
Or find all Expert Commentary by a specific author, e.g., Shawn D. Parrish:
SOURCE: Expert Commentary
SEARCH: parrish
From the synopses, you can move directly to the commentary PDF. Just click the Expert Commentary($) link.
Each three- to six-page commentary includes links to U.S. or state case law, statutes, regulations, rules of conduct and other vital treatises and analysis.
Print or download2 your expert commentary using the standard PDF functions.
1May not be available to government subscribers
2According to the terms of your LexisNexis subscription
