BYU Law students now have access to the next generation of Westlaw — WestlawNext.  When signing in to Westlaw, you should now have access to both Westlaw and WestlawNext through links at the top of your screen.  WestlawNext offers a “Getting Started” video tutorial at the bottom of the home page that I recommend you take a look at.  Westlaw has also produced a document that compares Westlaw and WestlawNext.

I will post more about WestlawNext in the coming days, but here are a few things you should know up front:

1-Printing is not yet available from WestlawNext to the Westlaw printers at the Law School.  You will need to use regular Westlaw for that.

2-Not all of the content on Westlaw has been migrated to WestlawNext, but the major stuff is there.

3-Westlaw.com is not automatically being transitioned to WestlawNext in the law firms.  Firms and other employers must pay a premium over their current Westlaw contract to get WestlawNext.  That means many employers will still have access only to Westlaw.com and not WestlawNext.