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CASEpeer vs Westlaw

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CASEpeer

Legal

Case management built specifically for plaintiff personal injury firms

From
$79/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Westlaw

Legal

Thomson Reuters legal research platform, priced per seat with tiers from Edge to Advantage and negotiated enterprise contracts above 10 attorneys

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: CASEpeer it is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.; Westlaw firms of 11 or more attorneys, which is most firms actually spending serious money on Westlaw, get no published price at all and negotiate blind against a sales team that sees every prior deal.
  • They diverge on capability: CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Westlaw covers Case law and statute database.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which CASEpeer and Westlaw actually diverge.

Attributes where CASEpeer and Westlaw differ
AttributeCASEpeerWestlaw
Starting price$79/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer user per monthquote

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in CASEpeer

  • Intake and case screening
  • Medical treatment tracking
  • Settlement and lien management
  • Negotiation tracking
  • Statute of limitations monitoring

Only in Westlaw

  • Case law and statute database
  • KeyCite
  • Practical Law
  • CoCounsel Legal
  • Litigation analytics
  • West Key Number System

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

CASEpeer

  • Plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien trackingnot Westlaw
  • Contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one placenot Westlaw
  • Personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measurednot Westlaw
  • Firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseloadnot Westlaw

Westlaw

  • A solo attorney or small firm wanting published, self-service pricing rather than a sales negotiationnot CASEpeer
  • A firm evaluating whether Practical Law and secondary sources justify moving from Edge to Advantagenot CASEpeer
  • A litigation team wanting KeyCite and litigation analytics in the same research platformnot CASEpeer
  • A firm that previously used Casetext and needs to understand that it must now buy CoCounsel Legal inside Westlaw insteadnot CASEpeer

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

CASEpeer

  • It is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.
  • There is no full double-entry general ledger, so the firm still needs separate accounting software and somebody to reconcile between the two.
  • The narrow personal injury focus means a practice that diversifies into family, employment or criminal work has to run a second system or migrate.
  • It has changed corporate hands three times since 2021, from independent to MyCase to AffiniPay, now trading as 8am, so roadmap continuity is a fair question to put to the vendor.
  • Sitting in the 8am group aligns it with LawPay and MyCase, so firms committed to a different payments provider get less from the integrations.

Westlaw

  • Firms of 11 or more attorneys, which is most firms actually spending serious money on Westlaw, get no published price at all and negotiate blind against a sales team that sees every prior deal.
  • Casetext no longer exists as an independent, cheaper self-serve product; anyone who liked its pricing and simplicity now has to buy into the Westlaw ecosystem, typically at a higher, seat-based cost.
  • Multi-year contracts are structurally rewarded with the biggest discounts, which pressures firms into 2 or 3 year commitments before they know if usage will justify the tier chosen.
  • Content and features vary meaningfully between Edge and Advantage, so an apparently small monthly price difference can hide the absence of Practical Law, which many firms end up needing anyway.
  • Switching away from Westlaw means retraining staff on Lexis search syntax and the Key Number System has no direct Lexis equivalent, which is a genuine cost that suppresses competitive shopping at renewal.

Pricing, plan by plan

CASEpeer

$79/month
  • Basic$79/month
    • Personal injury case management
    • Intake and treatment tracking
    • No minimum seat count
  • Pro$119/month
    • Adds reporting and automation
    • Lien and settlement tracking
    • No long-term contract required
  • Advanced$149/month
    • Full feature set
    • Advanced reporting
    • No long-term contract required

Westlaw

On request
  • Westlaw Edge (solo and small firm, up to 10 attorneys)$undefined/month
    • Single-circuit coverage from roughly $107 to $155 a month
    • All-states-plus-federal coverage roughly $266 a month
    • 2-year contracts around 12% off list, 3-year around 18% off
  • Westlaw Advantage (firms of 11+ attorneys)$undefined/year
    • Bundles Practical Law and secondary sources
    • No published price, quote via sales representative
    • CoCounsel Legal available as a seat add-on, reported around $639 per seat per month

Which should you pick?

Choose CASEpeer if

  • You need intake and case screening.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want medical treatment tracking.
CASEpeer review

Choose Westlaw if

  • You need case law and statute database.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want keycite.
Westlaw review

Questions people ask

Is CASEpeer or Westlaw better?
Neither clearly leads. CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Westlaw at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, CASEpeer or Westlaw?
CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Westlaw at On request.
Does CASEpeer or Westlaw run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is CASEpeer best used for?
CASEpeer is most often used for plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking, contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place, personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measured, firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseload. Of those, plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking and contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place are not what Westlaw is typically brought in for.
What can CASEpeer do that Westlaw cannot?
CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Medical treatment tracking, Settlement and lien management, Negotiation tracking. Westlaw covers Case law and statute database, KeyCite, Practical Law, CoCounsel Legal.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

CASEpeer: Is CASEpeer suitable for a corporate or defence firm?

No. It is built around contingency personal injury work: treatment, liens and settlement. A corporate firm billing hourly should look at Clio, Tabs3 or a large firm system instead.

Westlaw: Can I still buy Casetext?

No. Casetext was retired on 1 April 2025. Its AI functionality continues as CoCounsel Legal, sold only as part of the Westlaw ecosystem.

CASEpeer: What does CASEpeer cost?

Published per-user rates are 79 USD for Basic, 119 USD for Pro and 149 USD for Advanced per month, with no minimum seat count and no long-term contract required.

Westlaw: Why does Westlaw publish some prices but not others?

Self-service online pricing exists only for solo practitioners and firms up to 10 attorneys; larger firms are routed to a sales representative with no public rate.

CASEpeer: Who owns CASEpeer?

It was acquired by MyCase in March 2021 and moved to AffiniPay in June 2022. AffiniPay rebranded to 8am in August 2025, so CASEpeer now sits alongside MyCase and LawPay in that group.

Westlaw: What does CoCounsel Legal cost on top of Westlaw?

Reported figures put it around $639 per seat per month as an add-on, though this is not an official published rate and varies by contract.

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