Demonstrates some of the features of WestlawNext and helps faculty move from Westlaw Classic to WestlawNext

1. Making the Move to
WestlawNext
Sol Blatt Jr. Law Library
Lisa Smith-Butler
May 8, 2014

2. How Do I Get There? Log onto
http://www.lawschool.westlaw.com/

3. The Home Page

4. Features
• Browse Content
• Use Terms & Connectors & Fields with Advanced
Search
• Creating & Using Folders
• Find & Print
• KeyCite
• News & Insights
• Practitioner Insights
• Practical Law
• Favorites
• Customize Page

5. Browsing

6. What Do I See & What Can I Do?

7. Moving Around
• You can annotate and add notes to your case, statute, or law review.
• You can add the annotated item to a specific folder that you create.
• You can search within the document, i.e. focus, using the search
icon, search within.
• You can go to selected portions of a document.
• You can change your display options to view a document.
• You can deliver your document via print, email, download, or to a
Kindle.
• You can then create an Alert that notifies you whenever changes are
made.
• Court filings, forms, briefs, jury verdicts and settlements, and public
records are included in the document retrieval if available.
• Filters can be applied on the side to further limit search results by
jurisdiction, date, keyword, topic, judge, attorney, party or docket
number.

8. Tools: Folders & Notes

9. Focus/Search Within

11. Go To

12. Display Options

13. Delivery: Email, Print, Download,
Kindle

14. Create Alerts

16. Court Filings

17. Filters

19. Browsing Statutes

20. • You can:
– browse the Table of Contents;
– find via a citation;
– use the USCA editor created index;
– use the Popular Names Tables;
– use the Conversion Tables with the STATUTES AT
LARGE, Public Law Numbers, etc.; or
– check the historical changes back to 1990.

28. Terms & Connectors & Fields:
Advanced Search

29. Party Name

32. Terms & Connecters

37. Narrow Results? Use the Filter(s)

40. Make a Folder?

44. View Your Folder?

47. Find & Print

53. KeyCite

54. Negative Treatment

55. History

56. Citing References

57. Narrow or Limit Your Results by
Applying Filters

59. News & Insights

60. Practitioner Insights for Health Care
Law

63. Practical Law

64. Practice Areas

67. Resource Types

70. Make Another Folder?

73. Favorites

74. History or Research Trail

75. More?! Customize Your Own Page

86. Is the Digest Still Available? Yes.
Check It Out Under the Tools Tab.

91. Is There More?
• Yes. West continues to add content and
tweak. WestlawNext is a continuously
evolving project.
• For more information about using
WestlawNext, check out the User Guides @
https://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/marke
tinfodisplay.asp?code=SG&id=1 .

93. Questions?
• Contact your library
liaison or the Reference
Desk @
– 843.377.4020
– reference@charlestonla
w.edu
– Please stop by! We’re
glad to help.