WESTLAW ADDS INSURANCE, LABOR, FINANCIAL, BANKRUPTCY AND OTHER DATA.Westlaw, the online legal and business information service from West Group (Eagan, M&), added a variety of information sources to its databases during the month of March.WestlawPro Insurance, targeted to law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
WestlawPro Corporate Counsel, also accessible via a flat monthly rate, provides information on labor relations, commercial law, corporate law, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions and product liability issues. It offers access to 3800 state and federal primary law databases and is targeted to corporate legal departments with 1 to 5 attorneys. West Group has signed an agreement with M. Lee Smith Publishers (Brent- wood, TN) to offer Smith Newsletters on Westlaw. The database contains full text of M. Lee Smith's 51 employment law newsletters, 12 state-specific environmental compliance newsletters, three health law newsletters for the states of California, Florida and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and a California workers compensation newsletter. West has also signed an agreement with American Lawyer Media ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media), is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and real estate communities. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused on the legal and real estate communities, including (New York) to provide access to Westlaw through the New York Law Journal Founded in 1888, the New York Law Journal is the top-selling legal daily in the United States. The newspaper covers legal news, decisions, court calendars, and legislation, and provides analysis and insight in columns written by leading professionals. Web site (www.nylj.com). It will include access to westgroup.com, westlaw.com, KeyCite and WestDoc with links from case citations within nylj.com to cases and statutes on Westlaw. Also, the full text of every labor case heard and decided upon by the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right has been added to KeyCite and Westlaw. Coverage dates to Vol. 1, published in 1935. West Group now provides access to CourtLink dockets for more than 70 federal bankruptcy courts bankruptcy court n. the specialized Federal court in which bankruptcy matters under the Federal Bankruptcy Act are conducted. There are several bankruptcy courts in each state, and each one's territory covers several counties. . Users can search by party name or by case, docket or social security number for a list of those participating in the case, a list of all documents filed with the court and a schedule of all case hearings and procedures. SECNOW on Westlaw is targeted to attorneys in such areas as estate planning Estate Planning The overall planning of a person's wealth, including the preparation of a will and the planning of taxes after the individual's death. Notes: Contrary to popular belief, estate planning involves much more than preparing a will, and it is not only for the , corporate mergers and acquisitions, tax and insurance matters, and financial analysis. Provided by Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Interactive, it allows for access to full text of all EDGAR Edgar or Eadgar (both: ĕd`gər), 943?–975, king of the English (959–75), son of Edmund, king of Wessex. In 957 the Mercians and Northumbrians rebelled against Edgar's brother Edwy and chose Edgar as their king. filings within 60 minutes of their receipt by the SEC. Full text coverage dates to January 1996 with archival information dating to January 1987 available on West- law's EDGAR and SECONLINE databases. Finally, Westlaw is now offering access to World Report, a collection of international news content, via Dow Jones Interactive. It carries business news and related content from over 350 international business, news and information publications and wire services from around the world. |
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