[blindLaw] west law work around.

[Sarah Badillo]

Way back then, my favorite method of searching in that database was to use the terms and connectors. These days I think they changed it so that natural language can sometimes be used. If you want a specific term, I would put it in quotation marks. But otherwise, I think that my goal in searching would be to find cases that are similar in facts to the situation I'd be working on. so basically, if your goal is to find cases with similar facts, you would use terms and connectors and or natural language depending on which one you’ll get better results. If your goal is to use cases with similar words, then I would say natural language works best. With the quotations if the other methods fail. If your specific database plan allows you access to west reference attorneys, then by all means use it. Hope this helps

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> Hi Group,
> When I do a Westlaw terms search, I am having trouble finding the text that matches my search in the list of cases Westlaw produces. I know I could use control F; however,  this is it very slow process and would prefer to know how to use the tool properly. If anyone has found the method to do so, please email me and let me know
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