ABPP's Thomson Reuters- Westlaw and Complete Library - Legal FY27

Pardons and Paroles
Legal Department
301 S. Ripley
Montgomery, AL 36104
Contact Person: Gail Martin 334.242.0444 office
Thomson Reuters Westlaw Edge and Publications
Service Period: October 1, 2026- September 30, 2027

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West Publishing Corporation, a Thomson Reuters business, is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market and has been providing research materials to the legal and professional community for more than 150 years.
Westlaw Edge provides the most advanced citator service, the easiest way to see statutory changes, and integrated litigation analytics, all powered by artificial intelligence and built upon more than 100 years of editorial enhancements.

Westlaw Edge provides access to the following exclusive features:
▪Compare Text Tool—Compare the language of documents across many content sets.
▪Concurring and Dissenting Opinion Shading—Instantly know if your search language is in the cases’ main opinion, or rather in the concurrence or dissent.
▪West Key Number System—The West Key Number System is the master classification system of U.S. law and is widely regarded as the cornerstone of effective legal research. It helps users to quickly locate and identify cases with the same or similar legal concepts and principals in any jurisdiction in the U.S., utilizing the West National Digest System, which contains editorial summaries commonly referred to as headnotes.
▪KeyCite Citator Service—KeyCite is a full-service citator that helps users determine whether a proposition is good law by tracing the history of a case, statute, patent, or federal administrative decision. KeyCite also retrieves all citing references, which include cases, statutes, administrative materials, and secondary sources.
▪Research Recommendations—Based upon documents the user has interacted with during their session, Westlaw will recommend additional primary and secondary law as well as Key Numbers.
▪Snapshots—Westlaw gives snapshots of companies, legal professionals, and popular statutes.
▪Folder Analysis—Westlaw makes suggestions, identifying the legal issues present through automatic analysis of cases and statutes in a folder. Users can view additional recommended cases and statutes, see a visual representation of issues, and navigate documents by issue.
▪Research Report— Westlaw assembles professional reports, summarizing research in users’ folders. Users can navigate reports with Table of Contents links, display all notations (including shared notes), and edit notes from the summary screen.
▪Reference Attorneys—Bar-admitted legal research experts are available to assist users with any stage of legal research by providing time-saving guidance.
▪Authoritative content—With the most trusted primary law resources and leading analytical titles that are cited most often in court—all in one place and always available—researchers have access to all of the relevant information they need to answer a legal question.
▪Attorney editor enhancements—For more than a century, our attorney editors have been analyzing, summarizing, and classifying the law. By developing proprietary innovations like the West Key Number System, KeyCite, headnotes, and Notes of Decisions, we make the content better organized and connected so it’s easier for researchers to find accurate answers quickly.
▪Industry-defining technology—Our research innovations, such as WestSearch, the award-winning mobile app, Folder Analysis, Research Recommendations, Law Summaries, and Graphical Statutes connect content and our proprietary analysis of the law in unparalleled ways so that legal professionals can conduct research faster and with more accuracy. Advanced, yet intuitive, easy-to-use functionality also helps researchers be more efficient.

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