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A newsletter from West providing Westlaw® search tips for corporate counsel and staff
Winter 2009
FormFinder: A New Resource to Help You Find Forms
FormFinder quickly helps you find just the form you need.
The big advantage of FormFinder is that you don't have to remember the identifier of a forms database or select a tabbed page containing a FormFinder link.
Instead, click FORMFINDER—a bright yellow link visible at the top of any Westlaw page. The FormFinder search template is displayed. And you don't have to type a thing: Just use the check boxes and drop-down lists on the user-friendly search template. Your template search can be as general or specific as you want.
It takes just a few seconds to retrieve text forms, fillable PDF forms (eforms), checklists, and clauses found in
- 45 distinct legal categories
- hundreds of subcategories
- national forms collections, such as West's® Legal Forms and Nichols Cyclopedia of Legal Forms Annotated
- state-specific forms collections, such as Illinois Civil Practice Forms and New Jersey Forms Legal and Business, for 30 states
- selected statutes and regulations
You can then copy and paste the text into a word-processing document and modify as needed.
Using the TemplateFor example, to retrieve forms and checklists pertaining to the exploitation of copyrights in musical works, click FormFinder at the top of any page. Select Copyright from the Select a Topic drop-down list, then select Exploitation of Musical Property from the Select a Subtopic drop-down list.
By default, all document types are selected. To remove a document type from your search, clear its check box under Document Type. To restrict your search to specific jurisdictions, select the appropriate check boxes under Jurisdiction Selection.
Type a Terms and Connectors search, if desired, in the Enter Search Terms text box and click Search Westlaw. The result list for your search is displayed. Click the citation of a form in the result list. The form is displayed in the right frame.
Using Natural Language
You can also use the Natural Language search method to run a search. For example, to search for software license agreements, click the Natural Language tab and type software license agreement in the Search text box, then click Search Westlaw.