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When in the Lexis+ research system, click on MORE in the upper left, and select LIVE CHAT SUPPORT.

Our School's Lexis Representative:
Jennifer Durkin
jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com

Law Library Lexis Contact:
Sarah Starnes
sstarnes@uakron.edu

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When in Lexis, click on HELP in the upper right for help based upon the screen in Lexis you are viewing.

Check with your professor to see if you are allowed to use Lexis AI for a particular assignment.

HOW TO GET TO LEXIS AI:

• When you sign in to Lexis, you first arrive at the Law School Homepage.
• Click on Go to Lexis+ (red button on the left)
• Click on the 3x3 vertical dots icon in the upper left
• Click on Lexis AI

You can copy the results by scrolling down to the end, past the citations and there is an icon for Copy in the lower right.

• BOTH the big search box AND Search within Results can process natural language and terms and connectors.
• If you use and, or, /p, /s, /n your search will be converted to terms and connectors.  If you have some words in the terms and connectors search that do not have connectors, Lexis+ interprets this as a phrase (interprets it as a blank space between the words. ) Example: dna sample arrested and "serious crime"   should be:  dna and sample and arrest! and "serious crime" (or even better: dna and (collect! or sample or profile) and (arrest! or accus! or custody or "facing charges:) and "serious crime"
• If you use quotation marks or ! it will NOT convert the search to terms and connectors.  It will still be run as a natural language search.  Example:  "undue influence" will

Note that Westlaw uses BUT NOT or % for not.

You can always use parenthesis, (), to change the order of processing.