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Westlaw Edge training resources
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Getting started
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Case law research
- Retrieve and search for cases
- Locate additional related authority
- Identify additional relevant authority
- Use trial court documents to kickstart your research
- Check my opposing counsel’s briefs and motions for contrary authority
- Check your brief or motion for missing authority
- Using the Key Number System
- Search with Boolean Terms and Connectors
- Find and search dockets
- Receive alerts for newly filed cases and documents
- Check the status of a case using KeyCite
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Regulatory research
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Verifying your citations
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Litigation strategy
- Better set and manage client or company expectations
- Understand an assigned judge
- Find case precedent for a particular judge
- Research opposing counsel
- Assess the value of a case
- Develop motion strategy with judicial trends and insights
- Compare a document against previously filed briefs and motions
- Compare multiple filings from a matter
- Research expert witnesses
- Find outside or local counsel
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Tools for the transactional attorney
- Conduct research on public and private companies
- Search corporate filings and agreements
- Using Business Law Center resources
- Create customized corporate filing and agreement searches
- Using treatises and practice guides
- Find and use forms
- Find and search practice area pages
- Compare text of documents in Business Law Center
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Public Records
- Conduct a public records search on a person
- 10 quick tips for public records
- Run a PeopleMap report
- Understanding public records resources
- Search individual public records
- Search social media and web presence of a person
- Conduct a comprehensive business records search
- Conduct research on both private and public companies
- Find subsidiaries, divisions and branches of corporations
- Customize your PeopleMap or Company Investigator report
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Collaboration tools
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Customize experience
- Bookmark my go-to resources
- Create a custom page
- Create an alert
- Be notified of changes to a docket
- Transfer folders, annotations, and alerts if you are changing offices or moving accounts
- Stay current in your practice area and follow news involving your clients
- Subscribe to Westlaw Today email updates