Upcoming Courses

Tue 24 Jun 2025

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)

This session aims to enhance your research skills in Westlaw by teaching efficient techniques and strategies for finding relevant content. It covers using natural legal language, structuring Terms & Connectors searches, understanding document linking, and refining search results. Additionally, it includes guidance on locating regulations, legislative definitions, and other research scenarios pertinent to Council staff.

Thu 26 Jun 2025

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)

This course will provide you with effective research techniques to find case law and will demonstrate how to quickly establish the status of a case. Tips on how to refine and manage search results will be included. Learn how to get notified by email when new cases are added or the status of a case changes.

Mon 30 Jun 2025

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM (1 hour)

This session outlines efficient research techniques to find Family content available in New Westlaw NZ. Confidently locate relevant legislation, commentaries, and case law, as well as other related secondary sources. Research strategies include natural language, structuring searches, understanding linking between documents, and how to refine results.

Tue 1 Jul 2025

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM (30 minutes)

This course will demonstrate how alerts can be set up to keep you informed if there are any updates to a search, publication or document as well as how to receive the Alert24 email notifications.

Thu 3 Jul 2025

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)

Learn to find relevant legislation and commentary efficiently with Westlaw’s new search. Key features will include legislation currency and history.

Mon 7 Jul 2025

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)

Newsroom on Westlaw New Zealand is a vast collection of news resources. Join this Webinar and discover techniques to enable you to search and navigate confidently.

Tue 8 Jul 2025

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)

This session focuses on efficient research techniques providing examples of different search strategies to find relevant content in Westlaw.

Mon 14 Jul 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (1 hour)

This webinar is designed for New Zealand Councils and introduces the basics of the Westlaw New Zealand platform. After attending, you will be able to confidently navigate, search, and retrieve information.

Tue 15 Jul 2025

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)

This course is designed to get you up and running using the key features in Westlaw New Zealand.

Tue 15 Jul 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (30 minutes)

This webinar introduces the browser-based interface for Thomson Reuters e-book platform, ProView.

Thu 17 Jul 2025

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM (30 minutes)

This course is designed for users that have a basic understanding of Westlaw but feel like they could be using it more efficiently.

Tue 22 Jul 2025

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)

This session aims to enhance your research skills in Westlaw by teaching efficient techniques and strategies for finding relevant content. It covers using natural legal language, structuring Terms & Connectors searches, understanding document linking, and refining search results. Additionally, it includes guidance on locating regulations, legislative definitions, and other research scenarios pertinent to Council staff.

Wed 23 Jul 2025

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)

This 30-minute session will explain how CoCounsel works, to help jumpstart your CoCounsel journey. You will learn best practice tips on how to prompt the AI tool and an overview of the skills so you can get the most out of CoCounsel 2.0.

Wed 23 Jul 2025

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM (30 minutes)

Join our CoCounsel Workflow webinar to explore a legal workflow and learn best practice tips for effective prompting and core skills. Gain insights through real-world examples to optimise your workflows and enhance client service.

Thu 24 Jul 2025

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 minutes)

This session will provide an overview of the key features available and will demonstrate how to efficiently locate required information.

Thu 24 Jul 2025

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (30 minutes)

This webinar introduces Thomson Reuters’ AI tools, including AI-assisted research in Westlaw Precision Australia, Search & Summarise in Practical Law Australia and CoCounsel. You will learn best practice tips for effective prompting and explains the AI skills available.

Tue 29 Jul 2025

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM (45 minutes)

This course will provide you with effective research techniques to find case law and will demonstrate how to quickly establish the status of a case. Tips on how to refine and manage search results will be included. Learn how to get notified by email when new cases are added or the status of a case changes.

Tue 29 Jul 2025

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM (30 minutes)

This 30-minute session will explain how the new AI tool (Search & Summarise) works on Practical Law AU to ask legal questions in everyday language. This enables you to make informed decisions about the direction of your legal research. In this session you will learn best practice tips on how to craft a query, apply follow-up questions and validate the results.

Tue 12 Aug 2025

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (30 minutes)

Join our CoCounsel Workflow webinar to explore a legal workflow and learn best practice tips for effective prompting and core skills. Gain insights through real-world examples to optimise your workflows and enhance client service.

Thu 21 Aug 2025

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM (30 minutes)

This webinar introduces Thomson Reuters’ AI tools, including AI-assisted research in Westlaw Precision Australia, Search & Summarise in Practical Law Australia and CoCounsel. You will learn best practice tips for effective prompting and explains the AI skills available.

Tue 26 Aug 2025

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (30 minutes)

This 30-minute session will explain how the new AI tool (Search & Summarise) works on Practical Law AU to ask legal questions in everyday language. This enables you to make informed decisions about the direction of your legal research. In this session you will learn best practice tips on how to craft a query, apply follow-up questions and validate the results.

Tue 9 Sep 2025

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (30 minutes)

This 30-minute session will explain how the new AI tool (Search & Summarise) works on Practical Law AU to ask legal questions in everyday language. This enables you to make informed decisions about the direction of your legal research. In this session you will learn best practice tips on how to craft a query, apply follow-up questions and validate the results.

Wed 10 Sep 2025

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (30 minutes)

Join our CoCounsel Workflow webinar to explore a legal workflow and learn best practice tips for effective prompting and core skills. Gain insights through real-world examples to optimise your workflows and enhance client service.