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In The Real World
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This symbol means negative case treatment is indicated for a statute.
What is the red exclamation point in a circle?
100
A citator service that has been around for more than 135 years and provides the complete history and treatment analysis.
What is Shepards?
100
A popular way to search on lexis.com, this method allows you to specify a relationship between terms.
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
Use this tool to navigate statutes and treatises for free.
What is Book Browse?
200
Use this tool 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?
200
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 "n" words of each other. The value of "n" can be any number up to 255, but cannot be used in combination with W/s or W/p connectors.
What is, w/n or /n? (i.e. /15)
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
This tool is your friend because it is always free. :-)
What is focus?
300
This tool allows you to track amendments a law made to existing federal legislation, subsequent amendts to a law since its enactment and amendments to bills from the current congress. It contains PDFs of public laws, regulations and bills.
What is Potomac Publishing Materials-- Retrieve Legislative Impact?
300
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 connector to find documents that contain either or both of the terms or phrases.
What is OR?
300
Use this tool to retrieve documents with similar content.
What is More Like This?
300
The amount of time you have to access your research activity for free via the history link.
What is 24 hours for recent activity and 30 days for archived activity?
400
Learn on your own time and earn points with these new and improved educational tools.
What are interactive tutorials and webinars?
400
To fnd out whether a case is still "good law" and to further your research.
What are two reasons you would Shepardize?
400
Use this connector to find documents in which a search term or phrase is to be excluded.
What is AND NOT.
400
Use this tool to find documents with similar text by selecting or highlighting a portion of text.
What is More Like Selected Text?
400
The number you would call to reach a customer service representative 24/7.
What is 1-800-45-LEXIS (53947)?
500
This source provides access to more than 200 million court documents and recently expanded its access to law schools to include single search and alert functionality.
What is Courtlink?
500
Considered the mirror of Shepard's, this tool allows you to analysis the foundation of the court's decision.
What is the TOA or Table of Authorities?
500
Use this command to make sure a term appears a certain number of times in a document.
What is the atleast command? i.e., atleast5(patriot act)
500
Use this tool to retrieve all headnotes on your topic from a specific jurisdiction.
What is More Like This Headnote?
500
Create one of these for quick and easy access to your favorite database.
What is an Area of Law or Jurisdiction tab?
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