Course Description: 

This course hosted by Joe Amos from Westlaw is designed to help you gain fundamental knowledge of the Westlaw platform. Course goals are learning the registration and sign-in processes, site navigation, and basic functionality. At he end of the course, attendees should have a good understanding of the basics of getting into and using Westlaw. 

Course Highlights: 

• Getting started: Registration and sign-on, OnePass
• Site navigation: How the site is organized, content vs. tools, changing jurisdictions, your history
• Content: Major overview, how to see what you have access to and what you don't have access to
• Basic Searching: The plain language search
• KeyCite: How to know you're looking at good law
• West KeyNumber Digest: Searching without searching