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Searching and browsing legal guides in LEAP

11 October 2016 by By Lawyers

Search for precedents & commentaries

The search is based on the name of precedents and commentaries. It won’t search the contents of precedents or commentaries.

  1. Open a matter.
  2. Make sure you’re on the Details & Correspondence tab.
  3. Click Guides & Precedents on the toolbar, then the Legal Guides tab, if it isn’t your default tab.
  4. Click Search on the toolbar to the right of the By Lawyers logo.
A search field displays below the toolbar.
  1. Select whether you’d like to search All By Lawyers information or just Precedents or Commentaries.
  2. Enter your search criteria in the Search field.
  3. Press Enter or click the search icon.

In the displayed search results use the navigational options to go to the next or previous result.

Browse for other guides

  1. Open a matter.
  2. Make sure you’re on the Details & Correspondence tab.
  3. Click Guides & Precedents on the toolbar, then the Legal Guides tab, if it isn’t your default tab.
  4. Click the down arrow next to the legal guides of the matter type for the open matter and select Browse more guides.
Browse precedents
  1. You’ll then be able to make more selections to search for other types of guides you’re interested in.
Browse options
  1. Select the appropriate state from the drop down.
  2. Enter your search criteria or expand the displayed list by clicking + in front of a matter type and the clicking on an option.
Your results are displayed.
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