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Legal research systems are far from equal. With WestlawNext,
you get authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and
industry-defining technology.

Legal research content

Build the strongest possible argument with superior legal material: primary law, analytical materials, practice area insights, litigation resources, public records, and more.

With authoritative content for both primary law and exclusive secondary law titles, you know it’s current and accurate. Your answers rest on a reliable legal foundation.

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Custom Pages on WestlawNext

Build a legal research page that’s ideal for the way you work. Organize your favorite content and research tools, and clear away the rest.

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Exclusive content

Get exclusive online access to many of the same legal titles you’ve relied on for years: legal encyclopedias, treatises, legal periodicals, and law reviews that provide well-reasoned statements of the law.

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Current awareness

Current events and legal developments have a large influence on the decisions you make every day. You’ll stay informed with comprehensive updates and expert analysis on WestlawNext.

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Attorney-editors

For more than 125 years, our attorney-editors have been analyzing, categorizing, and summarizing the law to help researchers understand the law and find on-point materials quickly and confidently.

No one can match our meticulous editorial work. With WestlawNext, you’re using superior tools and resources – including KeyCite, West Key Number System, notes of decisions, headnotes, added search terms, annotations, and indexes.

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WestSearch

You ask

YOU ASK

Natural language or Boolean, WestSearch gets what you’re asking for.

We Search

WE SEARCH

Lightning-fast scan of our entire, unmatched legal content collection.

You find

YOU FIND

Exactly the results you need, relevant to your legal issue. No more, no less.

You deliver

YOU DELIVER

Better answers in less time. Clients can bank on your research.


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Mobile legal research

Go mobile with WestlawNext

Keep your legal research tools at hand and in sync with the free WestlawNext apps, including our award-winning iPad app.

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