LexisNexis® Public Records
Locate and get a more complete picture of people and businesses across the U.S.
Use robust search, analytics, and reporting tools to effectively leverage one of the largest collections of public and proprietary records available.
Our unparalleled LexID® linking and LexisNexis SmartLinx® reporting technologies can uncover hidden connections—even when entities don’t have a record in common—and raise red flags to help you spot important issues. They also account for various types of data errors, so you can still get comprehensive results.
You can improve your due diligence efforts by efficiently locating a person or business and finding critical insights to get a more complete picture.
Bottom line—you can have greater confidence in your results.
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- Unmatched public records collection
Access our comprehensive collection of more than 65 billion records from more than 10,000 diverse sources—including public, private, regulated, and derived data. You get comprehensive information on millions of individuals and unique businesses. This includes names, addresses, places of employment, cellular and unpublished phone numbers, licenses, property records and much more.
- Flexible search capabilities
Use simple search forms to search with any information by choosing features such as “Find similar sounding last names” and “Find nicknames of first name”. For some sources, you also have the option of Boolean searching. With either method, you can narrow your search with ease.
- LexID® advanced linking technology
Surface relationships between people, businesses and locations—with a high degree of quality even when they don’t appear together in a public records document.
- SmartLinx™ reporting technology
Sift through billions of public records across all 50 states with a single search and create comprehensive, easy-to-read, rolled-up reports of a person, location, or business. These reports include assets and liabilities, aliases, associates, relatives, and neighbors, and more to help you uncover critical, hard-to-find connections. And you can link directly from one report to another, and from any report to the original source documents and back again.
- Potential issue flags
Review search results filtered through over 200 unique criteria that flag potential issues, such as a pending lawsuit, an atypical address or Social Security number being used by more than one person.
- Answer set roll-up
Reduce errors and increase the appropriateness of search results because similar names, nicknames and alternate spellings are correlated into a singular, organized entry.
- Alert capability
Save your search for automatic updates, so you’ll know when new, relevant documents are available. You can even select all or specific parts of a SmartLinx report you want to have updated automatically. Get updates daily, weekly, or monthly and choose your delivery method.
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Law Firms
- Gain a competitive advantage from critical connections and insights
Our sophisticated industry-leading LexID® search and linking technology looks beyond the surface of public records data. It helps you make intelligent information connections beyond the obvious—between people, businesses, assets, and locations—by drawing insights from both traditional and new sources of data. You can make more informed decisions and achieve better outcomes.
- Take fact-witness research to new levels
Conduct fact-witness research in a comprehensive, efficient, intelligent manner. Leverage our collection of over 65 billion records for fact claim review and background checks, and rely on our SmartLinx™ reporting technology to uncover hidden connections between people, businesses, and assets across all 50 states.
- Get comprehensive results with little effort and flexible options
Search all 50 states or a single state by leveraging easy-to-use search forms or for some sources, Boolean connectors, and narrow your search results with ease. Initiate searches with any type of information you have and still locate the right record with helpful tools.
- Leverage specialized content available only to law firms
Find the flexibility to go outside of your subscription to fill gaps in your research with transactional-based, specialized public records offerings, such as medical records and police reports—currently only available for law firm customers.
- Be alerted to potential issues
Utilize powerful analytic tools such as InstantID® with FraudPoint®, which can help authenticate identities, spot fraud, and flag ID discrepancies.
- Save time and expense with streamlined research
Our proprietary SmartLinx Comprehensive Person and Business Reports enable you to search across multiple jurisdictions in seconds to find vast amounts of information and present it in an easy-to-read, consolidated report. This could otherwise require hours of searching and potential outside investigative resource costs.
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Corporate Legal
- Take due diligence, entity, and M&A research to new levels
Conduct vendor due diligence, franchisee reviews, or financial research on a potential acquisition in a comprehensive, efficient, and intelligent manner. Leverage our collection of over 65 billion records and rely on our SmartLinx™ report technology to surface hidden connections between people, businesses, and assets across all 50 states.
- Have confidence in your results
Use technology that accounts for “dirty data” and overcomes typos, misspellings, and other errors to align the information with the right person or business.
- Save time and expense with a single search
Cast a wide net by leveraging our proprietary SmartLinx Comprehensive Person and Business Reports. They search across multiple jurisdictions in seconds to find vast amounts of information, such as bankruptcy records, assets, judgments and liens and present it in an easy-to-read, consolidated report, saving countless research hours.
