A newsletter from West providing Westlaw® search tips for corporate counsel and staff

Q: How do I return to a document I found on Westlaw or to previous searches I ran on Westlaw?

A: Click Research Trail in the upper-right corner of any page.

The Research Trail feature makes it easy to keep track of your research and return to previous work. To view the research trail for your current Westlaw session, click Research Trail at the top of any page. You will see information about the tasks you've completed, including the citations of documents you retrieved and the Westlaw databases you used.

To view all research trails associated with your password from the last 14 days, click List of All Research Trails at the Research Trail page. Click the name (date and time) of any research trail to access the research you did during that particular research session. Click any link under Research Event to run a search again or retrieve a document.

Research outside your plan
If you run a search in a database outside your plan or retrieve a document outside your plan using a citation or a hypertext link, you can use the Research Trail to return to that search result or document later in the day at no additional cost. When you click Research Trail, you will see the words Access Research Events with a   •   at no additional charge until 2:00 a.m. Click any link to run a search or retrieve a document again.

To keep a research trail longer than 14 days, you can either e-mail it to yourself or reset the expiration date.