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February 2007
Welcome to the February edition of Westlaw and Westlaw UK What's New
Inside this issue:
Westlaw
• HEADLINE NEWS - American Maritime Cases on Westlaw
• What's Your Cause of Action?
• Inactive Westlaw Sign Off Times Increased
• Selected New Databases
• From the Westlaw Archive
Westlaw UK
• Expanding the Size of the Search Box
• Expand/Collapse Enhancement
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HEADLINE NEWS - American Maritime Cases on Westlaw
On February 28, the complete set of American Maritime Cases (AMC), a respected specialty reporter publishing international, federal, state and administrative maritime decisions since 1923 will make its long-anticipated release.
Maritime law is much more than just the Exxon Valdez case and a handful of obscure seaport disputes. Maritime cases may involve worker's compensation issues, contract litigation over misdelivered or damaged goods, employment disputes, boat and jet ski accidents and a host of other matters.
Maritime industries contribute more than a trillion dollars to the annual gross domestic product; more than 95 percent of US commerce is carried through seaports. Maritime law has a presence in 44 states - maritime, after all, refers to navigable waters, not just oceans. There are more than 8,000 practitioners listed in the West Legal Directory Admiralty database (WLD-ADMIN).
Cases reported by AMC offer time-saving headnotes written by maritime attorneys. With the upcoming release, Westlaw offers the most complete access to online maritime practice materials in the market.
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What's Your Cause of Action?
The Causes of Action treatise can shorten any number of pre-trial preparation and legal research tasks.
If you are preparing to litigate in a particular area for the first time, this often overlooked resource can trim hours from your pre-trial preparation, research, and document-drafting time. When you search this publication in the Causes of Action database (COA), you can save even more time using electronic search technology and user-friendly linking features.
If you are an experienced practitioner, a COA document can serve as a working outline, a checklist of arguments you may have overlooked, and a source of current cases and other authorities.
A single document retrieved from the COA database typically offers the following features:
• An easy-to-read overview of a frequently litigated cause of action
• Elements of a prima facie case
• Recognized defenses
• A synthesis of judicial holdings and other controlling state and federal authorities, with citations to full text documents
• Links to cited primary and analytical materials (eg American Law Reports (ALR®) annotations)
• West topic and key numbers and links to the Custom Digest on Westlaw
• Discussion of frequent proof and damages issues
• Checklists for discovery
• Sample pleadings and other forms
Causes of Action covers more than 400 common law and statutory causes of action from a national perspective. This resource includes a wide range of traditional and non-traditional issues in a broad spectrum of fields including personal injury, employment, commercial, business, insurance, professional malpractice, worker's compensation, civil rights, domestic relations, real and intellectual property and consumer protection.
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Inactive Westlaw Sign Off Times Increased
Due to requests from Westlaw.com users, the default Inactive Session Automated Sign Off periods have been extended.
What are the default Westlaw sign off times?
• Transactional billing - 90 minutes
• Hourly billing - 30 minutes
Are there exceptions to the default Westlaw sign off times?
Yes. You are automatically signed off from Westlaw after 15 minutes, regardless of billing method, if you close your browser without signing off from Westlaw or when you navigate to other websites from the same browser window as your Westlaw session.
What actions reset the Westlaw sign off times?
• Finding documents
• Searching databases
• Browsing search results by terms or documents
• Accessing a Westlaw service such as KeyCite
• Accessing the Research Trail or Preferences
• Clicking a hypertext link in a document, the Alert Center, or a Research Trail
What actions do not reset the Westlaw sign off times?
• Viewing and scrolling through documents, the Alert Center, or a Research Trail
• Copying and pasting text from a document
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Selected New Databases
Federal Securities - Interpretive and Policy Letters (FSEC-IRP)
This database contains Securities and Exchange Commission letters explaining or interpreting rules or policies of the SEC or giving guidance to stock exchanges and associations. The letters may be in response to a request or may be gratuitous information sent out in general.
Corporate Counsels Guide to Copyright Law (CCGCOPYR)
This database provides a basic, working knowledge of the law of copyright. It includes:
• Information on the major laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Guidance on what types of works are copyrightable
• Copyright registration requirements
• The important "fair use" defense to copyright infringement and copyright law issues with respect to the internet (ie linking and framing)
• Rules with respect to creating "joint" works and "derivative" works
• Materials on reverse engineering
• Discussions on copyright licensing (including shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses)
Corporate Counsels Quarterly (CCQTRLY)
Corporate Counsel's Quarterly provides you with timely, useful and practical information in short, direct and easy-to-read articles. Some of the regular features include:
• Feature articles on subjects of interest to Corporate Counsel
• Seminar reports prepared by our editors
• Practical commentary on international law subjects
• "Bread-and-butter" commercial law articles
• Discussion of intellectual property subjects
• Materials on compliance, including actual compliance exercises
• Company policy statements
• Corporate governance discussions and materials
• Checklists and forms
• Descriptions of useful websites for Corporate Counsel
• Quarterly review of recent developments
International Trade and US Antitrust Law (ITUSA)
This text discusses current US statutes, regulations and case law exploring how they apply to international competition, regulation and litigation. This database contains:
• Analysis of when US law applies to foreign firms doing business in the US and to US firms abroad.
• Exploration of the effect of globalization on competition between domestic and foreign markets and discusses current US statutes, regulations and case laws.
• Discussion of the regulation of dominant firms, extraterritoriality, antitrust problems in export transactions, transnational litigation issues, international transfer of technology and intellectual property issues, competition and fairly traded imports, and "unfair" international trade practices.
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From the Westlaw Archive
2006 WL 2726547 – suing car manufacturers in California for causing Global Warming.
HL Vol 688 col 438 – is this the end of Hospital Radio?
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Expanding the Size of the Search Box
The height of the search box has now been increased from three rows to four rows to accommodate larger queries.
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Expand/Collapse Enhancement
If you go into a search screen and choose to collapse the connectors/expanders box, and do not run a search, the collapsed choice will be recognised and maintained allowing you to choose the view that best suits your needs.
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If you would like to discuss any of the changes detailed above please contact your Account Manager directly or the Customer Support Team on 0800 028 2200 or at customer.service@westlaw.co.uk.
With kind regards,
The Westlaw and Westlaw UK Team
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