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LexisNexis® Commercial Practice Center
Go to lexis.com® and click the Transactional Advisor tab to access this unique practice center for commercial law practitioners. Content and tools are organized based on today’s commercial practice tasks. Quickly access the information you need and become more productive. The Commercial Practice Center helps you provide advice on multiple topics, analyze strategies, prepare for and perform due diligence, stay on top of compliance issues, draft documents, gain the latest intelligence, and accomplish more for your organization or clients.
Convenient online tools and resources help you stay on top of the latest commercial law developments and accomplish more throughout each commercial transaction.
- Track emerging issues and expert analysis on topics such as issues engendered by the increasing use of secured lending, student loan guidelines, the subprime lending crisis, attempts to jump-start small business lending and more.
- Research the UCC and assess your initial transactions. Access state-specific uniform commercial codes and compare treatment of commercial law topics for all 50 states with a single click using multi-jurisdictional surveys with analysis. Rely on guidance from authoritative works including Corbin on Contracts, Secured Transactions Under the UCC, Sales and Bulk Transfers Under the UCC, Negotiable Instruments Under the UCC and Letters of Credit.
- Access thousands of commercial transactional forms (organized by practice area), including consumer protection and consumer credit materials. Forms for commercial transactional deals draw on exclusive content such as Forms & Procedures Under the UCC, Warren’s Forms of Agreements® and Current Legal Forms. Forms are categorized by deal type and practice area, enabling you to focus on those applicable to the transactional deal at hand. Commercial forms cover:
- Secured Transactions (UCC Article 9)
- Sales (UCC Article 2)
- Leasing (UCC Article 2A)
- Letters of Credit (UCC Article 5)
- Negotiable Instruments (UCC Article 3)
- Business Entity Formation and Organization
- Financing and Fund Management
- Evaluate risks and conduct due diligence.
- Locate a person, business or property using LexisNexis® Comprehensive Person and Business Reports (formerly SmartLinx®).
- Obtain information on more than 43 million public and private companies by using LexisNexis® Dossier.
- View negative news on businesses and people.
- Understand the downside risks of damages. Use Search by Topic to find cases, codes and analysis by UCC issue.
- Access jury verdicts and settlements to understand potential costs.
- Access information on fraud across all 50 states.
