Westlaw New Zealand for Councils - Developing your Research Skills

Do you have a good understanding of the basics of Westlaw and are now ready to develop your research skills further? 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. More course dates

Trainer

Allison Patrick

Date & Time

Wed 14 May 2025, 10:00am

Wed 14 May 2025, 10:45am

NZST

Duration

45 minutes

This session will cover the following:

Locating relevant content using the global search bar, including Local Government, Resource Management and Sale of Alcohol resources.
Tips for locating regulations and legislative definitions.
Natural Legal Language (NLL) Searching
- Overview of Natural Language searching.
- Introduce Best Portion feature, to quickly identify the relevant section of a document.
Terms & Connectors (T&C) Searching
- How to structure a T&C search – query, identify keywords, locate T&Cs & build a search string.
- Using an Advanced Search template to run a targeted search.
- Managing results including - Refining and filtering search results, downloading and saving to Folders.
Creating a Search alert to be notified of future documents related to your search.

Westlaw New Zealand for Councils - Developing Researching Skills Course Outline_2024 PDF (281.84kb)