Top 10 Reasons Law Firms Use Our Platform
Bloomberg Law 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 to consider adding Bloomberg Law to your practice.
1. Practice area specific content
Intuitively organized practice area coverage in 13 practice centers provides everything your practice 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 in one location.
“For my area of practice, Bloomberg’s practice centers and treatise library provide highly relevant curated content that helps me find answers to my questions quickly.”
Managing Partner, Small Law
2. Bloomberg Law News
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 75,000 news sources from the Bloomberg Terminal, with alerting functionality.
“The daily emails I receive from Bloomberg Law keep me abreast of the latest developments in important cases and legislative changes. I am more informed about these developments than most of my colleagues.”
Partner, Am Law 100
3. Practical Guidance
Step-by-step Practical Guidance — including more than 8,000 documents of litigation and transactional coverage — combines our legal expertise with how-to procedural guidance so your team can manage assignments productively and confidently.
“Bloomberg Law provides Practical Guidance that helps me know what’s market for areas of the law I do not practice frequently.”
Partner, Am Law 100
4. Dockets Coverage and Docket Alerts
Our market-leading dockets product includes more than 1,400 state courts and complete 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 civil court (20 filing types in all). Enhanced functionality with AI includes new tools such as Docket Resolutions, Docket Path (predictive analytics), and Find Example Briefs and Motions.
“The docket search and ability to easily locate case documents without a per document charge makes it easier and more efficient to find more sources for briefs.”
Associate, Large Law
5. Transactional resources
The Transactional Intelligence Center provides the tools and content transactional lawyers need to identify, document, and negotiate a deal. This all-in-one resource includes thousands of Practical Guidance documents, more than two million Precedent documents, A-Powered Draft Analyzer to ensure your deal’s language is market standard- now with Clause Adviser, trusted news, transactional reference library, and more.
“The transactional analysis tools such as Precedent Search and Deal Analytics are unmatched. The BNA portfolios are very useful in my practice and the information contained in both is better than other legal research tools on the market.”
Associate, Am Law 100
6. Advanced Search Capabilities
Our customers cite the ease of finding the information they need as a hallmark of a Bloomberg Law subscription. Auto-complete search functionality and rich filtering options help you easily and quickly locate the precise results you need. Curated, Intuitively organized practice centers and In Focus pages speed your access to essential coverage.
“I love the amount of information that is available and the ease of use. All of the information is interconnected, which makes it easy to move among sources and use all of the resources efficiently and effectively. The interface is very clean.”
Partner, Am Law 200
7. Litigation Resources
Save time and find all the litigation content and tools you’ll need in our all-in-one Litigation Intelligence Center – from dockets to primary sources, Practical Guidance, and advanced research tools like Points of Law, Smart Code, and Litigation Analytics.
“Bloomberg Law’s Litigation Intelligence Center has everything I need for my daily litigation tasks: docket search and access; opinion search; law and regulation search. The added value features are Smart Code to quickly find court decisions interpreting a particular regulation/statutory provision and Points of Law search.”
Associate, Am Law 200
8. One-stop shop
Our single platform means you’ll never have out-of-plan charges or multiple logins — just unmetered access to everything Bloomberg Law has to offer.
“Bloomberg Law is free to search, that is, everything is prepaid. I don’t worry about transactional research costs.”
Evelyn Tan, Knowledge Management Staff Attorney, Sheppard Mullin
9. Analytics
Bloomberg Law is a market leader in leveraging technology and data analytics to create time-saving tools that expand the boundaries of legal research, boost efficiency, and drive productivity. AI-powered tools like Points of Law and Smart Code for case law research, Brief Analyzer, Litigation Analytics, and Draft Analyzer – now with Clause Adviser – are changing the way attorneys find and interpret data essential to their practice.
“I have had great success utilizing Litigation Analytics to research opposing counsel, law firms, and judges. In particular, the features allow me to determine the experience of opposing counsel in certain areas. For example, have they obtained a class certification in the last 12 months? Are they truly “experts” or “experienced” in the area in question? What an invaluable tool.”
Senior Associate, Am Law 200
10. Emerging Topics
Bloomberg provides in-depth analysis of the issues transforming the legal market, from Artificial Intelligence to Abortion Law to Noncompete Agreements and so much more. Our In Focus resources combine news and analysis, dockets, primary and secondary sources, Practical Guidance, and additional content to help you stay ahead of the issues changing the legal landscape.
“Bloomberg Law helps me see the horizon and what kinds of actions or risks are coming for my clients.”
Jeremy Glenn, Partner, Cozen O’Connor