Using Westlaw
How to Find Statutes
This quick reference piece helps law students understand how to find statutes in print and on Westlaw®.
How to Find Cases
This quick reference piece for law students outlines how to find cases in print and on Westlaw®.
How to Check Citations
Knowing how to find the law is just the beginning. This quick reference piece shows law students how to check and update their research using KeyCite®. Examples include viewing case history and citing references to a case.
How to Find Regulations
This quick reference guide demonstrates the advantages of RegulationsPlus™ on Westlaw® for retrieving documents from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
Using the National Reporter System
This quick reference explains how you can search opinions included in West's National Reporter System® using West's editorial enhancements. It also demonstrates how to find the synopsis and West headnotes for a case, both in print and on Westlaw®.
Updating Your West Digest Search
This quick reference guide shows how to use the West digests in conjunction with Westlaw® to retrieve current case law.
Getting Started with Online Research
This quick reference piece describes how to complete common research tasks on westlaw.com® via the Law School page.
Using Secondary Sources
This guide presents an overview of the secondary sources available from West, with detailed discussion of American Law Reports (ALR®) and American Jurisprudence (Am Jur®) materials in print and on Westlaw®.
Guide to Law Review Research
This guide for law review research shows how to use Westlaw® databases and services to perform tasks such as selecting a topic for a law review or journal article; performing a preemption check; developing a topic; checking citations and quotations; improving law review and journal management; and developing writing and editing skills.
Writing a Law Review Article
When preparing your law review article, you need to choose a topic, conduct a preemption check, develop your topic, check citations with KeyCite®, and verify page numbers and quotations. This quick reference card will help you use Westlaw® to accomplish these tasks.
Westlaw Research Guide
The Westlaw® Research Guide covers the fundamentals of searching Westlaw via the lawschool.westlaw.com home page. Beginning with the Law School tabbed page, the guide covers retrieving documents with Find, accessing a database, selecting a search method and constructing a search, browsing search results, and modifying searches, as well as how to use the West Key Number System®, KeyCite®, and WestClip®. Printing and sending documents and using research trails are also discussed. The guide is organized by research task and its tabbed pages and small format make it easy to use.
Using Westlaw to Write Briefs
When preparing your appellate brief, you need to retrieve legal authority on your issues, verify your research with KeyCite®, write your brief, and check quotations in your brief. This quick reference card will help you use Westlaw® to accomplish these tasks.
Using Westlaw for Moot Court
When preparing your moot court appellate brief, you need to retrieve legal authority on your issues, verify your research with KeyCite®, write your brief, check quotations in your brief, and prepare for oral argument. This quick reference card will help you use Westlaw® to accomplish these tasks.
Using KeySearch to Find Cases
This quick reference piece for law students explains how to use KeySearch®, a fast route to locating on-point documents on Westlaw.
Tracking Cases with WestClip
Law students can use WestClip® to monitor cases, law reviews, media sources, and much more. This quick reference guide explains how to set up and run a WestClip entry and provides sample entries.
Winning Research Skills
This guide for first-year law students and others interested in learning how to find the law introduces a wide variety of research materials and methods. The first part discusses how the law is organized and published. The second part offers detailed step-by-step instructions in using Westlaw® via westlaw.com®.
Finding the Right Job
This quick reference piece discusses the resources available at lawschool.westlaw.com that can help you find the right job: Law Student Jobs Online/Attorney Jobs Online, NALP Directory of Legal Employers, FindLaw®, and Westlaw®. It briefly describes each resource and provides examples of how to use Westlaw to find career information.
Using Law Student Jobs Online
This two-page quick reference card describes the information about career opportunities available at Law Student Jobs Online, which can be accessed from lawschool.westlaw.com.
Writing an Open Memo
When preparing an open memo, you need to develop and complete a research plan based on secondary and primary sources; update your legal research to make sure it is good law; and write a clear and objective analysis and conclusion. This quick reference card will help you use Westlaw® to accomplish these tasks.
