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Build complex queries by combining logical containers and search terms through Everlaw's visual search interface.
Watch the 6 minute video, or
Read the search overview and logical queries help articles
Document search terms are used to find documents based on intrinsic attributes like text, metadata, type, language, and more.
Watch the 7 minute video, or
Read the Bates, metadata, and search terms help articles
Content searching is one of the most common ways to find documents. You can use parentheses, AND, OR, and NOT to build complex content searches. Wildcard, proximity, fuzzy, and regular expression searches are also supported.
Watch the 8 minute video, or
Read the content and advanced content search help articles
Review search terms are used to find documents based on review status or applied review product.
Watch the 4 minute video, or
Read the review terms search help article
Metadata search terms are used to find documents based on their metadata values in Everlaw.
Watch the 6-minute video, or
Read the searching metadata help article
Organize documents into contextually relevant groups directly from the search page and deduplicate and sample the search results.
Watch the 6 minute video, or
Read the deduplicating, sampling and grouping help article
Interactive Training
Live Training
Everlaw offers free live and recorded training sessions on Searching, which you can sign up for here.
Topics covered include:
Document, review, and metadata search terms
Combining search terms using logical operators
Document grouping options
Resource Guides
Check out our downloadable resource guides for the following workflows:
Training Activities Checklist
After you've watched videos and have a basic understanding of how to use the visual query builder, practice your skills and try performing the following actions:
Create a search using the logical operators
Group documents by attachments and notice if the number of documents change
Rename your search
Use a smart search term
Search using a Bates range
Think of a word in your matter that comes up a lot, but in different forms: e.g. work, worked, worker, and working. Construct an advanced content search that finds any such occurrence of this word.