Q:  I’ve never been involved in a case involving a bad-faith employee contract negotiation. Where can I find a checklist to help me get started?

A: FormFinder’s search template makes it easy to narrow your search by topic, sub-topic, and additional search terms, such as “bad faith.”  The Results Summary then categorizes the documents by text forms, checklists, and clauses to focus in on the one you need.

Q: I need the official PDF form for a court in Missouri, but I practice in Michigan. Is there one place where I can find forms for unfamiliar courts?

A: FormFinder allows you to filter your search by jurisdiction.  The Results Summary includes a section for Official PDF Forms with coverage from state and local courts and state agencies. These forms can be viewed in PDF, completed, saved and printed.

Q: I finally got my hands on a form created by an expert in my area of practice.  Now, how can I quickly modify it to fit my case?

A: FormFinder offers an Easy-Edit version of the document for an additional charge. This removes the header/footer, Westlaw links, and other unneeded content so you can populate the form with information specific to your case. Contact a Westlaw representative for specific pricing information.

Q: Many issues require the same type of form over and over, such as a Motion for Summary Judgment.  Where can I find other basic form documents I need all the time?

A: FormFinder searches across more than 500,000 documents to deliver the forms you need for your day-to-day practice.

Q: It seems like I always get cases dealing with obscure matters that nobody in the firm has ever seen.  Where can I find an example document to get me started?

A: FormFinder offers documents for more than 47 practice areas including 500 sub-topics.  Your matter is bound to be in there – believe it or not!

In addition to Easy-Edit text forms, FormFinder now features a revamped search template, global search functionality, more intuitive browsing and filtering tools, links to related resources, and new content from Miller’s Standard Insurance Policies Annotated and Oden. For more information, visit west.thomson.com/formfinder.

The WestlawNext iPad App is the only legal research app that synchronizes across all of your devices while providing comprehensive features and content. Research is easy to start or resume on the iPad – it automatically syncs with the WestlawNext website and WestlawNext Mobile, so research started in one place can be accessed and continued anywhere.

You can learn more about the WestlawNext iPad app and see how it works on the WestlawNext informational website.

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!

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

Q: Does anyone know where to find state session laws on WestlawNext? I’m really missing the directory feature right now!

A: Old session laws are currently NOT yet on WestlawNext. Current session laws are available at Proposed and Pending Legislation.

Note: Numbering is not displayed on the overview page, just on the content category result page. Nor is numbering displayed in KeyCite citing references, documents in folders, West Key Number Digest results, or West km results.

Submitted by
Jay Shuck
Legal Writer, Customer and Product Documentation
Thomson Reuters Legal

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Q: Why is WordPerfect being supported by WestlawNext as an email delivery option?

A: It may sometimes seem like Microsoft Word is the only word processer on the market, there’s no doubting its popularity. However, Corel’s WordPerfect is the second most popular word processor and office suite for law firms and government organizations. WordPerfect users represent a smaller, but significant percentage of WestlawNext customers — many of whom have been using WordPerfect for years.

To help support these customers, we’ve added WordPerfect as a delivery format option for email and download. The ability to deliver documents in WordPerfect saves time and effort that would otherwise be spent on converting newly delivered documents and also means they won’t need to spend time converting an existing library of documents to a new format.

Submitted by
Jay Shuck
Legal Writer, Customer and Product Documentation
Thomson Reuters Legal

A: One fast way is to jump directly from your result list to the parts of the opinions in which your search or Search Within terms appear. Click anywhere in the document text excerpted in your result list, and the portion of the document in which the text appears is displayed. (A green arrow appears in the document next to the beginning of the text that is excerpted in the result list.)

Submitted by
Jay Shuck
Legal Writer, Customer and Product Documentation
Thomson Reuters Legal

Webinar Format:  20 minutes instruction, 10 minutes Q&A

Register by clicking on a date below.
August 17th 10:00 AM CT
August 18th 12:00 PM CT
August 19th 2:00 PM CT
August 23rd 2:00 PM CT
August 24th 10:00 AM CT
August 25th 12:00 PM CT

Submit a question about West km integration with WestlawNext in advance to our presenters.  Just add a comment below this post. Your Questions will be answered during the webinar sesions.

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