Here’s a quick look at some of the interesting content recently added to Westlaw. It’s all on the High Profile page:
Civil
Barker-Homek v. Abu Dhabi Nat’l Energy Co. (E.D. Mich.) – Former Taka CEO claims he was forced out of the energy company after trying to stop “kickbacks, bribery, accounting fraud and corruption”
Estate of Justin M. Newman v. Squire (Ill. Cir.) – Wife, husband’s estate to pay $6M to estate for murder, conspiracy
Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc. (W.D. Wash.) – Microsoft co-founder claims AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix and others infringed upon four of his company’s patents
Criminal
U.S. v. McCluskey (D. N.M.) – Escaped convicts charged after allegedly murdering a couple so they could steal a camper
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 on Westlaw.com after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
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Law enforcement officers and government investigators already know the importance of CLEAR, the powerful research platform from Thomson Reuters, Legal.
Now it’s time for the corporate world to see the benefit, too.
CLEAR is now available to the corporate market. So the same relied upon content, including access to live gateways, will now be available for corporate security and investigations professionals.
“The great thing about the last two years with Thomson Reuters is we have had the opportunity to really enhance the CLEAR product to meet any type of investigator’s needs,” said Steve Rubley, vice president and general manager, Risk, Fraud and Investigations for Thomson Reuters, Legal,
Customers agree, saying “CLEAR gave us a direct hit on the target,” and “one of our investigators was looking for an individual with a common name – he was able to locate a direct match thanks to CLEAR’s web analytics filter.”
Rubley also mentions the web analytics advantages of CLEAR over simple web searches in this audio clip.
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You can watch a demo about CLEAR and read more about it.
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Here’s a quick look at some of the interesting content recently added to Westlaw. It’s all on the High Profile page:
Civil
Wiederhorn v. Merkin (N.Y. Sup.) – $1.5M arbitration award confirmed for investor in one of Bernie Madoff’s “feeder funds”
Martinez v. Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (Cal. Superior) – Law firm sued for deferring law school graduate’s start date, then rescinding the offer
Bryant v. Mattel, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – Bratz-maker MGA accuses Barbie-maker Mattel of using false pretenses to get employees into MGA showrooms
Criminal
U.S. v. Clemens (D. D.C.) – Baseball great Roger Clemens indicted for allegedly lying to Congress about use of steroids
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.
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Finding the most legally relevant documents in a case is critical to case preparation. Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell LLP, a major law firm specializing in business law and corporate litigation, recently integrated West km with the firm’s intranet portal and document management system to create a unified information search system, providing better, faster, more thorough search.
Wade Goldt, director of information technology for Morris Nichols explains:
“The key is providing people with information in the same manner in which they’re accustomed to seeing it. Integrating West km search with our document management system provides several advantages. It pulls West km information into their existing workflow through an interface with which our attorneys and staff are already accustomed and comfortable using. This makes it easier for users to find the most legally relevant documents.”
“It’s been a huge timesaver in finding information,” Goldt says. “For example, if an attorney is working on a case and wants to see if the firm has any documents from similar cases, they can set up filters by author, file type, document type, practice group, client or other attributes. This way, they can pre-filter their results, rather than starting with a broad search that may produce thousands of documents that aren’t relevant. By applying only the criteria needed, it filters the search down from four million documents to perhaps two dozen highly relevant documents in a matter of minutes.”
More information and demos of West km are available at the West booth at the 2010 ILTA conference, under way this week in Las Vegas.
Next week, we’ll provide a link to a detailed case study on how Morris Nichols integrated West km search with their document management system through Microsoft SharePoint.
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Here’s a quick look at some of the interesting content recently added to Westlaw. It’s all on the High Profile page:
Civil
Perry v. Schwarzenegger (N.D. Cal.) – Barring appeal, stay enforcing ban on same-sex marriage in the state of California will be lifted August 18, 2010
Fontenot v. BP Products North America, Inc. (S.D. Tex.) – Class action for alleged injuries caused by benzene and other chemicals released by BP at Texas refinery
Toe v. Cooper Tire and Rubber (Iowa Dist.) – Tire manufacturer pays $32.8M for rollover accident
Criminal
U.S. v. Kernell (E.D. Tenn.) – 4chan founder explains internet slang in Sarah Palin email hacker trial
U.S. v. Ali (D. Minn.) – Two alleged to have wired financial support to Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab
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 on Westlaw.com after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
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Want to learn more about who we are?
