Bloomberg Law News
Bloomberg Law News covers developments—including litigation, legislation, and regulations—in many different practice areas. (Experienced researchers may remember the predecessor products, BNA Law Reports. After Bloomberg Law acquired the Bureau of National Affairs, it reorganized the publications, but kept BNA's experienced legal journalists.)
When you are viewing any of Bloomberg's "news channels," you have options to set that news page as your home screen, to make it one of your favorites, or to subscribe.
As of Jan. 11, 2024, these "news channels" include:
| Antitrust | Financial Accounting | Social Justice & Diversity |
| Artificial Intelligence | Health, Law & Business | Tax Insights and Commentary |
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Banking |
Human Resources (HR) | Tax Management International |
| Bankruptcy Law | Immigration | Tax Management Memo |
| Before the Bar | In-House Counsel | Tech & Telecom Law |
| Benefits & Executive Comp | Insurance | The PFAS Project |
| Business & Practice | International Trade | Transfer Pricing |
| Cannabis | IP Law | US Law Week |
| Capital Markets | Legal Ethics | Weekly Tax Report |
| Class Action | Legal Ops & Tech | White Collar & Criminal Law |
| Construction Labor | Litigation | |
| Crypto | Litigation Finance | |
| Daily Labor Report | Mergers & Acquisitions | |
| Daily Tax Report | Occupational Safety | |
| Daily Tax Report: International | Payroll News | |
| Daily Tax Report: State | Pharma & Life Sciences | |
| Energy | Privacy & Data Security News | |
| Environment & Energy | Private Equity | |
| Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) | Product Liability & Toxics Law | |
| Federal Contracting | Securities |
You can subscribe to any of the news channels to get updates via email. In most of them, you can also personalize your updates by selecting topics you want to see.
Bloomberg often runs one story in multiple news channels, since news stories cross subject divides.
How do you get to the Bloomberg Law News channels?
From the home screen, select "News and Analysis" < Bloomberg Law News underneath the search bar.
Bloomberg Law Trackers
Bloomberg Trackers
About 50 "Trackers" on Bloomberg Law present news about different fields, such as IP and labor. Supreme Court Today covers (you guessed it) the Supreme Court.
You can generally use filters to slice the information you want to follow. For instance, within Fair Labor Standards Act cases, you could track cases involving childcare workers. Within Supreme Court Today, you could follow review-granted (under Event Type) in criminal law cases (Primary Topic).
You can set up alerts to follow topics.
VitalLaw (Wolters Kluwer) (formerly Cheetah)
VitalLaw is a platform for treatises (e.g., The Law of Lawyering, Administrative Law Treatise) and other publications (e.g., Standard Federal Tax Reporter) published by Wolters Kluwer. For off-campus access, use Husky OnNet.
The Gallagher Law Library subscribes to selected works within VitalLaw. (You might find that your law firm library or another law school library has a different selection.)
For current awareness tools, log in (use your email address and create a password). Then click News in the upper right corner of the home screen. Options are Dailies, Newsletters, and Treatise Updates. Most of the newsletters in our package are in tax.
Law 360
Law 360 is a news service owned by LexisNexis. UW Law has a license for on-campus access.
If you have a Lexis account, you can also can get to Law 360 from the white square logo in the upper left corner of the screen. The first time you do this, the system will send an email message to the address tied to your Lexis account; once you confirm, you should have access to Law 360. (Updated March 19, 2020.)
There are about 60 "sections" that you can browse or subscribe to:
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Access to Justice Aerospace & Defense Appellate Asset Management Banking Bankruptcy Benefits California Capital Markets Class Action Commercial Contracts Competition Corporate Crime & Compliance UK |
Compliance Construction Consumer Protection Corporate Cybersecurity & Privacy Delaware Employment Energy Environmental Financial Services UK Fintech Florida Food & Beverage |
Government Contracts Health Hospitality Illinois Immigration Insurance Insurance UK Intellectual Property International Arbitration International Trade Legal Ethics Legal Industry Life Sciences |
Massachusetts Media & Entertainment Mergers & Acquisitions Native American New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Person Injury & Medical Malpractice Private Equity Product Liability Project Finance Public Policy |
Real Estate Retail & E-Commerce Securities Sports & Betting Tax Technology Telecommunications Texas Transportation Trials White Collar |
(List as of Aug. 13, 2019)
Law.com Briefings
Law.com (the publisher of National Law Journal and many other legal newspapers as well as online content) offers e-newsletters on different topics. Until summer 2021, UW Law users could subscribe with their Lexis ID. Now the briefings are limited to Law.com Premium subscribers. UW Law subscribers can set up alerts for Law.com content in Lexis (Legal News) or Bloomberg Law (Secondary Sources).
