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In The Real World
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Click on this from the Lexis law school home page to enter the research system.
What is the big red "Research Now" button?
100
This is a citator service that has been around for more than 135 years and provides the complete history and treatment analysis.
What is Shepards?
100
There are three basic ways to search on Lexis: easy search, natural language and Shanda's favorite--this one:
What is Terms & Connectors?
100
This digest like search method will help you find relevant cases, law reviews, treatises and other legal documents on your topic.
What is Search by Topic or Headnote?
100
You can access your research trail for free and your searches are automatically saved for this amount of time.
What is 30 days?
200
A new enhancement to Shepard's, this issues a WARNING that there is strong negative treatment impacting your statute.
What is a red exclamation point in a circle?
200
This is a Shepard's symbol meaning Caution-Possible negative treatment.
What is the yellow triangle?
200
Use this connector to find documents with search terms that appear within the same sentence.
What is /s or w/s?
200
Use this to automatically generate a report on the validity of all the citations and quotations in your document.
What is Shepard's Brief Check?
200
After performing your initial search, use this feature to narrow your search results. It's FREE!!
What is FOCUS?
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Use this to the left of a case to find links to ALRs, Matthew Bender Treatises, Law Reviews and more, all related to the issues discussed in your case.
What is Related Content?
300
This is a templete that lets you customize your Shepard's report by issue, analysis, jurisdiction, headnotes or date.
What is Focus Restrict-by?
300
Use this command to require that a term or terms appear ‘at least’ so many times in a document.
What is the atleast command?
300
When you find a good, on-point document in your results, click this link at the top of your document to find more documents similar to it.
What is More Like This?
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Use this feature when reading a statute or treatise. This lets you navigate to the previous or next sections of a document by clicking the "previous" or "next" link at the top of the page. It is FREE!
What is Book Browse?
400
These new interactive modules are available on the Lexis Law School home page and can help you develop key research skills! You can earn points for completing them too!
What are Webinars and Interactive Tutorials?
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These are the two main reasons you must Shepardize a case.
What are the to fnd out whether a case is still "good law" and to further your research?
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Use this connector to find documents with search terms that appear within a certian number of words of each other. Note: these cannot be used in combination with W/s or W/p connectors.
What is w/N or /N?
400
This is a convenient research tool that allows you to create and search on your own "casenote." Simply highlight a portion of relevant text, then click this link at the top your document.
What is More Like Selected Text?
400
Here is another tip--print this way rather than from the Lexis document delivery links and it is FREE!
What is from your browser?
500
This cutting-edge, case analysis tool provides a central repository for all the critical information in a case, allowing you to easily organize the key facts, characters, issues, evidence, and legal authorities. Download it for three years for free from the My School page.
What is CaseMap?
500
Considered the mirror of Shepard's, this tool allows you to analysis the foundation of the court's decision.
What is the TOA?
500
Use this connector to find documents in which a search term or phrase is to be excluded.
What is AND NOT?
500
Use this feature to find more cases that cite to a particular headnote aka - a major point of law found in an opinion, expressed in the actual language of the court.
What is More Like this Headnote?
500
Get Help for FREE by calling this toll free 24-7 CUSTOMER SERVICE number. Let them “test” the search before you incur the expense of running it.
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