How to Search by an Attorney's Name on Lexis CourtLink

You can search by an attorney's name in the Keywords field as well as in the Attorney field on the Lexis^® CourtLink^® service. 

Attorney Field Keywords Field

Search Tips for the Attorney Field Search Tips for the Keywords Field

 

 Attorney Field

The Attorney field searches the terms that are entered using a segment search. Take the following steps to search by an attorney's name in the Attorney field:

1. Select a court or courts from the within drop-down.
2. Enter the attorney's name in the Attorney field.
   Note:  Leave out initials, middle names, and/or abbreviations as the court may or may not use these. For example, enter benjamin matlock instead of benjamin l matlock or ben matlock.
3. Click Search.

Note: If the Attorney field is not available on your selected courts, you see the following message: You won’t receive results from these courts.  When you click on these courts, you see the list of courts which do not support searching by Attorney field.

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  Search Tips for the Attorney Field

Apostrophes (')
Apostrophes are ignored.

Carets
The caret operates as an OR connector.

Common Names
Avoid searching for common last names with no other criteria.
Most courts allow you to search by last name only, but only do this when you are not sure about the first name.

Hyphens (-)
Hyphens are ignored unless in between 2 spaces. 

Middle Initials
Avoid using middle initials whenever possible because the court may not have entered a middle initial. 

Quotation Marks
Use quotation marks to keep litigant names together with no intervening terms. 

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 Keywords Field

Take the following steps to search by an attorney's name in the Keywords field:

1. Select a court or courts from the within drop-down.
2. Enter your search in the following format: plaintiff-attorney([attorney's name]) or defendant-attorney([attorney's name]) or others-attorney([attorney's name]) in the search box. 
   Note:  Others refers to attorneys representing other party types, like counter-claimant, appellant, counter-defendant, cross-claimant, cross-defendant, etc.
3. Click Search.

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 Search Tips for the Keywords Field

Generally
The Keywords field uses Lexis^® search logic. You can construct Natural Language or Terms & Connectors searches. You can also utilize wildcards and segments. Put your search terms in quotation marks to look for an exact phrase when running Natural Language searches.

Using Symbols and Special Characters
The Lexis^® CourtLink^® service does not search for the following special characters or symbols and ignores them as terms and treats them like spaces in most situations:

• - (hyphen)
• ' (apostrophe)

There are a few special characters that cannot be searched and change the way the service interprets your search:

• " (quotation marks) - You cannot search for quotation marks, but you can use quotation marks in your search to find exact phrases or turn off some search functionality.
• & (ampersand) - You cannot search for an ampersand, but you can use & as an equivalent to the AND connector.
• . (period) - The period is generally viewed as a space. Use quotation marks in your search to turn off that functionality.
• ( ) (parentheses) - You cannot search for parentheses, but you can use them in your search.

The Lexis CourtLink service processes the search with the other terms you entered.

Terms separated by any symbols or punctuation are generally read as a phrase and the results include those terms together with any type of punctuation.

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