For more than a century, West has been a partner to the U.S. legal system. Today, our products and services are considered the world standard for supporting the business and practice of law. West offers a powerful competitive advantage to our customers through authoritative resources, tools, and services that help legal professionals execute the law.
Attorneys
There are nearly 500 attorneys working at West as editors, paralegals, analysts, developers, and support teams.
Each year, these West attorneys:
- Add 500,000 administrative decisions to Westlaw
- Analyze 300,000 KeyCite references
- Check 700,000 statute citations
- Editorially enhance 67,000 cases
- Review more than 500,000 headnotes for classification
Consumers
People interact with the law every day. Almost every American will need to hire an attorney at some point in their lifetime — whether they're purchasing a home, planning their estate, in the midst of a complex financial transaction or divorce, or involved in litigation.
FindLaw is the most popular legal website for consumers looking for legal answers and for a lawyer.
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Technology
These services are supported by West's state-of-the-art data centers:
- Staffed 24/7/365
- Maintained 10 years of continuous uptime
- Capacity to power more than 10,000 homes (across all three data centers)
- More than 4 petabytes of storage
- Equivalent to 402 printed collections of the U.S. Library of Congress or a seven-mile-high CD stack
- Over 9,200 storage backups per day; ~50 terabytes of data per day
- More than 12,500 servers supported
- Average server draws the equivalent of a 150-watt light bulb
- Battery and generator backup for all buildings