Agecon 455
Legal Researching Using Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Searching the Secondary Literature (Law
Reviews and Legal News)
- Good way to begin a research assignment
- Law reviews explain legal principles, direct researchers to relevant cases
- Secondary sources lead to primary sources
- Searching the Primary Sources (Case Laws, Codes and Regulations)
- Case Law
- Get a Case (Searches both Federal and state cases but only by party name/citation)
- State Level
- By case number (citation)
- By keyword
- Federal Law
- By case number (citation)
- By keyword
- Shephardizing feature
- Searching for a Statute
- Federal Code
- Federal Regulations
- State Code
Tips and Tricks- Phrase searching using quotation marks is unnecessary
- Keyword search is generally searching the term in the headline, lead paragraph or indexing
- Automatically searches the singular and possesive of a word (example boy will search both boy and boys)
- Wildcards: To replace one letter use * (example - wom*n) To replace a character at the end use ! (example - litigat!)
- Useful Connectors:
- Or: find both or either search terms
- And: finds both search terms in document
- W/#: dictates the number of words that can be between two search terms (gas/5 price)
- Note: for additional connectors please go to help
- Federal Code