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"WestlawNext - Some Issues Answered"

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "I feel like I've been picking on the folks at Thomson Reuters regarding the launch of WestlawNext, especially with this post last week.  I expected a quick response from Thomson Reuters on my questioning their approach to pushing this out to law firms and more specifically to law students.  The response came this morning from Anne Ellis, Senior Director of the Westlaw Library Relations team.  I thought I'd push this out on the blog as a more reasoned response than the one we got from the anonymous 'A Westlaw Rep.'  In fact, I hope that Anne cc'd all 'Westlaw Reps.' on this so that they can give a better response to the specific questions we had on the roll-out. The first three paragraphs are mostly 'corporate speak', but Anne goes on to answer some of the questions we had on the effect that law students will have on the new search algorithm (which was my primary concern.)..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 15 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).