With each example, there are likely to be other versions of these in the legal information marketplace, but the selected services are different enough from each other to serve as good examples. Below is a diagram of the chief components of each service covered in this study, followed by a quick narrative for each of them. FindLaw Legal News General Legal News divided by topic Daily emails with hyperlinks to specific, targeted topics. Material can also be viewed by visiting the news section of FindLaws web site Coverage is from Reuters, so there's overlap with other general news services. These range from their Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Reporter to a host of daily services, including those for tax, labor, antitrust and executives.
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In general, these have made a great transition into the electronic medium. Also, BNA recently has greatly enhanced the online search capabilities and usefulness of the archives for most, if not all of their titles. You can search by case name, general topic, browse by date, and they host or link to online versions of many key cases or documents that they reference. The daily news provided by Law News Network is a free service provided by this new entity. Each day's coverage spans a variety of legal news topics, with the majority of the content coming from sources owned by American Lawyer Media.