House of Butter has tracked down the details on a new offering from media giant Bloomberg:

"...according to this small piece in the Maryland Daily Record... Bloomberg have entered the legal database market

Bloomberg makes its move

Business news source enters field dominated by Westlaw, LexisNexis

By ANN W. PARKS
Daily Record Assistant Legal Editor

The walls of a law school’s computer lab tell the story. One half of the room is decorated in Westlaw blue; the other, LexisNexis red. There’s simply no room for a third major player or is there? Enter Bloomberg LP. Long a force in providing business and financial news and data, it has quietly entered the legal market with a product called Bloomberg Law.

HOB after a little searching has found the following press release from Bloomberg dated January...

About Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is an all-inclusive tool providing in-depth legal analysis, filings, opinions, real-time and archival news, indexes, rankings, company and biographical information, research and streaming live trial coverage on a single, integrated desktop platform. Bloomberg Law is part of the comprehensive Bloomberg terminal. Bloomberg Law allows Bloomberg users 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 users can conduct research across fully comprehensive US Federal and State case law histories, legal case filings and dockets. Bloomberg Law provides access to Bloomberg's comprehensive regulatory databases (including SEC, NASD and NYSE) as well as academic legal journals, legal practice manuals and updates, plus a range of other legal current awareness services, all fully integrated with Bloomberg's powerful search tools. Bloomberg Law is accessible on the Bloomberg terminal at BLAW.

Sign me up for that free trial."

-- MDT

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