Transcript Advanced Westlaw

West’s Instructional Aids Series
Advanced Westlaw®
Table of Contents
• Power Searching
– Natural Language
– Terms and Connectors
• Getting the Most from the West’s Key Number
System®
• Getting the Most from KeyCite®
• westlaw.com Features and Related Products You
Might Not be Using
Power Searching
Natural Language
Table of Contents
Power Searching
Natural Language: Not Just for Beginners
• You may have been told to use Natural Language
searching because there is no special search method to
learn; you just type your search in “plain English.”
• You can become a Natural Language power searcher and
achieve the most satisfactory results.
• Learn how
– the document gets its final ranking in the results
– to manipulate the terms in the search for the best results
– to add alternative terms, including how to use the
Thesaurus
– to exclude terms from your search results
– to conduct a field search in Natural Language
Power Searching
• Each document is given a score based on the document’s
statistical relevancy to the specific search.
• The score translates into the ranking of the documents in
the result.
• The highest-scoring document ranks first and is displayed
first.
• The other documents retrieved are displayed in descending
order of statistical relevancy.
• Some documents in your results may not contain all, or
even most, of your search terms.
• When you understand how documents are scored, you can
manipulate your Natural Language search for the most
successful results.
Power Searching
• Stop words (e.g., the, is, for) and stock phrases (“whether
or not,” “find all the cases that”) are dropped from the
query.
• Grammar is not important, but spelling is!
• The less often a term appears in a database, the higher it is
scored, e.g., Mazda scores a 10, car scores a 1.
• Equivalencies are applied: Avenue = Ave., three = 3.
• Special terms such as key numbers or citations are given
greater weight.
• Westlaw uses the root word form of the term and then
expands it similar to the way the “!” works in Terms and
Connectors searches.
– Expansion is more precise than the “!” in Terms and
Connectors searching
– create = created creating creative, but not creature
Power Searching
• Each document is then scored on the basis of
– the score of individual terms from the query in the
document
– how many of the search terms are in the document
– how often the search terms appear
– how close the search terms appear to each other
– the portions of the document in which the search terms
appear
• Example: Terms in the synopsis or digest field carry
more weight than terms in the body of the opinion.
Power Searching
Manipulate Your Natural Language Results
• Place alternative terms in parentheses immediately following
the original search term.
– Grandparent (grandmother grandfather) visitation
– You can use the Thesaurus feature or you can do it yourself.
– The original search term is scored higher than the
alternatives, but Westlaw recognizes that they are the same
concept.
• Place terms of art and phrases in quotation marks.
– Westlaw recognizes more than 78,000 terms of art and will
add the quotation marks in Natural Language.
– To be sure phrases are searched as phrases, put them in
quotation marks.
– The document is scored higher when the terms within the
quotation marks are close together.
Power Searching
Manipulate Your Natural Language Search
Results
• Repeat a critical term in the search.
– The repetition won’t show up as the search runs, but
Westlaw gives additional weight to that term.
– heroin (drug “controlled substance” cocaine) dealer dealer
• Include any unique (and relevant) term or phrase that will help
your search retrieve on-point documents.
– For example, “social host” is almost always used in the
context of a noncommercial supplier of alcohol whose guest
becomes intoxicated and causes injuries.
– This high-scoring phrase will skew the results to retrieve
relevant cases.
Power Searching
Control Concepts
Control Concepts
• Control Concepts feature allows you to require that certain terms
appear in each document or exclude terms from the documents
retrieved.
• If you require that certain term(s) appear in each document
retrieved, you might not get the maximum number of documents
you chose: there may not be that number of documents
containing that term(s) in the database.
• Be careful about excluding terms; this action can have
unintended results.
Power Searching
Thesaurus
Thesaurus
OK
Add
• The Thesaurus feature helps you select alternative words
for the terms in your search.
• You can select as many alternative terms for as many
search terms as you want.
• Click ADD, then OK to return to the search page with the
modified search.
Power Searching
Field Restrictions
Date Restrictions
Other Restrictions
Other Restrictions
• You can restrict your Natural Language search results to
cases from a specific court, or decided by a specific judge,
or that have a specific attorney of record.
• You can restrict your results to certain dates.
• The fields available for use in a Natural Language search
vary by the content of the database.
