Unlock the value of your organization's best thinking.

West km integrates your organization's work product – your best thinking and experience – with WestlawNext enhancements and search technology.
In one search, you retrieve the best of your work and the best of WestlawNext or Westlaw Classic on any matter at hand. It's a sure way for your legal organization to maximize productivity and efficiency.

West km is designed for the legal profession.
Discover how West km is specifically designed to meet the workflow needs of litigators and transactional attorneys.

For organizations that handle both litigation and transactional work, the comprehensive KM solution is West km Enterprise. You receive West km for Litigation and Transactions, complete with the core KM software components, including security, administration, fundamental document indexing and search, and integration with your document management system and your organization's portal. West km for Litigation is also available in an Express version, designed for small to mid-sized firms that have a need to search across a smaller collection of internal work product in a more streamlined package.

Get easy access to the information your attorneys need most.
With the WestlawNext connection to your West km searches, your attorneys gain access to all related information in the online legal research system including information linked by KeySearch and KeyCite, as well as analytical sources such as ALR, practice guides, and treatises. West km also employs profile extraction technology to build your KM repository of searchable work product and helps ensure you don't miss anything important.

HOW WEST KM WORKS

Makes knowledge management easy for lawyers
West km, the system designed for the legal profession, features automated technology so your attorneys aren't required to do anything to add their documents into the system. They can access the system in multiple ways, preview summaries before opening documents, and more.

Extracts the most useful documents
Efficiency begins as we build your West km repository of searchable work product using the powerful WestlawNext profile extraction engine. Proprietary algorithms developed from our partnerships with leading law firms tag documents by firm, court, jurisdiction, document type and title, and extract them from your document management system (DMS) or other document store. So even if your documents are formatted inconsistently or incompletely, you still find what you need. It's "intelligent searching" no DMS or other knowledge management provider offers you – for maximum productivity across your organization.

Keeps documents safe and secure
Your original documents are never touched, nor do they leave the organization. We only work with a copy of your data.

Updates your knowledge management system daily
West km updates daily with your new work product so you always search current, thorough information.

Enables easy searching
You can search internal or WestlawNext documents, or both, from an interface that mirrors WestlawNext search functionality.

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See how West km processes your documents to vet irrelevant material, identify relevant legal information, and add legal enhancements.

   

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See how our project managers provide a smooth, organized implementation process to launch West km in your organization.

   

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West km integrates with WestlawNext or Westlaw Classic, so one search returns the best of your work and the best of WestlawNext or Westlaw Classic.

   

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Your customized classification taxonomy organizes your document sets for easy browsing. The taxonomy is based on the KeySearch system, then further refined to fit the needs of your unique office.

   

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West km for Litigation adds KeyCite advantages to your own documents, including up-to-date KeyCite flags, WestlawNext hyperlinks, "km" icons to alert you to internal citing references, and the BriefTools product to use in your word processor as you develop new work product.

   

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West km for Transactions lets you search for relevant clauses, documents, even defined terms. Drag and drop desired text directly into your new contract or legal draft.