WORLD WATCH LIST PROFILES
Protect clients and reputations from the world's riskiest people.

Use Westlaw to screen for high-risk people and entities.
Do you really know who you're doing business with? World Watch List Profiles makes finding out easier, and it protects your reputation at the same time. No other online legal service lets you screen for the world's most heightened-risk individuals and entities, demonstrating that your firm and clients have taken adequate measures to avoid risk from politically exposed individuals, financial criminals, companies acting as fronts or shells for organized crime, entities under government sanction or embargo, drug traffickers, arms dealers, terrorists, and more.
- Get quality intelligence from the industry leader. Westlaw delivers structured risk-related intelligence from World-Check, a specialized research organization. Recognized as the industry pioneer, World-Check monitors and correlates data on known heightened-risk entities from hundreds of countries worldwide.
- Take your due diligence to the next level. Protect yourself and your clients from potential risk, and benefit from the enhanced crosscheck that today's business world demands. From financial criminals and terrorists to politically exposed persons and money launderers, World Watch List covers a broad range of profiles.
- Stay up-to-date and in compliance. Researchers around the world constantly update data, derived from hundreds of thousands of sources that range from government sanction and embargo lists to the media. For institutions that need to comply with the U.S. Patriot Act, access to this information is mandatory.
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