Power Searching
When to Use Natural Language
Use Natural Language searching when you are
• not sure of the exact terms and need some flexibility when
structuring your search
• searching in annotated statutes
– Legislatures often use archaic, non-intuitive language.
– Language in the annotations often directs you to the
appropriate statute.
• searching for broad concepts in any database
• searching in an unfamiliar area of the law
• retrieving too many or too few documents, or not the
documents you need with a Terms and Connectors search.
Power Searching
Terms and Connectors
Table of Contents
Power Searching
Terms
• Use as many alternative terms as seem reasonable.
• Think not only of synonyms and acronyms, but also of
antonyms and other terms that in the specific context might
be used as reasonable alternatives.
– intoxicated drunk inebriated
– E.P.A. “environmental protection agency”
– constitutional! unconstitutional
– “social host” association club company
• The Thesaurus can help you with synonyms and
sometimes acronyms, but it does not contain antonyms and
other irregular alternatives so you need to add these
yourself.
Power Searching
Expanders: Making the Most of Terms:
The Root Expander (!)
• The root expander (!) retrieves all extensions of words
with variant endings (up to 16 characters).
drunk! retrieves drunk, drunken, and drunkard.
• Be careful not to truncate your root term too severely:
depo! retrieves not only forms of deposition, but also
terms such as deposit, depositor, deposited, deport, and
deportation.
Power Searching
Expanders: Making the Most of Terms:
The Universal Character (*)
• The universal character (*) is used in place of a letter (like
a wild card or a blank tile in Scrabble).
dr*nk retrieves drank, drink, and drunk.
• The universal character cannot be used in place of the first
letter of a word.
• The universal character can be used at the end of a term to
specify the maximum number of letters that may be added.
object** retrieves object, objects, and objected but not
objective.
Power Searching
Expanders: Making the Most of Terms
• You can use more than one expander in a term.
• s****holder retrieves both shareholder and stockholder.
• dr*nk! retrieves drank, drink, drinkable, drunk, drinking,
drunken, and drunkard.
Power Searching
Terms: Automatic Enhancements
• The singular form of a word automatically retrieves the
plural and possessive forms of the word, including
irregular forms.
• The plural or possessive form of a word does not retrieve
the singular form.
– woman retrieves women, woman’s, and women’s
– women or woman’s do not retrieve woman
• Always use the singular unless you have a good reason not
to do so.
• To turn off the automatic plural, place a pound sign before
the word.
– #damage (so you don’t retrieve damages)
– The pound symbol does not turn off possessives.
Power Searching
Terms: Automatic Enhancements –
Imbedded Punctuation
• Statutes and Regulations
– 415 retrieves 415 as well as 415.5 or 415(b), and
415.5(b)(2)(C).
– 415.1 and 415(b) do not retrieve 415.
– This is helpful when you are looking for mention of a
statute that may or may not be cited to a particular
paragraph or section.
• Dollar signs
– $4000 does not retrieve 4000 or 4000.00
• Percent symbol
– 50% does not retrieve 50 percent
Power Searching
Terms: Automatic Equivalencies
• Most variations of the spelling of a term retrieve other
variations:
– Judgment = Judgement
– Millennium = Millenium
• Automatic equivalencies are built into Westlaw. For
example:
– Three = 3
– First = 1st
– New York = NY
– Avenue = Ave.
• To turn off automatic equivalencies, use the pound sign
before the term.
- #s.e.c. retrieves S.E.C. and SEC but not section
Power Searching
Terms: Other Enhancements
• Hyphenate compound words in your search.
• A hyphenated term retrieves the term whether it is one
word, two words, or a hyphenated word.
– good-will retrieves good will, good-will, and goodwill.
If you wonder whether a word is hyphenated, add the hyphen.
It can’t hurt.
Power Searching
Terms: Other Enhancements
Use periods between the letters of an acronym to retrieve all
of the following variations of the acronym:
– periods between letters
– spaces between letters
– periods and spaces between the letters
– no periods or spaces between letters
E.P.A. retrieves E.P.A., E P A, E. P. A., and EPA.
Power Searching
Connectors
Order of Processing
•
The order in which Westlaw processes connectors can
influence your results.
•
But don’t get too worried about the order of processing:
follow your instincts and you’ll be fine.
Power Searching
Order of Processing Connectors
•
The general rule is that connectors are processed from
narrowest to broadest: /s is processed before /p.