We’ve posted a short video to our YouTube channel that highlights Thomson Reuters, Legal.
It features a look at our history of innovation, how our products and services are adapted and designed for the needs of the legal marketplace, and our global presence in the business and practice of law.
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Thomson Reuters today announced the acquisition of Canada Law Book, a division of the Cartwright Group Limited. Canada Law Book will be aligned with Carswell, a Thomson Reuters business headquartered in Toronto.
Canada Law Book produces publications across 36 topics of legal information, and is known for having high editorial standards, as well as authors who are among Canada’s most prominent legal scholars.
In the news release announcing the acquisition, Carswell President Don Van Meer said: “Canada Law Book provides unparalleled content, including superior content for the labor, employment and intellectual property practice areas, and has an extraordinary team of author experts who will complement the Carswell family of authors and the products and services we produce. We are confident our combined strengths will provide true value to our customers, and we are committed to maintaining and enriching the high-quality product offerings our customers have come to expect from us and from Canada Law Book.”
Carswell and Canada Law Book each brings more than 100 years of legal tradition and expertise to customers, and together provide the recognized excellence, integrity and highest editorial standards that ensure legal practitioners, judges and academics receive the most comprehensive materials for their practice.
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Law school faculty, librarians and staff across the United States are being notified that they now have access to WestlawNext. West’s Academic department sent an email yesterday to those who now have access, detailing how to get started. The Westlaw plans for the law schools that were notified still include access to Westlaw.com.
In addition, the West Education Network (TWEN) now allows course administrators to direct the legal citations in uploaded documents either to Westlaw or to WestlawNext. (For instructions on how to set this option, download this PDF).
A variety of WestlawNext training opportunities are available for academics – including this TWEN course – where you can find links to user guides and video demos, plus a discussion forum for sharing your opinions. The West eLearning Center also has a learning track devoted to WestlawNext and the Training tab on lawschool.westlaw.com now offers many training options as well.
Law school faculty, librarians and staff in need of technical assistance should contact Customer Technical Support at 1-800-WESTLAW (1-800-937-8529). For help with research, contact the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889). You also can contact your school’s Academic Account Manager.
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, has developed another app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This time, it’s for anyone who needs access to bankruptcy terms from the Norton Bankruptcy Dictionary.
The app provides terms under Title 11 of the U.S. Code, along with its related statutes and federal rules and contains the same definitions found in the standard edition of Norton Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terms, 3rd ed. from William L. Norton Jr. and William L. Norton III, but with new features that make using the dictionary even easier.
The Norton app includes a search tool and hyperlinked cross-references, which make it easier to locate related bankruptcy terms. It also includes hyperlinks to bankruptcy code sections, West Key Numbers and cases within westlaw.com.
The Norton Bankruptcy Dictionary app is available for $4.99 from Apple’s App Store.
For more information about mobile apps from Thomson Reuters, Legal, click here.
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Julie Gleason, a manager in New Product Development on the WestlawNext team, presented to a roomful of AALL attendees in a session entitled “WestSearch: The Technology Behind WestlawNext.”
“WestlawNext allows you to complete your research in less than half the time and the workflow tools integrate where you work today,” Gleason said.
But how?
“Legal search engines are very literal – they look for exactly what you put in a search box. We knew we could do better than that.”
By talking to thousands of Westlaw researchers and leveraging proprietary Westlaw technologies, like KeyCite, The West Key Number System, attorney-authored editorial enhancements, statutory indices and ResultsPlus, Thomson Reuters has trained a search engine to automatically complete several steps that the best legal researchers perform, all quickly behind the scenes, to first broaden the search across 12 core content sets, then search within this content to present better ranked results. WestSearch also looks at aggregated customer usage – printing, foldering, emailing, etc – to further correlate documents and improve the ranking of results.
We asked Legal Research Center, an independent company, to perform an efficiency study on WestlawNext. Fifty legal professionals used Westlaw and 50 received an hour of training and performed the searches using WestlawNext.
“Thanks to WestSearch, the WestlawNext users were well over 50 percent more efficient,” Gleason said.
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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.
A discussion about online privacy and “The End of Forgetting,” with law professor Jeffrey Rosen.