| Title | Topic |
|---|---|
| Ahead of the Curve | Law schools |
| Compliance Hot Spots | Compliance and regulation |
| Critical Mass | Class actions and mass torts |
| Higher Law | Cannabis law |
| Inside Track | In-house practice |
| Labor of Law | Labor and employment law |
| The Law Firm Disrupted | Law firm management |
| Skilled in the Art | "Everything IP" |
| Trump Watch | "the Trump administration and its imprint on the law" |
| What's Next? | "emerging technologies like AI and facial recognition that promise to revolutionize business, life and the practice of law" |
Legal Street
- Law Street
Free site for legal news. Will eventually cover many practice areas with separate e-newsletters. As of January 2020, emphasis is on IP and Tech.
Owned by Fastcase
Westlaw Today
Westlaw Today has newsletters on about 30 topics:
| Appellate | Data Privacy | Insurance Law | Public Policy |
| Bankruptcy | Employment | Intellectual Property | Securities Enforcement & Litigation |
| Capital Markets | Energy | Legal Industry | Tax |
| Civil Rights | Environment | Legal Innovation | Voting Rights & Elections |
| Class Actions & Multi-District Litigation | Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits | Litigation | White Collar Crime |
| Corporate Counsel | Finance & Banking | Mergers & Acquisitions | |
| Corporate Governance | Health Law | On the Move | |
| COVID-19 | Immigration | Products Liability |
Stories are written by Reuters journalists or picked up from other sources, such as CQ and The Hill.
You can EITHER go directly to Westlaw Today (https://today.westlaw.com) and log in with your Westlaw password OR start in Westlaw and use the pull-down menu in the upper left of the screen (see screen snip). 
You can subscribe to get a daily email. If you subscribe to two or more topics you can choose to have them consolidated into one email. You can also select companies to follow.
Westlaw Daily Briefings
From Westlaw's Home, choose Secondary Sources, then Legal Newspapers & Newsletters. Filter for Westlaw Daily Briefings.
Search, skim recent entries, or set up an alert to get new Briefings mailed to you.
As of November 2020, Westlaw Daily Briefings include
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Westlaw Antitrust Daily Briefing Westlaw Bankruptcy Daily Briefing Westlaw Capital Markets Daily Daily Westlaw Corporate Counsel Daily Briefing Westlaw Corporate Governance Daily Briefing Westlaw Data Privacy Daily Briefing Westlaw Energy & Environment Daily Briefing Westlaw Finance & Banking Daily Briefing |
Westlaw Health Law Daily Briefing Westlaw Immigration Daily Briefing Westlaw Insurance Daily Briefing Westlaw Intellectual Property Daily Briefing Westlaw Labor & Employment Daily Briefing Westlaw Mergers & Acquisitions Daily Briefing Westlaw New York Daily Briefing Westlaw Products Liability Daily Briefing |
Westlaw Securities Enforcement & Litigation Daily Briefing Westlaw Tax Daily Briefing |
Westlaw Bulletins & Topical Highlights
Westlaw Topical Highlights give you case summaries in topical areas (such as estate planning or IP), with links to the full cases. Westlaw Bulletins do the same thing, but sorted by jurisdictions, rather than topic. The summaries are not the same as the case synopses or the headnotes: they are brief summaries prepared for these newsletters.
From Westlaw's Home, choose Secondary Sources. Then, in the light blue box on the right, choose Westlaw Bulletins & Topical Highlights. You can skim recent issues, search, or set up an alert.
As of November 2020, Westlaw Topical Highlights are:
and Bulletins are:
Other Legal Newsletters
Many legal newsletters are available on LexisNexis and Westlaw. For example:
LexisNexis
- Bender's Immigration Bulletin
- Mealey's Daily News Update: IP/Tech
- Securities Litigation Alert
To find legal newsletters in LexisNexis, browse Sources and choose Legal News, or go to your subject area and look for legal news.
Westlaw
- Cyberspace Lawyer
- Search & Seizure Bulletin
To find legal newsletters in Westlaw, choose Secondary Sources, then Legal Newspapers & Newsletters, or go to your subject area and look under secondary sources for newsletters.