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Simon Chester, a partner at Heenan Blaikie and a regular contributor to Slaw, has a post about the new interface WestLaw is set to release, and which we will see in Canada at some point. In addition to a detailed discussion of the features with screen shots, Simon also links to a number of other discussion of the new interface offered by Canadian and US legal researchers who were invited to a preview:
"Monday’s group consisted of a number of bloggers who have posted highly informative posts on their reactions to the new product. The other Canadian post is from Dave Bilinsky, a fellow Slaw contributor, with his trade-mark musical intro. Bob Ambrogi who couldn’t join us at Eagan was first out of the gate. The most novel reaction is this video blog from Jason Eiseman, featuring a group discussion with meeting Tom Boone, Greg Lambert and a second Jason, Jason Wilson. Lisa Solomon focused on pricing issues and includes a commentary. Betsy McKenzie talks about how the search process will be affected and notes that “the system does in the background all the things law librarians have wanted good researchers to do: do background reading, get extra terms, carefully choose database or even combine them”. Rex Gradeless kicks the tires showing how the tool responds to a research question. And finally Ken Adams surveys his readers on how often they use paid services to find information on deal issues or drafting – be sure to vote. Just out – Greg Lambert’s take on the product from a knowledge management perspective"
