Guides and Resources: Research Assistant and Journal Member Training: Legal News and Recent Developments

Newspapers

Keeping current requires searching news sources. Many sources let you create alerts that can email you daily (or more frequently) with updates.

For researching archived newspapers, be sure to consult Boatwright's research guide:

There are many databases that provide current news searching across multiple sources at once. These include:

Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law has a particularly robust news search. It searches its own wire service (Bloomberg News), major newspapers and other news sources, and news-reporting websites (there is a checkbox to turn off website searching).

A particular strength of Bloomberg Law's news search is that it recognizes important people and companies, so you can add these as search terms and it will weed out irrelevant results that contain similar names.

Google News
Google News provides both current and historical news searching. Custom alerts can be added by the link at the bottom of the screen.

Bloomberg Law
BNA Law Reports on Bloomberg Law cover legal news generally and the Supreme Court in US Law Week and also a variety of industries and legal specialities, e.g., BNA Daily Tax Report, Daily Environment Reporter.
Lexis+
Law 360 on Lexis Advance has legal news on a wide variety of topics.
Westlaw Edge
Westlaw also provides numerous sources of legal news.

Cheetah
Cheetah has a variety of legal newsletters on specialized topics, especially for fields of law that are focused on regulation (e.g., environmental law, securities, tax).

Scotusblog
US Supreme Court coverage
Volokh Conspiracy
Legal news blog written by several law professors
Law Prof Blogs
Variety of law blogs written by law school faculty, including blogs on news & topics in tax law, corporate law, M&A law, etc. Some blogs are more frequently updated than others.
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
Legal news by the Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law has the most thorough collection of dockets available at the Law Library. Its best coverage is for Federal dockets, but it has a good collection of states as well. You can "track" dockets to receive emails when a new document in the tracked case has been filed or an event happens (e.g., a hearing is scheduled).