This tutorial demonstrates how you can search for a legal topic using Lexis ® Search Advisor.

Lexis Search Advisor, available by selecting the "Search Advisor" tab, is a finding tool you can use to:

• easily identify on-point sources from more than 40 areas of law,
• help you formulate your search request.

Suppose you are interested in learning more about copyright law, and specifically whether the "fair use defense" against a claim of infringement might apply to your case.

To find relevant legal topics, enter a term or phrase, such as "fair use defense" in the open field labeled "Option 1: Find a Legal Topic." Then select the "Find" button to display a list of legal topics related to fair use defense. Lexis Search Advisor retrieves a list of related topics, ranked in order of relevance.

Topic Information is available to help you decide which topic is most relevant to your research issue. To confirm that a topic best matches your fair use issue, select the "Source Description" icon.

Topic Information includes:

• a Content Summary prepared by established attorneys with practice experience and extensive backgrounds in online searching,
• cross-references to other topics that might be pertinent to your issue, and
• background search terms and phrases.

To review Topic Information for other Lexis Search Advisor topics, or to select a topic for your search, you need to close the Topic Information box.

Select a topic by clicking it's link.

That concludes this tutorial module. The next module describes how Lexis Search Advisor can help you find related analytical materials and formulate your search request.

Now you can:

• go to the next topic,
• go to the previous menu,
• display the Help for this topic, or
• close this window.

A graphical version of this document also is available.

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