Upcoming Courses

Tue 29 Apr 2025

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

In this 30 minute course learn how to filter and refine results, extract text from documents, annotate and save important content to folders, save key searches and create alerts. How to set up a Custom Page will also be covered.

Thu 1 May 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 6 May 2025

7:30 AM - 8:00 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.

Tue 6 May 2025

2:00 PM - 2:30 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.

Wed 7 May 2025

8:00 AM - 9:00 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.

Thu 8 May 2025

8:00 AM - 8:30 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.

Mon 12 May 2025

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

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

Tue 13 May 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.

Wed 14 May 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 15 May 2025

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (1 hour)

This session focuses on the topic of Employment Law. Westlaw's resources include expert commentary, cases and full text legislation, news service and a specialist tracker. The trainer will provide you with a convenient one stop shop to access these tools.

Thu 15 May 2025

12:30 PM - 1:00 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.

Mon 19 May 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (1 hour)

The session will explain how to find cases, legislation, treatises, journals, current awareness and news articles across several jurisdictions including Westlaw New Zealand, Westlaw Australia as well as International Materials, found in Westlaw Classic. This course is open to all students.

Tue 20 May 2025

8:00 AM - 8:30 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 20 May 2025

10:30 AM - 11:00 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.

Thu 22 May 2025

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

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

Thu 29 May 2025

11:30 AM - 12:00 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.

Wed 4 Jun 2025

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

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

Tue 10 Jun 2025

8:00 AM - 8:30 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.

Wed 11 Jun 2025

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

Learn how to navigate the Practical Law UK and Global functionalities so you can explore content with more confidence.

Wed 11 Jun 2025

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

In this 30 minute course learn how to filter and refine results, extract text from documents, annotate and save important content to folders, save key searches and create alerts. How to set up a Custom Page will also be covered.

Thu 12 Jun 2025

8:00 AM - 8:30 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.

Mon 16 Jun 2025

8:00 AM - 9:00 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 17 Jun 2025

7:15 AM - 8:45 AM (1 hour 30 minutes)

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