Westlaw
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | Free | Thomson Reuters | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
“The Westlaw app is very well-designed and easy to use, making it simple to get legal research done when you are in court or otherwise out of the office. In fact, the app is so nice that I will often use it even when I am in my office, doing my legal research on the iPad while my brief is open on my computer.” – Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. in ABA Journal
Access the same research features you rely on such as WestSearch, KeyCite, Search Filters, Folders, History, Notes, and Highlighting, which have all been redesigned for the iPad and iPhone. In addition to core research functionality, the Westlaw app offers the ability to save documents while online and offline to research folders, and deliver documents via email, print, or download. Please note that a Thomson Reuters Westlaw account is required to access this app.
Reviews
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bl0wdr0*24s
The app is fully functional and allows me to have a case loaded on my iPad while I draft on my computer. However, I would like to see Westlaw updated to take advantage of the multiple windows iOS 13 makes available. It would be much more powerful if I could have notes of decisions in one window and open specific cases side by side, for example.
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steven.c.moeller
Only complaint is there’s a weird stripe on the right side of the display when I use my iPad.
Mobile experience is terrible
stephen_creason
While Westlaw is unquestionable the superior legal research tool on the desktop internet, it’s barely useable on mobile via this app or the mobile web. Westlaw just doesn’t seem to care about providing even a minimally acceptable mobile experience. This app is about 5-10 years behind where it should be, which is inexcusable for a company with such a sophisticated (and expensive) product. It’s too bad, because every attorney wants a fully functional legal research tool that’s integrated across all of the platforms we use, especially iPad. This is not that tool, for sure.
Don’t bother
SC Lawyer
Very poor functionality. Better to use the laptop and save the phone for a mobile hotspot. Keeps signing out. Difficulty signing in. Can’t scroll through results. Filters don’t work. Poor design.
Truly terrible
Karl Dreeves
The Westlaw website is bad, and this app somehow manages to be even worse. It is very slow, documents often don’t load, and the interface is poor. Of course, the necessity of an app at all is a problem. There should be no reason why the website itself can’t be programmed to work in Safari on an iPad.
Change went from 5 to 1
Why have an app if no one in your organization understands the app and can assist with it. Please fix it back the way it was prior to this terrible update.
