Frequently Asked Questions

LegalExpress is a legal current awareness service.

This service is offered exclusively to customers of LexisNexis. Members enjoy the following benefits:

• A LegalExpress daily email delivered to your inbox each morning to keep you up to date quickly and easily with the most recent and important information in your selected area(s) of law; and
• Access to the LegalExpress website 24 hours a day, which includes 32 legal topics, editorially written summaries, a 30 day archive and direct links into CaseBase* and LawNow* (*CaseBase / LawNow subscription required).

To ensure you are not overwhelmed with irrelevant information, a team of legally qualified editors select only the most important information in your topic(s) of interest. This means that on some days there may be no new content for your chosen topic(s) – the LegalExpress service will let you know when this is the case.

The daily email is sent after 9am each business day.

Yes, you can visit the LegalExpress website throughout the day. The website is updated 4 times a day. Editorial summaries and other details are included immediately - the links to CaseBase and LawNow will process overnight and will be available the following day.

Editors receive case and legislation information throughout the day. Editorial summaries are written for the most important material and uploaded to the website generally on the same day of receipt. The website is updated 4 times a day. The daily email contains a summary of information received on the previous day.

LegalExpress currently covers Australian case law, journal articles and legislation. This content comes from trusted products CaseBase and LawNow.

Hover over a topic name to see the second-level catchwords covered within that topic. The additional information is displayed in the box below the topic list.

At the bottom of the daily LegalExpress email there is an “Unsubscribe” function. Simply click on this link and you will no longer receive the daily email. Please note that once you have unsubscribed, if you wish to resubscribe to the email component of this service at a future date you will need to set up a new account using a different email address.

Yes. LexisNexis offers a suite of alerting services that can be tailored to your specific needs. Please contact our Customer Service team on 1800 772 772 or customer.relations@lexisnexis.com.au.

Simply go to your My Topics page. On this page there is a red ‘customise topics’ button. Choose this and you will be taken to a selection screen. Select the checkboxes next to the topics you would like to choose. Hit “Save changes” and you are done. Your saved selections will be visible on your My Topics tab immediately. Your daily email will be updated the following day with your selected preferences.

No. All topics are pre-selected for your convenience. You may customise your topic selection at any time though.

As often as you want. The changes will be activated on the website immediately. Your changes to email content will become visible the next day.

No. In making your selection of topics, you are customising both the website view and your email update simultaneously. You may, however, change your topic preferences at anytime. The “All Topics” tab will still be accessible on the website after you have customised your topics — so additional topics can be viewed quickly and easily.