Lexis Advance® CourtLink®
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CourtLink provides access tothe industry’s largest collectionof dockets and documents andconvenient tools like Alerts andTracks so you can be the first toknow and act on the litigation
activity most important to you.

Getting Started with Lexis Advance® CourtLink®

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Pitch prospective clients first.

Searching Court Dockets and Documents: CourtLink Search

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Deliver superior client service.

Staying on Top of New Litigation: CourtLink Alerts

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Monitoring Ongoing Cases: CourtLink Tracks

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Sharpen your competitiveadvantage.

Uncovering Business Opportunities: CourtLink Strategic Proﬁles

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Access on the Go

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Additional Resources

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All with CourtLink, the leading
docket research provider.

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Getting Started withLexis Advance® CourtLink®
Signing in to the CourtLink service has
never been easier. With the move toLexis Advance, you can now use yourLexis Advance ID to access CourtLink.
Sign in at the Lexis Advance website:
lexisadvance.com and select Lexis Advance
CourtLink from the product switcher.
Trouble signing in? Try the Forgot your IDor password? link or call Customer Supportat 888-311-1966.

A. Product Switcher: Navigate to other LexisNexis® products throughthe product switcher.
B. Product Name: Identify the current product you are working within.
C. Client: Keep your searches, folders and more organized by client.
D. History: Return to previous searches or documents from thepast 90 days.
E. Help: Access in-depth support ﬁles for help navigating
Lexis Advance CourtLink.
F. More: Find additional options like Folders, Alerts, Notiﬁcations,Settings, Feedback, Price Guide, Live Chat Support, Sign-In Proﬁle,LexisNexis Account Center and Sign Out.
G. Search: Access the industry’s largest collection of dockets
and documents.
H. Create Alert: Receive comprehensive, ﬂexible notiﬁcations of newand ongoing case developments.
I. CourtLink® Strategic Proﬁles: View data and visuals on a party’s
litigation history, an attorney’s experience, a judge’s ruling historyand more.

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Searching Court Dockets andDocuments: CourtLink Search

A. Select the content you want to search.

With the superior search capabilities andﬂexible options of CourtLink, you cansearch across the full text of more than
226 million federal and state court dockets
and documents in a single search.

C. Enter your search terms in the search box.

B. Select the court(s) you want to run the search in.

D. Select alternate search criteria.
E. Click the magnifying glass icon.
F. Reﬁne your results using post-search ﬁlters.

Then, you can use thorough post-searchﬁlters to quickly reﬁne your search and ﬁnd
the information you need.

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Staying on Top of New Litigation:
CourtLink Alerts

A. Select what you are searching for.

With CourtLink, you have access to thebroadest alert options available on themarket, including new event alerts, defense
counsel alerts, bankruptcy creditor alerts,
patent number alerts, hourly alerts andmore. Staying on top of cases and ﬁlings
pertinent to your practice—involving yourclients, your prospective clients, theircompetitors, a particular judge or attorney,or a certain nature of suit—has never beenso simple.

C. Enter your search terms in the search box.

AB. Select the court(s) you want to run the search in.

D. Select alternate search criteria.
E. Click Create Alert to open the Alerts panel.
F. Fill in Overview information.
G. Choose delivery frequency and options.
H. Decide if you want to share this alert.
I. Click Create Alert.

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Monitoring Ongoing Cases:
CourtLink Tracks
Create a CourtLink Track to receive
notiﬁcations any time there is a new
development in existing litigation.
Whether it is your case, another casethat may aﬀect your company, or simply
a case of interest, the CourtLink service
will keep you up to date on the latest
developments so you can more eﬃciently
manage your daily workﬂow.

A. When viewing a docket or document, click
Create a Track to open the Docket Tracking panel.
B. Fill in Overview information.
C. Choose delivery frequency and options.
D. Decide if you want to share this track.
E. Click Create Track.

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Uncovering Business
Opportunities: CourtLink®
Strategic ProﬁlesCourtLink Strategic Proﬁles help you gain
insight into a public company’s litigation
history and attorney experience on aparticular nature or suit, and map out
litigation trends. The CourtLink service
searches the most in-depth historical civil
online database of court records covering
up to 29 years of cases to pinpoint relevant
information and provide you a strategic
proﬁle with easy-to-read graphs, data
charts and facts.
Within any of the CourtLink Strategic
Proﬁles, you’ll ﬁnd interactive links thattake you to deeper information on relevantcases and to the underlying dockets anddocuments. You get greater insight into
attorney arguments and strategies andjudicial rulings.

Judicial Strategic Proﬁles
Uncover a judge's experience in a case type. Drill down into
attorneys who have argued the case type in front of the judge inthe past. View dockets and order motions, pleadings, etc., to see
the legal tactics the judge found compelling.
Attorney Strategic Proﬁles
See a sampling of an attorney or law ﬁrm’s experience in a speciﬁcnature of suit or in front of a particular judge. View associateddockets to see patterns in legal tactics employed and to identify
case resolution history. To ensure attorney proﬁles reﬂect all
relevant cases, start ﬁrst with a case type proﬁle and update all
dockets where defense counsel is not present.
Litigant Strategic ProﬁlesGain meaningful insight into a public or private company, subsidiaryor individual’s litigation history. View a directional overview oflitigation activity by nature of suit and geography. Determine which
law ﬁrms have represented the company in the past. Drill down into
the associated dockets and supporting documents to see patternsof settlements, mediation, etc. Be sure to update all cases identiﬁed
at the bottom of the page as having “No defense counsel assigned”
to ensure you see the most up-to-date view of competitive andshared activity.

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Access on the Go
Stay up to date on key litigation activities
using Lexis Advance CourtLink when you
are on the go. With the responsive designof Lexis Advance and the Lexis Advanceapp, you can now set up and access theCourtLink service and CourtLink Alerts andTracks from your computer, Apple®
iPhone®, iPad® or Android™ mobile device.

Talk to a LexisNexis® customer
support representative—
live support virtually 24/7
888-311-1966
Training
800-227-9597 ext. 1252111
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Additional Resources
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