What's New on Westlaw:

• More enhancements to make News searching more efficient
• New Practitioner Tabs released
• Westlaw eforms
• Selected New Databases
• Did you Know? Feel restricted by Current Awareness screen?
• From the Westlaw archive…

What's New on Westlaw UK:

• New Documents in Sequence Functionality
• New Content Enhancements
• New Site Map being added to Westlaw UK and Westlaw
• Westclip Error - Fixed
• New ‘Pay as You Go’ rate

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More enhancements to make News searching more efficient

Now you have the ability to limit your news searches even further. When searching AllNews on westlaw.com you will get the option to “Limit ALLNews”.
Click here for an example >>

This offers you the option of filtering your search by publication type and geographic area, and these limits can also be used in conjunction with smart terms to make your search as detailed as possible.

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New Practitioner Tabs released

Patent – includes prior art materials, court records and litigation tracking, practice guides, derwent tools and current awareness links.
Click here for an example >>

Estate Planning – includes tax materials, forms, treatises and the ability to customise for your state.
Click here for an example >>

Insurance Defence – covers primary law materials, trial materials, forms and checklists, practice guides and the ability to customise for your state.
Click here for an example >>

Municipal – includes primary law and model codes along with public records, filings and practice guides, and the ability to customise for your state.
Click here for an example >>

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Westlaw eforms

eForms have been released on Westlaw for selected states. They include the full text of State and/or Federal court forms including forms from district and circuit courts, Bankruptcy, and agency forms. Forms can be viewed in PDF format and can be completed and printed for filing. Adobe(R) LiveCyle(TM) Reader(R) Extensions also allow you to save completed forms, as well as add digital notes, stamps, and signatures to the form.

Search for a state specific database in the Directory or access one of the multiple databases:

Westlaw eforms: Federal Courts and Agencies (FEDFRMS)
Westlaw eforms: State Courts and Agencies (STATEFRMS)
Westlaw eforms: State and Federal Courts and Agencies (ALLFRMS)

Click here for an example >>
Click here for an example >>

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Selected New Databases

Wall Street News (WALLST-NEWS)
The WALLST-NEWS database is a news and information collection focusing on the events and information that drive the dynamics of the business of "Wall Street" from the "U.S." point-of-view. Wall Street News offers full coverage of many of the top newspaper and newswire sources of financial and market-related information as well as targeted content from news sources around the world. A document can be an article, column, letter, or other section of text.

Nichols Cyclopedia of Legal Forms: Patents (NICHOLS-LFPAT)
The NICHOLS-LFPAT database consists of forms, clauses, and checklists that relate to patents found in Nichols Cyclopedia of Legal Forms.

Journal of International Law and International Relations (JILIR)
Full-text articles from Journal of International Law & International Relations. Full coverage begins with 2005 (vol. 1).

Forms Finder: Patents (PATFORM-ALL)
The PATFORM-ALL database consists of forms, clauses, and checklists that relate to patents and patent law and are derived from numerous West publications including West Legal Forms, Nichols Legal Forms, AmJur Legal Forms, State forms, and other sources.

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Did You Know? Feel restricted by the Current Awareness screen?

The links on the Current Awareness screen allow you to go quickly and easily to the recent materials relating to that topic, publication type or date. But you can also create your own search very easily using multiple criteria with the Query Wizard.

The wizard helps you to create your own search by asking you to select publication types, topical areas, free text terms and a date restriction (including Before and/or After and Specific Date).

Click here for a detailed screenshot >>

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From the Westlaw archive…

216 S.E.2d 356 - a case report written entirely in rhyme
“…The jury went out
To consider his case
And then they returned
The defendant to face.
'What verdict, Mr. Foreman?'
The learned judge inquired.
'Guilty, your honor.'
On Brown's face-no smile….”

149 US 304 – legally speaking, is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

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New Documents in Sequence Functionality

To make the Documents in Sequence functionality more accessible and easier to use, we have relocated it from the Tools menu in the footer section to the top of the screen. When you access legislation or commentary documents, links to adjacent and previous sections (where applicable) will appear.

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New Content Enhancements 2006

2006 sees the addition of the following new content on Westlaw UK:

- 2 Sweet & Maxwell case report series
- Additional Sweet & Maxwell journals
- Third party commercial and tax law reports

We are also extending the archive for some additional reports.

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New Site Map being added to Westlaw UK & Westlaw

March will see the introduction of a new site map to Westlaw UK designed to assist you with navigating around the service. Here is a sneak preview:

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Westclip Error - Fixed

Back in December we reported a problem adding search results to a Westclip after running it from a template screen. This problem has now been resolved.

If you continue to experience problems adding search results to a Westclip, please contact Customer Support.

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New ‘Pay as You Go’ rate*

For International and Practice Area only subscribers...

From February 15th, Westlaw UK pay-as-you-go rates will increase. These increases are the first for over 3 years and the average increase is 8%. The changes will primarily affect international pay-as-you-go users of UK content. However, UK customers subscribing to a Practice Area Service who do not also subscribe to Westlaw UK will be subject to the new rates if they access UK content outside their Practice Area subscription.

For Westlaw UK customers in the United Kingdom, this will have no impact upon current subscription rates. The only UK content accessed on a pay-as-you-go basis by Westlaw UK customers is commentary, for which pay-as-you-go rates remain unchanged.

Details of the new charges will be available via Chargeback. For further assistance, please contact Customer Support on 0800 028 2200.

* Not applicable to academic insitutions

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