CRIV CONNECTION

Author: Deanna Barmakian, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Research & Student Services Librarian, Harvard Law School Library

On November 20, 2025, Madeline Cohen, library relations director at Bloomberg Law met with CRIV to provide an update on feature and content developments in the past six months. The conversation centered on docket coverage and related tools, expansion of AI-related features, and increased content offerings in anticipation of ALM content migration.

Docket Content and Feature Enhancements

Bloomberg Law has added docket coverage for 255 courts in Iowa, Georgia, Maryland, and North Carolina.

A new docket landing page was released this summer. While the docket search template is still available, the landing page allows navigation to docket-related tools such as current tracks and alerts, pricing, court coverage and outages (updated in real time), and a U.S. state heat map indicating depth of coverage. A Search Advisor feature suggests additional dockets to track based on existing tracks.

The docket landing page also links to the new Expert Witness Search. Expert Witness content is derived not just from dockets but also from case law and news.

Other incremental enhancements to dockets:

• When viewing a docket, if there is news coverage of litigation, there is now a link on the right to Related News.
• For federal dockets, Bloomberg Law has added topic access beyond Nature of Suit codes for heavily litigated current topics such as anti-DEI, Cryptocurrency, and others.
• AI-generated complaint summaries are being added for state cases. Coverage is mainly for state cases in California, New York, and New Jersey, but will expand.
• Docket search results will preview matching dockets more clearly.

Bloomberg Law is aware that firm-wide docket monitoring is situated on personal accounts, which can be problematic when positions change. Developers are enhancing docket administration tools to more easily facilitate handovers of docket tracks.

Representation Analytics was released last year to explore which attorneys or firms represent a company, in which courts, and on what areas of law. It will now include complaint summaries if they exist. (Enter a company, click next, and filter by court, case type, and/or class action.)

Developments Related to ALM Content Removal

AALL members are aware that ALM has decided not to license their content to other platforms starting in 2026. In anticipation, Bloomberg Law has developed a verdict database, increased legal news coverage, and added new rankings.

Verdicts and Settlements

Bloomberg Law recently released a Verdicts and Settlements database. It currently has 87,000 verdicts and settlements from 18 jurisdictions and will continue to grow. Users can search or filter by practice area, monetary range, jurisdiction and other parameters. It’s possible to set alerts.

Legal News

Legal news coverage on Bloomberg Law continues to expand. They have hired more reporters and are covering more topics. (Find the list of topics and newsletters using the News & Analysis pulldown and hovering on Bloomberg Law News or via the law news landing page.) While some news from the Bloomberg Terminal was already available on Bloomberg Law, they are increasing the percentage of material made available from the terminal.

Relatedly, for those subscribed to daily or weekly newsletters, it is now possible to combine up to five in one email. Bloomberg Law currently publishes 54 newsletters, including U.S Law Week, Daily Labor Report, and Environment and Energy Report.

Surveys, Reports & Data Analysis

The 2025 State of Practice Survey was the subject of a recent AALL/Bloomberg Law Partner Webinar (recording on AALL eLearning) and is available from the Surveys, Reports & Data Analysis landing page.

There are several rankings available from that page. They include: 40 Under 40 (young lawyers of notable achievement); Leading Law Firms (ranking firms on finances, talent, growth and innovation); and Unrivaled (32 notable trial lawyers handling high-stakes cases).

AI-Assistant and Answers

AI-generated features are expanding. Recent changes include:

• The Chart Builder Skill is now available in Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Tax Answers, not just in the AI Assistant.
• While the system is generating an AI Answer, users will see a masked stream, so they know the system is working on an answer.
• AI answers can now be exported to MS Word and will automatically include a notice that the answer is AI-Generated.
• Within the AI Assistant, the system is now capable of asking clarifying questions if it determines more information is needed to provide a sufficient answer.

Bloomberg Law developers are working on adding agentic AI functionality.

Best Match for Known Document Searches

When users type an ambiguous or incomplete citation to a case, statute, docket or other known source, the system will display a linked Best Match field and display it above search results.

Bloomberg Law 2026

The Bloomberg Law 2026 is an outlook series with monitoring and analysis on topics that will impact the practice of law. Legal analysts highlight developments in four categories: Litigation; Executive Orders and Authority; Corporations & Transactions; and Artificial Intelligence.