Month: September 2021

Stop by the library for a LexisNexis training session!

The event will be held virtually over zoom and live-streamed in the Law Library computer classroom – FRA192 on Wednesday September 29th, 2021 from 12:30-1:20pm.

Meet the LexisNexis student rep, get registered to use Quicklaw and learn about the STAR Rewards program.

This month Thomson Reuters launched the new Westlaw Edge platform.

The new platform is a minor update from the current platform and maintains similar structure, content, and interface. The update includes the following new features and tools:

• • Judicial Consideration for Statutes provides the most relevant cases interpreting a statute, and allows you to better understand how courts have interpreted the law.
  • KeyCite Overruling Risk identifies invalid law and warns you when a point of law has been implicitly undermined.
  • Common Queries shows you common legal questions related to your search terms. Click on the question that best matches what you were asking and it will take you to an overview page with supporting case law.
  • Legal Topic Suggestions helps you uncover issue-specific and topical resources when typing key words into the search bar. Clicking into one of these legal topics brings you to a curated set of materials across content types. Legal Topics contains related case law, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, texts, annotations and legal memos material organized by legal issue. Coverage includes 55 broad browseable legal subject areas further divided into thousands of specific legal issues.

You will continue to log in to Westlaw using the same sign-in credentials and any search history, folders, alerts, client IDs, etc that you have in your current WestlawNext account will be retained in the new platform.

Visit us at the reference desk or send an e-mail to lawref@uvic.ca for any questions!