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CONTACT:
Patrick Donnelly Martha Brown
Product News and Information Director of Programs
West Group AALL
800-328-7990, ext. 74984 312-939-4764
patrick.donnelly@westgroup.com mbrown@aall.org
Technology Center Leads West Group Presence at AALL Annual Meeting; Latest
Products and Services Will Be On Display
June 15, 1998-West Group, in conjunction with the American Association of
Law Libraries, announced a comprehensive schedule of seminars and promotions
designed to present information on the terms needed by today's information
managers at the upcoming 1998 AALL Annual Meeting, July 11-16 in Anaheim,
California.
The spotlight will shine on a West-sponsored Technology Center that will
feature three full days of programming, beginning on Sunday, July 12. The
center is open to any attendee of the annual meeting and offers hands-on
sessions that highlight West Group's latest technology, products and
services. Scheduled demonstrations include KeyCite(, West Group Legal
ools( Release 1.1, Internet and intranet services and www.westlaw.com(.
Session attendees will receive a West Group premium and will be entered in a
drawing for a PalmPilot electronic personal organizer.
"We are excited about the unique opportunities this partnership will offer
our members," said AALL President Judy Meadows. "The West Group Technology
Center will help create an interactive and educational atmosphere on the
exhibit floor, and our members can give their unique legal research skills a
true workout."
About AALL
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote
and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities,
to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in
the file of legal information. For information on AALL membership and
programs, visit AALLNET, the AALL web site, at http://www.aallnet.org or
call 312/939-4764.
About West Group
West Group is the preeminent provider of information to the U.S. and
international legal market. Headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, West Group is
a division of The Thomson Corporation (TSE: TOC). For more information on
West Group and its products and services, visit its web site at
http://www.westgroup.com.
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West Group Technology Center
West Group is sponsoring a technology center with three full days of
programming. The center is open to any attendee of the annual meeting and
features brief, informative sessions that demonstrate West's latest
technology, products and services.
The center's convenient location, adjacent to the West Group booth on the
exhibit floor, makes it readily accessible for attendees to make short
visits without disrupting their day's schedule. The tech center is arranged
classroom style but will remain an informal setting. No preregistration is
required, and attendees can participate in these sessions at their own pace.
Refreshments will be served and West Group promotional items will be handed
out to attendees of each of the sessions. Also, attendees who visit the
center, participate in a session and drop off their business cards will be
included in a drawing for a Palm Pilot (one drawing at the end of each
exhibit day). The schedule of events is as follows:
Sunday, July 12:
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. - West Intranet Tools and www.westlaw.com - Learn exciting
new ways of sharing a variety of "members only" information. Also, get a
hands-on experience of www.westlaw.com, a fully functional and comprehensive
legal research source on the Web.
1:45 - 2:15 p.m. - West Group Legal Tools( Release 1.1/CiteLink( and
CourtLink(r) - Test drive the power of recent enhancements to West Group
Legal Tools, a suite of integrated software applications that melds word
processing with legal research from the convenience of a desktop computer.
The core feature of West Group Legal Tools is CiteLink, which identifies
legal citations within a Microsoft(r) Word for Windows( 97 file and
automatically creates a link to West Group's premier legal content.
CourtLink Federal District Court docket information is now available on
Westlaw(r). Following cases from complaint to judgement, directly from the
desktop, provides time and cost savings advantages for attorneys.
Day-to-day listings of all docket entries and specific ordering numbers for
retrieving documents are available along with the ability to find names of
parties, attorneys of record, judgements, and conference dates. CourtLink
on Westlaw is the result of an exclusive agreement between West Group and
the Data West Corporation.
2:30 - 3:15 p.m. - New Concepts and Strategies in Legal Research. A
videotaped panel discussion with Hon. Thomas Cecil, Presiding Judge,
Sacramento Superior and Municipal courts; Professor Robert Berring,
Director, Law Library, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley; and Mr. John Hanft,
Director, Witkin Legal Institute, West Group.
The history of legal research shows a clear reliance upon
editorially-enhanced secondary sources to find, explain and update the law.
Secondary sources of proven reliability become pathfinders for legal
researchers. The cautious and successful legal researcher could rely, in
significant measure, upon proven strategies or pathways. The early
development of online legal databases reflected the organization and
contents of print resources.
