West CiteAdvisor: Automating Citation Formatting and Tables of Authorities

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 8, 2008 - Building Tables of Authorities and revising citations for court-required format specifications can be painstaking and time-intensive. West CiteAdvisor, a patent-pending new practice tool from Thomson West, a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), automates this process, reducing the tasks to minutes and ensuring court-expected accuracy.

"West CiteAdvisor is an effective tool to expedite tedious tasks, while ensuring the information is complete and accurate," said Andy Martens, senior vice president, New Product Development, Thomson West. "We created West CiteAdvisor to support this critical step in the document work stream so the focus remains on the matter at hand, and there is the utmost confidence the supporting materials are complete and accurate."

West CiteAdvisor, coupled with the West BriefTools and Black's Law Dictionary Digital Plus, provides a complete productivity package that enables attorneys to focus on the practice of law, not the format of documents, citations, or spell-checking. West CiteAdvisor suggests the correct citation format from The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, the ALWD Citation Manual, or a format style based on rules in California, Florida, Texas, New York, or Illinois, as indicated by the user, and inserts the correct format directly into the document when the user accepts the suggestion. It also creates a Table of Authorities, wherever the user specifies, directly in the word-processing document. West BriefTools allows you to instantly view the status of citations in your document and link to the full-text documents on Westlaw while simultaneously applying KeyCite flags identifying the value of the case, statute, and regulation. Black's Law Dictionary Digital Plus can be installed on the practitioner's desktop, ensuring all legal terminology is spell-checked and providing audio pronunciations for many legal terms.

"For attorneys who draft, edit, or proofread legal briefs, motions, decisions, opinions, and other documents, as well as for students required to apply citation style rules for coursework and law review articles, West CiteAdvisor, West BriefTools, and Black's Law Dictionary Digital Plus save time and ensure far greater accuracy than the average copy edit can provide," said Martens.

For additional information on West CiteAdvisor or other time saving tools, go to west.thomson.com.

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