Current Awareness Sources

The premier legal newspaper for New York City and the paper of record for New York's First and Second Departments, the NYLJ publishes selected cases of interest, news items of interest to the local Bar, and columns devoted to practitioners’ interests. Although it has been published since 1888, electronic archives of NYLJ content cover only recent decades.

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News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, policy developments, and more across dozens of practice areas, industries, and jurisdictions.

A comprehensive legal research tool, Bloomberg Law offers Practice Centers which group resources by areas of legal practice. The Practice Centers feature resources from the wide range of Bloomberg Law content, including News, Legal Analysis, Practical Guidance, Practice Tools, and Chart Builders. Requires Bloomberg Law password.

Breaking legal news, analysis and feature stories from the editors of the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association. Includes electronic delivery, social media and mobile device options.

Legal news for practitioners, from the business and private sectors, including reporting on law-related events, practitioners’ columns, federal court opinions, verdicts, and reports of pending legislation.

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An official source for all state and federal court notices, the NJLJ also provides reports and digests of court decisions, substantive law articles by attorneys expert in their fields, and reporting on items of interest to the New Jersey Bar.

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A leading daily news source covering legal business, law firms, and lawyers across the U.S. and around the world.

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A law school-based legal news and commentary service published in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, with emphasis on quickly locating and presenting primary source materials – the judicial decisions, legislation, testimony, reports and releases behind the legal news

The daily daily publication of the federal government’s administrative branch for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. Includes a blog, as well as electronic delivery and social media options for specific subjects. You can subscribe to daily email updates of the table of contents.

Working papers and pre-prints from scholars and professionals, as well as articles from bepress' roster of peer-reviewed journals. Includes options for electronic delivery .).

Formerly known as Social Science Research Network, SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research, and is an excellent way to keep up with forthcoming work in a subject specialty. The vast majority of papers can be downloaded free of charge. SSRN is comprised of six global research disciplines, which are home to relevant Subject Area Networks. SSRN contains abstracts of works-in-progress, working papers, and articles accepted for publication.
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