Westlaw Edge
training and support

Westlaw Edge Fundamentals

• The Westlaw Edge Fundamentals class will introduce you to the new Edge platform and cover basic navigation and searching, filtering result lists, favorites, KeyCite (including the new KeyCite overruling risk flag), and document level features.

Drafting Assistant for Paralegals

• This course will demonstrate some of the core tools available within Drafting Assistant. You will learn how Drafting Assistant can help you efficiently and easily check the KeyCite status of the citations, verify the accuracy of quotations in your document, format citations, insert a table of authorities, and insert Westlaw hyperlinks and/or KeyCite flags directly into your document.

Drafting Assistant for Attorneys

• In this class we will cover aspects of Drafting: Locate Authority allows you to quickly find authority for language in your draft document. Locate Authority marks the text in the draft document and searches Westlaw for cases that best fit the text. Deal Proof tool helps you to analyze and review document drafts. Deal Proof flags your document for potential errors, discrepancies, and references made in your document. Locate Precedent analyzes document language on a clause-by-clause basis. By highlighting a clause in an agreement, a user can compare that language against similar clauses in relevant documents.

Advanced Westlaw

• The Advanced Westlaw session will discuss the Key Number System and how you can utilize key numbers and headnotes to find authority by topic, type-ahead features such as law summaries, and search suggestions, Snapshots, Related Documents and Selected Topics, and customizing your Westlaw Edge session with Preferences.

Terms & Connectors

• This class focuses on more advanced search functions and tools. You will learn how to refine your searching with boolean Terms and Connectors, and Advanced Search templates.

Statutes & Legislative History

• In this class, learn how to conduct statutes and legislative history research on Westlaw. We will review how to retrieve statutes by citation, term searches, or a table of contents, and how to find legislative history in relation to statutory research. We will also review additional statutory tools such as historical statutes, the statutes index, and the popular name table.

Business Law Center

• The Business Law Center on Westlaw offers you more business sources in one place with the most advanced legal search technology to make your business law research more productive and efficient. In this class, learn about our enhanced search capabilities, and business law content, including LIVEDGAR, precedent examples, M&A content, and more.

RIA

• Research Institute of America (RIA) is a premier collection of treaties covering all aspect of tax law, estate planning and payroll.  In this class learn how to access the collection of RIA treaties.  This class will emphasis the Tax collection including:  The American Federal Tax Reporter which pulls together the related tax code, regulations, and legislative history by code session, and the Federal Tax Coordinator which organizes the code, regulations and legislative history by topic. 

Medical Litigator

• In a single search, Medical Litigator on Westlaw brings together the best legal AND medical information related to your specific topic. We will review the breath information included in the medical litigator page including Medline and other medical journals. See how Medical Litigator helps you find information not only the terms you enter, but the medical term, the common name, brand name, and even the compound name. Search results include medical related cases, decisions from the FDA and other medical related agencies, CFR, Federal Register, medical journals and much more.

Practical Law

• Practical Law on Thomson Reuters Westlaw Edge creates and maintains a wide range of up-to-date, practical resources giving attorneys a better starting point for their legal matters. Practical Law resources include Practice Notes, Standard Documents and Clauses, Checklists and Legal Updates. 

Statutes & Regulations Compare

• Easily compare two versions of a statute or federal regulation on Westlaw Edge with Statutes and Regulations Compare.  This 2019 AALL New Product Award winning functionality is available exclusively on Westlaw Edge and allows you to quickly view changes with strike-through and highlighted text. 

Litigation Analytics

• In this course you will learn how to use Litigation Analytics to amplify your case strategy, better manage your litigation expectations, understand assigned judges and gain competitive insight on the opposing party. Additionally, we will cover Precedent Analytics which allows you to dive deeper to understand your judge’s citation patterns such as legal issue a judge tends to rely on.

Public Records and Company Investigator

• In this course you will learn how to locate records regarding individuals and build a graphical display of the individual to show the person’s connections. We will also cover Company Investigator and how you can use this tool to see corporate family tree structures, determine relationships among corporate entities, set up alerts, and generate reports for information related to the company such as regulatory filings, dockets, bankruptcy records, financial information, criminal records, and much more.