- Gain a competitive advantage from critical connections and insights
Our sophisticated industry-leading LexID® search and linking technology looks beyond the surface of public records data. It helps you make intelligent information connections beyond the obvious—between people, businesses, assets, and locations—by drawing insights from both traditional and new sources of data. You can make more informed decisions about mergers, acquisitions, alliances, supplier vetting, and more—and achieve better outcomes.
- Get comprehensive results with little effort and flexible options
Search all 50 states or a single state leveraging easy-to-use search forms or for some sources, Boolean connectors. Initiate searches with any type of information, such as a potential business partner’s last known address, and still locate the right record.
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Government
- Take investigative research to new levels
Conduct fact witness and investigative research in a comprehensive, efficient and intelligent manner by using our sophisticated LexID® search and linking technology and vast content collection of over 65 billion records for fact claim review, background checks, and locating persons of interest.
- Discover critical connections and insights
Look beyond the surface of public records data to spot commonalities and hidden connections you might not otherwise find, enabling you to draw deeper insights that help inform your investigative efforts. You can make more informed decisions and achieve better outcomes.
- Get comprehensive results with little effort and flexible options
Search all 50 states or a single state by leveraging easy-to-use search forms or for some sources, Boolean connectors, and narrow your search results with ease. Initiate searches with any type of information you have and still locate the right record with helpful tools.
- Have confidence in your results
Use technology that accounts for “dirty data” and overcomes typos, misspellings, and other errors to align the information with the right person or business.
- Save time with streamlined research
Cast a wide net by searching across multiple jurisdictions in seconds to find vast amounts of information and receive it in an easy-to-read, consolidated report with our proprietary SmartLinx™ Comprehensive Person and Business Reports—saving you hours of searching.
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Corporations
- Gain a competitive advantage from critical connections and insights
Our sophisticated industry-leading LexID® search and linking technology looks beyond the surface of public records data. It helps you make intelligent information connections beyond the obvious—between people, businesses, assets, and locations—by drawing insights from both traditional and new sources of data. You can make more informed decisions and achieve better outcomes.
- Take business, vendor and competitive research to new levels
Conduct competitive, vendor and acquisition research in a comprehensive, efficient and intelligent manner. Leverage our vast collection of over 65 billion public records for real estate, financial, and bankruptcy records, and utilize our SmartLinx™ reporting technology to give you a comprehensive, easy-to-read report.
- Have confidence in your results
Use technology that accounts for “dirty data” and overcomes typos, misspellings, and other errors to align the information with the right person or business.
- Save time and expense with streamlined research
Cast a wide net by conducting one search across multiple jurisdictions using the fastest technology for processing large amounts of data to help you find the insights you need more quickly.
- Get comprehensive results with little effort and flexible options
Search all 50 states or a single state, by leveraging easy-to-use search forms or for some sources, Boolean connectors. Initiate searches with any type of information and still locate the right record with our various search features, and receive alerts when new relevant records are added to our system—vital to any ongoing due diligence.
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Media
- Discover critical connections and insights
Our sophisticated industry-leading LexID® search and linking technology looks beyond the surface of public records data. It helps you make intelligent information connections you might not otherwise find—between people, businesses, assets, and locations—by drawing insights from both traditional and new sources of data and draw deeper insights to inform your investigative efforts.
- Take eye-witness research to new levels
Leverage our collection of over 65 billion records to find addresses, phone numbers, and conduct background checks. And rely on our SmartLinx™ reporting technology to present connections between people, businesses and assets in a comprehensive, easy-to-read report.
- Get comprehensive results with little effort and flexible options
Leverage easy-to-use search forms or for some sources, Boolean connectors for your searches, scale your search to one or all 50 states, and narrow your search results for granular content, such as last known address. Search with any information tidbit you have and still locate the right record, plus ensure your investigative content stays current with the Alerts feature.
- Have confidence in your results
Use technology that accounts for “dirty data” and overcomes typos, misspellings, and other errors to align the information with the right person or business.
- Save time and expense with streamlined research
Our proprietary SmartLinx Comprehensive Person and Business Reports enable you to search across multiple jurisdictions using the fastest technology for processing large amounts of data and present it in an easy-to-read, consolidated report—an effort that might otherwise require hours of searching and potential outside investigative resources.
Due to the nature of the origin of public record information, the public records and commercially available data sources used in reports may contain errors. Source data is sometimes reported or entered inaccurately, processed poorly or incorrectly, and is generally not free from defect. This product or service aggregates and reports data, as provided by the public records and commercially available data sources, and is not the source of the data, nor is it a comprehensive compilation of the data. Before relying on any data, it should be independently verified.