Westlaw New Zealand - Search Techniques
This session focuses on efficient research techniques providing examples of different search strategies to find relevant content in Westlaw.
Description
In this session learn how to:
- Locate a document, commentary publication or case using the global search bar
- Natural Legal Language (NLL) Search
- Explain the advantages of a plain language and how to refine or filter results
- Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document
- Terms & Connectors (T&C) Search
- How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs, build search string.
- Refine or filter search results – search within a search
- When to use an Advanced Search template – discuss benefits.
- Print, Download or Save to folders.
- Create a Search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search