Practice Areas
Bankruptcy Law Fundamentals
This three-page quick reference piece for law students provides an overview of Westlaw® content and features useful in bankruptcy research. Special focus is given to KeySearch® and West topic and key numbers.
Civil Rights Fundamentals
This quick reference highlights the civil rights law content on Westlaw® and describes two valuable research tools, topic and key numbers and KeySearch®.
Criminal Law Fundamentals
This quick reference highlights the criminal law resources on Westlaw® and shows how to retrieve relevant cases using topic and key numbers and KeySearch®.
Environmental Law Fundamentals
This quick reference introduces law students to environmental law resources on Westlaw®,and shows how to retrieve relevant cases using topic and key numbers and KeySearch®.
Intellectual Property Fundamentals
This quick reference introduces law students to intellectual property resources on Westlaw®, including directories of registered patents and trademarks, and shows how to retrieve relevant cases using topic and key numbers and KeySearch®.
International Law Fundamentals
This quick reference introduces law students to international law resources on Westlaw® and describes two valuable research tools: topic and key numbers, and KeySearch®.
Securities Law Fundamentals
This quick reference introduces law students to securities law resources on Westlaw® and describes two valuable research tools: topic and key numbers, and KeySearch®.
Tax Law Fundamentals
This quick reference introduces law students to tax law resources on Westlaw® and describes two valuable research tools: topic and key numbers, and KeySearch®.
Tax Fundamentals: Federal Resources
This quick reference highlights the tax law resources available to law students on Westlaw and shows how to select the appropriate database to search.
TWEN
Professor's Guide to Using TWEN
This detailed guide for professors explains how to use The West Education Network® (TWEN®), West's online extension to the law school classroom. The guide provides instructions for accessing TWEN, creating and managing online courses, and setting up features such as grade books, sign-up sheets, and interactive forums.
Professor's Quick Guide to TWEN
This quick reference guide helps professors get started using The West Education Network® (TWEN®), West's online extension of the law school classroom. Instructions for accessing TWEN, creating and maintaining courses, and more are provided.
Student's Guide to TWEN
This quick reference guide helps students get started using The West Education Network® (TWEN®), West's online extension of the law school classroom. Instructions for accessing TWEN, adding a TWEN course, and navigating within TWEN courses are provided.
Law Review Editor's Guide to TWEN
This quick reference piece for law review and law journal managing editors explains how they can use The West Education Network® (TWEN®) to simplify their work.
TWEN for Clinics and Internships
This quick reference explains how you can easily coordinate clinics and internships by using The West Education Network® (TWEN®) Web pages.
TWEN for Moot Court
This quick reference explains how you can easily coordinate a moot court competition by using The West Education Network® (TWEN®) Web pages.
TWEN for Student Organizations
This quick reference piece shows how student organizations at a law school can use The West Education Network® (TWEN®) to manage their activities and improve communication.
Guide to Using CiteStation
This quick reference guide helps professors get started using CiteStation, available through The West Education Network® (TWEN®). CiteStation is a series of online exercises designed to help make teaching legal citation more effective. Instructions are provided for adding CiteStation to a course page, updating and managing CiteStation exercises, making the exercises available to students, and understanding the exercise results.
Guide to Using Westlaw WebPlus
This quick reference shows you how to find legally relevant Web content using the Westlaw® WebPlus search engine. Westlaw WebPlus delivers the Web content you need, focusing you first on Web sites selected by West attorney-editors. You can access Westlaw WebPlus from the Search the Web shortcut box on many Westlaw tabs and from the new Search the Web tab.
Westlaw Watch
This quick reference piece for law students briefly describes the advantages and features of Westlaw Watch™.
Using Westlaw Watch
This quick reference piece for law students describes the advantages of using Westlaw Watch™ for their course work. Examples and descriptions of the various features of Westlaw Watch are included.
WestCheck/WestCiteLink
Using WestCheck.com
WestCheck® is now available on the Web! WestCheck.com is West's citation research application on the Web that automatically extracts citations from a legal document or a citations list you create manually.
Using WestCiteLink
This quick reference guide shows you how you can find citations in your documents and automatically generate a table of authorities with a click of a button.
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