Lexis+ including Practical Guidance

Lexis+ now available in all courthouse libraries as of Feb. 1, 2025. Formerly known as Quicklaw / Lexis Advance.
Lexis+ is available to all lawyers in Ontario to use at their local courthouse lilbrary.

Lexis+ Guide for Lawyers

Lexis+ Canada is a comprehensive integrated legal research and workflow tool providing a range of features designed to enhance legal research and practice:Access the vast collection of case law, editorial analysis, and data visualization with over 250 full-text textbooks and looseleaf publications in more than 30 different areas of law. Enhance your Legal Research (previously known as Lexis Advance / Quicklaw) with more content and exclusive secondary materials using Lexis+ Answers.

Lexis+ Answers

  • Experience AI with the research Tool : Lexis Answers (formerly QL) and expedite your legal research with ease by pinpointing AI-driven answers directly within the document where the answer is found:
  • Ask a legal question and receive up to 10 case recommendations that directly answer the question.
  • Save time by reviewing the answers directly within the results set.
  • Discover citable authority efficiently, without having to retrieve and read lengthy documents.
  • Quickly find legal definitions before diving deeper into our collection of over a million cases.
  • Identify legal doctrine and leading supporting case law, fast, and branch out to engage in expansive and thorough research.

Practical Guidance

Rely on the up-to date practical material within Practical Guidance to support your day-to-day practice.
Practical Guidance allows you to gain know-how from authoritative guidance, on-point precedents and extensive resources to help you complete your matters. Practical Guidance’s practice area modules offer broad, deep, and sophisticated guidance to help save time and work more efficiently.

All Modules Available!

Precedents, Clauses and Forms:  Includes hundreds of relevant forms, model documents, sample court documents, drafting notes and practice tips.
Checklists, Tables & Flowcharts:  Provides step-by-step guidance for a given deal, task or process and strategies for dealing with issues that may arise.
Practice Notes:  Prepared and updated by leading experts in the area, practice notes provide high level “how-to” guidance and direction on a given deal, task or issue and include links to related documents such as precedents and forms.
Automated Templates:  Create high quality first drafts of documents by providing answers to an interactive questionnaire.
Toolkits:  Simplify your workflow and reduce your turnaround time by accessing a single view of all tasks, documents, and information needed to complete a particular process.
Tools:  Calculators help you speed up repetitive tasks and make the most of your time.
Market Standards:  Access robust deal point analysis and get an edge in your negotiation with insights from pinpoint searches of publicly filed deal documents for mergers & acquisitions deals.
Legislation & Cases:  Key statutes, procedural rules and cases relevant to the topic are included and are selected by leading practitioners.

Practice Area Modules

Legislative Pulse

Track upcoming legislative changes with the Legislative Pulse service. Easily search through current or historical Bills and Regulations by Bill title, Chapter number, or affected statutes.

Brief Analysis

  • Extract any relevant information from Lexis+ Canada to make sure you cover everything mentioned in your document with Brief Analysis.:
  • Retrieve solid authority recommendations without entering a search.
  • Find and leverage the most critical passages in lengthy documents, saving valuable time.
  • Gain even greater confidence that you haven’t missed anything in your legal document.
  • Analyze opposing counsel’s legal documents and easily note up their citing references to verify the validity of what they have cited.
  • Update old legal memos or legal documents to verify the cited cases and arguments are still valid, and identify whether there are new cases that should be considered.
  • Analyze a paragraph(s) from a treatise, case or other legal document, identify case recommendations, note-up citing cases and branch out your research from there.

Halsbury’s Laws of Canada

For over 100 years, Halsbury’s has been recognized as the premier legal reference in the world of common law. Halsbury’s Laws of Canada continues in the tradition, delivering an authoritative, reliable and elegant statement of Canadian law. Halsbury’s Laws of Canada is a comprehensive collection that will provide current and future generations of Canadian lawyers in your firm with a solid understanding of the full range of the law. Now OVER 72 Volumes.

This powerful resource covers every proposition of the law. Each volume is divided into alphabetically arranged titles that make it convenient to use and allows for quick and easy research into any topic. Employing Halsbury’s time-tested style and format, this Canadian legal classic includes:

  • Comprehensive summary that offers an organized and authoritative reference, delivering the key elements of the law in each of more than 100 logically selected subject areas
  • Advanced research tools with page layouts that present information in compact portions for easy navigation through the subject matter, yet detailed enough to show the larger context
  • Black letter statement of the law that provides definitive legal information focusing on the law as it stands today without opinion or commentary, and without archival case law or out-dated statutory references that don’t illuminate or add real value
  • Durable, portable and easy to handle volumes that are designed in a classic hardbound formatHalsbury’s Laws of Canada builds on a century of tradition to combine definitive legal information with an enhanced design and clean, easy-to-follow page layouts for quick access to the answers you need.
  • Superior tables of contents. Detailed and multi-layered sectional contents are strategically located throughout each title to provide for powerful navigation and a quick overall appreciation of the principles discussed in each section
  • Extracting the key points while following the context is easy with a style that is structured to provide greater contextual flow
  • Generous use of headings and subheadings lets the reader move easily through a title
  • Bolded descriptors at the beginning of paragraphs allows the reader to quickly scan the contents and zero in on the information of interest
  • National scope and jurisdiction-specific commentary provides a complete and integrated analysis
  • References strategically consolidated at the end of each major paragraph grouping facilitates easy access to the supporting information.
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