Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Lexis PSL Full User Guide®

1• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Contents2

3Signing In

4

LexisPSL Practice Areas

5

Setting a Practice Area Homepage

7

Navigating the Homepage

9

Browsing LexisPSL

10

Viewing the collection of documents within a topic

11

Navigating LexisPSL Documents

11

Hyperlinks within your Document

12

Table of Contents

12

Downloading, printing and emailing selected documents

13News and Alerts

14

Key Resources

14

LexisAsk• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Signing In
To login to LexisPSL follow this link: www.lexisnexis.com/uk/lexispsl

Enter your username ID and Password

3The Sign in button will take you to thehomepage

Tick the Remember me box. This will
log you in automatically when you next
open LexisPSL.

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

LexisPSL Practice Areas
You can navigate through the different practice areas on LexisPSL to access specificmaterial to your specialism.

Click the LexisPSL
logo to return tothe homepage atany point.

The practice area menu willappear in a pop up window.
Select thedropdown arrow tochange to anotherpractice area.

The practice area
menu will appear in a
pop up window.

This icon will allow you
to manage your settings,
contact our experts, accessour help sites or sign out.

4

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Setting a Practice Area Homepage
You can select your preferred practice area to be your default homepage.

Navigate to thesettings menu byselecting theMy Settings option
under the top righticon.

Select the Change yourdefault homepage
option under Viewing
options.

5• Back to contents pageLexis®PSL Full User Guide

Setting a Practice Area Homepage (cont’d)Select the practicearea you would liketo be your default
homepage from thedrop-down list. SelectSave to apply theselection.

Clicking on theLexisPSL icon at
the top-left will
now redirect to theselected practice
area.

6

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Navigating the Homepage

The LexisPSL logo willtake you to your practicearea homepage.

Select the arrow next
to the LexisPSL logo
to navigate to other
LexisNexis platforms.

7

Use the Topics tab or theTopics drop-down menu
to browse practice area
content.

Click on the current practicearea title to open the practicearea menu and navigate toanother practice area.

Type keywords and/or phrases inthe search box to search across all
subscribed LexisPSL content. You canuse the Filters option on the left tonarrow your search to specific practiceareas.

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Navigating the Homepage (cont’d)

Discover who ourexperts and practicearea partners are by
selecting the experts
link.

The Multimedia section
provides access towebinars and other usefulmultimedia content.

8Find additional
information throughuseful external sites
under Web links.

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Browsing LexisPSLLexisPSL is designed to take effort out of finding research and drafting materials bygrouping them together by topic. You can access the topic you need on the practicearea homepage or from the Topics drop-down menu, which can be accessed fromany page.

The Topics tab displays
all the high-level topics
for the current practicearea.

Selecting one of the blue subtopics willtake you to that subtopics landing pagewhere you will find related material suchas practice notes, precedents and more.

Clicking on the topic
headings will expand
the subtopics
underneath.
Selecting the Expand all topics
will reveal all subtopics. You canundo this option by selecting
Collapse all topics.

9• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Viewing the collection of documents within a topic
The documents available for your topic are categorised in tabs according to thedocument type, e.g. Practice Notes, Precedents, Forms, Checklists, Legislation,Cases and News.

Select a tab to view thefull range of documents
available.

A document will be flagged as
Maintained, New, Updated or Under
Review to indicate the status of theinformation contained within or toalert you to a new document.

10A brief summary of what
the document contains islisted under the title of thedocument.

Depending on your subscription, you may have access to someForms and Precedents in a LexisSmart format. LexisSmart
Forms are pdf documents that can be completed, saved andedited to your own computer. SmartPrecedents (Indicatedby ‘LS’) save time by generating a tailored document following
the completion of a questionnaire. To access the LexisSmartversion of a document, click on the LexisSmart button.

• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User GuideNavigating LexisPSL Documents
Once you have clicked through to your selected Practice Note, Precedent, Checklist orother document within LexisPSL, there are several additional features available to help you
save time. These are:• Hyperlinks within the document linking to further reading on similar topics or linking
through to relevant authorities• Orange quotation marks on the right-hand side of the document indicating and linking
to relevant authorities• When looking at a precedent, clicking a speech bubble and pencil icon on the righthand side of the document will reveal drafting notes for extra guidance• A Table of Contents to navigate swiftly through to specific paragraphs within adocument• Document Delivery buttons to let you download, print or email the document
Hyperlinks within your Document
LexisPSL has been designed to link you seamlessly through to further reading or relevant
authorities. These are indicated by blue hyperlinks within the document, or to the rightof the document within behind orange quotation marks. Selecting on the hyperlinks willlink directly to the authority or document being cited so you do not have to run separate
searches.

Links to cases, legislationor to further reading may
be displayed within thetext of the document
itself or behind orange
quotation marks.

Related Documents arelisted on the right-hand sideof the screen. These may
be other relevant practicenotes, precedents, forms orchecklists.

Links to further reading on LexisLibrary may be listed on the right of the screen under theRelated Documents box. Depending on your subscription, these links will take you directly
to relevant commentary within the LexisLibrary service such as Halsbury’s Law of Englandor other key texts.
11• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Table of Contents
Once you have opened a document, you can navigate quickly to a specific paragraph,section or heading using the Table of Contents tab. This appears on the left-hand side ofthe document.

Select a heading to navigate
to that particular section orclause of the document.

Click on the Table ofContents tab to view thetable of contents.

Downloading, printing and emailing selected documents

You can select these buttons at the top of the document page to print, download or email
the document. For search results, you can select the check boxes nest to each result toprint, download or email multiple documents.
To print the document, select the Print Delivery icon. A pop-up window will appear.
Complete the fields as necessary and select print.
To download and save the document to your computer, click the Download
Delivery icon.
To email the document to yourself or someone else, select the Email
Delivery icon.
12• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

News and Alerts
Next to the topics tab on the homepage is the news tab where you can view the latest
articles and cases relating to a specific practice area.

You can set up email
alerts or subscribe to
our RSS feeds using
the hyperlinks in theblue toolbar.

Access the newsarchive or the latest
monthly highlights.

The News tab shows
the six most recentitems. Selecting readmore will redirect
you to the full article.

Selecting the Email option from within the blue toolbar will redirect you to your settings
page where you can subscribe to regular email updates.

Enter your email address
into the Email to box.

You can choose to receive
weekly or monthly highlights
and you can choose Legal
Insights to specify thetopics you would like to be
updated on.
Select Save once you havechosen your settings receive
the email updates.

13• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Key Resources

The Key Resources tabcontains quick access tothe key documents, topics,tools and calculators foreach practice area.

LexisAsk
The LexisPSL team of lawyers are happy to receive your queries or comments on aparticular document or aspect of the service. You can use the LexisAsk feature at thebottom-left of any document page in LexisPSL.

Click on the Lexis Ask icon
to open the question portal
which is located at thebottom of each document.

Enter your question here
and select Send to send amessage to our LexisPSLteam. Each question has a
250 word limit.

14• Back to contents page

Lexis®PSL Full User Guide

Visit our website help.lexisnexis.co.uk
or follow us on Twitter @LNResources
Helpdesk number: 0330 161 1234

RELX (UK) Limited, trading as LexisNexis®. Registered office 1-3 Strand London WC2N 5JR. Registered in England number 2746621. VAT Registered No. GB 730 8595 20. LexisNexis and theKnowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of RELX Inc. © 2018 LexisNexis SA-0618-050. The information in this document is current as of May 2018 and is subject to change without notice.
15• Back to contents page