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Westlaw Precision - Coming January 2023
- Trial account is available for faculty; e-mail Anna Blaine for information
- Will be pushed to law schools January 11, 2023
- Applies to select topics only:
- Antitrust
- Commercial law
- Employment law
- Federal civil procedure
- Federal class actions
- Federal discovery & evidence
- Federal remedies
- Securities law
- Topics coming soon:
- Arbitration
- Insurance
- Real estate
- In the listed topics, Westlaw tagged & classified new attributes in cases from 2010-present along with select older leading cases
- Researcher can search/filter by "attributes," e.g., legal issue, outcome, fact patterns, causes of action, related causes of action, motion type & outcome, party type, material facts
- Allows the researcher to find a "core set of highly relevant cases," then use traditional tools to further develop research
- New functionality is most evident pre-search & in results list
- Some listed improvements to KeyCite:
- Cited with: Cases that are frequently cited together even when they don't cite each other
- Overruled in part: Uses AI to identify specific points of law invalidated by other cases
- Adds graphical view of search history to History
