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 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 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 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 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
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Food & Beverage Georgia Government Contracts Health Hospitality Illinois Immigration Insurance Insurance UK Intellectual Property International Arbitration International Trade Legal Ethics Legal Industry
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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
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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 (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 |
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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)
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.
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 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:
Many legal newsletters are available on LexisNexis and Westlaw. For example:
LexisNexis
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
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.