![]() Keep List/Hide details enables users to save cases of interest and hide the ones that they have decided are not relevant to the current research. Also new is Outline Builder, which pulls together citations and headings to build a piece of research, reducing the back and forth between Westlaw and Microsoft Word when doing research, which is particularly useful for attorneys that do not have two screens or are working away from the office. Ke圜ite Today shows which bits of cases are no longer valid. Other new functionality in Precision includes Ke圜ite Cited With – which shows which cases are most often cited with that case. With Precision, less cases were presented for consideration at the outset but 10 cases were found and the exercise took under two hours. With the new functionality, you can be so much more precise.”Īccording to Dahn, in a research exercise tested on 101 attorneys, traditional research methods took 4.75 hours and found nine cases. It’s not just about delivering goods but the type of goods, so you can say I only want cases involving butter or transistors. You can specify the action type, party type, area of law and material facts. ![]() The company is rightly proud of the granularity of the new research capability and Dahn said: “We’ve not taken any functionality or content away, this has all the same functional content and AI as Edge but it includes new capability and more important is the precision research. TR has also developed a new way of viewing the results in a question and answer format as well as the traditional highlighted hits view. This was a case of a motion to dismiss and it was granted or denied, and we have tagged the cause of action.” Was it pharma or consumer? We have tagged that now because it helps lawyers to find the situation that is most helpful. Was fraud found or was it not found? We are tagging material facts, the facts that are the most important to reach the decision that the judge makes. “We have been tagging for well over a year with the West Key system, but this goes much further,” he said. TR, Dahn said, has made the largest ever investment in editorial, hiring over 200 attorneys to its editorial staff and investing in the right editorial tools so they can tag cases with far more granularity than before. They want cases like my client’s at the same procedural posture.” Similarly, lawyers are often looking for cases that match their clients procedurally and Dahn said: “If a lawyer was searching for case law where there was no breach and a motion to summary judgment and the motion was granted, they want the issue, the facts and the outcome. The language that judges use is too imprecise and it can be difficult to think of all the words.” That’s why legal research experts will say no-one has a really good Boolean search. If you are looking for a liability waiver, many cases won’t use that phrase – maybe they will use liability limitation or waiver of damages – and Dahn said: “It’s easy to miss relevant cases. We want to help lawyers identify exactly what they want, not just the same language.” “Sometimes words come up but in the wrong context. ![]() “Why does legal research take so long?” he asked. ![]() In a demonstration by Dahn, he said that TR’s research showed that legal research on average takes 12 hours, with that jumping to 22.5 hours at large global law firms undertaking difficult cases. “What we’re really talking about is that we continue to build on content and data analytics – all the things we see in Westlaw Edge and the PLC Dynamic Tool Set – and it’s about bringing content together with productivity software.” “However, our strategic priority revolves around content-driven technology,” he told a group of legal journalists given advance sight of Westlaw Precision. ![]() Martens pointed out that TR has introduced Westlaw Edge in Canada and this year rolled out new contract lifecycle management capability and multiple new HighQ modules as well as Legal Tracker Advanced. In a closely guarded ahead-of-release demonstration by head of research products and editorial, Andy Martens, and head of product management for Westlaw in the UK, US and Canada, Mike Dahn, the TR team talked about its transformation change programme over the last 12 months. ![]()
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