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The order: phrase, or, number, sentence, paragraph, and,
but not
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The order: “
•
Connectors of equal value are processed from left to
right.
”, space (or), +n, /n, +s, /s, +p, /p, & , %
Power Searching
Connectors Connect Terms to Form Units
The first connector processed will create a single unit, subject
to the next connector processed.
•
dog /s bit! /p yard
– First Westlaw finds dog in the same sentence as bit!.
– Then Westlaw finds that sentence unit in the same
paragraph as yard.
•
“social host” /s liab! /p injur! /s intoxicated drunk!
– The phrase social host is processed first.
– Then the space (‘or”) is processed.
– Then the first /s is processed, creating a unit.
– Then second /s is processed ,creating a second unit
– Then the first and second sentence units are found in
the same paragraph.
Power Searching
Using Parentheses to Change Order
of Processing (Nesting)
• Terms within parentheses are processed first as a
unit that can change the order of processing.
– dog /5 (yard /s bit!)
• First Westlaw looks for yard in the same
sentence as bit!.
• Then that unit is found within five terms of
dog.
• Useful when searching for alternative phrases
– “products liability” (defect! /3 design!) /s
windshield
• Useful when searching for multiple citations
– (15 +5 1311) (42 +5 1985)
Power Searching
Phrases Within Quotation Marks
• Phrases are processed first.
• Stop words within quotation marks are processed as
placeholders:
– “accessory after the fact” also retrieves “accessory
before the fact”
• You cannot use a connector within quotation marks
– “Simon & Garfunkel” will not be processed
– Try “Simon and Garfunkel” or Simon +2 Garfunkel
Power Searching
Numerical Connectors
• For the /n connector, n stands for a number between 1 and
250.
– explorer /50 tire
• Terms must appear within 50 words of each other;
either term can appear first.
• The /n connector ignores grammatical units such as
sentences or paragraphs.
• Use the /n connector when you want the terms to be close
to each other but not in any particular order.
– limited /4 liability retrieves
• limited liability
• liability was limited
Power Searching
The Plus Connectors: +n, +s, +p
• The plus connectors require that the terms to the left of the
connector precede the terms to right by a certain number of
terms, in the same sentence, or in the same paragraph.
– homeowner +5 insurance requires that homeowner
must precede insurance by five or fewer terms. You
will retrieve homeowner liability insurance,
homeowner fire and casualty insurance, etc.
• The plus connectors are useful when you need a term to be
repeated within a number of terms, a sentence or a
paragraph.
– jones +s jones requires that one Jones precede the
other jones in the same sentence (Jones v. Jones).
– jones /s jones requires only one jones be present in the
sentence.
Power Searching
Connectors to Use Sparingly But When
Needed
• The & (AND) connector requires the terms to the left of the
connector be in the same document as the terms to the right,
whether they are two terms or several hundred pages apart.
– good & faith will retrieve many documents, not all of
which will be addressing the issue of good faith.
– You may have to use the & connector when it is the only
way to retrieve any relevant documents.
– The & connector must be used to link multiple fields
together. Multiple fields are usually not in the same
sentence or paragraph.
• ti(honda) & at(john /3 brown) & da(aft 1995)
Power Searching
Connectors to Use Sparingly
• The % (BUT NOT) connector
– Add to the end of a query to exclude certain terms or
combination of terms.
d.u.i d.w.i. (driving +4 influence intoxicated) %
“controlled substance” drug heroin cocaine
– The above query eliminates any document that
mentions any of the terms that appear after the %
symbol.
– The query will also eliminate relevant documents that
mention one of those terms in discussing analogous
situations. Think of what you might be eliminating
before using the %.
• You can use the % to eliminate documents with terms in
certain fields.
– ti(honda) & sy,di(seat-belt) % sy,di(air-bag)
Power Searching
Fields
• A field search makes your Terms and Connectors search
more precise.
– You are specifying which terms, the relationship
between terms, and where the terms must appear in the
results.
• Know which fields are available in the database you are
searching: fields vary by content of database.
• You can create a combined field by manually placing a
comma between the abbreviations of the fields you want to
search with a single query.
– sy,di(“wrongful death” /p insur!)
– pr,ca(“title 11” & “chapter 5” & exception /5
discharg!)
