Lexis® CourtLink®
Quick Reference Guide

Lexis CourtLink provides
access to the industry’s largest
collection of dockets anddocuments and convenient
tools like Alerts and Tracks soGetting Started with CourtLink®

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you can be the first to know
and act on the litigation activity
most important to you.

Searching Court Dockets and Documents: CourtLink Search

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Pitch prospective clients first.

Staying on Top of New Litigation: CourtLink Alerts

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Deliver superior client service.

Monitoring Ongoing Cases: CourtLink Tracks

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Uncovering Business Opportunities: CourtLink Strategic Proﬁles6

Sharpen your competitive
advantage.

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 withCourtLink®
Signing in to the Lexis CourtLink service
has never been easier. With the move tothe Lexis service, you can now use yourLexis ID to access CourtLink.
Sign in at the Lexis website: lexis.com andselect CourtLink from the productswitcher.
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 the past
90 days.
E. Help: Access in-depth support ﬁles for help navigating 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. CourtLink® Strategic Proﬁles: View data and visuals on a party’s
litigation history, an attorney’s experience, a judge’s ruling history
and more.
I. View All Alerts and Tracks: Move to your Alerts and Tracks profile
pages.
J. Court Availability: Sort and review the list of state and U.S. Courts
covered in CourtLink.
K. Create Alert: Receive comprehensive, ﬂexible notiﬁcations of new
and ongoing case developments.

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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 can

C. Enter your search terms in the search box; OR

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

D. Select alternate search criteria.

search across the full text of more than
226 million federal and state court dockets
and documents in a single search.

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

Then, you can use powerful 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 theC. Enter your search terms in the search box; OR

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

broadest alert options available on themarket, including new event alerts, defense
counsel alerts, bankruptcy creditor alerts,
patent number alerts, hourly alerts and more.

D. Select alternate search criteria.
E. Click Create Alert to open the Alerts panel.
F. Fill in Overview information.

Staying on top of cases and ﬁlings pertinent
to you--involving stakeholders or clients,
prospective clients, competitors, possible
business partners, a particular judge or attorney,or a certain nature of suit--has never beenso simple.

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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 ﬁrm or organization,or simply a case of interest, the CourtLink
service will keep you up to date on thelatest 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 intoa speciﬁc entity by searching the most in-depth
historical civil online database of court records,
covering up to 29 years of cases, to pinpoint relevant
information in an easy-to-read strategic proﬁlefeaturing graphs, data, charts and facts.
Within any of the CourtLink Strategic Proﬁles, you’llﬁnd interactive links that take you to deeper
information on relevant cases and to the underlying
dockets and documents. You get greater insight into
attorney arguments and strategies and judicial rulings.
Court Strategic ProﬁlesPull a historical overview of the types of cases thathave been ﬁled in a speciﬁc court. Simply select a
court from a drop-down list and speciﬁcally target up
to 3 Nature of Suit categories or elect to look at allcase types. Use this report to analyze litigation trends
on a court-by-court basis.

Judicial Strategic Proﬁles
Uncover a judge's experience in a case type. Drill down intoattorneys 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 aspeciﬁc nature of suit or in front of a particular judge. View
associated dockets to see patterns in legal tactics employed andto identify case resolution history. To ensure attorney proﬁles
reﬂect all relevant cases, start ﬁrst with a case type proﬁle andupdate all dockets where defense counsel is not present.
Litigant Strategic ProﬁlesGain meaningful insight into a public or private company,
subsidiary or individual’s litigation history. View a directional
overview of litigation activity by nature of suit and geography.
Determine which law ﬁrms have represented the company inthe past. Drill down into the associated dockets and supporting
documents to see patterns of settlements, mediation, etc. Be
sure to update all cases identiﬁed at the bottom of the page ashaving “No defense counsel assigned” to ensure you see themost up-to-date view of competitive and shared activity.

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Access on the Go
Stay up to date on key litigation activities using Lexis CourtLink when you are onthe go. With the responsive design of Lexis and the Lexis app, you can now set up
and access the CourtLink service and CourtLink Alerts and Tracks from yourcomputer, Apple® iPhone®, iPad® or Android™ mobile device.

Additional Resources
For more in-depth articles on CourtLink, please visit our in-product help ﬁles,accessible in the top right corner.

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