One of the easiest ways to find Alumni is to use the West Legal Directory (WLD) on Westlaw.
- Looking within a single state, use that state’s WLD
- In Key Search Terms field, enter: Washington-university
- Run search
- Narrow results by law school
- Narrow list of results by practice area, location within the state, size of firm etc as desired.
- Looking across multiple states, use West Legal Directory (and choose Advanced Search)
- In Key Search Terms field, enter: Washington-university
- You will need to add more search term before running search
- If you know a practice area, add as generic and broad a way of searching that type of law as possible. Examples
- Washington-university AND litigation (for someone interested in alumni working in civil litigation)
- Washington-university AND family or divorce or custod! Or adopt! (for someone interested in alums doing family law)
- If you know a geographic area,
- Washington-university AND CT(cook OR King) (for alums in Chicago area or Seattle area)
- Make sure you check the search bar: Westlaw automatically enters a proximity connector is none is specified.
- You might also find it easier to run multiple searches in different states’ WLD
- Whatever method you use, you will also need to use the Law School Filter to narrow your results to WashU.