10 Reasons In-House Counsel Love Bloomberg Law
Today’s in-house counsel must be an effective generalist for a wide variety of topics that arise in day-to-day corporate practice. From drafting documents and conducting research to managing and reviewing outside counsel work, they need to ensure the consistent, on-time delivery of superior work that satisfies the company’s goals.
Bloomberg Law® offers an all-inclusive platform with everything in-house counsel need to work more efficiently and keep work in-house. Our platform combines the latest in legal technology with workflow tools, comprehensive primary and secondary sources, trusted news, expert analysis, and business intelligence to help improve attorney productivity and efficiency.
Based on our latest customer satisfaction survey, here are the top 10 reasons in-house counsel rely on Bloomberg Law to support their legal departments.
1. One-stop shop with predictable pricing
In a recent Customer ROI Survey, 94% of general counsel customers agree that Bloomberg Law has all the legal research tools, resources, and content their legal departments need on one integrated platform. With Bloomberg Law, you can search all our content for as long and as often as you wish without incurring additional charges. No paywalls or out-of-plan charges.
“I got subscriptions for my entire team of lawyers at a very economical price, and we’ve been very successful in reducing reliance and spend on outside counsel as a result.”
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Benjamin Moore & Co.
2. Practical Guidance
With nearly 8,000 Practical Guidance documents, including an extensive collection of forms, checklists, overviews, and professional perspectives, Bloomberg law offers the legal expertise and how-to guidance that allows your team to manage assignments and unfamiliar issues productively and confidently.
“Bloomberg Law’s Practical Guidance helps us complete work with efficiency, accuracy, and confidence. It significantly reduces the amount of time it takes us to complete legal work in-house and thus reduces our annual spend on outside counsel. It provides us with an idea of what is ‘standard’ or typical and it gives us a better starting point to work on contracts, agreements, and clauses.”
Deputy General Counsel, Multi-Billion-Dollar Financial Services Firm
3. Case law research
Bloomberg Law offers more than 14 million state and federal court opinions with BCite, our proprietary citator, and Smart Code, a virtual annotated code for state and federal codes, rules, and regulations with a strength-of-discussion indicator. Additionally, our award-winning Points of Law, an AI-powered tool, helps attorneys easily and efficiently identify the most authoritative, on-point case law supporting a particular legal principle.
“The case law search tools on Bloomberg Law are extremely valuable to us. I appreciate the ability to conduct broad searches and quickly refine the results into a list of a few most relevant hits.”
Patent Counsel, Theravance Biopharma Us, Inc
4. Intuitive and easy to use
Bloomberg Law is committed to getting you to the content you need in less time and with fewer clicks. Subscribers benefit greatly from the enhanced navigation menu that appears at the top of the homepage and as a regular feature on most landing pages. Additionally, recent contextual search enhancements anticipate your search needs and surface the most relevant results.
“Having transitioned from Westlaw to Bloomberg Law, I can say that Bloomberg Law combines the ease and effectiveness of Bloomberg’s search capabilities, as well as valuable commentary, tools and resources that make the platform best in class.”
Head of Commodity Compliance, Green Plains Inc
5. Practitioner and workflow tools
Bloomberg Law offers time-saving practitioner and workflow tools such as:
- State chart builders, provide quick comparisons of thousands of topical issues across multiple jurisdictions
- Legislative and regulatory trackers with alerting and filtering functionality, keeping you ahead of the latest changes affecting key practice areas at the federal and state level
- EDGAR Search, enables you to quickly access relevant SEC filings, and be alerted to new filings of interest
- Draft Analyzer, uses machine learning and natural language processing to quickly benchmark your language against language from the millions of agreements in the SEC’s EDGAR database – giving you a leg up in negotiations
“Draft Analyzer consistently provides me with usable templates and helps me understand the market when negotiating terms in my agreements.”
Eli Evans, Corporate Counsel, Atlas Worldwide
6. Secondary content
Bloomberg Law Guides and Manuals, available only on Bloomberg Law, bring a tradition of excellence to our offering of secondary content, alongside an extensive collection of proprietary and licensed treatises organized by practice area in our reference library.
“The availability of both primary legislative and judicial source materials, and materials prepared by experienced practitioners enables me to ‘punch above my weight’ in many of those fields. This helps my company avoid hiring expensive outside counsel for low-level or ‘introductory’ issues in fields beyond my primary fields of legal and technical expertise.”
General Counsel, Clearly Clean
7. Trusted news coverage
Bloomberg Law news covers the legal and business landscape with more than 40 news channels that can be customized to your needs. News coverage also includes ALM Media News brands such as The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, and access to 75k news sources from the Bloomberg Terminal, with alerting functionality.
“Keeping up with all the legal changes around the U.S. would have taken significant time and money if I hadn’t had access to Bloomberg Law. The alerts I received helped me keep track of trends and developments and the search tools helped me find the laws and regulations I was looking for.”
Chief Litigation Officer, Iron Mountain
8. Dockets
Our market-leading dockets product includes more than 1,200 state courts and comprehensive federal courts coverage. Easily monitor new filings and never miss critical updates with alerts delivered right to your inbox. AI-powered Docket Key search functionality eliminates the time and challenges it takes to find exemplar forms like briefs and complaints in federal district court (20 filing types in all). AI-enabled damages awards search and docket resolution functionality makes it simple to quickly identify cases by desired outcome.
“I really enjoy the docket alerts. I set alerts for all group companies as well as competitors and those in similar industries. This allows me to get a jump on planning a defense before we are even served and allows me to track trends in litigation across our industry.”
Associate General Counsel, Rakuten
9. Industry-leading support
Bloomberg Law is committed to the continuous improvement of our legal platform – including new and improved content and tools, and added functionality – at no cost to existing subscribers. Our 24/7 JD-staffed customer service and support will help you find the answer you need, whenever you need it.
“Bloomberg Law is the premier legal source in our law library. The daily informational news briefs keep me up to date on everything related to our company’s lines of business. In addition to Bloomberg’s state of the art Business Intelligence Tools and Practice Centers, the customer service is top notch. I highly recommend Bloomberg Law to the in-house community.”
VP of Legal Operations and Compliance Officer, ProCare Rx
10. Practice area coverage
Intuitively organized practice area coverage in 14 practice centers provides everything your department needs from primary sources to dockets, news, treatises, practice tools, and Practical Guidance. Similarly, our intelligence centers for business, litigation, and transactional offer organizational efficiency and exceptional content such as:
- Bloomberg’s renowned business and financial information
- Precedent search database with more than 2.1 million negotiated documents, and
- State resources pages
“Having such a robust tool like Bloomberg Law in-house that covers a vast array of material valuable to our legal department is key. Being able to get to the information we need at our fingertips, without having to outsource the work, is invaluable both from a cost analysis perspective as well as an efficiency tool builder.”
AVP, Legal Operations, Financial Services Firm