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We hope you’ll find time to stop by the Thomson Reuters ProView ™ booth at ABA TECHSHOW CHICAGO (March 29-31, 2012) to demo our new professional-grade iPad ® app. Now you can access your go-to books as eBooks on your iPad. Join us to see how. We’ll be hosting a “lunch and learn” on Friday, March 30th at [...]

Interested in following the current legal trends in determining how social media translates into currency? Then please join us for a CLE  program entitled,  The Economic Value of Social Media: How PhoneDog v. Kravitz May Set the Standard .  It will be held in two weeks, on  February 21st at 12:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. CST . The speaker at the hour-long [...]

The new Westlaw Gulf service offers a full suite of legal research tools and an unrivaled database of legislation and cases for lawyers operating across the Gulf region. Westlaw Gulf provides lawyers with expertly written English translations of over 8,000 of the most commercially relevant and widely used laws from major Gulf States, including Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. [...]

New York Law Journal recently recognized Serengeti, WestlawNext, Pangea3, and Westlaw Litigator, all part of Thomson Reuters, with top honors, based on its annual readership survey . Serengeti Tracker was selected for best matter management system , recognizing the efficiencies found through electronic billing and auditing, budget management, performance tracking, configurable reports and document management. WestlawNext was accorded the honor of “ best [...]

One of our most distinguished authors passed away recently.  Harold S. “Hal” Bloomenthal , scholar, practitioner, and author, was considered a dean of West’s Securities Law Library. Having practiced in the areas of corporate and securities law since 1955, Hal’s titles included:  Securities Law Handbook , Emerging Trends in Securities Law , Securities and Federal Corporate Law 2d , International Capital Markets and Securities Regulation , [...]

With patrons ranging from inexperienced researchers without a legal background to skilled attorneys away from their office, libraries have been asking for an intuitive legal research solution to meet this wide variety of needs . We at Thomson Reuters have been building a solution. Now, WestlawNext Patron Access is here and we are taking it on the road [...]

Be among the first customers to see a demonstration of the new Thomson Reuters eBook platform. For those of you who are able to attend the 2011 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, we hope you will stop by the Thomson Reuters booth on Saturday, July 23 , as Dan Bennett, Senior Director of Mobile Technology, will be [...]

The 2011 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting is just around the corner, and the Thomson Reuters crew is excited to see you there! Please stop by the Thomson Reuters booth and visit with company representatives including the West Librarian Relations Team. As always, there will be product, sales and service experts at the Thomson Reuters booth available to demonstrate [...]

Wondering about the discoverability of Facebook posts? The admissibility of a tweet? Is it acceptible to serve process via Facebook? Is it OK to “friend” a judge? What about jury pools – are they being tainted by rapid fire online discussion group conversation threads?   In The Lawyer’s Guide to Social Networking , John G. Browning provides a comprehensive look at how social media is [...]

Long a staple of Westlaw and print publications, federal and state legislative history materials such as public laws, session laws, House and Senate reports, Congressional Record testimony, and presidential signing statements are now on WestlawNext. To access legislative history materials on WestlawNext, do one of the following:  At the WestlawNext home page, click Statutes and Court Rules in the All Content [...]

It can be a nightmare to try to pinpoint—let alone compare—statutes or regulations that govern an area of law. For starters, there are a staggering number of state and federal statutes and regulations. In addition, state legislatures use a wide variety of terminology to refer to the same thing. As a result, your search must cast [...]

You can now go to the iTunes store and upgrade your WestlawNext iPad app to version 2.0.1. Version 2.0.1 has all the strengths of version 1.0 (including intuitive WestSearch search capability, result filtering, touch-screen navigation, notes and highlighting, research history, and foldering options), plus enhancements— all based on user feedback —such as  easier document scrolling improved notes and highlighting unique, optimized display [...]

Many WestlawNext users like to keep a summary of their research session after they sign off. For those who remember to print one from the Session Summary page, WestlawNext makes life easy. And those who can’t always remember? WestlawNext makes life easy for them, too. As of January 7, you can set your WestlawNext preferences so that [...]

As of January 8, selected check boxes in your results page remain checked, even after you click numerical links or your browser’s Back button to view other pages of the results list in the same category. This means that if you select three check boxes on the first page of cases, select additional cases on the [...]

Larisa Tehven As lawyers and law firms seek new strategies to build (or rebuild) their businesses in these economically challenging times, social networking is emerging as a key tool in advertising and business development. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn provide new, low-cost opportunities to communicate with potential clients and business associates. As an attorney, [...]