• Westlaw field templates contain combined field text boxes
for commonly combined fields, such as the ones above.
Power Searching
Fields
You can create queries using multiple field with different
terms in each field manually or by using the field
templates.
– The templates insert the “&” connector between
multiple fields
– The templates do not automatically add connectors
within a field.
– You need to add connectors within each field template
text box
sy,di(“wrongful death”) & at(john /3 smith)
Power Searching
Field Searches in Specific Databases
• In case law databases
– sy,di(grandparent! /s visit!)
– wp(“constructive notice”)
– sy(wilson) & sy,di(“wrongful death”) & da(bef 1999
& aft 1990) (The name of the trial-level judge is often
found in the synopsis field, especially in state cases
where the trial level decision is rarely reported.)
• In statutes databases
– pr,ca( “title 11” & exception /4 discharg!)
– sd(penal! fine /s withdr*w!)
• In news databases
– ti(“american motors”)
– in(automobile) & da(4/10/2002)
Power Searching
Locate
•
Locate lets you browse your search results for particular
terms, whether or not the terms appear in your original
search.
Original Search
•
Select Locate in Results at the top of the Links for tab.
Locate in Result
Power Searching
• A Locate in Result request always uses Terms and
Connectors searching even if the original search used the
Natural Language search method.
• You do not lose the results of your original search.
• When you use Locate, clicking the Term arrows takes you
to Locate term(s), not the original search term(s).
Term
Power Searching
Number of Documents in T&C Results
• Too many documents
– Use narrower connectors: use /s instead of /p
– Search in a smaller database: use MN-CS (Minnesota
Cases) instead of ALLSTATES (All State Cases)
– Require additional (not alternative) terms
– Limit search to specific field(s)
• Too few or no documents
– Use broader connectors: use /20 instead of /5
– Search in a larger database: use ALLNEWS (All News)
instead of MN-NEWS (Minnesota News)
– Add reasonable alternative terms
– Drop what was a required term
– Try a Natural Language search
Power Searching
When to Use Terms and Connectors
Searching
Use Terms and Connectors searching when
–
–
–
–
you are searching for particular terms
you need a precise, controlled query
you are searching in a field(s)
you need to find all documents containing specific
information, such as all cases with a particular topic
and key number or all articles that mention a specific
company name
– you need to search a database for which Natural
Language searching is not available
Getting the Most from the West Key
Number System on westlaw.com
Table of Contents
Summary of West Topics, Key Numbers,
Headnotes, and Digests
• West has divided the law into approximately 400 topics.
• Each topic is broken down into ever narrower points of law
until a specific Key Number is assigned to the narrowest
point of law in that leg of the hierarchy.
• Points of law discussed in a reporter case are summarized
in headnotes.
• Each headnote is assigned to at least one Key Number.
• Digests organize the headnotes by Key Number so cases
with similar issues can be easily found.
West Key Number System
Topic, Key Number, and Digest Features
in westlaw.com
Key Numbers & Digest
Access the list of key numbers using the More drop-down
list on the toolbar.
West Key Number System
Topic 17, Adoption

17k7.2(1), Specific Key Number
Search
• The more than 400 topics are arranged alphabetically and
are broken down into subtopics and key numbers as they
are in the print reporters and digests.
• Check the key number(s) that are relevant to your research
and click Search at the bottom of the screen.
• You can also type the key number in the text box at the
bottom of the page and click GO.
West Key Number System
Key Number
Database
Add Terms
Search
• You can add terms to the key number search to further
refine your results.
• Select a database.
• Click Search.
West Key Number System
11 Headnotes
17k7.8(5)
• You have created a Custom Digest document consisting of
the eleven headnotes (digest paragraphs) that met your key
number search request in the database you selected.
• The headnotes are marked with KeyCite symbols.
West Key Number System
Creating a Custom Digest from Within a
Case
Most Cited Cases
• You have read headnote 1 of Ex parte Wolfenden
and want to retrieve more cases discussing the same issue.
• Click the Most Cited Cases link.
West Key Number System
Order
• You can now create your Custom Digest just as you did
from the key number list.
• Notice that you can arrange the headnotes in your Custom
Digest by reverse chronological order or by the number of
times each case is cited for the issue discussed in the
headnote.
• The latter is a good way to quickly determine which cases
will carry the most authority when cited for that issue.
