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November 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of Westlaw and Westlaw UK What's New.
Inside this issue:
Westlaw
• American Maritime Cases now Available on Westlaw
• Table of Contents Service - Browse and Search
• Keeping an Eye on Infringers
• Selected New Databases
• Did you Know?
• From the Westlaw Archive
Westlaw UK
• Alert Centre - Adding Report Title and Option to End Report
• New Journals on Westlaw UK by Vathek Publishing |
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Westlaw |
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American Maritime Cases (AMC) now Available on Westlaw
Westlaw is now offering all AMC copyrighted maritime cases and headnotes dating back to 1923, coverage unsurpassed by any other online legal service:
• Key maritime decisions rendered by US federal and state courts
• Complete AMC collection since 1923
• Copyrighted AMC headnotes written by maritime attorneys - save time by seeing the points of law broken out and discussed
• Significant international cases, US agency decisions, arbitrations and changes in legislation
Search the Admiralty and Maritime pleadings, motions and memoranda to develop winning pleading and motion strategies and arguments. You can also receive guidance, information and forms for every stage of litigation from the Admiralty and Maritime Specialist Library.
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Table of Contents Service - Browse and Search
The Table of Contents service offers an easy way to browse statutes, regulations, and treatises. You can also use it to search only the relevant portions of a treatise or code.
Browse
After you access the table of contents for a statutory, regulatory, or treatise database, browse the headings by clicking the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols. To expand all sections of a title, chapter, part or sub-part, select one or more check boxes and click Expand Selection(s) at the bottom of the page. The portion of the table of contents you selected will be expanded.
Click a link to view the full text of a document in the Link Viewer. To retrieve all sections of a title, chapter, part or sub-part, select one or more check boxes and click Search at the bottom of the page. The Table of Contents search page is displayed.
Search
The Table of Contents service also provides an easy way to search within a defined section of a code or other publication. This feature is particularly useful when searching a long treatise or publication, eg the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), for documents that you know appear only in one or more sections. For example, if you only want sections on the bad debt reserves of banking institutions, why search the sections that govern corporate liquidations?
By restricting your search to a specific chapter or other section of a publication a single term will often be sufficient making searching easier. To run a search, complete the following steps:
1. While viewing the table of contents select the check boxes next to the titles, chapters, sub-chapters, or other sections you want to search
2. Click Search
3. If desired, type a term(s) in the Terms and Connectors search box using connectors to specify the relationship between terms, eg electronic /3 device
4. Click Search
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Keeping an Eye on Infringers
When it comes to potential patent infringers, let WestClip and KeyCite Alert do the monitoring for you.
Might your client's patent be infringed by applications granted today? By those granted two days from now? Three weeks from now?
To find out, you do not have to run daily searches in United States Patent Materials–All (US-PAT-ALL) or other patent records databases. Instead, WestClip and KeyCite Alert can notify you automatically when developments occur.
To find out more about setting up Westclips and Keycite Alerts please contact the Westlaw UK Customer Support Team on 0800 028 2200 or email enquiries@westlaw.co.uk.
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Selected New Databases
EU Press Release (EUPRESS)
This database contains competition and antitrust-related press information as well as speeches and memos issued by RAPID, the press and communication service of the European Commission as compiled by ELLIS Publications. Coverage begins 1985.
NASDAQ Alerts (NASDAQ-ALERT)
Full text of NASDAQ Regulatory and Issuer Alerts. Coverage begins 2006.
E-COMPETITIONS (ECOMP)
The E-Competitions database contains articles from the e-Competitions bulletin, published by the Institute of Competition Law and compiled by ELLIS Publications. Contributors from major law firms and universities throughout the EU provide first hand access to national decisions and court judgments applying EC rules delivering a detailed analysis.
In addition, e-Competitions covers the legislation of the Member States transposing
EC Regulation 1/2003, new provisions of antitrust laws as well as decisions applying national antitrust laws to the extent that they are directly related to Article 81 or
Article 82.
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Did you Know?
The easiest way to look for a Federal or State Statute, or Regulation on a particular issue is to use the Index:
1. Click Site Map from the top of the screen
2. Under a Browse Westlaw click Statutes & Regulations Indexes
3. Select a Jurisdiction
4. Either search or browse through the list to find what you need
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From the Westlaw Archive
2007 WL 1752392 - Avvo Corp, a company which ranks attorneys on a scale of
1 to 10, is facing a class action suit brought by some of those it ranked. The class says the rankings are misleading, unreliable and meaningless, while the company says its rating system is consistent and evenly applied to all attorneys.
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Westlaw UK |
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Alert Centre - Adding Report Title and Option to End Report
The Alert Centre Summary Report page now contains an option to give your summary report a title. This title will be contained in the subject line of the summary report email.
The summary report also offers a new option of Send no report.
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New Journals on Westlaw UK by Vathek Publishing
We are pleased to announce that the below journals, published by Vathek Publishing, are available on Westlaw UK in full text as of today, Wednesday 28 November 2007.
The International Journal of Evidence and Proof (INTJLEP)
Peer-reviewed scholarly journal which aspires to be a truly international, interdisciplinary forum for reporting, evaluating and debating the latest developments in evidence law, proof and procedure.
The journal of Evidence & Proof aims to publish articles, case notes and reviews of the highest calibre on any topic of evidentiary significance. Contributions may address any type of legal process (civil, criminal, administrative, disciplinary etc) utilising theoretical, doctrinal or critical methodologies or perspectives, and may relate to any legal jurisdiction, whether municipal, international, regional or global. Coverage begins 1996.
Environmental Law Review (ENVLREV)
Has quickly established itself as a forum for critical discussion of current and developing ideas in environmental law. It maintains a dialogue between leading edge practitioners and academics in the fields of environmental law, environmental management and business.
The journal will keep you in touch with current issues in UK law and policy, as well as crucial new developments in European and international law. Coverage begins 2001.
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If you have any questions about 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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