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Using Shepard's service ... not only saves my time & my clients' money, but also keeps me confident that opposing counsel will not surprise me with legal authority I have not found.
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Validate your research more quickly and completely with Shepard’s® Citations Service, the premier case citation validation service available exclusively from LexisNexis®. Shepard’s helps you easily confirm that your caselaw citation references are strong, accurate and on-point. It can also identify cited cases that discuss specific issues of interest. Shepard’s can even monitor the cases you choose and alert you to changes.
Ensure that you have good law and build more effective arguments by validating your research with Shepard’s Citations Service.
With at-a-glance summaries of the most important information contained in the Shepard’s report, Shepard’s Citations makes it easy to quickly check the validity of your cases and zero in on the information most relevant to you.
Only Shepard’s Citations gives you full-spectrum editorial analysis, highlighting both negative and positive treatment of your cases. This helps reveal potential splits of authority, giving you a more precise view of the validity of your cases as they apply to your specific situation.
Shepard’s treatment and history analyses are constantly updated—typically within 24 to 48 hours of receipt of an opinion—so you can be confident that your authority is current.
Shepard’s makes it simple to stay on top of late-breaking changes in the treatment or signal value of your cases. With the Shepard’s Alert® feature, you can receive automatic case citation updates any time there are changes to reports for your cases.
Shepard’s reports to just the information that interests you. With filtering by jurisdiction, date, legal issue or term, Shepard’s makes getting to the heart of the matter faster.
Shepard’s is the only legal citation validation service to use skilled attorney-editors, whose sole responsibility is to analyze court opinions to ensure that even the most subtle impact on cited decisions is reflected.
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