Career Research: Profiles & Directories

Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges,1789-Present

NALP Directory of Legal Employers - NALP's description states: "[P]rovides specific information on law firms, government agencies, public interest organizations, and corporations, including lawyer demographics, practice areas, compensation and benefits, diversity and inclusion practices, and other valuable information about legal employers." 

• Tip: Researchers can restrict searches by: practice area, location, employer size range and/or organizations that hire 1Ls/domestic LL.M.s/foreign LL.M.s.

PSJD [a NALP initiative]: Your Pathway to Public Service Legal Careers

• Tip: PSJD states: "Students and alums of our subscribing schools may register for jobseeker accounts on PSJD for free—just let us know your school affiliation and class year so we can confirm your status with your alma mater."

Bloomberg Law - home screen link to: Career Resources

Provides:

• New York Judge Reviews and Court Directory (15th ed., c2017)

Offers Judicial Clerkship Resources, including profiles of judges + judicial analytics for U.S. District Court judges.

Includes Law Firm News.

• Tip: Begin typing a law firm's name.  Often, Bloomberg Law will prompt you to an entry about the firm.

Includes Litigation Analytics (enter name of: company, law firm, U.S. District Court, U.S. District Court judge or attorney).

Links to Dockets Search, a template to find case documents filed with courts.

• Tip: Search Dockets Search by name of an attorney or law firm to learn about a lawyer's or firm's current cases. 

Includes a People Search template.

Includes a Business Intelligence Center and a Company Screener.

Alternate research approach to obtain 4,000+ profiles of judges in U.S. federal and state courts (updated monthly): Type: ALM Judicial Profiles in Bloomberg Law's search box on the home screen.

If a current BLS law student, faculty member or administrator does not have a Bloomberg Law account, click here & register with your BLS email.  (You do not need an activation code, but you do need to wait for a reply email from Bloomberg Law before you can activate your new account.)

Litigation Analytics - Supports analysis of the litigation track record of judges, courts, attorneys and law firms.

• For U.S. District Courts, includes tool: Compare Courts & Judges.

Lexis+ requires you to enter your Lexis+ username and password.

Practical Law > What's Market - Allows a researcher to choose a type of content (such as: public merger agreements) and to search by law firm name and/or attorney name.

Profiler - Provides a search template to obtain profiles of judges, practitioners, law firms and courts in the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada and Europe. Entries often links to cases, case dockets, briefs and other filings.

Profiler's template supports searching by name, city, state and/or practice area.  

To search for lawyers' undergraduate schools in Profiler, try using Westlaw's but not search feature, for example:         

Unfortunately, the search above will not retrieve those who attended the same university for both college and law school.  BLS librarians have asked Westlaw's usability group to add Profiler fields for undergraduate affiliation and law school affiliation.  

West Legal Directory - Contains over a million profiles of law firms/branch offices and biographical records of attorneys in any of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada and Europe. Useful if you want to search for lawyers by practice area or by geographic location.   

Litigation Analytics - Provides analytics for attorneys, law firms, judges, courts and companies.

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