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- proper noun Online
legal research service most commonly used to search and retrieve United Statescase law , but also providing comprehensive access to statutes, regulations, and secondary sources discussing the law.
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Westlaw is as accurate and reliable as humanly possible because it has full-time paid professionals making the entries, and other full-time paid professionals editing them, and other full-time paid professionals supporting the writers and editors.
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Westlaw is as accurate and reliable as humanly possible because it has full-time paid professionals making the entries, and other full-time paid professionals editing them, and other full-time paid professionals supporting the writers and editors.
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A check of Levitt's background using the various databases within Westlaw, a prestigious legal search engine, fails to reveal this experience, with him being identified as one of three public defenders handling an appeal whose decision went against him.
Miles J. Zaremski: Lake County Judge's Race Heats Up Miles J. Zaremski 2010
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(I can say that it has gotten 49 citations in Westlaw-accessible legal journals, not bad but hardly the mark of a book that has reached a vast chunk of at least the legal intelligentsia.)
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A check of Levitt's background using the various databases within Westlaw, a prestigious legal search engine, fails to reveal this experience, with him being identified as one of three public defenders handling an appeal whose decision went against him.
Miles J. Zaremski: Lake County Judge's Race Heats Up Miles J. Zaremski 2010
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UPDATE: After seeing the comments, in which many people reported the same problem, I called Westlaw again, and eventually got through to a supervisor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Westlaw on Windows XP Professional Hanging Firefox 2010
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Metadata can likewise mean in Westlaw or Lexis, similar codes that the company workers enter to note the style of the case, the date, the court, the judge, the headnotes, the text, etc.
Fun with Metadata 2006
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And each of those "fields" or "segments" can be separately searched if you either use the Lexis or Westlaw form to fill out or use the command: da (1992) [in Westlaw, for example, search for a document dated 1992]
Fun with Metadata 2006
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Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents 2010
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Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fixing Errors in Westlaw and Lexis Versions of Documents 2010
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