Westlaw tips for associates

The subprime mortgage mess is all over the news. You'd think it would be easy to use Westlaw to find resources such as the governing law, legal analysis, litigation documents, and news articles pertaining to subprime lending. In fact, you'd think that anything having to do with the subject would be in one convenient spot.

Thanks to the new tabbed Subprime page, you'd be right.

For litigators and other professionals in the field, the Subprime page is a major time saver. No longer do you have to scour the Westlaw Directory for relevant databases (few of which contain the words banking or subprime in the name). On the new Subprime page, a wide variety of essential materials—cases and court filings, banking statutes and regulations, summaries of federal and state mortgage lending laws, public records, analytical materials, and more—are gathered together in one place.

In addition, the page offers instant access to the following:

• the table of contents of almost 100 major federal statutes and regulations
• more than 40 multistate statutory and regulatory surveys
• search pages for searching several mortgage and banking publications simultaneously
• current federal and state banking compliance updates
• articles from Andrews Bank and Lender Liability Litigation Reporter and other current awareness materials

Select the Subprime page as you would any other tabbed page on Westlaw: Click Add/Remove Tabs at the top of any Westlaw page and click Subprime in the Topical section of the Manage Tabs page.