Business: Real Estate Law 

LexisNexis Academic is a powerful subscription database for locating business, legal, and news information.  To access the database, please click on LexisNexis Academic.  If you are off-campus, you will be asked to enter your name and Bear number.

Not sure how to find what you need?  Check the following tutorials and guides:

• LexisNexis overview - produced by LexisNexis, this tutorial is a general introduction to the database; however, it is not specific to legal research.
• LexisNexis caselaw summaries and headnotes - produced by LexisNexis, this tutorial is a good introduction to how to use some features of cases found in the database.
• I found the law:  Introduction to legal research using LexisNexis - guide created by librarians at Mississippi State University Libraries.
• LexisNexis Academic legal research guide - guide created by Tina Adams of Northern Arizona University's Cline Library.

When beginning research on a legal topic, one of the first sources that is consulted is law reviews.  Use law reviews both to identify background information on a topic and to identify key cases, regulations, or legislation for your topic.  To access law reviews in LexisNexis Academic:

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To find information from federal and state codes in LexisNexis Academic:

Shepardizing allows the legal researcher to ensure that a case is still considered "good law," i.e., that the case has not been in some way overturned or limited by a later case.  To Shepardize a case in LexisNexis Academic: