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Product will also contain Additional features that are Brand Name or Equal: * National Reporter System. A compiled and organized federal and state case law into a cohesive body of law that can be researched within and across jurisdictions. * National Digest System. Key Number Digests have been an essential case-finding tool since the United States Digest was first published in 1848. A digest is a multi-volume index to the law consisting of major topic headings, thousands of subheadings, and short summaries of legal propositions stated in published court cases. These summaries are commonly referred to as headnotes. * Key Number System. The Key Number System is a master classification system of U.S. law and is widely regarded as the cornerstone of effective legal research. It helps users to quickly locate and identify cases with the same or similar legal concepts and principals in any jurisdiction in the U.S. * Editorial Enhancements. Enhancements include headnotes (more than 350,000 created annually), synopses (more than 60,000 created annually), and parallel citations (more than 500,000 added annually). * Restatements of the Law. The Restatements of the Law are principles of black letter law distilled from case law. The restatement databases shall provide a section’s black letter law, reporter’s notes, commentary, illustrations, and annotations in one document. First Restatements of the Laware provided for several areas of law (e.g., contracts, torts). The first Restatements can help researchers trace the evolution of a law, or an area of law. They also aid in the interpretation of older cases that rely on first Restatement sections. * Uniform Laws Annotated. The Uniform Laws Annotated (ULA provides an extensive reference to the text of uniform laws, prepared under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute. ULA examines acts recommended for adoption in all states, as well as pinpoints state variations. It also includes annotations to cases decided in adopting jurisdictions. * American Lawyer Media (ALM) Databases. Provide exclusive access to more than 100 ALM titles, including the New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, and The National Law Journal. * American Law Reports (ALR). ALR is one of the leading case-finding tools in America. For years, attorneys have relied on ALR to find the information they need to build a successful case. ALR will contains the full text of articles from the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Federal Series of American Law Reports. Access to ALR is a Westlaw exclusive. * Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS). CJS helps researchers understand unfamiliar areas of law by providing links to cases, statutes, regulations, key Numbers, Restatements of the Law, and more. CJS covers the full breadth and depth of the law and is cited to tens of thousands times by the courts. It provides quick overviews of topics with Black Letter Summaries. * KeyCite Citator Service. KeyCite is a full-service citator that helps users determine whether a case is good law by tracing the history of a case, statute, or federal administrative decision. KeyCite also retrieves all citing references, which include cases, statutes, administrative materials, and secondary sources. The following are among the many exclusive citator features and services available on Westlaw: - Number System Integration. KeyCite is completely integrated with topic and key number system, the most accurate tool devised for finding on-point law. - More Citing References. KeyCite provides more citing references, including references to more than 1,100 law reviews, thousands of ALR annotations and Am Jur 2d articles, USCA, Code of Federal Regulations, statutes from all 50 states, select administrative decisions, state jurisprudence encyclopedias, and numerous treatises. In fact, KeyCite has more than two times as many citing references overall and averages more than two times as many citing references per document as the nearest competitor. - Headnote References. KeyCite provides the full text of West headnotes, which helps users to quickly limit citing references to a relevant point of law. KeyCite contains 50% more headnote references than any other citator. - Analytical Sources. With more than 3,100 analytical sources, KeyCite gives users more expert analyses than any other citator. - Pending Legislation. KeyCite notifies users of pending legislation that may affect a federal or state statute (available for all 50 states). - Depth-of-Treatment Stars. Depth of treatment stars help users zero in on the most useful citing cases and administrative decisions by indicating the extent to which the citing document discusses the cited case. - Graphical KeyCite. With KeyCite, users can display the direct history of a case, which traces the case through the appellate process, in an easy-to-read graphical view. With this graphical view of direct history, every reversal, rehearing, reconsideration, denial of certiorari, or other action in a case is placed in context. As a result, the graphical view can save users valuable time when they are checking the procedural history of a case. - KeyCite Alert. KeyCite Alert, a Westlaw exclusive, helps users stay current on their research by monitoring the status of KeyCite information for cases, statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations, and federal agency decisions. KeyCite Alert automatically sends notices when the information in KeyCite changes. - KeyCite Notes. KeyCite Notes provides a list of sources, sorted by type of publication and the number of documents that cite the case and legal issue that a user is researching. KeyCite Notes leverages the power of KeyCite, Westlaw, analytical materials, and West headnotes to give users superior in-depth, accurate results. - KeyCite Locate. KeyCite Locate helps users to home in on citing references that are the most relevant to their research. It allows users to search the full text of citing references in a KeyCite result and limit the KeyCite result to only those documents that contain the specific terms they request. KeyCite Locate also allows users to request that search terms appear within the same paragraph as the cited reference, which results in even more precise research. * StatutesPlus. StatutesPlus combines book-like indexing, browsing, and viewing with links to everything discussing a given statute. Users can find, verify, read, and interpret statutes with amazing efficiency. This powerful statutes-research feature is a Westlaw exclusive. * ResultsPlus. ResultsPlus automatically displays related ALR articles, AmJur annotations and articles, and Key Numbers alongside case law search result. ResultsPlus creates a total research solution by linking users to all the other on point resources needed to complete their research—analysis, cases, statutes, law reviews and more. * Smart Tools. Smart Tools make it easier for researchers to find on-point results and help ensure that users don’t miss information. When a researcher runs a search, Smart Tools can help improve search results by suggesting alternative spellings and synonyms, suggesting a broader database search when a search result contains five or fewer documents, and detecting a variety of mistakes in a query. Smart Tools also recognizes legal terms of art and can suggest related legal terms that a researcher may want to add to a query. * Text Only. Text Only is designed especially for users who require compatibility with assistive technologies—such as screen readers, voice recognition software, and screen magnifiers. Westlaw Text Only, the only text-only legal research service, helps ensure that all users have access to online legal research services. * PastStat Locator. With PastStat Locator users can view prior versions of sections in USCA, as well as prior versions of various states. In all jurisdictions, PastStat Locator can also rebuild the Table of Contents and show how it existed on a particular date. PastStat Locator can also identify when a statute or amendment has a future activation date, or when a statute or amendment is due to lapse. Additionally, PastStat Locator also tracks renumbered statute sections. * Graphical Statutes. Graphical Statutes revolutionizes statute research by charting legislative changes and linking related documents in an easy-to-read display. From a single screen, researchers can easily track changes in the law, locate relevant legislative history materials, read important case law, and check for possible amendments. Graphical Statutes is available for USCA and the statutes for select states. * RegulationsPlus. RegulationsPlus, a Westlaw exclusive, provides a comprehensive and efficient federal regulatory research system that provides researchers with the tools to complete their regulations research more efficiently and with complete confidence. RegulationsPlus helps researchers stay fully informed on any regulatory issue with editorial summaries of case law decisions, KeyCite notification of changing and proposed regulations, version history, citing references and more. * Legal Education Center. The largest, most current collection of online CLE programs available. Provides live webcasts and on demand video and audio programs. Personalized with CLE Tracker for each user. Specifically: West LegalEdcenter is now an Accredited CLE Provider in Illinois as well as many other states.