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Here are the newest Lexis Advance® enhancements requested by customers like you.

MAY 2017 I New Enhancements

Briefs, Pleadings, Motions and Dockets: More now available from full-text cases

Your full-text case at Lexis Advance now opens the door to more related Briefs, Pleadings, Motions and Dockets. Tap the

large online collection of litigation-related documents right from

the case-law research.

The About This Document box in full-text state and federal cases displays

links to Related Court Materials by

type; see the quantity of available

documents as well. Select a content

type link and review the results list of

documents for that content type, or

filter these documents by date, law

firm, attorney and more.

Added Document Flexibility

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Smarter Analytics

New! Access law firm analysis—right from your case

Monitor law firm as well as judicial litigation trends. It only takes two clicks from your full-text case to Lex Machina® Legal Analytics®1. See which firms have the largest shares of

specific types of litigation within a jurisdiction and uncover

upward or downward trends. Use

Lex Machina insights to develop

competitive strategies, measure

litigation results or shop for counsel.

Just click the blue law firm link in the Legal Analytics box in your full-text case. (Or select the law firm’s link in the

text of the case.)

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You can even access related Briefs, Pleadings, Motions and

Dockets from the Shepard’s® report for your case. Just select the

Related Court Materials link at the top of your Shepard’s report.

Searching Tables of Contents (TOCs) gets a new look—and more functionality

When you select a Table of Contents (TOC) source to search,

you’ll still see options to Search All Documents in this source or

search Table of Contents (TOC) only. Just click the radio button

for your choice and enter your search words.

If you search the TOC only, you’ll now see a Search Within Results

box. Add more search words to refine your results. Plus a new

Edit Search button returns you to the TOC so you can change

search terms.

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Added Document Flexibility

Law firm analysis (Continued from the previous page)

If analysis is available, you can click the Lex Machina link to

move to the deep analysis summary (shown below) for Patent,

Trademark, Copyright, Antitrust and Securities cases—even if you are not a Lex Machina customer. Lex Machina customers can sign

in for additional analyses.

Smarter Analytics

TOC search (Continued from the previous page)

If you Search All Documents in this Source, you’ll notice your results

display now looks similar to results for other Lexis Advance searches. For example, you can:

• Filter results, e.g., by jurisdiction, and save filter favorites

(Filters vary by TOC)

• Re-sort results, e.g., from relevance (default) to document

title, jurisdiction, etc., using the Sort by pull-down menu

• Use the new Edit Search button to return to the TOC and

your search words

Plus you can use the Actions pull-down menu to add your search

to a folder, include legal phrase equivalents to your search, create

a link (permalink) to the results page and more.

Copying text? Now more citation formats are handy

Select from more official citation formats for more jurisdictions when copying text from cases, statutes and

administrative codes. Now choose from official and popular

citation formats for more than 40 states. New jurisdictional style

formats include AR, DE, IN, IA, KY, ME, MN, MS, NE, NC, OR, RI,

VA, WV and WY.

Just highlight text copy and select the arrow next to Copy (Quick) from the option list. Then select your jurisdiction from

the format pull-down menu. Your choice stays until you change it.

Convert documents into PDFs in Shepard’s® BriefCheck™

Shepard’s® BriefCheck™ now also supports converting input

documents into the PDF format (in addition to doc, docx, rtf, txt,

and wpd formats) for upload and analysis—no conversion needed.

Added Document Flexibility

More Must-Have Content

Video guidance from preeminent author adds deep insights to new practice guide

The Wagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial2 is the one resource that no civil litigator should be without.

Cutting-edge litigator and expert author James W. Wagstaffe

breaks down complex procedural issues with timesaving tools

and practical features, including:

• More than 150 embedded videos with rich,

explanatory

information that

brings each

chapter to life—a

Lexis Advance

exclusive

• Awareness features including commentary and practical

insights on current legal events, including hot new cases and

amendments to laws

• Comprehensive checklists that offer step-by-step navigation

of the complexities of pretrial federal civil procedure

• Links to relevant and trusted Lexis Advance treatises such

as Moore’s Federal Practice®

• Expert insights through advisory practice tips, case examples,

and “Warning” and “Local Practice” alerts

And soon you will find this unique resource in the new

Federal Civil Litigation Practice Center coming to the Lexis

Advance service.

Read more about The Wagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial.

2To add Wagstaffe content to your existing subscription, contact your

LexisNexis® representative.

News sources from 150+ countries now available. And there’s more!

Gather news from across the globe in one search. Now it’s simple.

Just select the International tab on the Explore Content pod.

To search international news, go to the Explore Content pod

on the Lexis Advance home screen. Select News. Then you can

choose International (news) by Country or International by Region. You’re ready to search across all available international

news. Or select a specific nation. (You can also choose the

International tab at Explore Content, select a country then all

news for that nation.)

More non-U.S. sources are also available at the International

tab. News sources join international treatises, law reviews, directories and financial & company profiles now available

via specific country pages on Explore Content. Select the

International tab, then choose your nation and source types.

