The U.S. court system is plagued by delays, backlogs, and workforce shortages. As CJ Lechtenberg, senior director of product management, Westlaw, explains, “Case backlogs became more prevalent with the pandemic and the state of backlogs has not improved in the past three years.” The 2023 State of the Courts Report found that courts should invest in …
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Precedent Analytics Delivers Deep Analysis of Judges’ Citations Based on Westlaw Attorney Editor-Authored Content
How much time do you spend researching the judge of your upcoming case? Are you looking at what the judge has said on the topic of your case? Do you know what judge or judges they cite often? Do you know if the judge relies upon a certain court when drafting opinions? Westlaw Edge users …
Dan Dabney on reclassifying headnotes in the Key Number System
In the video below, Dan Dabney, chief taxonomist at Thomson Reuters, describes how our attorney-editors continue to make alterations to the Key Number System, including reclassifying 300,000 headnotes for the revisions to the Election Key Number. This year, the editorial staff also combined the topics “schools” and “colleges and universities” into a new topic: “education.” This …