Westlaw Litigator user guides

Shows you how to retrieve non-legal information frequently needed for case evaluation, investigation, pretrial practice, and trial. "Non-legal" in this context means materials other than primary and secondary law. Shows you how to locate people; learn about case participants; search asset, adverse filing, and docket databases; retrieve appellate briefs and trial court documents; and search for court rules, jury instructions, and verdict and settlement summaries. Covers the Case Evaluator and Medical Litigator search features.

Shows you how to use the Litigation History Reports feature on Westlaw and evaluate the litigation experience of judges and attorneys through flexible reporting options.

Explains how to access and browse briefs on Westlaw.

Shows you how to use Case Evaluator to evaluate a case, review court documents, investigate experts, and learn about medical issues. Researching personal injury and nonpersonal injury cases. Creates reports by jurisdiction, case type, injury type, damages, company, and industry.

Shows you how to search docket databases on Westlaw, update dockets, and retrieve docketed court documents. Explains how to use Docket Alert and Docket Track to automatically monitor dockets for new case filings and developments in existing cases.

Explains how to retrieve relevant medical information that will help you understand the issues underlying your client's medical malpractice, personal injury, or medical device products liability case. Shows you how to search the Medical Litigator page on Westlaw, which consolidates access to resources from medical guides and journals, to relevant caselaw, jury verdicts, and legal texts.

Lists databases searched from the Medical Litigator page on Westlaw, including medical illustrations, guides, and journals; drug and device guides; health care professional and expert witness information; FDA regulatory information; court documents; litigation reports; and news.

Shows you how to retrieve relevant medical and legal sources quickly from the Medical Litigator page on Westlaw. Explains how to easily access and search Medical Litigator resources, including how to search by medical terms, how to assess your search results, and how to retrieve related information.

Explains how to use Personal Injury Litigator on Westlaw to assess claims and find authoritative medical and legal sources for any claim that requires medical information.

Describes how to search New Jersey Superior Court Civil Division dockets and how to use the Docket Alerts and Docket Tracks features.

Shows you how to use Westlaw CourtExpress, which provides access to court docket information and filings.

Lists dockets coverage on Westlaw and Westlaw CourtExpress (a custom-designed research tool for docket searching). Shows you how to access case docket information without having to leave your office or contact court staff.

Explains how to use KeyRules on Westlaw to find all applicable rules of procedure in state and federal courts.

Explains how to calculate litigation-related deadlines, add information to your Outlook calendar, and manage calendaring information. Also shows you how to use Westlaw Legal Calendaring to obtain the full text of court rules, access Westlaw dockets, create a rules set alert that notifies you via email when a particular rules set is updated, and create a court calendar tracking entry that notifies you via email when new entries have been added to the court calendar.

Shows you how to effectively and efficiently search the Expert Witness Filings database. Includes examples demonstrating different search methods and lists additional databases helpful when researching experts.

Shows you how to use Expert Investigation Reports on Westlaw to retrieve a comprehensive analysis of experts and judges.

Introduces you to appellate briefs databases on Westlaw. Highlights database features and provides guidance to help you efficiently retrieve briefs documents. Includes a list of briefs databases available on Westlaw.

Helps you retrieve pattern and standard jury instructions issued or recommended by a court and authored model instructions published in texts and treatises. Shows you how to retrieve jury instruction filings, which are court filings that include the proposed instructions submitted by counsel for presentation by the court to the jury.

Lists jury verdict and settlement summaries databases that can help assess the value of a case and provide information about judges, expert witnesses, and attorneys.

Shows you how to use Westlaw to retrieve jury verdict and settlement summaries. Provides instructions for using a variety of search tools and methods, including the Quick Valuation tool, search templates, Natural Language, and Terms and Connectors. Includes examples you can use as models for your searches.

Provides an overview of databases containing state and federal court filings, including complaints, answers, motions, memoranda, and trial court briefs. Shows you how to access these databases and how to search them via the Court Documents Search page.