In conversations with customers since the launch of WestlawNext, we’ve been energized by their reaction to the new service. In many cases, it’s a shared pride – more than 3,000 legal professionals touched the new service or the research around it at some point during the development process.
We set out with the mission of making the law more transparent and accessible – something that I know we share with law librarians. So it’s especially important to me to acknowledge the ways the librarian community helped in developing WestlawNext: (more…)
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Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States.
The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. Login is required after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw, as of today, March 8, 2010:
Civil
Saylor v. Toyota Motor Corp. (Cal. Superior) – Family of a man killed in one of the first suspected Toyota acceleration defect accidents sues the Japanese automaker.
Sarver v. The Hurt Locker, LLC (D. N.J.) – Army sergeant sues the makers of the Oscar-nominated film The Hurt Locker, alleging the movie was based on events in his life.
New York State Commission on Public Integrity’s Notice of Reasonable Cause for Governor David Paterson – NY Public integrity commission says Governor Paterson violated state ethics laws when he accepted World Series tickets from the Yankees.
Apple v. High Tech Computer Corp. – Apple sues HTC for patent infringement, targets Google’s Android operating system.
Nigro v. City of Philadelphia (Pa. Com. Pl.) – Former Pennsylvania supreme court justice sues Philadelphia and municipal authority, alleging they improperly applied assessments for public maintenance services to condominium owners.
Once again, to see what new High Profile content is available on Westlaw, without having to login, you can go to westlaw.com and click High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. However, login is required after clicking on any links.
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The West eLearning Center has set up four live, free, 30-minute webinar training sessions to present information about WestlawNext, the new legal research system from Thomson Reuters, Legal.
I listened in on a session of the webinar titled “Transitioning from Westlaw to WestlawNext.” It highlights the features of WestlawNext and compares them to what you’re familiar with in Westlaw.
The next opportunity to participate in it live is Thursday, March 4 at 10 a.m. Central.
Mike Schneckloth, an inside account manager for West, led the session I listened to and said, “The biggest shift when searching on WestlawNext is being confident that you don’t have to ask yourself if you chose the right database.”
Schneckloth walked participants through the features including search queries, result filters and key document searches. (more…)
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Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States.
The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. Login is required after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw, as of Feb. 24, 2010: (more…)
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Editor’s note: To follow up on several interesting online threads regarding the launch of WestlawNext, Anne Ellis also sent this text out as an e-mail to law librarian customers of West:
There has been a lot of conversation around WestlawNext these past couple weeks. Overall, we are pleased with the attention that WestlawNext has generated. When we went down this path, five years ago, we began with the question, “how can we make doing legal research and practicing law easier for our customers?” That is still our goal, and I’m happy that our work toward this end is something that you also find interesting.
Recent commentary from the librarian community has been mostly very thoughtful, as I would expect, and related to product strategy, rather than the posts of the past couple weeks that spoke mostly to features and functionality.
There are three points I’d like to address, where it seems speculation has been incorrect and has understandably caused concern:
*Rolling out WestlawNext to law firms
Our sales team will make trials of WestlawNext available to customers based on customer needs and priorities. Customers can learn more about WestlawNext by visiting westlawnext.com.
*Rolling out WestlawNext to law schools
In a previous note, I said that we would begin showing WestlawNext to law schools in a phased rollout of trial passwords, beginning with librarians and faculty this spring, and that we were making plans for launching WestlawNext to law students, with possible introduction as early as the Fall 2010 semester. It appears that it was understood by some that this meant that WestlawNext would be in all law schools by the fall of this year. To be clear, we are still determining timing for our rollout to law schools, and will work closely with law schools and the legal profession overall with the goal of helping them make better potential lawyers as we have always done.
*Questions relating to inexperienced researchers informing the search results
This is a really interesting discussion. I talked to the technology team behind WestlawNext, and student research was never to be part of the algorithm to inform search results. It was a very good question though, and I wish we had spoken to it in our original discussion about the artificial intelligence technology.
WestlawNext is an entirely new platform, and we worked hard in the days around launch to provide the right information to the right individuals. I think we all understand now that there will be questions popping up for awhile as people ask smart questions and as strategy and planning unfold.
We will continue to scan the blogs and listservs for comments that reveal gaps in the discussion, and I will try to speak to those points on a regular basis here on Legal Current. I invite your questions and comments and I appreciate being part of the discussion.
Anne Ellis
Senior Director, Librarian Relations
Thomson Reuters, Legal
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With the launch of WestlawNext a week ago today at LegalTech New York in the books, you now have a chance to catch a free preview breakfast for WestlawNext that will be available in selected cities in the United States through mid-March.
The first one is this Wednesday in Los Angeles.
All the cities and dates are listed below:
Los Angeles - Wed. 2/10 – Hyatt Century Plaza (2025 Avenue of the Stars)
San Francisco – Thu. 2/11 – Hyatt Regency San Francisco (5 Embarcadero Center)
Phoenix – Fri. 2/12 – Arizona Biltmore (2400 E. Missouri Ave.)
New York City – Wed. 2/17 – Grand Hyatt New York (109 East 42nd St. at Grand Central Terminal)
Washington, D.C. – Thu. 2/18 – Grand Hyatt D.C. (1000 H St. NW)
Philadelphia – Fri. 2/19 – Hyatt Penn’s Landing (201 S. Columbus Blvd.)
Miami – Tue. 2/23 – Hyatt Miami (400 South East Second Ave.)
Atlanta – Wed. 2/24 – Hyatt Regency Atlanta (265 Peachtree St. NE)
Tampa – Thu. 2/25 – Hyatt Regency Tampa (211 N. Tampa St.)
