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Bloomberg Law’s Law School Preparedness Survey recently asked 2,600 practicing attorneys and law school students, faculty, and librarians about skills needed for practice and how well law schools prepare individuals to enter the legal profession.

Be Impressive on Day One

Bloomberg Law’s Practical Guidance library provides task-based, how-to coverage, including overviews, checklists, sample forms and agreements, timelines, drafting and negotiating guides, and more. These resources quickly show you how practicing attorneys accomplish legal tasks.

All sample documents and policies can be downloaded into Microsoft Word so you can edit to fit your needs

Practice areas covered include nearly every part of the industry, such as bankruptcy, benefits and executive compensation, transactions, employment, health care, intellectual property, labor relations, litigation, privacy and data security, tax practice, and tech
The guidance we offer is consistently updated based on current events and trends; for example, recently expanded topics include force majeure and bankruptcy, both of which have been in the spotlight this year

Learn how Practical Guidance can walk you through specific legal tasks.

News and Analysis

The first stop to learn what’s hot in the legal industry at any given moment is our real-time news and analysis – particularly our industry-focused sections such as business and practice and in-house counsel.

Visit our Bloomberg Law 2022 resource page for examples of our comprehensive, forward-looking analysis of the legal landscape. By focusing on four key categories – litigation, regulatory and compliance, transactions and contracts, and the future of the legal industry – our analysts offer insights and data about nearly every aspect of the industry during this time of great change.

Our team’s videos dive into current developments and issues affecting legal professionals. Examples include interviews with our analysts as well as the industry experts who are immersed day to day in a given subject.

Leaders from some of the country's biggest law firms to share their return to office plans and whether hybrid work is here to stay.

In Focus Pages

When you need a deep understanding of a particular topic, our In Focus pages
offer curated resources to cover every angle of the most pressing issues
transforming the legal markets.

Each In Focus page is a one-stop shop, featuring a variety of Bloomberg Law
resources centered around a specific topic; you’ll find news and commentary,
legal primary sources, dockets, business information, Practical Guidance, litigation
filings, and regulatory developments
We build new In Focus content based on the fast-paced world around us,
spotlighting hot topics such as lawyer well-being, legal technology, remote work,
and global developments in privacy.

See how In Focus pages give you all the information you need on hot legal topics.

Professional Perspectives

What better way to learn about the legal industry than from experts already well established in their fields? Our Professional Perspectives are long-form articles that take a closer look at the current legal issues and developments impacting practitioners.

Contributors range from law firm practitioners and in-house counsel to regulatory and compliance experts – whatever your area of interest is, we have you covered
Search more than 400 Professional Perspectives by keyword or filter by practice area to narrow down the wealth of information to best fit you and your career

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