Using Westlaw's Copy with Reference Feature Does Not Copy Text and Captures the Wrong Page Number

scottharris1014

Sorry ... not an extension. Westlaw is an online legal research tool for lawyers (info about it here: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/westlaw). I don't think it offers any kind of free trial (like most US law firms, mine pays for a subscription).

I'm happy to dump any kind of logs or console that shows what's going on while I'm using the Copy with Reference command on both Orion RC and Safari if it helps you find the difference. Or make a screen recording or even set up a time to share my screen so you can see what's going on. Whatever would be useful to you in diagnosing. Thanks.

scottharris1014

No change in behavior with today's release (Version 0.99.125-beta (WebKit 616.1.22)). Was hoping the new WebKit might have fixed the problem (since it still works as expected on Safari).

As before, happy to help however I can in providing more information about what's going on when using the Copy with Reference option.

tammykeen

I am having the same issue with Westlaw Edge! And Bloomberg Law's copy with reference as well. Thanks for creating this post, wasn't sure if I was the only one having this difficulty. Please let me know Vlad if I can provide any other helpful information 🙂

Vlad

tammykeen Nope, just patience as we have over 2,000 other issues 🙂

mbproattorney

Try Firefox....It works as expected.
Safari (at least the current version in Sonoma) only seems to copy the citation, not the text above the citation as expected.

scottharris1014

Yeah … Safari used to work just fine. I don’t know what happened to mess it up. Works fine in Arc too.

scottharris1014

Westlaw's copy with reference works as expected with the latest RC build (Version 0.99.125.6-rc (WebKit 618.1.1)).

Not sure what changes to this latest RC led to it being fixed, but it is! Thanks.

scottharris1014

It appears that the fix was on Westlaw's end, per this email from Westlaw tech support:

We recently discovered that the identical Copy with Reference issue was happening with the latest version of Safari (17.0) on the new MacOS Sonoma and iOS 17. Last week, we released a fix for this issue. Although we still do not support the Orion browser, our understanding is that it’s based off of the most recent Webkit used in the Safari browser. Therefore, it’s possible that our fix for Safari might have also resolved the issue for Orion.

I also just checked and confirmed that this fix also works in the current Orion beta, so I think you can tag this as closed.