3/22/2017. Research Toolkit for Legal Practice. Cost Summary of Lexis and Westlaw: What Might Cost Extra

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1 Research Toolkit for Legal Practice March 24, 2017 Presented by: Deb Person Amy Pearce Tawnya Plumb Cost Summary of Lexis and Westlaw: What Might Cost Extra Viewing a document Delivering (downloading, ing, saving, printing) Keyciting/Shepardizing Book Browsing Setting Alerts Connection Costs History (searches, not documents) 1

2 Folders: Westlaw Pay Per View Folders: Lexis Already Viewed General Research Review: Cases Consider: Topic and key number/headnotes Shepardize for similar or associated cases Matching issue, not facts Search broad jurisdictions to match facts and narrow to Wyoming cases Citing Reference v. Topic and Key Number 2

3 General Research Review: Statutes Consider: Annotated Timing Definitions and exceptions Shepardize or KeyCite Don t settle Court rules Free Statutes Wyoming Legislative Service Office, Wyoming Court Rules Annotated (Lexis), Wyoming Judicial Branch, Wyoming Legislative Histories Westlaw/Lexis have some historic statutes and bill information HeinOnline State Session Laws Wyoming Legislative Service Office, from 2001, Session Archives link Older scanned Wyoming legislation, Wyoming Law Review, Land and Water Law Review HeinOnline, UW, Wyoming Legislative History Research Guide, Wyoming Statutes Annotated 3

4 Wyoming Session Laws Wyoming Statute Murder First Degree 1945 Federal Legislative Histories Statutes Westlaw and Lexis Public laws, Statutes at Large Earlier versions of United States Code Legislative history databases HeinOnline, United States Code and U.S. Statutes at Large FDsys, or (free) Legislation Proquest Congressional, (university affiliates) Congress.gov, (free) WorldCat, or for published legislative histories Federal Legislative History Research Guide, 4

5 General Research Review: Administrative Law Federal Regulations Regulations and statutes Difference between register and code (Federal Register v. Code of Federal Regulations) Federal, (govinfo.gov), State Rules Wyoming Secretary of State, Other states: Law Librarian s Society of Washington, D.C. Administrative decisions HeinOnline, LLMC, Washlaw, Agency web sites Wyo. Dept. Workforce Serv. v. Clements, 326 P.3d 177 (2014) Current awareness, Wyoming Supreme Court decision summaries listserv, l 5

6 Court Documents: Briefs, Motions, Filings State Wyoming Supreme Court, Library Guide, Federal Bloomberg Law, Westlaw and Lexis Pacer, Training, bin/showindex.pl Recap (Firefox or Chrome add on), Justia, Practice Materials: Juries Jury instructions, resources/federal juryinstructions#links. Jury verdicts and settlements Zarin s Jury Verdict Review & Analysis, Morelaw.com, Verdictsearch.com $ Google, Google News, law firm web sites Books (WorldCat, JVR Personal Injury Valuation Handbooks, KF 1256.A8 P872 Causes of Action, KF8863.S53 Formulas for Calculating Damages, KF1250.B355 What s It Worth? A Guide to Personal Injury Awards and Settlements, KF1257.Z9 M86 (LexisNexis) See also specific topics, such as Employment Discrimination Verdicts and Settlements. Causes of Action: Example 6

7 Practice Materials: Forms Forms, Freely available options Justia, Equal Justice Wyoming, Court rules, appendix volumes, Bloomberg Law, Lexis, Westlaw Thank you Deb Person, Reference Assistance, George William Hopper Law Library, 7