Questions for the Corporate Guru

Question: What makes searching on Westlaw more efficient than searching on the Internet?

Answer: When you are searching for documents, speed and efficiency count. When you search the Web for a document, you may find the document, e.g., case or statute, you are looking for. But it will not contain the editorial enhancements that allow you to quickly determine whether the document is useful to you and whether it is good law. In addition, you could miss important facets of your research.

Here are some key reasons why using Westlaw is vital to your research:

KeyCite® alerts you when a case, statute, or federal regulation is no longer good law. KeyCite also provides links to related materials, such as proposed legislation for statutes, and expands your research by listing citing references to your document. The KeyCite Alert service automatically monitors the status of your document and informs you by e-mail when its KeyCite information changes.
When a court makes corrections to its original opinion, West editors incorporate these changes into the opinion on Westlaw.
The content on Westlaw is current. For example, Westlaw may have a more current version of a statute than the version posted on an official government site.
Because of West editorial enhancements and integrated linking, you can feel confident that you have found everything you need when you search on Westlaw.