Westlaw Law School User Guides

Helps law students understand how to find statutes in print and on Westlaw.

Outlines how to find cases in print and on Westlaw.

Shows law students how to check and update research using KeyCite, with examples for viewing case history and citing references to a case.

Demonstrates the advantages of RegulationsPlus on Westlaw for retrieving documents from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

Explains how to search opinions included in West's National Reporter System using West's editorial enhancements and demonstrates how to find the synopsis and West headnotes for a case, both in print and on Westlaw.

Shows how to use West digests in conjunction with Westlaw to retrieve current caselaw.

Explains how to complete common research tasks on Westlaw via the Law School page.

Presents an overview of secondary sources available, with detailed discussion of American Law Reports (ALR) and American Jurisprudence (Am Jur) materials in print and on Westlaw.

Explains how to use Westlaw databases and services to select a topic for a law review or journal article, perform a preemption check, develop a topic, check citations and quotations, improve law review and journal management, and develop writing and editing skills.

Shows how to prepare your law review article by using Westlaw to help you choose a topic, conduct a preemption check, develop your topic, check citations with KeyCite, and verify page numbers and quotations.

Explains the fundamentals of searching Westlaw via the lawschool.westlaw.com home page and covers retrieving documents with Find, accessing a database, selecting a search method and constructing a search, browsing search results, modifying searches, printing and sending documents, and using research trails, as well as how to use the West Key Number System, KeyCite, and WestClip.

Explains how to prepare your appellate brief using Westlaw to retrieve legal authority on your issues, verify your research with KeyCite, write your brief, and check quotations in your brief.

Shows how to prepare your moot court appellate brief using Westlaw 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.

Explains how to use KeySearch, a fast route to locating on-point documents on Westlaw.

Explains how to use WestClip to monitor cases, law reviews, media sources, and much more, as well as how to set up and run a WestClip entry, including sample entries.

Outlines the resources available at lawschool.westlaw.com to help you find the right job: Law Student Jobs Online/Attorney Jobs Online, NALP Directory of Legal Employers, FindLaw, and Westlaw, and also describes each resource and provides examples of how to use Westlaw to find career information.

Describes the information about career opportunities available at Law Student Jobs Online.

Explains how to develop and complete a research plan based on secondary and primary sources, how to update your legal research to make sure it is good law, and how to write a clear and objective analysis and conclusion when preparing an open memo.

Introduces law students to the administrative law resources on Westlaw and shows how to access these resources using KeySearch.

Presents a three-page overview of Westlaw content and features useful in bankruptcy research with special focus on KeySearch and West Topic and Key Numbers.

Highlights civil rights law content on Westlaw and describes two valuable research tools: Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Highlights criminal law resources on Westlaw and shows how to retrieve relevant cases using Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Introduces law students to the corporate law resources on Westlaw and shows how to access these resources on the tabbed Corporate Governance page.

Introduces law students to labor and employment law resources on Westlaw and shows how to access these resources on the tabbed Employment Practitioner page.

Introduces law students to environmental law resources on Westlaw, and shows how to retrieve relevant cases using Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Highlights the family law resources on Westlaw and provides a search example showing how to access these materials on the tabbed Family Law Practitioner page on Westlaw.

Highlights the health law resources on Westlaw and shows how to access these materials on the tabbed Health Law page.

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.

Introduces law students to international law resources on Westlaw and describes two valuable research tools: Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Introduces law students to the litigation resources on Westlaw and shows how to access resources such as court rules, Case Evaluator reports, and jury instructions on the tabbed Litigation page.

Introduces law students to the real property law resources on Westlaw and shows how to access real property transactional resources such as model forms and checklists on the tabbed Real Property Practitioner page.

Introduces law students to securities law resources on Westlaw and describes two valuable research tools: Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Introduces law students to tax law resources on Westlaw and describes two valuable research tools: Topic and Key Numbers and KeySearch.

Highlights the tax law resources available to law students on Westlaw and shows how to select the appropriate database to search.

Shows you how to find legally relevant Web content using the Westlaw WebPlus search engine, which focuses first on Web sites selected by West attorney-editors.

Illustrates fields in a case law document on Westlaw and shows how to use fields to efficiently search case law databases.

Illustrates fields in a statute document on Westlaw and shows how to use fields to efficiently search statutes databases.

Explains in detail how to use The West Education Network (TWEN), West's online extension to the law school classroom, including instructions for accessing TWEN, creating and managing online courses, and setting up features such as grade books, sign-up sheets, and interactive forums.

Shows how to get started using The West Education Network (TWEN), West's online extension of the law school classroom, including accessing TWEN, creating and maintaining courses, and more.

Explains how to get started using The West Education Network (TWEN), West's online extension of the law school classroom, including instructions for accessing TWEN, adding a TWEN course, and navigating within TWEN courses.

Explains how to can use The West Education Network (TWEN) to simplify work for law review and law journal managing editors.

Explains how you can easily coordinate clinics and internships by using The West Education Network (TWEN) Web pages.

Shows how to easily coordinate a moot court competition by using The West Education Network (TWEN) Web pages.

Shows how law school student organizations can use The West Education Network (TWEN) to manage activities and improve communication.

Shows professors how to get started using CiteStation, available through The West Education Network (TWEN), a series of online exercises designed to help make teaching legal citation more effective, including instructions for adding CiteStation to a course page, updating and managing CiteStation exercises, making the exercises available to students, and understanding the exercise results.

Highlights the advantages to law school students of using Westlaw Watch for course work.

Explains WestCheck.com, West's citation research application on the Web that automatically extracts citations from a legal document or a citations list you create manually.

Shows you how to find citations in your documents and automatically generate a table of authorities with the click of a button.