About Bloomberg: Bloomberg Professional

Bloomberg Law^SM is our legal, regulatory and compliance platform, offering a suite of news, data, analytics and research tools to the legal and compliance community. BLOOMBERG LAW is fully integrated into the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and tailored specifically for the needs of a modern law firm. It provides practitioners with indispensable resources for all their business development, research, and information needs. BLOOMBERG LAW's news, data and analysis is delivered in user-friendly formats and features full database search and alert functionality, analytical reports, litigation research tools, and competitive intelligence profiles.

For more information about BLOOMBERG LAW call or e-mail us:
In the US +1 212 617 6569
blaw_us@bloomberg.net

In EMEA
blaw_eu@bloomberg.net

In Asia +852 2977 6407
blaw_ap@bloomberg.net

PRACTICE EXAMPLES

Business/Client Development

BLOOMBERG LAW offers law-firm practice groups, business development, and marketing teams a complete range of client-development intelligence, news, and research, and has a proven track record of assisting law firms in winning new work.

Bankruptcy

BLOOMBERG LAW offers daily, comprehensive legal analysis and news on bankruptcy, insolvency and distressed debt. Bloomberg's comprehensive legal and financial tools allow you to identify distressed companies and their creditors. Bloomberg dockets give you up-to-the-minute access to all pleadings and decisions as they are filed in bankruptcy cases, adversary proceedings, and appeals, where local rules apply. Bloomberg will keep you informed of recent decisions, trends, and developments in federal, state, and international bankruptcy law, as well as-out-of-court restructuring.

Mergers & Acquisitions

BLOOMBERG LAW alerts you to breaking M&A market and industry news, trends, and activity, and provides you with critical legal analysis and expert commentary on current mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts. Key company and business information, such as company financials, corporate action calendars, and information on individual executives can help you gain a competitive edge on future client development. In addition, Bloomberg provides you with in-depth legal analysis of federal, state, and international M&A developments, litigation, and regulatory changes, and is designed to keep you ahead of the curve in servicing your clients.

Securities

BLOOMBERG LAW tracks and analyzes significant federal and state securities litigation, SEC enforcement and administrative actions, significant no-action letters, and other regulatory guidance, legislative activity, exchange, and SRO rulemaking, as well as PCAOB developments. Bloomberg's legal analysis is fully-integrated with its financial platform, which provides company information and news in both real-time and on an historical basis.

Intellectual Property

BLOOMBERG LAW integrates complex intellectual-property law analysis with the latest in company and technology news, enabling you to identify market-moving intellectual property transactions and litigations. Moreover, Bloomberg's fully-integrated financial platform will give you access to company information, descriptions, and news in both real-time and on an historical basis.

Due Diligence

As a complete company and people research tool, Bloomberg is an ideal source for performing due diligence on a potential client, counterparty, or adversary. Create reports, search and retrieve court records, regulator filings, and news, confident that you are gathering everything you need to know.

Compliance

BLOOMBERG LAW offers time-critical news and regulatory content for compliance teams, including complete access to global statutes, regulations, rulebooks, and expert analysis. Bloomberg's real-time message-surveillance functionality allows you to monitor and ensure outbound communication at your firm is compliant with regulator and corporate policy. The application features a list of 30 pre-defined policies to cover important areas of concern such as Information Boundaries, Insider Trading, Gifts and Entertainment, Restricted Lists, and Information Security Labels.

Corporate Counsel

Bloomberg provides corporate counsel with access to a powerful suite of legal and regulatory research tools, including real-time and historic online legal databases, daily litigation and regulatory summaries, plus real-time legal regulatory and compliance reports. Bloomberg's legal analysis is also fully-integrated with its financial platform, allowing access to market-moving legal news as well as key company information, such as financials, corporate filings, and corporate-governance ratings.

Litigation

BLOOMBERG LAW provides a compete solution for legal research, offering a comprehensive range of case law, codes, statutes, and regulations, plus analytical treatises and proprietary reports and updates.

BLOOMBERG LAW REPORTS^TM

Receive weekly legal analysis dedicated to Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and Bankruptcy. BLOOMBERG LAW REPORTS provide a powerful companion to BLOOMBERG NEWS®, data, and other Bloomberg analytics, allowing your clients to stay abreast of key business and legal developments affecting you and your clients.

Training & Events

Bloomberg consistently provides seminars, on-site training, and certification programs for its users in order to assure total confidence in using the product. In addition, our legendary customer support is standing by, 24 hours a day every day, to assist you with any queries you may have.

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