What is LexisNexis? LexisNexis Review, Features

LexisNexis is a world-renowned database used by many famous law schools, law firms, and legal departments of high-tech companies around the world.

About LexisNexis

The database links to 4 billion documents, 11,439 databases and 36,000 sources, and is updated daily.

Database Contents

Legal research content: U.S. federal and state government cases (including full-text cases from about 300 years); U.S. Supreme Court cases (1790 to present); U.S. Supreme Court appellate cases; U.S. district court and state court cases and judgments; all federal laws and rules; 50 state regulations; legal reviews (papers from more than 450 review journals); European federal law; patent database (including full-text patents from Europe, the United States, and Japan since 1980); Commonwealth laws, regulations and cases; relevant cases and provisions of the WTO; other legal topics, etc.

Newspapers, magazines, and academic journals: LexisNexis news services are sourced from more than 9,000 data sources around the world. The data types include major newspapers, international magazines, academic journals, and other services. Academic journals include the full set of ABI Inform full-text data.

·Business information: including industry, company, financial and other information; company information includes SEC filing ratio analysis, subsidiary-related affairs, employees, management, stock price setting and mergers and acquisitions, etc.

Database features

The database is browsed in categories. Click on a specific category to view it. It contains some icons representing different meanings. You can check the "key" part at the bottom of each page, which gives a detailed introduction to the specific meaning of each icon.

Content Products

LexisNexis services are provided through two websites that require separate paid subscriptions.

honor

- In 2010 and 2011, the Human Rights Campaign named LexisNexis a company that treats its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees well.

-In 2012, LexisNexis won the SIIA CODIE Award for Best Political Information Resource.

- In 2013, LexisNexis SmartMeeting won a Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.

-In 2014, LexisNexis won the SIIA CODIE Award for Best Business Information Solution.