Table of Contents
Getting the Most from KeyCite:
The Newest KeyCite Features
KeyCite
Review of KeyCite
• KeyCite is divided into two components:
– KeyCite History, which tells whether the case, statute,
patent, or federal agency action is still good law
• Symbols on the face of the document instantly
indicate the current status of the document.
– KeyCite Citing References, which lists cases, federal
administrative materials and secondary sources that
have cited your document.
• Symbols in KeyCite Citing References indicate
which citing references will be of most use to you.
HN:3,4
KeyCite
KeyCite History for Cases
Status Flags and Symbols
Red Flag – Your case is no longer good law for at
least one of the points it contains.
Yellow Flag – Your case has had some negative
history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
Blue H – Your case has some history.
Green C – Your case has citing references but no
direct or negative indirect history.
KeyCite
KeyCite Citing References
Depth of Treatment Stars
Examined
This case contains an extended discussion of your
case, usually more than a printed page.
Discussed
This case contains a substantial discussion of your
case, usually more than a paragraph but less than a
printed page.
Cited
This case contains some discussion of your case,
usually less than a paragraph.
Mentioned
This case contains a brief reference to your case.
KeyCite
KeyCite Citing References
Other KeyCite Citing Reference Symbols
+ – This case cites your case multiple
times.
Quotation marks – This case quotes
language from your case word
for word.
HN:5,6 – This case discusses
your case for the points of law
discussed in headnotes 5 and 6 in
your case.
KeyCite
Limiting Citing References in KeyCite
• Roe v. Wade had 12,994
citing references in
KeyCite on January 16,
2004.
• A Limit KeyCite
Display button allows
you to limit the citation
results to specified
criteria.
Limit KeyCite Display
Cases: Limiting Citing References
Limiting Citing References in KeyCite

You can limit by:
• Headnote (issue)
• Locate
• Jurisdiction
• Date
• Document type
• Depth of treatment
• Select the desired criteria for your citing reference result.
• You can select any number or combination of criteria.
• We’ll start by selecting the issue discussed in headnote
eight of Roe v. Wade.
Cases: Limiting Citing References
The second limitation is
a date restrictor.
Date
Then choose Locate
and enter
“first trimester.”
Locate
Click Apply.
Apply
Cases: Limiting Citing References
By restricting results to those discussing the issue of headnote eight
and by using the date limit displayed on the last screen and requiring
that the phrase first trimester occur in the citing references, we have
limited the KeyCite results to the three citing documents from the
original 12,994 that will be of most use to us.
KeyCite Notes
KeyCite Notes: Create a KeyCite Result
from Within a Case
• KeyCite Notes helps you locate sources that cite your case
for a legal issue summarized in a specific headnote.
• Access KeyCite Notes from a headnote or from the place
in the opinion field of a case in which the court discussed
the point of law summarized in the headnote.
KeyCite Notes
KeyCite Notes
• provides a list of sources that cite both the case and the point
of law you are researching
• lets you know of the sources and number of documents
that cite the case and legal issue before you run your search
KeyCite Notes
Creating a KeyCite Result from
Within a Case
From within a case you have created a KeyCite Citing Reference
list of the cases that have cited Roe for the point of law
discussed in Headnote 1 of Roe.
KeyCite
Legal Materials You Can Now
Monitored in Key Cite
Patent Citator
US PAT 5172361
• KeyCite History shows patent status history, prior art
history, patent assignments, and litigation alert history.
• KeyCite Citing References lists citing patents, cases,
secondary sources, and briefs that have cited the patent.
KeyCite
Legal Materials You Can Now Monitor
in KeyCite
• Expanded federal administrative material coverage,
including documents from the
– Internal Revenue Service ( including Private Letter Rulings,
Revenue Rulings, and Technical Advice Memoranda)
– Board of Immigration Appeals
– Environmental Protection Agency
– Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
– Federal Communications Commission
– Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
– Federal Government Contracts
– National Labor Relations Board
– Public Utility Reports
– Securities and Exchange Commission
• Law review and journal articles have citing references
listed in KeyCite.
KeyCite Alert
KeyCite Alert
• KeyCite Alert is a service that automatically monitors the
status of cases, statutes, federal regulations and federal
administrative regulations and sends updates to you when
there has been a change that might affect the validity of
these legal materials.
