In recent months Bloomberg BNA has been introducing changes to the format, timing and delivery of their various publications and platforms. Some newsletters are being discontinued, some newsletters are being merged into channels, other newsletters will only be available in a practice center, some practice centers will only be available on the Bloomberg Law platform. For a company that wowed the market with their promise of simplified, standard pricing, the Bloomberg Law acquisition of the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) has become a multi-year content migration
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Bloomberg Law: New Leadership. New Products: SEC Administrative Analytics and Practical Guidance and “Hot Topic” News
Today I learned that Joe Breda who had been the Executive Vice President, Product has replaced Scott Mozarsky as the President of Bloomberg Law. Mozarsky has been President since November 2016, replacing David Perla.
The other big news from Bloomberg Law is the new features and products which are being released in advance of the American Association of Law Libraries Conference which starts this Saturday in Baltimore.
New features including interactive practice tools, practical guidance resources and new customizable real times news.
Practical Guidance I have repeatedly noted that the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA- now part of Bloomberg Law) offered practical guidance in their Tax Management Portfolios and Corporate Practice portfolios decades before Practical Law emerged from the UK Practice Support Lawyer market. Bloomberg law has been quietly building out and expanding their practice guidance resources. Bloomberg Law now has 30 Practical Guidance suites including 3,000 practice tools, checklists, timelines and annotated forms covering more than 200 topics including GDPR, health care, cybersecurity, corporate and commercial transactions, compliance, labor and employment. There is a new launch page which offers access to step by step guidance on specific workflows and which promise to guide a lawyer from the beginning to the end of a specific process such as “an initial coin offering.”
According to Breda these resources offer broader and deeper practice guidance, noting that “We have organized our practical guidance suites to be more task-centered, guided by feedback from our customers.” As efficiency and consistency have become core client expectations, Breda
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BloombergBNA: Maybe the Fault Is not in the Gatekeepers But in Your Product Strategy?
On Tuesday BloomberBNA’s President David Perla published a post on Above the Law lashing out at law firm “gatekeepers.” I am a big fan of the Bloomberg products and I think Perla brought a necessary entrepreneurial perspective to BloombergBNA. But Perla’s post was uncharacteristically condescending and well… snarky…which made me wonder if BloombergBNA