If you’re new to WestlawNext or want to learn more about it, here’s a perfect opportunity to take the plunge  – and earn CLE credit at the same time!*

This complimentary one-hour course will follow a fictional client through the legal research process using WestlawNext. It discusses how WestlawNext makes many of the difficulities of legal research easier and less time consuming through focusing on relevant resources and documents, verifying and expanding your research, and efficiently managing your results. 

You can take this CLE course on demand or attend one of our live sessions with a moderator, who can answer your questions in real time. The course is free, but you have to pre-register for the live sessions – and you can do that right now!

Do you have questions about using KeyCite on WestlawNext? How about mining your research history, or organizing those nifty new folders?

WestlawNext Research Expert Webinars are your chance to get answers to your questions. Each 30-minute live webinar includes 20 minutes of instruction followed by 10 minutes of live Q&A with the audience.

The first two series of webinars, held in June and July, had hundreds of participants and resulted in dozens of great audience questions (which you can see our WestlawNext Q&A page.) So don’t miss out -  register for one of the new sessions below.

Learn about:

• KeyCite tabs
• Sorting, filtering, and searching within citing references
• A new graphical view of a case’s history
• Most Negative Treatment Citation, and more

Monday, August 30, 2 pm – 2:30 pm CDT
Tuesday, August 31, 1 pm – 1:30 pm CDT
Thursday, September 2, 11 am – 11:30 am CDT

Learn about:

• Filtering and searching research history
• Dragging and dropping documents and text snippets into folders
• Organizing, filtering, and searching within folders, and more

Tuesday, September 14, Noon – 12:30 pm CDT
Wednesday, September 15, 2 pm – 2:30 pm CDT
Thursday, September 16, 11 am – 11:30 am CDT

“To America, one schoolmaster is worth a dozen poets, and the invention of a machine or the improvement of an implement is of more importance than a masterpiece of Raphael.” – Benjamin Franklin

“America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere, but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.” – Will Rogers

America has always prided itself as a land of innovation, with numbers to back up that claim. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved more than 167,000 utility patents in 2009 – a rate of more than 19 patents an hour, 24 hours a day.

If your work involves patent prosecution or litigation, Westlaw Patents has the content and tools to help you keep pace. And now there’s a quick, easy way to get up to speed on Westlaw Patents content and tools: Short online lessons for our most popular products.

We came up with the eLearning series after hearing a handful of customers confess that they don’t always understand what some of our patent products are intended to do or how to use them. And we took their advice and kept the lessons short and sweet: Most lessons require just 2 or 3 minutes of your time.

To access these lessons, sign on to the West eLearning Center, then click on the Westlaw Patents link on the left side of the page. (It’s the last item in the list.)

We’ve divided the self-paced lessons into two categories – litigation and prosecution – with several choices in each list. Two of the most popular modules include

• Using KeyCite to Verify and Expand Patent Research – Learn how to use KeyCite to go beyond the text of a patent and view its context.
• Searching Markman Orders – Save hours of work and frustration by searching and finding claim construction orders on Westlaw.

And check back later this summer for a new self-paced lesson on Claims Locator, our latest “invention” that will enable you to search for claims without knowing the exact terminology.

More info on Westlaw Patents is available on the West website. And we didn’t invent the quotes above – we found them in Uncle Anthony’s Unabridged Analogies, which is available at a 10% discount to Westlaw Insider readers. Check it out!

Our WestlawNext expert webinar series is your chance to get answers to your questions. Each 30-minute live webinar will include 20 minutes of instruction followed by 10 minutes of live Q&A with the audience.

And if learning how to apply your finely honed Boolean skills to WestlawNext isn’t enticement enough, we’ll pick an attendee in each session to win a new Apple iPad just for being there!

Although WestlawNext simplifies searching, we haven’t taken away the option of constructing a Boolean query using Terms & Connectors. Find out how power researchers can still use their craft within the WestlawNext platform and get more relevant, inclusive results.

We want to hear from you. Please suggest a topic or submit a question for future webinars.

IPAD GIVEAWAY: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to residents of the 50 US/DC with Internet access as of 6/14/10. Void where prohibited. Sweepstakes ends 6/30/10. Subject to official rules.

Attend our West Case Notebook webinar on June 17, and we’ll send you a $5 Starbucks card.* Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn more about Case Notebook…and treat yourself to a bit of Starbucks deliciousness.

