Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, a full-service, national law firm of approximately 700 attorneys with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, DC, has issued legal research guidelines that calls for using Loislaw before turning to LexisNexis and Westlaw.
Hat tip to today’s Law Librarian Blog, in turn acknowledging Legal Writing Prof Blog.
In line with its stated mission to be a “complete information-services, news and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data they need on a single, all-inclusive platform,” Bloomberg — in its Bloomberg Law Search (BBLS) function — has compiled over 350 (as of today) documents related to ongoing U.S. legal and regulatory actions against Bernard L. Madoff, the investment advisor accused of running a US$50 billion Ponzi scheme that may be the largest financial crime of all time.
DocuTicker has released its new GreyGuide referencing interesting and often quite valuable research reports (usually as full-text PDFs) published by government agencies, academic institutions, NGOs and other public interest research groups.
