Westlaw 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

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

Westlaw Exclusives All three Westlaw platforms – Westlaw Classic, Westlaw Edge, and Westlaw Precision – provide access to the following exclusive features, services, and content:

• 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.

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• 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.

Exclusive Content

• Illinois Law and Practice— Current encyclopedia of Illinois law, containing an analytical treatment of law established in Illinois courts and federal courts applying Illinois law, and law enacted by the Illinois legislature. ILLP contains more than 270 titles encompassing a broad range of legal topics that systematically address the entire field of Illinois legal doctrine.

• Illinois Practice Series – Written by leading practitioners; covers a wide variety of practice areas with strategies, guidelines, checklists, and tactics from seasoned attorneys and judges. Includes:

• Criminal Practice And Procedure

• Civil Discovery--Illinois Practice Series

• Illinois Workers' Compensation

• Illinois Law & Practice – Time-saving encyclopedia on the practice of law in Illinois that includes landmark cases, local terminology, statutory classification, and factual applications.

• Trial Handbook for Illinois Lawyers – Clear and concise expert guidance for every step of a civil or criminal trial.

• Illinois Evidence Manual – User-friendly treatise from Justice Robert Steigmann and Lori Nicholson that analyzes and catalogues every decision from an Illinois court of review dealing with evidence law.

• Editorial Enhancements—For more than a century, Westlaw attorney editors have been providing editorial enhancements to case law, statutes, and other legal materials, which includes providing the most exhaustive verification and correction process in the legal publishing and information industry. No other research service can match Westlaw’s editorial experience.

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• 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.

• Graphical Statutes/Interactive Timeline— Graphical Statutes revolutionizes statute research by charting legislative changes and linking related documents in an easy-to-read display. From a single screen, researchers can easily track changes in the law, locate relevant legislative history materials, read important case law, and check for possible amendments. Graphical Statutes is available for USCA and the statutes for select states.

• Uniform Laws Annotated (ULA)—The ULA provides an extensive reference to the text of uniform laws, prepared under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute. ULA examines acts recommended for adoption in all states, pinpoints state variations, and includes annotations to cases decided in adopting jurisdictions.

• Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS)—Cited and quoted as authority in courtrooms across the country, Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) is a national legal encyclopedia covering state and federal topics from A to Z. General rules of law are summarized in blackletter law headings and expanded upon in the text, including citations to primary law and references to ALR annotations.

CJS is fully integrated with the West Key Number System.

• American Jurisprudence: Full Library (Am Jur)—Only Westlaw provides access to the full American Jurisprudence product line: American Jurisprudence, 2d; American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts; American Jurisprudence Trials; and American Jurisprudence Pleadings and Practice Forms Annotated.

• Practical Law—Practical Law allows government attorneys to get up to speed on an unfamiliar area of law quickly and with confidence, giving them the legal know-how for a better starting point. Thousands of practical resources, how-to guides, checklists, timelines, and forms are created and maintained by our team of 650+ attorney editors to help lawyers practice more efficiently. Ask Practical Law AI, available with Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set with CoCounsel, is a generative AI capability that dramatically improves the way customers access Practical Law trusted expertise. Use natural language questions to surface the most relevant resources, accelerating the way you get answers. Answers are grounded in Practical Law know-how while connecting you to supporting resources for easy validation.

Westlaw Precision Exclusives Our newest offering, Westlaw Precision, provides the latest evolution in legal search, powered by trusted content, exclusive editorial enhancements, and cutting-edge technology that enables you to research over twice as fast without sacrificing confidence in your results. Westlaw Precision provides access to the exclusive features and content of Westlaw Edge and Westlaw Classic, as well as the following exclusive features and services:

• AI-Assisted Research—Available on Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel, AI-Assisted Research is our new, legally focused generative AI search capability built on Westlaw’s market-leading content, utilizing our 30-year history and expertise in AI. Use AI-Assisted Research to ask a legal question in everyday language, including key facts, procedural details, or legal theories, and it will search Westlaw’s trusted database of proven, reliable content and return a summarized response to your question with detailed insights from top results, along with a list of key cases, statutes, and regulations. In addition to providing relevant answers to your legal research questions, AI-Assisted

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Research also will provide links to supporting authority for verification and follow-up research so you can make better-informed decisions and more efficiently complete the remainder of your research.

• Precision Research—Reveal important case attributes for topics included in your plan, enabling you to search, filter, and browse, more efficiently than ever before. See cases that actually address a particular legal issue, resolve a particular cause of action or motion type, involve a particular fact pattern, or are decided a particular way. Precision Research groups similar cases using editorially curated taxonomies maintained by attorney editors and guided by expert practitioners, which no other provider can match.

Leverage Precision Filters to drill down to only the cases that were decided a particular way, resolved on a particular type of motion, or brought by a particular type of party. Plus, easily find additional cases that share similar criteria, and know that variation in language is accounted for when your query doesn’t include a certain word or phrase.

• KeyCite Cited With—View cases that are frequently cited together even if neither cites the other, making it easier to find connections between cases and identify how the law has developed. The Cited With tab displays a list of cases cited most frequently with the case you are viewing. Filter options allow you to decide if you want to see cases cited together in the same string cite, paragraph, section, or document.

• KeyCite Overruled in Part—Easily identify the specific part of a case that has been invalidated so that other valid points of law aren’t missed. Look for a red-striped flag to indicate cases that have been overruled in part. Quickly jump directly to the impacted text in the case where you can view the relevant language from the overruling case.

• Outline Builder—Quickly and easily build outlines directly within your research flow without ever needing to leave Westlaw Precision. Open Outline Builder side-by-side with a document while researching, then drag and drop important text or citations directly into your outline. Linked and formatted citations and KeyCite flags are automatically included, as is the ability to submit your outline directly to Quick Check.

• Keep List/Hide Details—Save potentially useful documents you may want to navigate back to and hide cases you don’t want to inadvertently re-review. Use Keep/Hide functionality across multiple searches in the same research session to make your research even more efficient. No other platform has the ability to hide document details from a search result list or in multiple searches throughout the same research session.

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Sruthi Koneru Thomson Reuters Sr. Client Executive