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Nowadays, life moves pretty fast.  Current events and related legal decisions can have a significant impact on your practice.  It’s up to you to know about what might impact your practice or clients. And getting that information, with added analysis and compelling insights, hasn’t always been easy.  Enter Practitioner Insights on WestlawNext. Now you’ve got a [...]

By providing easy access to content from the home page and the ability to quickly search a specific grouping of content, the Favorites feature can dramatically increase your efficiency and productivity. In last week’s tip you learned how to customize WestlawNext ™ by adding frequently used content to your Favorites. Today’s tip will discuss how to organize [...]

Save time by using Favorites. Do you find that you return to the same databases or content pages on a regular basis? If so, you can save lots of time by using Favorites. This feature allows you to add frequently used content to your home page. You may also organize your favorite pages into groups so [...]

WestlawNext® is available on your iPad ® device. The iPad offers cutting-edge capabilities, greater portability than a laptop, and a large, high-resolution multi-touch display that makes it highly suitable for legal research. The WestlawNext iPad app makes it possible to conduct and organize your research wherever you take your iPad, allowing you the freedom to go anywhere [...]

  The ability to innovate and adapt are two common characteristics of any thriving business. The past five years have shown both corporate legal departments and law firms the obstacle of financial hardship. Faced with calls for stricter budgeting and more emphasis on creative ways to sustain profits, one solution across the legal industry is the [...]

Dear readers: As always, thanks for sending in your valued feedback using our Suggestions & Stories page. WestlawNext ® Tip of the Week will be taking a brief summer break for July and will resume on August 6th.   In the meantime, you can always visit our archives on the Tip of the Week website: Browse tips by topic [...]

In all likelihood, most of us remember how it feels to start a new job or career right after school. Having that “unsure” feeling of how to get started or how to complete the work can take a while to overcome. If you are a new associate, you might be working with a partner who will want [...]

The economic challenges faced by law firms in the past three years have been transformative in many aspects and have forced them to cut staff, overwork existing employees, and search high and low for new ways to save money and improve efficiencies.   A recent HBR Law Department Survey found that, for the first time in memory, [...]