A Look at US Law Week

The United States Law Week, a Bureau of National Affairs publication, is now available to anyone on the Pierce Law network. The periodical is published weekly except for the last week of July, the first week of September, and the last week of December. Included are all issues published since June 24, 1997. The publication reports on "significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments."

• Issues are presented in reverse chronological order.
• Each issue is arranged by: Section (in BLACK, boldface), Topic (in Red, boldface), and then by Documents (in black, non-bolded)
• Sections within The U.S. Law Week can include:

Summary & Analysis

Analysis & Perspective

Legal News

Conference Report

Electronic Resources

Highlights

The Supreme Court Today component of Law Week is a searchable database, with daily updates of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, annual reviews of the Court's decisions, etc.

SEARCHING BNA's US Law Week or its Indexes (limited to 2003-Present)

• The search function is NOT case-sensitive
• Between terms the search defaults to AND.
• OR (or a vertical bar, )
• NOT (or an exclamation mark, !)
• NEAR (proximity searching)
• Phrase Searching "phrase between quotes"
• Supported wildcards include * and ?

* replaces zero or more characters

? replaces only one character

• Nested searches are allowed - use parentheses (place nested search in here)

Feel free to also peruse the licensing agreement with BNA for the use of this database.