Westlaw

Why can’t we access Precision or PracticalLaw on the app? It’s almost mid-21st century. We should be able to access all features via mobile devices.

Still going strong without a single improvement in 10 -years.

This app has some amazing features. Unfortunately, it is incredibly slow, it crashes constantly, and it has limited information compared to the online version of westlaw’s database. It’s a shame

The app had been working fine. However, over the past few weeks, the app will provide an error message and urges me to “try again”. Trying again never works. The only solution is to restart the app, re-set-up the search, and hope that the problem does not recur. It continues to happen more frequently, rendering the app largely unusable.

It has taken less than a day to download, use and delete. The functionality is too narrow; the app does not appear to allow me to sort cases (say by highest court/newest). It returns content that does not meet my search terms. Example, I search for A and B; I get content with A but not B, vice versa, and neither! The ability to go from one document to the next in the results list seems slow to me.

Please, for the love of God (and every young, embryonic attorney who is burning the midnight oil to stay caught up and pass exams)—enable dark mode. Please. Otherwise, the app is great. Anyone complaining about doing “extensive research” on their phone is comical. But for reading cases at night while in law school—it gets the job done. My only complaint is the bright white light hitting the back of my retina at the wee hours while I’m trying to read cases in bed before crashing into my pillow. Dark mode. Please. Thank you. One more time for giggles—Dark mode!! 📚💤

The app will not allow me to download courses I’ve purchased.

Plus, it’s mission impossible to pull up 1.163(j)-4(b). I even tried Treas Regs 1.163(j)-4(b)

I used this app for nearly a year and conducted extensive legal research on it. I have deleted it and will go back to accessing Westlaw via a web browser. It is a shame, as I really wanted to keep this app. There are some benefits to using this app over a web browser: - Login is a cinch. - App loads relatively quickly. The shortfalls are numerous: - Citations are limited. Though you get full citations on the web, this app limits case citation to a single one. For those of us following local rules or who wish to use the Bluebook, this makes legal research very inefficient. - Following procedural history is nearly impossible. While analyzing a case, you may wish to review a lower court's disposition, such as to learn more about the facts or understand the reasoning. This app is frequently unable to load that case. Instead, one is met with an error page and an 800-number. - Following stare decisis is nearly impossible. Same reason as above. One clicks on a case cited in an opinion and is disappointed by the 800-number. - Same issue as above with statutes and statutory history. - Trying to select text is a headache. As we all know, Westlaw imposes a popup when text is selected. On a web browser, it is easy to work around. On this app, it frequently blocks selected text and the popup even becomes selected itself. So, goodbye, Westlaw app.

Can’t speak to how it was before, but as of this review the app, in my opinion, is almost as readily accessible as is the website.