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PRACTICE CENTERS

E-Discovery Practice Center

The E-Discovery Practice Center is a true differentiator that builds upon the Bloomberg BNA legacy of being the first to market in the e-discovery advisory, guidance, and current awareness arenas. The E-Discovery Practice Center is a comprehensive solution for attorneys and their support teams who require authoritative information and guidance on obtaining, handling, and deploying electronically stored evidence. Key features include an expansive collection of federal and state e-discovery court opinions and dockets; Bloomberg BNA’s Digital Discovery and e-Evidence Law Report; dedicated Bloomberg BNA Portfolio coverage; model documents, forms, and legal analysis for each phase of the e-discovery process; and state-specific coverage.

Corporate Practice Center; Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions

An Annual IPO and M&A Reports Archive page has been added to the Corporate Practice Center and Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions. It includes annual market trend analysis information for IPO and M&A deals and would be of interest to capital markets, M&A, and securities attorneys who are interested in recent trends and business development.

Labor & Employment

A new State Leave Laws Chart has been added to provide a one-stop overview of all the varieties of leave required under state laws. The chart covers 10 main categories of leave across all 50 states, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico, with links to the relevant state law summaries. This has been a hot area for legislative action around the states, particularly with respect to paid family and medical/sick leave.

Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security

A new Country Profile for Guernsey is now live on Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security. This brings the number of Country Profiles on the platform to 62. Updates have also been made to the country profiles for Bulgaria, China, Germany, and Mexico.

PRACTICAL GUIDANCE

Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Center

A new practical guidance suite on Determining COBRA Compliance was added to the Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Center.

Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions

A new document was added to the Capital Markets Practical Guidance: Overview: SEC Draft Registration Review, available on the Corporate Practice Center and Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions. This overview was added to reflect a major change announced last month by the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, allowing, as of July 10, all potential issuers to submit to Corp Fin for nonpublic review: (1) draft registration statements relating to initial public offerings; (2) Exchange Act registrations; and (3) most other offerings made in the first year after going public (Follow-On Offerings). Prior to this change, only an “emerging growth company” could make such confidential submissions.

IN FOCUS: BLOCKCHAIN PRACTICE PAGE

Tech & Telecom, Banking and Corporate Practice Centers

A blockchain is a distributed database used to maintain a continuously growing list of records, called blocks. Proponents believe it will fundamentally alter multiple industries and transaction processes. In Focus: Blockchain – added to the Tech & Telecom, Corporate, and Banking Practice Centers – pulls together coverage of legal and regulatory issues, intellectual property analysis, news, and practical guidance related to this highly-visible distributed ledger/database technology.

ANALYTICS; TRACKERS

Banking & Finance Practice Center

A new OCC Enforcement Analytics page provides a visual breakdown of enforcement trends, using data compiled in the new OCC Enforcement Tracker.

The new OCC Enforcement Tracker covers all of the approximately 200 enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency from 2015 to date. This tool also organizes the enforcement actions by respondent type, penalty amount, and 18 substantive topics.

The new OCC Enforcement Analytics page sorts that information into charts and graphs that, for example, identify the top issues resulting in OCC enforcement activity, the number of actions involving individuals versus institutions, and which issues or respondent types have resulted in the largest monetary penalties. OCC Enforcement Analytics provides a more complete picture of OCC enforcement trends, which helps users provide their clients with better predictive analysis of the OCC’s approach to the enforcement of federal banking laws and regulations.

The new State Legislation & Regulations Tracker on the Banking & Finance Practice Center identifies state-level legislation and regulations that have taken effect in 2017 that are covered by our Banking Chart Builders.

Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions and Corporate Practice Center

The analytics for both the Quarterly M&A Market Update and the Quarterly Cross – Border Market Update have been refreshed to reflect trends and developments from 2Q17; available on the Corporate Practice Center and Bloomberg Law: Corporate Transactions.

The analytics for the Quarterly IPO Update – U.S. has been refreshed to reflect trends and developments from 2Q17; available on the Corporate Practice Center.

BBNA BOOKS

The PTAB Handbook

An updated version of The PTAB Handbook, current through May 1, 2017, is now available on Bloomberg Law. This resource gathers intellectual property decisions issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO into a single, useful reference that informs readers of the best methods for conducting work before the Board.

SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY

Search Contexts

The search “contexts” previously in the dropdown menu to the left of the search bar will now display as radio buttons below the Search Bar. This makes search context options more transparent and easier for users to select and change.

Search Home and Favorites

Bloomberg Law is introducing the ability for users to set a search window as their homepage or a favorite. By clicking one of these buttons, users will be able to quickly access frequently used search forms either upon logon or by clicking a link from My Favorites on the home page. At the same time, Bloomberg Law is deprecating the Advanced Searches link from the All Legal Content form. This functionality is replaced by the home and favorite functionality. It also simplifies the form by removing navigation that some users found confusing.

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