Top Five Reasons Firms Use Case Notebook
Thursday, June 17
2 p.m. CDT
Register Now

West Case Notebook makes it easy for your litigation team to enter and share key facts, insights, notes, documents, main characters, evidence, legal research and more. With Case Notebook, all your essential case information, notes and analysis can be accessed in a single click, wherever you go.

During this live, interactive webinar, we’ll discuss how law firms use West Case Notebook…

• To effectively analyze case information
• To allow your entire litigation team to collaborate efficiently
• To save time
• To save money
• To gain a competitive edge

…And we’ll answer your questions, too. We can’t wait, and neither should you –  register  now!

To learn more about West Case Notebook, please call 1-800-328-9378 to speak with your dedicated attorney/trainer, or visit us online.

* While supplies last. Starbucks, the Starbucks logo, and the Starbucks Card design are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Starbucks U.S. Brands, L.C. Starbucks is not a participating partner or sponsor of this offer.

You’ve been using Westlaw for years. You’ve collected enough time-saving shortcuts and nifty little tricks to write a book. And you have questions about WestlawNext.

Our upcoming WestlawNext expert webinar series is your chance to get answers to your questions. Starting next week, We’ll answer the most frequently asked questions we’ve gotten about WestlawNext, then give you a chance to ask your own.

Each 30-minute live webinar will include a 20-minute instructional session and 10 minutes for the instructor to field your questions. And if that isn’t exciting enough, one person from each of the six sessions will win a new Apple iPad just for attending!

This webinar takes a quick look at how WestlawNext does many of the things power researchers told us they wished Westlaw could do.

Find out how power researchers can still use Boolean Terms & Connectors within the WestlawNext platform and get more relevant, inclusive results.

Do you dream in Boolean? If so, you won’t want to miss these upcoming WestlawNext webinars designed especially for power researchers.

We’ll answer the most frequently asked questions we’ve gotten about WestlawNext, then give you a chance to ask your own.

Each live webinar will take just 30 minutes or less (including Q&A time), and you could win a new Apple iPad just for attending!

This webinar takes a quick look at how WestlawNext does many of the things power researchers told us they wished Westlaw could do.

Find out how power researchers can still use Boolean Terms & Connectors within the WestlawNext platform and get more relevant, inclusive results.

Back by Popular Demand!!! Case Notebook Series: Top 5 Things To Get You Started:

• Get the most out of Your subscription
• Learn how to create cases and import documents including transcripts, documents, pleadings and research
• Create issues, characters and key facts
• Annotate and search documents and issue reports

It’s interactive – ask questions along the way!

Register Now: Thursday, March 25th, 2:00 PM CDT

We keep having great response to our West Case Notebook Webinar Series! Please join us once again on March 18th at 2:00 p.m. CDT to learn how West Case Notebook helps you become more efficient during your discovery phase:

• Send documents directly from Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer to Case Notebook
• Load large groups of documents
• Create groups

It’s interactive – ask questions along the way!

Register Now: Thursday, March 18th, 2:00 PM CDT

“To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.”
– 1978 Farmer’s Almanac

“After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.”
– John Pierce, co-inventor of the transistor

“It’s not computer literacy that we should be working on…Computers have to become
human-literate.”
– Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT’s Media Lab

These three quotations sum up how the conventional wisdom on computers has evolved over the years. And we hope the last one resonates with anyone who has seen WestlawNext, which is intended to provide a more “human-literate” way to conduct legal research.

If you haven’t seen WestlawNext in action, there’s time to sign up – but the clock is ticking! You can still register for a WestlawNext preview breakfast in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston or Minneapolis, or click on a date below to register for any of the remaining 30-minute online sessions.

Webinar: Top 4 Things You Need to Know about WestlawNext

• Wednesday, March 3 – 12:00 noon CST
• Thursday, March 4 – 2:00 p.m. CST

Webinar: Transitioning from Westlaw to WestlawNext

• Thursday, March 4 – 10:00 a.m. CST

Webinar: Organize Efficiently with WestlawNext

• Wednesday, March 3 – 10:00 a.m. CST
• Thursday, March 4 – 12:00 noon CST

Can’t make it to any of these events? No worries; the West eLearning Center also has several lessons to introduce you to WestlawNext, whenever it’s convenient for you. Topics include:

• The Power of WestSearch
• Finding Documents
• Searching Specific Content
• Inclusive and Relevant Results
• Viewing Documents
• Document Review Tools

You can find the on-demand lessons on the site after you login or create a new account.

(BTW, we found the three introductory quotes in Uncle Anthony’s Unabridged Analogies: Quotes & Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers, which is available at a 10% discount to Westlaw Insider readers like you!)