Houston – Wed. 3/3 – Hyatt Regency Houston (1200 Louisiana St.)
Denver – Thu. 3/4 – Grand Hyatt Denver (1750 Welton St.)
Dallas – Fri. 3/5 – Hyatt Regency Dallas (300 Reunion Boulevard)
Boston - Tue. 3/9 – Hyatt Regency Boston (One Avenue de Lafayette)
Chicago – Wed. 3/10 – Hyatt Regency Chicago (151 E. Wacker Dr.)
Minneapolis – Thu. 3/11 – The Marquette Hotel Minneapolis (710 Marquette Ave.)
Click here to sign up for a breakfast preview near you. The cities and dates also are listed here.
For more information, visit www.westlawnext.com.
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In front of a full room of journalists, legal industry analysts and bloggers at LegalTech New York, Thomson Reuters, Legal CEO Peter Warwick introduced WestlawNext, the business’s new legal research system.
“WestlawNext is the most significant innovation in our history in terms of the time and investment, and I hope the timing of that investment isn’t lost on any one here,” Warwick said Monday. “We created an entirely new research experience from the ground up even while we already had the most preferred legal research service in Westlaw.”
Flanked by Andy Martens, senior vice president of New Product Development for Legal, and Mike Dahn, vice president WestlawNext Product Development, Warwick praised the development and design teams that worked for five years with the vision to make legal research more human.
“We created WestlawNext to work the way our customers do… …to be more human,” Warwick said. “To that end, WestlawNext is elegant, agile, easy to use, more precise, truly intelligent and intuitive. But behind the scenes, it has remarkably complex and powerful technology.”
See a short video from the news briefing featuring comments, in order, from Warwick, Martens and Dahn:
For more information, watch this video showcasing the development and features of WestlawNext and visit www.westlawnext.com.
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While we only recently publicly revealed the name of the next generation of Westlaw, our employees have been in the know about WestlawNext for a few months.
As part of the launch to Thomson Reuters, Legal employees at our Eagan, Minn. headquarters, what better way to showcase the name in the middle of a Minnesota winter than to reveal it, in ice? This time-lapse video shows you how it was done right outside our front door:
That video was shot on Jan. 4. A stretch of “mild” temperatures took its toll on the carving about a week ago, so what was left of the letters in ice had to be knocked down.
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Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States. The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs, under the heading of What’s New on Westlaw. Login is required after clicking on the Westlaw link provided in the summary of each case.
Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw, as of Jan. 25, 2010. Again, this High Profile content – with expert analysis and editorial enhancements – is available to Westlaw subscribers, after login:
Civil
Weight Watchers Intl. v. Jenny Craig Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) – Weight Watchers says Jenny Craig’s claim that dieters on Jenny Craig’s program lose twice as much weight as dieters “on the largest weight-loss program” is untrue (2010 WL 182885 Complaint)
The North Face Apparel Corp. v. Williams Pharmacy Inc. (E.D. Mo.) – Clothing company The South Butt answers The North Face’s trademark infringement and dilution claims against the company and the pharmacy where the alleged infringing clothing was sold (2010 WL 87681 Answer 2009 WL 5001387 Complaint)
Criminal
U.S. v. Arenas (D.C. Super.) – Washington Wizards guard pleads guilty to carrying a pistol without a license (2010 WL 149065 Plea Agreement)
Once again, to see what new High Profile content is available on Westlaw, without having to login, you can go to westlaw.com and click High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs, under the heading of What’s New on Westlaw. However, login is required after clicking on the Westlaw link provided in the summary of each high profile case.
You also can recommend a case for video recording.
Learn more about Westlaw Litigator, here.
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Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States. The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs, under the heading of What’s New on Westlaw. Login is required after clicking on the Westlaw link provided in the summary of each case.
Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw, as of Jan. 18, 2010. Again, this High Profile content – with expert analysis and editorial enhancements – is available to Westlaw subscribers, after login:
Civil
Lisker v. City of Los Angeles (C.D. Cal.) – Man wrongfully convicted of killing his mother, freed after 26 years in prison, says L.A. detectives framed him. (2009 WL 5003761 Complaint)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Bank of America Corp. (S.D.N.Y.) – SEC alleges Bank of America failed to disclose billions of dollars in financial losses at Merrill Lynch prior to the shareholder vote to approve a merger between the two companies (2010 WL 93101 Complaint)
Perry v. Schwarzenegger (N.D. Cal.) – Civil rights trial over California’s ban on same-sex marriage underway (2010 WL 1490740 Complaint)
Video
Varnum v. Brien (Iowa) – In a 7-0 ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a state law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman violated the Iowa State Constitution (2008 WL 5454171 Video and Transcript, Oral Argument 763 N.W.2d 862 Opinion 2008 WL 5156764 Final Replay Brief of Plaintiff Appellees 2008 WL 5156763 Final Amended Replay Brief of Defendant Appellant)
Once again, to see what new High Profile content is available on Westlaw, without having to login, you can go to westlaw.com and click High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs, under the heading of What’s New on Westlaw. However, login is required after clicking on the Westlaw link provided in the summary of each high profile case.
You also can recommend a case for video recording.
Learn more about Westlaw Litigator, here.
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, President & CEO Peter Warwick offered his perspective on the company’s approach to the current economic reality in a panel discussion, “Adapting and Thriving in a Challenging Economy”, at the Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference.
The launch of WestlawNext brings a significant advancement in the way professional legal research is done.
Andrew F. Popper, a professor at American University, Washington College of Law, talks about his award-winning novel “Rediscovering Lone Pine.”
