Research Guides : Business Legal Research: Company News and Research

Wall Street Journal Law Blog

DealBreaker

NewsLink

NewsLink
Use NewsLink to find business newspapers. Organized by region.

Business Blogs

Corporate Blogs can be a useful way to get current news about businesses. Below are just a few:

Business Law Prof Blog

Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog

Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

Deal Professor

DealBreaker

Wall Street Journal Law Blog

Directories

Hoovers
Subscription required. Limited information is available without a subscription.
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Yahoo Finance Company & Fund Index
Company profiles, contact information, business summaries, officer and employeee information, sector and industry classifications, business and earnings summaries, and financial statistics and ratios.
Corporate Information
Some information available without a subscription.
Dun & Bradstreet
Private & public companies. Free information includes address and whether the entity is single location, branch, or headquarters. All other information is fee-based.
Vault
Meant for career searching but includes great summaries of companies including company culture for employees. Some services subscription based.
Kompass
Includes foreign companies.
Mergent
Mergent Online provides U.S. company data as well as international company data including U.S. company data for over 15,000 public companies and their SEC filings, U.S. annual reports, international company data for approximately 17,000 companies, international annual reports, FactSheets, and country information.
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Subscription based. Must be logged into off-campus access.
Official Board
Official Board provides organizational charts of companies. Great for finding where an employee falls within the hierarchy.
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Free account will allow for 15 company views.

Professional Organizations

Bloomberg BNA

Bloomberg BNA is a seperate subscription based service from Bloomberg Law (although much of the content is becoming available on Bloomberg Law). It is has resource centers that are great current awareness tools with BNA insights from industry leaders as well as news and secondary materials. Below are a few different resource centers that you may find useful. Must log into off-campus access.