Using Brief Analysis on Lexis+

Brief Analysis on Lexis+^® identifies and analyzes legal concepts and citation patterns from your document or passage to find meaningful suggestions to help you build stronger arguments. Brief Analysis displays highlighted passages from your document with relevant case recommendations, similar briefs, pleadings, and motions, and a full Shepard's^® analysis of the cites in your document.

For information on how to perform this function using a screen reader, see Using Brief Analysis on Lexis+ with a Screen Reader.

Using Brief Analysis with your own document
Using Brief Analysis with a passage
Using Brief Analysis with a document from Lexis+^® 
Using Brief Analysis with a Citation List

 

Using Brief Analysis with your own document 

You can drag and drop your file into Brief Analysis or browse for the file. Brief Analysis supports the following formats:

• .doc
• .docx
• .pdf
• .txt

Note:  Brief Analysis currently supports PDF documents that are saved directly from a word processing format to PDF. PDFs without readable text may fail to process. We are working to expand our support for scanned PDFs in the near future. PDFs that have gone through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software or converted to a Word format (.doc or .docx) are supported. Graphical and non-OCR PDFs, including some scanned documents, are not supported.


After uploading your document, you see a Dashboard that provides a snapshot view of the information extracted from your document and the analysis available. Use the Deliver full report drop-down list to Print, Email, or Download to deliver all results from your analysis along with a Dashboard summary.
Note: Sessions do not appear in your Lexis+ History. You cannot access delivered reports from History because the information used to create the full report uses language from your document and your document is not stored beyond the current session.


There is a 20 MB file size limitation to uploads.


Take the following steps to begin a Brief Analysis session:

1. In Lexis+, click Document Analysis on the left side of the page.
2. Click Start under Analyze a brief or passage.
3. Drag and drop your file into the box on the page or click browse and navigate through your computer network to locate the file.
4. Select My document or Opponent's document.
5. Click Start Analysis. The document is uploaded to the LexisNexis^® services, goes through a virus scan, the citations and concepts are extracted, and recommendations are retrieved.
   Note: See below for additional information on data security.
6. Review the Dashboard to get an overview of the analysis. Use the guidance below for additional information on each part of a Brief Analysis session.

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Using Brief Analysis with a passage 

Take the following steps to begin a Brief Analysis session:

1. In Lexis+, click Document Analysis on the left side of the page.
2. Click Start under Analyze a brief or passage.
3. Paste your passage into the box on the right side. 
   Note: The passage may not exceed 5,000 character.
4. Select My document or Opponent's document.
5. Click Start Analysis.
6. Note: See below for additional information on data security.
7. Review the Dashboard to get an overview of the analysis. Use the guidance below for additional information on each part of a Brief Analysis session.

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Using Brief Analysis with a document from Lexis+^® 

You can select Analyze with Brief Analysis from a brief, pleading or motion on Lexis+.  This automatically uploads the document into Brief Analysis. 
After uploading your document, you see a Dashboard that provides a snapshot view of the information extracted from your document and the analysis available. Use the Deliver full report drop-down list to Print, Email, or Download to deliver all results from your analysis along with a Dashboard summary.

There are a few limitations when you upload a document from Lexis+^®:

• The option to Analyze with Brief Analysis does not appear if the document does not have an original source attachment.
• The option to Analyze with Brief Analysis only works with documents classified as a brief, pleading, or motion.  It does not work on other court documents.

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Using Brief Analysis with a Citation List 

Take the following steps to begin a Brief Analysis session:

1. In Lexis+, click Document  Analysis on the left side of the page.
2. Click Start under Analyze a brief or passage.
3. Drag and drop your file with the list of citations into the box on the page or click browse and navigate through your computer network to locate the file.
   Note: You may also click Enter text to enter a list of citations.
4. Select Citation list.
5. Click Start Analysis. 
   Note: See below for additional information on data security.
6. Review the Dashboard to get an overview of the analysis. Use the guidance in below for additional information on each part of a Brief Analysis report for a citation list.

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The following articles describe the different parts of a Brief Analysis Report:

• Brief Analysis Selected Concepts
• Brief Analysis Recommendations
• Brief Analysis Similar Briefs
• Brief Analysis Cited In Your Document

Brief Analysis Data Security: LexisNexis^® takes the security of our customer data very seriously and we have incorporated data protection into the design and implementation of Brief Analysis. Further, the LexisNexis security program incorporates extensive security measures across our research platform and is audited on an annual basis by an external firm.

During a Brief Analysis session, the text of your uploaded document, as well as extracted citations and concepts, are available temporarily in the application to support the display of your document and the delivery of results from the report. However, the full text from your document is not stored beyond the current session. Delivered results from the Brief Analysis report remain available in your History for 90 days.
Note: Only the results from Similar Briefs and Cited in Your Document are available in History. The full report or anything that uses language or passages from your brief are not available in History because the text from your document is only stored for use in the current Brief Analysis session.

For more information, click the i next to Upload a document in Microsoft^® Word or PDF format. Your text will be stored only for the current Brief Analysis session. on the Brief Analysis page start page.