Gov. Agencies Regulating Companies
For articles about private and public companies culled from 6,000 journals, go to the Dow Jones Publications Library at http://www.hoovers.com. For local business news from 35 local business journals (San Francisco and San Jose are the only California cities available here), check out http://www.amcity.com.
The Orange County (California) Business Journal is at http://www.ocbj.com/ocbj.htm.
The New
York Times’ site is http://www.nyt.com. The Wall Street
Journal’s is http://www.wsj.com and the Los Angeles Times
is at http://latimes.com.
For links to legal newspapers, Law.com (formerly American Lawyer Media’s online division), provides a search engine to their 21 legal newspapers (including the American Lawyer, National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal) at http://www.law.com.
Use FindLaw to search legal news at http://legalnews.findlaw.com/.
See Callaw at http://www.callaw.com for California legal news (only part of this site is free).
Hieros Gamos at http://www.hg.org/newschart.html provides hourly legal news updates in 60 practice areas.
Bookmark Internet
For Lawyers' Legal News page at http://www.netforlawyers.com/ifllegalnews.htm for links to all of these
sources and more.
To find off
the beaten track information about a company or
executive, try searching mailing lists at Google
Groups at http://groups.google.com (formerly Deja News)
Need a
picture to go along with the news article? See Ditto.com
at http://www.ditto.com.
Government Agencies Regulating
Companies
Many government agencies provide information about companies that they regulate, including any legal action taken against them. For example, check the Federal Communications Commission web site at http://www.fcc.gov if you are researching a merger in the telecommunications industry.
You can locate the URLs for agencies by using Louisiana State University’s U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory site, where you can search by keyword. It can be found at http://origin.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html.
