Legal Research

Researching with Lexis Advance

Paralegal Rainmakers

Objective

Utilizing Secondary MaterialsConducting Research Utilizing Boolean SearchUtilizing Citations for Better ResearchCreating Folders to Organize Search Results

Utilizing CitationsBoolean SearchSecondary

Materials

Utilizing Folders

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• Locate expert opinions• Access materials from across the web• Find relevant information quicker

Secondary Material

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• Use lower case connectors• Do not use & for the word “and”• w/s searches within 15 words• w/p searches within 50 words

Boolean Searching

Lexis Advance

• Select from multiple formats• Copy and paste correct format into

documents• Shepard’s Graphical

Utilizing Citations

Lexis Advance

• Create folders for clients, facts, matters• Organize material for easy access• Minimize duplicate searches

Utilizing Folders

Lexis Advance

• Starting Your Research with LexisNexis• Deliver PDF Documents in Fewer Steps• Legislative and Regulatory Research• Legal Research Strategies and Shortcuts

Additional Tools

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The legal research path in a sense is a story board but must also follow conventional methods to extract truth to support claims.

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