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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
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• 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.
