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  Westlaw and Westlaw UK What's New
April 2006 		 
     
 

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What's New on Westlaw UK:

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RegulationsPlus – making CFR research simple

The newly launched RegulationsPlus on Westlaw can help you:

  • Retrieve the CFR section you need
  • Retrieve other CFR sections related to your section
  • Retrieve cases, administrative materials, and other documents interpreting the section
  • Identify and retrieve the enabling statute
  • Retrieve the version of a CFR section in effect on a certain date
  • Retrieve the appropriate Federal Register documents as far back as 1936.

The CFR index on Westlaw is perhaps the most innovative and eagerly anticipated feature of RegulationsPlus. A link to the index is located on the Search page for the Code of Federal Regulations database ( CFR). When a Terms and Connectors or Natural Language search is unsuccessful, the RegulationsPlus Index will probably be your best bet. This index can be searched using either the alphabetical navigation tool or the descriptive-word scanning feature.


Notes of Decisions are now available for regulations, just as they are for statutes. Like the new index, the notes are Westlaw exclusives. The notes, written by West attorney-editors, are summaries of cases that interpret or apply a regulation. Each note contains a link to the full-text opinion. A link to the notes is located after the text of a CFR section on Westlaw, and there's also a link on the Links tab under Cases.


 
 

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Securities Law - No Action Letters now available in PDF

No-action letters have been available for some time on Westlaw, as text-only documents. Now you can also access the documents as PDF images in a new database: Federal Securities— SEC No-Action Letters (FSEC-NAL). That means you can view charts, graphs, photos, illustrations, and handwritten comments as they appear in the original documents. Even the SEC's date stamp will be displayed.

Not all documents in FSEC-NAL are accompanied by PDF images. If a PDF image is available, a link will be displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the Westlaw document: just click Original Image of the Document (PDF) to retrieve the document.

 
 

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Selected New Databases on Westlaw

Government Contract Litigation Specialist Multibase (GC-SPECIALIST)

GC-SPECIALIST is a multibase containing practice guides, treatises, and current awareness materials covering all aspects of government contract practice and litigation.

New York Practice Series - New York Contract Law (NYPRAC-CONT)

New York Contract Law provides analysis and expert commentary regarding New York State contracts.

Business and Commercial Litigation Specialist Multibase (BUSCOM-SPECIAL)

This is a multibase containing treatises, practice guides and journals covering all aspects of business and commercial litigation

eDiscovery & Digital Evidence (EDISCOVERY)

eDiscovery & Digital Evidence is the most current guide to electronic discovery, electronic filing, handling digital evidence, and becoming a more informed consumer of technical services. It contains the complete contents of the two volume set eDiscovery & Digital Evidence together with the forms contained on the companion forms on CD. eDiscovery & Digital Evidence discusses preservation and retention policies, discovery, disclosure, cost sharing, spoliation, and the admissibility of digital evidence, including computerized business records and computer-generated evidence. It also includes useful appendices, including a detailed glossary, many practical forms, pertinent Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence, proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, comprehensive manuals concerning searching for digital information, and the effective use of technology in the courtroom. It also provides guidance in determining when forensic or similar specialized technical help is necessary

Mergers & Acquisitions - Deal Information (M&A-DEAL )

This database covers approximately 182,000 U.S. mergers and acquisitions from 1977 to present, and 292,000 international mergers and acquisitions from 1985 to present. Detailed reports contain descriptive data on target and acquiror companies, terms of the transactions, and advisor information. Public and private transactions are covered. This information typically covers the SDC Deal Number, Target Company Name, Acquiror Company Name, Target or Acquiror Nation, SIC Code or Description, Business Description, Date Deal Announced, Deal Status, Transaction Type, Acquisition Type, Deal Terms, Legal Advisor and Financial Advisor.
  
 

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Did You Know? ...

.......you can review most of the decisions made during the most recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court by skimming just one document on Westlaw

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 fall term was a busy one, in spite of the recent resignations and vacancies. Here are just a few of the issues addressed by the Court:

  • Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals exceeded its limited authority on review of habeas corpus proceedings by commanding Arizona courts to conduct a jury trial to resolve the petitioner's claim that he was ineligible for execution due to mental retardation.
  • Whether the time that poultry plant employees spent donning protective gear at the start of the work day was excluded from FLSA coverage under the Portal-to-Portal Act's exception for "activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to a principal activity or activities."
  • Whether the party objecting to the removal of a case to federal court, upon a determination that the removal was improper, is entitled to attorney fees.
The staff of the American Law Reports ( ALR) has compiled summaries of major decisions from the 2005 fall term in one document, the 2005-2006 ALR United States Supreme Court Update: Part I. (The update for the second half of the 2005-2006 term will be available in August 2006.) In addition to actual opinions, the update also summarizes orders granting or denying certiorari. The update is organized alphabetically by topic, beginning with Civil Rights and ending with War and National Emergency. Each summary includes the title and citation of the opinion or order, a summary of the facts, the Court's disposition, and the title and citation of a corresponding ALR article.
 
 

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From the Westlaw archive…

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Were the operators of the Titanic right to include terms & conditions - “exempting the defendants from lose, damage, or delay to the passenger or his luggage arising from (inter alia) the negligence of the shipowners' servants”?

  
 

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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:

- Two 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 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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