Westlaw Edge

Quick Check analyzes an uploaded legal brief by examining its text, citations, and structure to identify the legal issues covered. It then produces a report with relevant authority that was not cited, warnings about cited authority, quotation analysis, and a table of authorities. Attorneys can use it on their own briefs, an opponent’s filing, or multiple filings from the same matter.

This is Westlaw Edge’s AI-powered legal search engine. Users can enter questions in plain language, use Boolean terms and connectors, or enter a case citation directly. The search interface provides predictive suggestions while typing, places a law summary at the top of results for many legal topics, and displays case synopses without requiring users to open each document. Dynamic filters can narrow results by content type, jurisdiction, date, reported status, and Key Number.

This feature lets users select two versions of a statute or regulation and view their differences directly. Westlaw Edge highlights additions and deletions and allows researchers to move between individual changes instead of manually redlining separate versions. The feature covers statutory content and federal regulations with available versions, as well as state regulations.

AI jurisdictional surveys create legal surveys for specific jurisdictions from a targeted research query. The feature uses Westlaw content to identify the relevant legal materials and provides access to authoritative resources while incorporating KeyCite flags for subsequent developments. It can reduce the manual work involved in gathering and reviewing jurisdiction-specific authority for a multi-state research question.

This feature provides data-driven information about judges, courts, attorneys, law firms, damages, and case types. Attorneys can use this information to examine patterns surrounding litigation and individual participants rather than relying only on the legal authorities governing a matter. This makes the feature relevant when evaluating a litigation matter alongside traditional legal research.