Litigation Research Guide
This research guide shows how to retrieve non-legal information frequently needed for case evaluation, investigation, pretrial practice, and trial. "Non-legal" in this context means materials other than primary and secondary law. It contains information that will help you locate people; learn about case participants; search asset, adverse filing, and docket databases; retrieve appellate briefs and trial court documents; and search for court rules, jury instructions, and verdict and settlement summaries. It also describes the Case Evaluator and Medical Litigator™ search features.

Litigation History Reports on Westlaw
This guide explains how to use the Litigation History Reports feature on Westlaw. Reports provide insightful and authoritative analysis in a flexible format that helps you evaluate the litigation experience of judges and attorneys. Reports are presented in a table format consisting of topical analysis sections with year-by-year breakdowns of data in key analysis categories.

Using Briefs on Westlaw
This quick reference guide explains how to access and browse briefs on Westlaw.

Case Evaluator
Based on criteria of your choosing, Case Evaluator searches Westlaw® and compiles a report providing information that enables you to evaluate a case, review court documents, investigate experts, and learn about medical issues. Both personal injury and nonpersonal injury cases can be researched. You can select report criteria in the following six categories: jurisdiction, case type, injury type, damages, company, and industry. Because the report is compiled at the time you make your search request, you obtain the latest information available on Westlaw.

Dockets Quick Reference
This eight-page guide describes how to search docket databases on Westlaw®, how to update dockets, and how to retrieve docketed court documents. It also explains how to use Docket Alert and Docket Track to automatically monitor dockets for new case filings and development in existing cases.

Using KeyRules
This quick reference guide explains how to use KeyRules on Westlaw to find all applicable rules of procedure in state and federal courts.

Medical Litigator
This guide explains how to retrieve relevant medical information that will help you understand the issues underlying your client's medical malpractice, personal injury, or medical device products liability case. The information can be searched easily from the tabbed Medical Litigator™ page on Westlaw®, which consolidates access to resources from the medical guides and journals to relevant case law, jury verdicts, and legal texts.

Medical Litigator Databases
This database list contains a complete list of the databases that are searched when you run a search at the Medical Litigator™ page. It includes databases that are part of the Medical Litigator Premier Library on Westlaw®, as well as other databases that are not part of a Medical Litigator PRO subscription. Databases include medical illustrations, guides, and journals; drug and device guides; health care professional and expert witness information; FDA Regulatory information; court documents; litigation reports; and news.

Using Medical Litigator Quick Reference
This guide explains how you can retrieve relevant medical and legal sources quickly on the tabbed Medical Litigator™ page on Westlaw®. The guide explains how to easily access and search Medical Litigator resources, including how to search by medical terms, how to assess your search results, and how to retrieve related information.

Using Personal Injury Litigator
This quick reference guide explains how to use Personal Injury Litigator on Westlaw to assess claims and find authoritative medical and legal sources for any claim that requires medical information.

New Jersey State Court Dockets
This four-page quick reference guide describes how to search New Jersey Superior Court Civil Division dockets. It also explains how to use the Docket Alerts and Docket Tracks features.

Westlaw CourtExpress
This quick reference guide describes how to use Westlaw CourtExpress™, which provides access to court docket information and filings.

Westlaw Dockets Coverage
This quick reference guide lists dockets coverage on Westlaw and online from Westlaw CourtExpress™. Dockets databases on Westlaw enable you to access case docket information without having to leave your office or contact court staff. Westlaw CourtExpress is a custom-designed research tool for docket searching.

Westlaw Legal Calendaring
This quick reference guide lists dockets coverage on Westlaw and online from This guide provides detailed explanations of how to use Westlaw Legal Calendaring, a product that will help you practice more efficiently and avoid many of the difficulties and roadblocks typically encountered when managing your litigation calendar. The guide will show you how to calculate litigation-related deadlines, add information to your Outlook® calendar, and manage calendaring information. It also explains how you can use Westlaw Legal Calendaring features to obtain the full text of court rules; access Westlaw dockets; create a rules set alert that notifies you via e-mail when a particular rules set is updated; and create a court calendar tracking entry that notifies you via e-mail when new entries have been added to the court calendar.

Expert Witness Filings
This quick reference shows you how to effectively and efficiently search the Expert Witness Filings database. It includes search examples demonstrating different search methods and lists additional databases that are helpful when researching experts.

Using Expert Investigation Reports
This quick reference card explains how to use the Expert Investigation reports on Westlaw to retrieve a comprehensive analysis of experts and judges.

State and Federal Appellate Briefs
This quick reference guide is an introduction to appellate briefs databases on Westlaw®. It highlights database features and provides guidance to help researchers efficiently retrieve briefs documents. It also includes a list of briefs databases available on Westlaw.

State Trial Court Orders
This quick reference shows you how to effectively and efficiently search state trial court order databases. It describes database content and features and also provides search examples.

Jury Instructions on Westlaw
This four-page quick reference describes how to retrieve pattern and standard jury instructions issued or recommended by a court and authored model instructions published in texts and treatises. It also describes how to retrieve jury instruction filings, which are court filings that include the proposed instructions submitted by counsel for presentation by the court to the jury.

Verdict and Settlement Databases
This database list describes jury verdict and settlement summaries databases that can help assess the value of a case and provide information about judges, expert witnesses, and attorneys.

Using Jury Verdicts to Evaluate Damages
This research guide explains how to use Westlaw® to retrieve jury verdict and settlement summaries. It includes instruction on the use of a variety of search tools and methods, including the Quick Valuation tool, search templates, Natural Language, and Terms and Connectors. It includes many examples you can use as models for your searches.

Trial Pleadings, Motions, and Filings
This quick reference guide provides an overview of databases containing state and federal court filings, including complaints, answers, motions, memoranda, and trial court briefs. It describes how to access these databases and how to search them via the Court Documents Search page.

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