COMPARING LEGAL DATABASES.  Primary law, Legislative materials, Dockets  News, business/market data  Headnotes, citator  PLI & BNA (treatises and.

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COMPARING LEGAL DATABASES

 Primary law, Legislative materials, Dockets  News, business/market data  Headnotes, citator  PLI & BNA (treatises and reports), transactional guides & forms BLOOMBERG

EDITORIAL CONTENT  Large staff of attorneys  Headnotes, tags, digest  Citator “to rival the capabilities of Shepard’s and KeyCite” - Kendall Svengalis, Legal Information Buyers Guide

 PLI titles  ~ 30 ABA titles  BNA titles  Getting the Deal Through  BNA Law Reports TREATISES

 Federal cases, code, regulations, and rules; state cases (most from 1950), codes, regulations, and rules  Some editorial, “citator”  Codes have some annotations FASTCASE

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 Cases, statutes, bills/bill tracking, regulations, Shepards/Keycite  Annotations, headnotes WL/LX PLANS

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