Legal News - to find noteworthy cases decided or pending before your judge; such sources can also sometimes uncover trends implicated by your judge's cases, contextualizing with other cases or legal developments:

• Law 360 - Search for your judge's name and click on "News & Analysis" at the left; the topical filters at the left side of the screen, with numbers in parentheses showing the number of stories in each category, gives a notion of the "hot topics" your judge has been involved in since about 2004 (Law 360's inception). You can use the filters for topical legal news searching too (e.g., consumer law, bankruptcy, class actions).
• US Law Week - Widely used for current awareness of legal developments of general interest. Use the simple search box at the top right to search for your judge's name, then click in the results list for "News" items (number of results is noted in parentheses).
  
• Bloomberg BNA's list of topical news sources (pick a "Report" or "Reporter" title from the list) - used widely by practitioners and scholars to keep track of developments in their field; read short blurbs about recent cases or rulings, to find out what your judge has been involved with that is noteworthy to specialists:
• use the simple search box at the top right to look for your judge's name; OR
• filter by "Courts" (on the left side of the screen) to get a list of blurbs from the past 6 months from your judge's court

General News - find recent press coverage about your judge:

• Major dailies: current coverage of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times via Proquest Newspapers
• Local interest: one of the easier news sources to use for local newspaper coverage is Access World News:
• Drill down on the map to the USA and select your state (or click on "Select Multiple States and Territories") or region (click on "Region" in the list of filters at the left side; select one of the 9 US regions or "Select Multiple Regions")
• Appointment process: Use a date range of up to one year before and a couple of months after your judge's appointment as date limiters to focus on news surrounding the nomination and confirmation process
• consider using a state- or region-specific search in Access World News (described above) focused on the local papers where your judge was based immdeiately before appointment
• for federal appointments, search the Washington Post, available via Lexis Nexis Academic (this link searches just that newspaper)

In addition to the cases you found via Westlaw's Profiler (see Bio/Career Basics tab in this guide) and/or noteworthy cases you may have come across in biographical listings (see Bio/Career Basics tab in this guide) or legal and other news about your judge (see News Searches box above in this tab), you can search directly in case databases for decisions by your judge. Here are some steps to be as complete but as efficient as possible:

• Search all three major case law resources (Westlaw, Lexis and Bloomberg), since coverage may differ
• Search for your judge's name in the "judge" field, but be careful in applying jurisdiction limits - for example, in searching for a federal district court judge's decisions, remember s/he may have sat by designation on an appellate case, so don't limit by jurdiction to the district court:
• in Westlaw, use JU(firstname w/3 lastname) - e.g. JU(Loretta w/3 Preska)
• in Lexis, use JUDGE(firstname w/3 lastname) - e.g. JUDGE(Loretta w/3 Preska)
• in Bloomberg, under "Search and Browse" choose "Search Opinions" to use the Judge field
• NOTE: if this finds 0 or very few results, there has been a bug in tagging that judge's opinions; go back to the search template and try the judge's name in the Keywords field (e.g., "Loretta n/2 Preska" and use limit in the Date field to dates after your judge's appointment
• Add keywords (or citations) to your search to find your judge's decisions involving topics of interest to you:
• be flexible about citation forms if you want to search for decisions that discuss particular statutes, regulations or cases, since using an exact phrase search can miss decisions where the citation was not formatted exactly the same way as yours.

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