3:15 - 4:00 p.m. - The Law Library Re-Defined: Access, Location and Use of
Collected Legal Information in the Predictable Future. A videotaped panel
discussion with Mr. Bill Fenwick, Fenwick and West; Prof. James Hoover,
Associate Dean and Director, Law Library, Columbia University Law School;
and Mr. Clif Purkiser, Intel Corp.
Increasing reliance upon the Internet for both primary and secondary legal
resources requires a redevelopment of legal research strategies. What
results may resemble the traditional or take on an entirely new outline and
shape? The process is underway, but the outcome is not yet certain.
*Attend any of our West Intranet or legal tools sessions and receive a free
CD that demonstrates revolutionary techniques law firms are using to
integrate their intranets with Westlaw. The demonstration disk also
includes CiteLink.
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. - Westlaw Public Records and Business, News and
Information - Learn how you can efficiently retrieve company information
from Dun & Bradstreet Business Records Plus on Westlaw, then expand your
research to retrieve related information on companies, products, markets and
technologies in the business news and information library on Westlaw. Also,
discover the easy-to-use template searching you'll find in public records
databases on Westlaw.
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. - KeyCiteSM Promotion - Learn about the four new additions
to KeyCite: Norton Bankruptcy, Couch on Insurance, AmJur and Case Law
Extension. All attendees of this session will receive a West Group
promotional item.
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. - Meet the Publishers - Stop by for an informal visit with
Howard Zack, Executive Vice-President of Publishing Operations, Jean Maess,
Vice-President of Analytical Law, Tom Trenkner, Vice-President of Primary
Law, and others from the Publishing Team including Charles Swope, Key Number
System Developer. Share refreshments and find out about West Group's
innovative content development and commitment to editorial quality.
7:15 - 8:00 p.m. - West Intranet Tools and www.westlaw.com
8:10 - 8:30 p.m. - www.westgroup.com - Make www.westgroup.com your online
gateway to a wealth of legal information. Attend this session to learn how
to browse and shop for West Group products from the convenience of your
desktop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Monday, July 13:
8:15 - 8:45 a.m. - Electronic Employment Law Libraries
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. - State Law Library - California Products - An introduction
to premier California products such as West's Annotated California Code,
California Official Reports and such practice libraries as the Witkin
Library, The Rutter Group California Practice Guides and California Civil
Practice Libraries. This session will provide a brief description of these
key products and show how they work together to create an integrated legal
research system.
9:40 - 10:00 a.m. - www.westgroup.com
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. - KeyCite Promotion
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. - West Intranet Tools and www.westlaw.com
11:15 a.m. - Noon - West Group Legal Tools Release 1.1/CiteLink
2:15 - 3:00 p.m. - The West Education NetworkSM - TWEN is a useful resource
for professors and law students as well as technical and library
administrators who are interested in exploring this new and exciting
educational service. Originally designed as an electronic extension of the
classroom, TWEN can also be used as an electronic extension of the library.
Using the document upload features, law librarians can keep electronic
reserve files for old exams or course materials that traditionally required
a reserve desk and photocopying.
You can also use TWEN to distribute and communicate information to students
via a discussion forum. TWEN is a Web-based service that will allow you to
create your own custom page, upload documents onto the World Wide Web,
consult colleagues at other law schools, engage legal experts in
wide-ranging conversation, create links to Westlaw and other content on the
Web, and much, much more -- all from the convenience of your own personal
computer.
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. - NHLA's Health Law on CD-ROM - Health Law on CD-ROM
contains the highly respected Health Lawyers Seminar Papers, Health Law
Practice Guide, HCFA Manuals and over 12,000 cases spanning 12 years.
3:45 - 4:30 p.m. - Meet the Publishers
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. - KeyCite Promotion
Tuesday, July 14:
8:15 - 8:45 a.m. - Key Number and Digest Systems - A discussion and
presentation on the future role and development of the Key Number System in
all media.
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. - KeyCite Promotion
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. - Electronic Commercial Law Libraries
10:20 - 10:45 a.m. - www.westgroup.com
11:00 a.m. - Noon - The West Education Network
1:15 - 1:45 p.m. - Electronic Environmental Law Libraries Featuring E-Site -
See how Environmental E-SiteSM, through direct Internet access, provides
hard-to-find information for the legal and corporate environmental
compliance marketplace without loading or installing CD-ROM discs.
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. - West Intranet Tools and www.westlaw.com
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. - West Group Legal Tools Release 1.1/CiteLink
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