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August 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of Westlaw What's New
Inside this issue:
Westlaw
• Term Frequency for Cases
• New Westlaw Tabs
• West eLearning Center: A Quick Way to Learn the Basics
• Selected New Databases
• Did you Know?
• From the Westlaw Archive |
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Term Frequency for Cases
To narrow down a large number of results you can now focus on documents that have terms or phrases appearing multiple times. For example, if you are interested in 'tax relief' you can search cases that have the phrase appearing multiple times.
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Enter your query and then click the Term Frequency link to the right of the search box. Now select how often you would like your terms or phrases to appear and click OK.
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New Westlaw Tabs
IP Med Investigator
Ideal for the medical insurance practitioner including reference guides, journals and treatises alongside cases, regulations and news.
PI Litigator
Materials relating to personal injury litigation including medical guides, analysis, cases, journals and news as well as FDA data.
Tort Reform
Includes reporters, analysis, regulations and court documents.
Medical related tabs:
• Medical Reg Investigator
• Medical Litigator
• Medical Risk Advisor
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West eLearning Center: A Quick Way to Learn the Basics
The West eLearning Center is an online training site to help you increase your proficiency using Westlaw. You can select the topics you wish to learn about, at a time and place most convenient for you.
The West eLearning Center allows you to browse course listings using intuitive navigational aids, choose between audio and nonaudio versions, track course completion and share useful lessons with colleagues. The short courses will take 5 to 15 minutes to cover and you can do them at your own pace.
Some of the topics covered by the courses include:
• Westlaw Fundamentals
• Researching Case Law
• Researching Statutes
• Researching Expert Witnesses
• Litigation Case Valuation
• Court Documents
Log into West eLearning Center at www.westelearning.com.
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Selected New Databases
Private Company Legal Due Diligence Reports (GSI-DDR-PRIV)
The ideal workflow management tool for litigation and transactional attorneys routinely involved in private company research and due diligence activities. The reports allow you to compile key corporate, financial, management, merger and acquisition and litigation profile information on any of the top US private companies in one step. The results are delivered in one comprehensive and professionally formatted package.
Destruction of Evidence (DSTEVID)
Full text of the looseleaf publication by Roger Jamie S. Gorelick, Stephen Marzen, Lawrence B. Solum is a practice manual as well as an authoritative resource analyzing issues from the standpoints of civil litigation, criminal litigation and the laws of professional responsibility.
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Did you Know?
To keep track of the alerts you have set up on Westlaw you can now get a simple report showing the alerts you have currently running and/or those that are saved or have expired. The report covers Westclips, Keycite Alerts, Docket Alerts and Profiler/Agency Alerts.
Access the Alert Centre using the link in the top left-hand corner of the Westlaw screen and click the Alert Summary Report link to choose your options for the report.
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From the Westlaw Archive
2007 WL 2287947
Suing a florist for revealing details of order placed for girlfriend to wife.
1688 c6 s3
Ever wondered what our reigning Monarch actually agrees to do?
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If you have any questions on the above enhancements please contact either your Sweet & Maxwell Account Manager or the Westlaw UK Customer Support Team on 0800 028 2200 or email enquiries@westlaw.co.uk.
With kind regards,
The Westlaw and Westlaw UK Team
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