Added Public Records help you find people faster and conduct more thorough due diligence

A larger pool of data matters when you need to locate an individual or conduct due diligence fast. Now LexisNexis®

Public Records3 on Lexis Advance offers nearly 30 million

additional phone records and 73 new criminal records

sources containing approximately 4.29 million new criminal

records. The expanded phone records enhance the Cellular & Alternate Phones section in the LexisNexis SmartLinx®

Comprehensive Person Report as well as the Cellular & Alternate Phones Plus source found on the Public Records

menu screen. You can find the additional criminal records

sources in the Criminal Records standalone source and in the

SmartLinx® Comprehensive Person Report.

3Separate subscription required for Public Records sources.*

It’s changed. Now see what happens when you click a source title …

Go ahead! Select a title (or several) for searching. Now it’s

even easier.

• Select a source title suggested in the Red Search Box and go

directly to the Advanced Search Form or Table of Contents

(if applicable) for that source to begin your search.

• Or add a suggested source to your search simply by clicking

the new magnifying glass icon to the right of the suggested

source in the Red Search Box. Repeat to add additional

sources. To remove a source, just click the magnifying glass

icon next to the title again.

Source selection using the Explore Content feature works the same: Click a source and move directly to the Advanced Search form or Table of Contents for that source. (You can also add

multiple sources from Explore Content to a search by checking the box to the left of the source.)

More Search PowerCover U.S. news by region—in one search

When you need to search for news across a region, now

you’re done in one search. The Explore Content pod on the Lexis

Advance home page offers five U.S. regions to choose from,

bringing your results into better focus.

Select News from the Content Type tab available on the main

Explore Content screen. Then click U.S. by Region. To see what

states are covered in a region, click the “i” icon next to a region,

e.g., next to Northwest.

Quickly refine statute, administrative code and treaty searches using new segments

Segments are document parts, like the headline of a news article.

At Lexis Advance, you can search within the unique document

segments of a content type. For example, search for specific

words in the title of a treaty.

Now you can:

• Search the statute or administrative code text only,

excluding annotations and related editorial content

• Zero in on treaties affecting only specified signatories—

parties and nations of interest

Just use the TEXT segment with statutes or administrative

codes or the PARTIES segment with treaties. Both segments are

available in the Advanced Search form specific to your content

type. Advanced Search forms are available from the Red Search

Box. Just click Advanced Search. Advanced Search forms

also display automatically when you select the title in Explore

Content listings.

More Search Power

Executive Orders are big news—and easy to f ind

Quickly pinpoint key research information in Executive Orders. To quickly locate these increasingly important

documents, start with the Red Search Box, entering: presidential documents. Select the Presidential Documents and Executive Orders source, which offers a variety of presidential documents,

including Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations,

presidential memoranda, notices, determinations, etc., from the

Federal Register, some as far back as 1979.

Explore Content also now presents this source at the top of the

Federal tab. Just click the tab and select the source to begin your

search. Enter your search terms, for example, ENTER: trump and immigration, and go.

Faster Start to Research

Practice Centers available as of May 2017 (Newest additions are in bold.)

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Antitrust/CompetitionTrade Regulation

Banking and Financial Services

Bankruptcy

Communications

Construction

Copyright

Corporate Counsel

Criminal Law

Data Privacy & Cyber Law

Energy & Utilities

Entertainment & Sports

Environmental

Federal Civil Litigation

Government Contracts

Healthcare

Insurance

Jurisdictional Centers Practice Area/Industry Centers

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nevada

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

International Trade & Business

Labor & Employment

Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical

Manufacturing

Mergers & Acquisitions

Military Justice

Native American

Patent

Product Liability

Real Property

Securities

Trademark

Transportation Law

Your most-used federal sources are now up-front

See the most popular federal sources up-front, including the

United States Code Service, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, Presidential Documents and Executive

Orders, and more. We’ve reorganized the Federal tab in the

Explore Content pod to place the most frequently accessed

sources right at the top.

Access more international sources from one screen

The International tab available in the Explore Content pod

on the Lexis Advance home screen now offers links to these

additional content types: news, treatises, law reviews, directories and financial & company profiles.

Begin practice-area research faster with two new Practice Centers

Access top sources for practice areas, industries and jurisdictions

with Lexis Advance Practice Centers. Now find a Transportation Law Practice Center. And soon find the Federal Civil Litigation Practice Center featuring The Wagstaffe Group Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial with 150 embedded videos

and searchable transcripts. Here’s the latest complete list of Lexis

Advance Practice Centers:

See key data directly under the case name

Case-law results now display critical court, date and reporter

information right below the case name.

* Due to the nature of the origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used

in reports may contain errors. Source data is sometimes reported or entered inaccurately, processed poorly or incorrectly, and

is generally not free from defect. This product or service aggregates and reports data, as provided by the public records and

commercially available data sources, and is not the source of the data, nor is it a comprehensive compilation of the data. Before

relying on any data, it should be independently verified. For Secretary of State documents, the data is for information purposes

only and is not an official record. Certified copies may be obtained from that individual state’s Department of State. The LexisNexis

SmartLinx report will be provided within certain search and privacy parameters and is subject to LexisNexis General Terms and

Conditions located at www.lexisnexis.com/terms/general.aspx. Other restrictions may apply.

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Your Shepard’s reports are now easier to fine-tune

The Other Citing Sources tab of your Shepard’s reports also now

breaks out statutes and regulations into separate categories for

easier review.