"NOBODY TOLD ME THE CASE GOT REVERSED!"

With KeyCite® Alert, new citing references and proposed legislation affecting your statute, regulation, case, or other document won't escape your notice.

You know that great case you found last week? The one you thought resolved everything? Well, brace yourself: That case might have just been reversed or overruled or had its validity otherwise called into doubt. (That goes for statutes, administrative rulings, and agency releases, too.)

So how does a busy person like you remember to keep checking for new citing references or for proposed legislation that might affect the validity of an essential authority?

Answer: You don't. That's what KeyCite Alert is for.

KeyCite Alert automatically monitors the status of cases, statutes, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) sections, patents, administrative decisions, American Law Reports (ALR®) annotations, law review articles, and other materials and sends you updates when their KeyCite history or citing references change. When you create a KeyCite Alert entry, you specify how frequently your citation should be checked. KeyCite Alert can deliver results to a printer, an e-mail address, or a fax machine, or it can download the results.

To create a KeyCite Alert entry, click Alert Center at the top of any Westlaw page to display the Alert Center Directory; then click Create in the KeyCite Alert section. At the KeyCite Alert: Create Entry page, type a citation, e.g., 526 f3d 788, in the Citation text box and click Go. At the next page, choose the type of history you want to include, e.g., Full History. Change delivery settings as desired. Then click Save. You can now access the entry or delete it at the Alert Center Directory page.

If you are viewing the statute, regulation, case, or other document you want KeyCite Alert to monitor, you can simply click Monitor with KeyCite Alert on the Links tab in the left frame and follow the on-screen instructions to create an entry. KeyCite Alert notifies you if and when there are any changes to the document's KeyCite result.

After all, surprises are lousy.