How to do Legal Research in Six Steps

This guide outlines a six-step legal research process—defining the issue and facts, consulting secondary sources, locating primary authority, organizing findings, confirming validity through citators, and identifying gaps—and explains how AI accelerates each phase while requiring verification of every citation. It notes Harvey connects to over 500 legal data sources globally, including LexisNexis content for US case law and statutes, anchoring every answer to the citation behind it.