• KeyCite Alert results are delivered to a destination you
select, such as printer, fax machine, e-mail address, or
wireless device.
KeyCite Alert
Suppose you are basing a legal argument on the court’s decision
in 100 S.Ct. 1. Before you file your briefs or make an
argument at trial, you want to ensure that in the time since you
last verified that the case was good law, there has been no
change in the law might affect its validity.
KC Alert
The Monitor with
KeyCite Alert
link lets you easily
create a KeyCite
Alert entry.
KeyCite Alert
Next
• Clicking the KeyCite Alert link brings you to the
KeyCite Alert Wizard.
• The wizard takes you step by step through creating
a KeyCite Alert entry.
• Click Next to continue.
KeyCite Alert
2.
1.
Select how often you want the
KeyCite Alert entry monitored.
Select which KeyCite
features you want to monitor.
3.
Select when you want to begin
monitoring the case.
4.
Select a delivery destination.
KeyCite Alert
KC Alert
Directory
Finish
Click the Finish button when
you reach this summary
screen.
Your KeyCite Alert entry
is now listed in your KeyCite
Alert Directory, along with
any previously created entries.
You can delete it at any time.
westlaw.com Features and Related
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Table of Contents
westlaw.com Features
KeySearch™ in westlaw.com
• West attorney-editors have created intuitive named topics
and subtopics that are arranged alphabetically.
• Links to popular subtopics are listed below each main topic
for quick retrieval.
Open successive levels of
the KeySearch hierarchy by
Clicking the Browse icon
(
) until you find the
subtopic you want to search.
KeySearch
After you have reached the
desired subtopic, click on the
Search icon (
) to access a
search page.
westlaw.com Features
Notice that your KeySearch path is displayed at the top of
the page so it is easy to keep track of how you got to this
subtopic.
You can choose
to run your search
in reported or
unreported cases
or in secondary
sources.
KeySearch has generated a query
based on the Key Number System
but the query also contains other
terms so that unreported cases and
secondary materials can also be
retrieved..
You can also add your own terms to
further customize the KeySearch query.
westlaw.com Features
Use KeySearch when you
– are unfamiliar with an area of the law
– are unfamiliar with the Key Number System
– need to retrieve unreported cases or secondary-source
documents as well as reported cases
The Links for tab in westlaw.com
• The Links for tab in the left frame of a displayed document
serves as a checklist to expedite, verify and expand your
research. It is especially valuable in statutory research.
11 USCA 524
TOC
TOC
11 USCA 524
• The Table of Contents service for statutes and regulations
allows you to view a statute or regulation in the context of
the entire hierarchy of the statutory or regulatory code.
• You can jump to an individual section at any time.
• The Table of Contents opens at the section that was
displayed.
Other valuable links on a statute’s Link
for tab include links to:
– KeyCite Information for the statute
– Historical Version of the statute
– Section Outline of statutes
– Notes of Decisions appended to
statute
– Analytical Materials that discuss
statute
– Legislative History of the the statute
– Key Numbers relevant to statute
westlaw.com Features
Other westlaw.com features
• Documents in Sequence allows you to browse the statutes
or regulations surrounding a statute or regulation as if you
were paging through the print version of these materials.
• Access Documents in Sequence through the Tools link at
the bottom of the right frame.
Documents in Sequence
Tools
westlaw.com Features
Docs in Seq
• When you use the Documents in Sequence feature, Docs in
Seq arrows replace the term arrows.
• You are now viewing 11 USCA 524; click the right arrow
to 11 display USCA 525; click the left arrow to display 11
USCA 523.
westlaw.com Features
Other westlaw.com features
Star Paging allows you to locate a specific print page
within a case when you have been given an internal
citation.
499 N.W.2d 512
Star Page
Tools
Access Star Paging
under the Tools link
at the bottom of
the right frame.
Star Page Request
Star Page Request
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Research Trail
Access from any
page by clicking the
Research Trail link.
• The Research Trail feature automatically creates a record
of tasks you complete during a research session.
• You can click an item in the Research Trail to return to that
information.
• Research Trails are automatically saved for 14 days.
• You can download, print, or e-mail a trail summary.
westlaw.com Features
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Jurisdiction, Practice Area, and Other Tabb
Pages
My Westlaw
• Access from any page by clicking My Westlaw.
• You can select up to six jurisdictional, practice-area, or
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