West's Attorney-Editors and Westlaw®

Meet the famous West attorney-editors
- and learn why you'll come to love them.

The typical attorney-editor at West has more than 10 years' experience in the profession. Every member of this team shares two traits: A sharp legal mind and the ability to write with crystal-clear precision. It's a unique and invaluable skill set - and one that benefits you on a daily basis, whether you're viewing a statute or reading an opinion.

Case law attorney-editors know their topics inside and out.
Case law attorney-editors are grouped into specialized work teams, each closely aligned with a discrete practice area - for example, personal injury, bankruptcy, or criminal law. The benefit is obvious: they know their assigned area of law inside and out. Virtually the minute an opinion is handed down from any court - state, circuit, appellate, Supreme - a team of West attorney-editors is analyzing and dissecting it.

Statutes attorney-editors are jurisdiction specialists.
An entirely different staff of attorney-editors is dedicated 100% to statute annotations. This group of experts is aligned with specific jurisdictions in order to master the unique nomenclature and style of various state legislatures.

KeyCite® attorney-editors keep West's premier citator current.
Yet a third expert staff handles nothing but KeyCite for statutes and cases. It's one reason why KeyCite is so current - and so accurate.

In an ideal world, you'd be able to do all of this yourself. But for most attorneys, that's simply not possible. Westlaw puts West's attorney-editors on your team, giving you the full benefit of their legal insights every time you sign on.

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