Westlaw Litigation 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 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. Describes the Case Evaluator and Medical Litigator search features.

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.

Shows you how to use the Litigation History Reports feature on Westlaw. Reports provide insightful and authoritative analysis in a flexible format that helps you evaluate the litigation experience of judges and attorneys. Reports are presented in a table format consisting of topical analysis sections with year-by-year breakdowns of data in key analysis categories.

This quick reference guide explains how to access and browse briefs on Westlaw.

Describes how to access state and federal transcripts of oral arguments and trials. It also describes how to access the audio or video recordings associated with the documents and using the Streaming Media Manager.

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

Shows you how to evaluate a case, review court documents, investigate experts, and learn about medical issues for personal injury and non-personal 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.

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

This quick reference guide explains how to use KeyRules on Westlaw to find all applicable rules of procedure in state and federal courts.

Shows you how to use Westlaw Legal Calendaring to calculate litigation-related deadlines, add information to your Outlook calendar, and manage calendaring information. Also demonstrates how 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.

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

Introduces you to appellate briefs databases on Westlaw, highlights database features, and provides guidance on retrieving briefs documents.

Helps you search the Expert Witness Filings database, with examples demonstrating different search methods and a list of additional databases that are helpful when researching experts.

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

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.

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 search them via the Court Documents Search page.

Shows you how to effectively and efficiently search state trial court order databases. It describes database content and features and also provides search examples.

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.

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 use the tabbed 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 that are searched from the Medical Litigator page. Includes databases that are part of the Medical Litigator Premier Library on Westlaw, as well as other databases that are not part of a Medical Litigator PRO subscription. Databases include 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 search Medical Litigator resources, including how to search by medical terms, how to assess your search results, and how to retrieve related information.