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Thomson Reuters Legal outage on 3 November 2026

Major outage
Resolved · 15:50–17:47 UTC
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“Westlaw - Litigation Document Analyzer failures”

On 3 November, Thomson Reuters Legal had a major outage in which documents failed to be analyzed through the Litigation Document Analyzer feature in Westlaw US, from 15:50 to 17:47 UTC (1 h 57 min). The status page said a fix was implemented at 17:18, which is when the Westlaw US component's outage ended, and the incident was marked resolved at 17:47. Other services, including Sentry, U-Haul, HiBob and Aircall, also had problems at the same time.

Thomson Reuters Legal’s own incident page ↗
When
15:50–17:47 UTC
How long
1 h 57 min
Incident open on its page
15:50–17:47 UTC
Components affected
1
Thomson Reuters Legal, 30 days before
8 other outages

What broke when

Major outage
Partial outage
Degraded
Westlaw - Westlaw US
UTC 16:0016:3017:0017:30

From Thomson Reuters Legal’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.

At the same time

Started in the hour before or during it

UTC 15:0015:3016:0016:3017:0017:30

And 163 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

Timeline

Times in UTC

  1. Investigating
  2. Westlaw - Westlaw US: partial outage
  3. Fix in place, monitoring
  4. Westlaw - Westlaw US: back to normal
  5. Resolved

Where this comes from

Stackpulse reads Thomson Reuters Legal’s official status page at legal-status.thomsonreuters.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.

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