Thomson Reuters Legaltech Platform incident
Westlaw Search Degradation
Thomson Reuters Legaltech Platform is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Practical Law US and Practical Law Canada and 1 more component, which began 1d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified May 08, 2026, 01:12 AM UTC
Search features are degraded in one region. We are in the process of shifting traffic to our second region, and all new user sessions will now be routed to the functional region.
- identified May 08, 2026, 03:05 AM UTC
We continue to shift traffic away from the degraded infrastructure. Most features are functional with some experiencing longer response times.
- identified May 08, 2026, 08:29 AM UTC
All new user sessions are routed to the functional region US-East2 and we continue to monitor the progress of AWS.
- identified May 08, 2026, 08:29 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified May 08, 2026, 04:02 PM UTC
We continue to work with our cloud provider to route around and restore our degraded infrastructure.
- monitoring May 09, 2026, 12:27 AM UTC
All infrastructure is reporting as healthy, and we are monitoring systems as we return traffic to normal routing.