Monitor news and legal developments with Westlaw's clipping service.
Stay informed of news and press coverage that could affect your clients.
Track new Westlaw content with WestClip, a clipping service that allows you to monitor breaking news and legal developments that could affect you, your organization, and your clients. Clips can be delivered to your email inbox, printer, fax machine, or computer disk drive. You can also run WestClip queries manually from your WestClip Directory page.
Track significant changes in legislation, regulations, and case law.
- Create up to 99 queries on more than 11,000 Westlaw databases to track new content of special interest to you
- Know exactly what the press is saying about companies and issues
- Stay current on cases that could impact you, your company, and your key clients
- Be informed about pending legislation and new regulations
- View an enhanced citations list that highlights search terms and surrounding text to help you determine if a document is relevant
Set up new queries quickly, and get alerts on your schedule.
- Sign on to Westlaw and select WestClip from the More drop-down list
- Click Create Entry and follow the onscreen instructions
- To set up a query from a search result, click on the WestClip link above the result list
- Two new frequency options for custom delivery: as documents are loaded or multiple-frequency – up to 24 times a day
- Search only headlines and lead paragraphs
- Select the minimum number of times a term must appear
- Catch abbreviations and other special terms
WestClip delivers high value at low cost.
- WestClip searches that run daily, weekly, biweekly. or monthly are FREE of charge
- Continuous, up-to-the-minute searches are $4.50 per query per day
- If you designate your delivery format as a List of All Citations, the search results are also free; charges may apply for other delivery options (e.g., full text, first pages, or term mode pages) and for retrieving cited documents from databases that aren't included in your Westlaw plan
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This quick reference describes how to use WestClip to track cases, statutes, and news databases on Westlaw.