Major incident

Thomson Reuters Legal: Westlaw US and UK - Deep Research latency and errors

Oct 8, 2026, 14:08 UTC
started
16:13 UTC
resolved
2 h 05 min
duration

Affected: Westlaw US, Westlaw UK

Current status of Thomson Reuters Legal: Operational — live Thomson Reuters Legal status

Timeline

  1. Oct 8, 2026, 14:08 UTC
    investigating
    We are currently investigating an issue with Deep Research Westlaw US and UK that is resulting in prompts timing out and not returning results. Teams are engaged and actively troubleshooting the issue.
  2. Oct 8, 2026, 16:00 UTC
    monitoring
    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
  3. Oct 8, 2026, 16:13 UTC
    resolved
    This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Thomson Reuters Legal (original).

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