LexisNexis^® CourtLink^® Strategic Profiles help you gain insight into a public company’s litigation history, attorney experience on a particular nature or suit, and map out litigation trends. CourtLink^® searches the most in depth historical civil online database of court records covering 10-20 years of cases to pinpoint relevant information and to provide you a Strategic Profile with easy to read graphs, data charts and facts.

Litigators - Argue more effectively

• Judicial Profile
  Understand whether the judge assigned to your case has substantial or limited experience in a particular area of law, and learn how the judge handled similar cases. Uncover the experience of your opposing counsel before the judge in particular matters.
• Attorney/Law Firm Strategic Profile
  Gain insight into an opposing counsel’s practice area experience and number of published decisions, learn whether the attorney has argued similar cases before a specific judge and see prior strategies employed, including case resolution.
• Litigant Strategic Profile
  Research the litigation history of your client or the opposing litigant to uncover participation in prior similar cases and discern patterns of case resolution.

Marketing/Client Development Professionals - Grow your business

• Litigant Profile
  Identify client or prospect litigation trends and drill down to see activity by a specific nature of suit. This will help you identify matches between a companies’ needs and your law firm’s area of specialty allowing you to target client development activities. Get a better handle on your firm’s share of total available business from a client and see trends within your prospect or client base.
• Nature of Suit Profile
  View nature of suit trends and identify growth opportunities nationally. Compare trends on a court-by-court basis. Monitor case types that seem to be on the decline and flag emerging risk. Gain insight into market trends so that you can make the best business development and practice area expansion decisions.
• U.S. District Court or State Court Profile
  Conduct geographic analysis and evaluate litigation trends by practice area. Compare nature of suit trends within a US District Court so you know what practice area to expand in.

How to create a new Strategic Profile:

1. Click the Strategic Profile tab from the CourtLink top navigation menu. A history of previous Strategic Profiles is displayed automatically.
2. Select a profile type by clicking on one of the five tabs next to History, e.g., Litigant.
3. Select the Courts and Nature of Suits to be included in your profile by clicking on the Select Courts and the Select Nature of Suit links at the top of the page.
4. Enter your profile criteria, including name(s), dates, client matter code (optional), chart type and reporting selections.
5. To submit the profile, click Create Profile.

NOTE: On Litigant Strategic Profiles and Law Firm Strategic Profiles, if there is more than one company name variation, a list of available name variations displays automatically. To include alternative names, check the names you want to include in your profile, then click Create Profile. On Judicial Strategic Profiles, if more than one judge name appears you need to select the judge you want to run the profile on, then click Create Profile.

Change Strategic Profile Date Ranges—No Additional Charge

Rerun your Strategic Profile—with a different date range—at no additional cost for up to 24 hours after you enter the initial profile. Change Litigant Strategic Profile date ranges to gauge how a company’s litigation has changed over time and to assess trends.

To change a Strategic Profile date range:

1. Click the Strategic Profiles tab from the CourtLink top navigation menu. A history of past profile searches is displayed automatically.
2. Click Re-Run next to the name of the profile you want to change.
3. When the profile displays, scroll to the bottom of the report. Edit the date range.
4. Click Re-Run Profile.

Printing and Sharing Your Strategic Profile Reports:

Print, store and share individual profile reports or your profile history list.

1. To print a profile:
   Click Print View at the top right of your report. Follow your standard PC printing instructions.
2. To save a profile in PDF:
   Click PDF. Use the Save function to save the PDF to your PC.
3. To e-mail a profile:
   Attach the saved PDF to your outgoing email message.
4. To share a profile:
   Click the share link from the History tab.

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