The LexisNexis services at www.lexis.com offer a wide range of innovative features that help make your legal research faster and more thorough. Some features include:

• Validate cases with unsurpassed speed with Shepard’s® Citations.
  At-a-glance summaries of the most important information reported for each case make it easy to quickly check the validity of your cases and zero in on the information most relevant to you. 
  
  
• Identify relevant case law quickly with LexisNexis® Case Summaries.
  Procedural Postures review how the case got to the court, Overviews give a brief summary of the opinion, and Outcomes assess what the court decided.
  
  
• Review the most frequently used words in a case with LexisNexis® Core Terms.
  Based on the court's own language, Core Terms give a quick snapshot of the case.
  
  
• Find the case law and legal analysis materials you need with Search by Topic and Headnote.
  Browse hierarchically-structured directories of legal topics and concepts to find relevant case law, treatises, law review articles or legal news.
  
  
• Focus on a specific area of law or jurisdiction with LexisNexis® Research Tasks pages and Practice Centers.
  These pages pull together the valuable resources needed for a particular practice area or jurisdiction on a single page.
  
  
• Find documents similar to the one you are viewing with “More Like”.
  Find cases that share LexisNexis® Headnotes, similar citation patterns or passages of text that match an on-point case of interest.
  
  
• Narrow your search results with the FOCUS™ feature.
  Pinpoint words within your search results—even if those words were not part of your original search request.
  
  
• Access search results automatically with the Search History feature.
  Your searches and results of the past 24 hours are saved automatically under the Today’s Results tab of Search History. You can revisit these results for 24 hours without incurring additional search charges.
  
  
• Store your results anywhere, with flexible delivery options.
  Have your research delivered wherever it is most convenient for you. With LexisNexis you can print, e-mail, fax or download your results. You can even import them into other LexisNexis solutions.
  
  
• Get regular research updates with Alerts.
  Follow research issues on a monthly, weekly, business weekly or daily basis; get regular Shepard’s updates on citing authorities that could potentially affect the validity of your cases; and get regular updates on court filings and other court records activity from CourtLink® document retrieval service.
  
  
• Navigate easily through the U.S. Code, state statutes, regulations, treatises and other secondary sources with Expandable Table of Contents (TOC).
  You can click through each level of the TOC, open and close multiple levels of the TOC, or search the TOC for specific terms.