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Staying Current

Resources for keeping up with new legal developments.

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.

Bloomberg Law News snip showing options to set as home or favorite or subscribe

 As of September 27, 2024, these "news channels" include:

Antitrust Financial Accounting Social Justice & Diversity
Artificial Intelligence Health, Law & Business Tax Insights and Commentary

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 logoLaw 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 require you to create an account. But once created, you should have access to Law 360. (Updated September 27, 2024.)

There are about 60 "sections" that you can browse or subscribe to:

Access to Justice

Aerospace & Defense

Appellate

Asset Management

Banking

Bankruptcy

Benefits

California

Cannabis

Capital Markets

Class Action

Colorado

Commercial Contracts

Competition

Corporate Crime & Compliance UK

Compliance

Connecticut

Construction

Consumer Protection

Corporate

Cybersecurity & Privacy

Delaware

Employment

Energy

Environmental

Financial Services UK

Fintech

Florida

 

 

Food & Beverage

Georgia

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

Michigan

Native American

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

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

Washington

White Collar

(List as of Sept. 27, 2024)

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).

Law.com Briefings

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"
What's Next? Law and technology 

(List as of Oct. 1, 2024)

Legal Street

Westlaw Today

Westlaw Today has newsletters on about 30 topics:

Antitrust Corporate Governance  Health Law On the Move
Appellate COVID-19 Immigration Products Liability
Bankruptcy Data Privacy Insurance Law Public Policy

Blockchain & Digital Assets

Employment Intellectual Property Securities Enforcement & Litigation
Cannabis Energy Legal Industry Tax
Civil Rights Environment Legal Innovation White Collar Crime
Class Action & Multi-District Litigation Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Litigation  
Corporate Counsel Finance & Banking Mergers & Acquisitions  

(List as of Oct. 8, 2024)

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 October 2024, Westlaw Daily Briefings include

Westlaw Antitrust Daily Briefing

Westlaw Bankruptcy Daily Briefing

Westlaw Blockchain & Digital Assets 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 October 2024, 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 to filter only ("Narrow by") 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.