Lexis Advance Tips: Accessing Law360.com and Signing up for Daily Newsletters

Law360 provides coverage of industry news and trends in forty different practice areas, state sections with litigation, legislation and regulation, corporate deals, and more.  Faculty and students can access Law360 website and the newsletter service through the law school’s LexisNexis subscription. Follow the instructions below to access Law360.com as well as daily newsletters on topics of your choice.

Access the Law360 website
• Log into your school’s network
• Go to www.law360.com.
• Read the latest legal developments or view recent articles by
practice area
Note: Law360.com articles are also available as part of the
Legal News content on Lexis Advance.

Sign up for daily newsletters:
• Log into your school’s network and go to www.law360.com
• Select your school’s name on the top right
• In the drop down menu, select Newsletter Sign-up 1
• Enter your email 2 and select Practice Areas, Industries,
and Regions of interest.
Your email newsletter will arrive hours before the start of
business each day providing you with updates on the latest
legal developments in your areas of interest.

(Hat tip: Antoinette Stafilas, Esq., Lexis Law school Executive)

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Lexis Advance Tips: How to create direct links to search results and documents

You can now create permalinks in Lexis Advance to full-text documents, search results, a Shepard’s® report, as well as a Folder or a TOC (table of contents) source. 

To use:

Find the permalink icon in the Actions pull-down menu at the top of search results or full-text documents you are viewing.

1. Select Link to this page and a dialog box displays.

2. Copy the link to paste it into work product or email. Select Close to return to your results or document.

(Hat tip: Antoinette Stafilas, Esq., Lexis Law school Executive)

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Lexis Advance Tips: How to streamline your Transactional research with the Lexis Practice Advisor

If you are interested in streamlining your transactional research, try the following tip:
Access through the Lexis Advance Research tab on the top left of the screen.  Lexis Practice Advisor contains multiple transactional law modules which provide a deeper understanding of how business transactions are negotiated and forms are drafted, from start to finish.   Access sample documents, relevant statutes, case law and secondary sources, all in one place.

(Hat tip: Antoinette Stafilas, Esq., Lexis Law school Executive)
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Lexis Advance Tips: How to locate today’s edition of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal

This is a great tip especially since many faculty and students often want an article published the same day.   If you are trying to locate today's edition in Lexis Advance, try the following tip: 

Type: New York Times in the search box and choose the blue Get Documents link.  Results will automatically be displayed with today’s date first.  Click the Clock icon to Create an Alert.

Want to limit your terms to just the Headline?  Type headline, remember to choose More Categories then select News and Sort By Date.

(Hat tip: Antoinette Stafilas, Esq., Lexis Law school Executive).  To access Lexis Advance, click here. 

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Lexis Advance Tips: How to search Dockets on Lexis

This is another question that we often get at the Reference desk since dockets are popular sources for faculty, students and attorneys.  If you are trying to locate dockets in Lexis Advance, try the following tip:

Search for docket information by a specific judge using the Litigation Profile Suite.  Here, you can select either Expert Witness, Judge or Attorney.  For example, select Judge from the left drag down, type in Posner and select Richard Posner, Search and then select Dockets from the left navigation panel.  You’ll then see his docket information, including graphs and charts.  You can also use this with an Attorney search.The other way to search for docket information is through Lexis Advance Directly.  You can select Dockets as its own filter by Category.  In Research, choose Filters, then Category, then Docket.  You can also search all content, then narrow by Category after you do a search.  Further refine your search with post filters on the left, by Jurisdiction, Cause, Case Status, etc.

(Hat tip: Antoinette Stafilas, Esq., Lexis Law school Executive)
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