Navigating the Legal Research® Home Page

From the Lexis+™ Canada Legal Research® home page, you have flexible research options allowing you to work the way you want:

Reduce search time and avoid sifting through results with intuitive pre-search and post-search filters that help you precisely target relevant documents. Search Term Maps highlight your specific terms — in colour — to help you arrive at the most on-point results quickly.

QuickCITE® Citator ensures your decisions are based on good authority by cases with over 2 million records. QuickCITE® records also include a commentary section, that provides a list of citing references and hyperlinks to commentary documents that consider the case in question.

  • Search broadly or go right to a favourite source
  • Narrow your search up-front or further down the road
  • Find sources in specific content areas
  • Select a previous search from history to run again
  • Monitor alerts and get automatic updates on searches

The Legal Research® Global Navigation bar contains the following options:

  • A product selector ( ) is displayed first if you have access to more than one LexisNexis® product.
  • TheLexis+™ Canada product logo returns you to the home page.
  • The English and Français tabs allow you to switch the product between Canadian English or French.
  • The Client: drop-down menu allows you to set or add a new client to your research.
  • The Folders tab allows you to access, create or modify folders you set up to organise your research.
  • The History tab provides access to recent searches, documents and QuickCITE® citations.
  • The Help tab opens this help system in another window.
  • A light () and dark () toggle allows you to change the contrast of your main window to a dark theme or light theme background.
  • The (More menu) drop-down menu that contains access to saved alerts, notifications, general- and Legal Research®-specific settings, as well as other commands. For details, see The More Menu.

Start your research by typing your search terms into the red search box and then click on the magnifying glass to search across all content types. Use the All Jurisdictions drop-down menu to select specific content categories, topics or favourite sources. The red search box has a search assistant that intuitively searches for exact company names, people or publication names through search suggestions.

Tip: Lexis+™ Canada uses Natural Language to search by default; if your search includes a connector ( and, or, and not...) then it is automatically run as a Boolean search. To search for a phrase that uses a word such as "and" in a Natural language search, enclose the phrase in quotes. For more information about the different types of searches available, refer to Search Types.

Expand the Explore Content section to browse the sources contained in your subscription plan or the topic hierarchy and the individual legal topics it contains and so much more. You can search through the following different content:

  • Content Types
  • Practice Areas such as Family Law, Health Law, Labour Law and Securites
  • Jurisdictions
  • Advanced Searches
  • Sources
  • Topics

For more information on each of these content types, refer to Using Explore Content.

You can move between Lexis+™ Canada products easily by selecting the appropriate Experience icon located on the left-hand side of the main window as shown below: