LexisNexis put legal research online first. Now we’re leading the way with powerful data visualization and predictive analytical tools you can use to make your work faster and more reliable.
Think circles around your legal issue with the Ravel™ View
Your search results can become a chart of connected, relevant cases. With the Ravel™ View through the Lexis service, quickly discover how top cases in your search results cite each other—and how they can work together to support your position. Find seminal cases, uncover opinions that might otherwise be overlooked, and discern citing trends across jurisdictions and over time. In one integrated view—only at Lexis.
Uncover Shepard’s® treatment for your legal issue—without leaving your full-text case
Positive and negative Shepard’s Signal™ indicators are now included with LexisNexis® headnotes in full-text cases. See how courts have treated your issue and validate points of law faster using this Lexis® exclusive.
If you want to view a Shepard’s® report for that issue, select a Shepard's Signal indicator. Move directly to a Shepard’s report focused to that headnote and treatment.
Research Questions Asked and Answered—
with Lexis AnswersTM
Research Questions Asked and Answered—
with Lexis AnswersTM
The Lexis Answers™ feature at Lexis® is a powerful AI approach to interpreting searches and mining answers. Start typing a query in the Red Search Box, and the machine-learning technology behind Lexis Answers understands your query and can even suggest a natural-language question for you. Then it anticipates your research path, curating and delivering a concise Answers Card plus comprehensive, relevant search results. You cover more ground faster with fewer searches.
Uncover Judicial Insights with Lex Machina®
Lex Machina® Legal Analytics® integration takes Lexis® users directly from full-text cases to preview summary charts that show a judge’s, attorney’s or law firm’s past caseload, a law firm’s top client list and even average case timing in your judge’s court. Use these insights to plan the best litigation strategy.
Visualize Case Relevance with Search Term Maps
The Lexis® Search Term Maps feature within Lexis, enhances your case law search results by color coding your search terms and mapping their location on a navigation bar. Quickly gauge case relevance in one glance at the number, distribution and clustering of colorized terms. Then jump directly to a case or passage simply by clicking a color on the navigation bar. Data visualization with Search Term Maps shows you the fastest route to your most relevant case.
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Predict Bill Passage with Legislative Outlook
Legislative Outlook uses predictive analytics and sophisticated algorithms to determine and report the likelihood of a bill’s passage through the legislative process. Legislative Outlook displays an at-a-glance meter of a bill’s probability for advancing to the next legislative step, based on the politics of the jurisdiction, the sponsor(s)’s influence and past success rate, and other empirical data.
Find Good Law with Shepard’s® Citations Service
Shepard’s® innovations enable deeper insight into the reception of your case. Discover splits in authority with positive and negative treatment indications, and visualize case treatment with the exclusive Shepard’s Graphical. Also, quickly understand why a case received the treatment it did—without leaving your full-text case. With one click, the new Reason for Shepard’s Signal™ feature displays the citing reference—at the precise passage—most responsible for the Shepard’s Signal indicator.