Westlaw Correctional Sole-Source IL DOC 6.10.24.pdf

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Sruthi Koneru Sr. Client Executive 610 Opperman Drive Eagan, MN 55123 Phone: 763.326.4262 sruthi.koneru@tr.com

June 10, 2024

James Deen and Sandy Robinson Illinois Department of Corrections

RE: Sole Source Designation – Thomson Reuters Westlaw Correctional

Dear Mr. Deen and Mr. Robinson, Thomson Reuters is pleased to provide you with information concerning Westlaw Correctional. The purpose of this letter is to confirm that Thomson Reuters is the sole source provider for the exclusive content, features, and services available with Westlaw Correctional listed herein.

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. We are committed to the principle of justice equity whereby all Americans should be afforded equal access to our judicial system. As such, Westlaw Correctional leverages technology featured in Westlaw Edge with the inclusion of WestSearch Plus.

Westlaw provides legal researchers with access to exclusive content, proprietary tools, and technology that no other research provider can offer, including:

Exclusive Content National Reporter System—Since 1879, West’s National Reporter System has compiled and organized federal and state case law into a cohesive body of law that can be researched within and across jurisdictions. West’s National Reporter System is available exclusively on Westlaw.

National Digest System—West’s Key Number Digests have been an essential case-finding tool since the United States Digest was first published in 1848. A digest is a multi-volume index to the law consisting of major topic headings, thousands of subheadings, and short summaries of legal propositions stated in published court cases. These summaries are commonly referred to as headnotes.

West Key Number System—The West Key Number System, a Westlaw exclusive, 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 United States.

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Editorial Enhancements—For more than a century, West attorney editors have been providing editorial enhancements to case law, statutes, and other legal materials. No other research service can match West’s editorial experience. West’s exclusive enhancements include headnotes (more than 500,000 created annually), synopses (more than 30,000 created annually), and parallel citations (more than 500,000 added annually). West’s headnotes are classified to West’s exclusive Key Number System, which helps users find more relevant cases.

Correction and Verification Process—West attorney editors provide the most exhaustive verification and correction process in the legal publishing and information industry. West is the only legal information provider to engage in these quality control steps to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data.

Black’s Law Dictionary—Black’s Law Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2019, contains more than 55,000 terms and phrases and more than 6,000 quotations. Additionally, alternative spellings or equivalent terms and expressions are provided for more than 5,300 terms.

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With more than 2,000 journalists, Reuters News provides award-winning coverage of the day’s most important topics, including breaking news, business, finance, politics, sports, entertainment, technology, and much more.

Exclusive Features and Services KeyCite Citator Service—KeyCite is a full-service citator that helps users determine whether a case is good law by tracing the history of a case, statute, or federal administrative decision. KeyCite also retrieves all citing references, which include cases, statutes, administrative materials, and secondary sources. The following are among the many exclusive citator features and services available on Westlaw:

West Key Number System Integration—KeyCite is completely integrated with West’s exclusive topic and key number system, the most accurate tool devised for finding on-point law.

More Citing References—KeyCite provides more citing references, including references to more than 900 law reviews, thousands of American Law Reports annotations and American Jurisprudence, 2d articles, United States Code Annotated, Code of Federal Regulations, statutes from all 50 states, select administrative decisions, state jurisprudence encyclopedias, and numerous treatises. In fact, KeyCite has more than two times as many citing references overall and averages more than two times as many citing references per document as the nearest competitor.

Headnote References—KeyCite provides the full text of West headnotes, which helps users to quickly limit citing references to a relevant point of law. KeyCite contains 50% more headnote references than any other citator.

Analytical Sources—With more than 3,100 analytical sources, KeyCite gives users more expert analyses than any other citator.

Pending Legislation—KeyCite notifies users of pending legislation that may affect a federal or state statute (available for all 50 states).

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Depth-of-Treatment Stars—Depth of treatment stars help users zero in on the most useful citing cases and administrative decisions by indicating the extent to which the citing document discusses the cited case.

Graphical KeyCite—With KeyCite, users can display the direct history of a case, which traces the case through the appellate process, in an easy-to-read graphical view. With this graphical view of direct history, every reversal, rehearing, reconsideration, denial of certiorari, or other action in a case is placed in context. As a result, the graphical view can save users valuable time when they are checking the procedural history of a case.

If you have any questions concerning this document or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely, Sruthi Koneru Thomson Reuters Sr. Client Executive

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