Westlaw Advantage Canada features

Turn insights into strategy quickly with advanced AI and smart tools

Simplify legal research with Westlaw Advantage Canada — combining agentic AI, editorial expertise, and trusted content to streamline workflows and deliver clear, actionable insights

AI-powered research

Harness advanced AI that analyzes, synthesizes, and delivers comprehensive research results — capturing critical details and actionable answers that drive confident, informed decisions.

Deep Research

Cut through legal complexity with confidence. Deep Research uses agentic AI to rapidly analyze vast amounts of legal content, surface key precedents, and deliver clear, transparent insights — all in a fraction of the time traditional research requires. Spend less time sorting through results and more time building winning cases, backed by comprehensive, accurate answers you can trust.

Litigation Document Analyzer

Upload your legal document — such as a memo, factum, or brief — and AI-powered Litigation Document Analyzer delivers a detailed report with recommendations, authority checks, quotation analysis, potential mischaracterization, and a complete table of authorities. This functionality helps you save time, reduce risk, and strengthen the quality of your legal arguments.

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Enhanced KeyCite functionality

Go beyond basic citation checks with enhanced KeyCite. Quickly spot cases at risk of being overruled, cases frequently cited together, and view indicator flags directly within the document's text.

KeyCite Overruling Risk

Quickly determine if a point of law has been weakened by reliance on an overruled or invalid prior decision. Orange warning icons appear in your results and at the top of documents — just like traditional citation flags — integrated into your workflow. These alerts save time, prevent unnecessary searches, and give you increased confidence that you're citing good law.

KeyCite Cited With

Discover connections between cases that are traditionally challenging to identify. Using KeyCite Cited With, swiftly pinpoint related cases that consistently appear together in citations, even if they do not directly reference each other.

Inline KeyCite Flags

View citation indicator flags directly within Westlaw documents. These flags provide quick, at-a-glance insights about cited cases without the need to navigate away from the document you’re reviewing. 

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Research workflow and organization tools

Transform legal research into a more intuitive, streamlined, and organized experience with advanced workflow features.

Outline Builder

Build your outline directly in Westlaw Advantage Canada. Add headings and notes, rearrange content with drag‑and‑drop capabilities, and download when you’re ready to draft — all without leaving the platform.

Graphical View of History

View your research history your way. Choose a classic list or a dynamic graphical view that visually maps your research path. Easily retrace steps, stay organized, and pick up right where you left off.

Table of Contents for Cases

Skip the hassle of skimming long cases and jump straight to what matters with Table of Contents for Cases. Located on the left of every case and decision, this interactive table links all headings so you can instantly navigate to the section you need.

Keep List & Hide Details

Save cases for later with a single click using Keep List, then revisit them anytime without having to repeat searches. With Hide Details, you can minimize distractions by removing cases you don’t need to review again.

Compare Text

Compare two Westlaw documents to identify differences and similarities. View changes side by side or inline with colour-coded highlights. You may download, print, or email the report.

Sidebarring

Add digital annotations directly to any Westlaw content as you conduct your research with Sidebarring. This seamless integration eliminates the traditional inefficiencies of manual markup, saving you valuable time and keeping your thoughts organized within the digital research environment.

Judicial Consideration for Statutes

Streamline the search process by accessing an editorially created list of cases that meaningfully interpret statutes, so you don't have to sift through all the Citing References to determine what matters to you. 

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Improved search experience and document navigation

Locate the precise information you need and move seamlessly to the details that matter most using these intuitive tools.

Proceedings Filter

Find decisions on specific issues within the right procedural context without sifting through endless results. The Proceedings filter appears alongside existing filters and offers 30 motion and application types to narrow your case law research to what truly matters.

Snippet Navigation

Quickly scan short text snippets and highlight your most relevant keywords without leaving the results page. Instantly confirm whether a document fits your research before opening it.

Legal Topic Suggestions

Let Legal Topic Suggestions guide your specific legal matters or issues by offering related topics and linking to curated content as you type keywords into the federated search bar.

Missing and Must Include Terms 

Identify highlighted terms from your federated search that are missing from a specific document, and then use the option to require these terms in a new query for more precise results. 

Select Term Highlighting

Assign colours to search terms or phrases to instantly spot essential concepts and their relevance across results and documents, making it easy to identify which materials matter most.

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