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Bloomberg Law

U.S. center, business- and legal-professional-oriented

Owned byBloomberg Industry Group, Inc., an affiliate of Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. is privately held, and majority owner Michael Bloomberg controls it.

FundingPaid subscriptions to its legal research, news and analytics products for law firms, corporations and government. Some content is free or advertising-supported. It has no donor or state funding.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Bloomberg Law grew out of the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), founded in 1929 by David Lawrence. BNA became employee-owned in 1947 and was, by its own account, the oldest employee-owned company in the U.S. Bloomberg L.P. bought it in September 2011, and it was renamed Bloomberg BNA. In September 2019 the company became Bloomberg Industry Group, which also includes Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Tax & Accounting. Bloomberg Law combines legal research tools, practice resources and a news service covering courts, litigation, labor, tax, environment and regulatory topics. Its audience is professionals, so its coverage is generally explanatory and practical rather than opinionated, apart from signed commentary sections. Recent stories on the Trump administration cover deregulation efforts, antitrust enforcement, litigation with states such as California, and judges facing more requests to enforce rulings against the federal government. These stories mostly report on how policies play out in law and practice, and they include both agency aims and the problems agencies face. Its perspective is shaped by its business and legal audience and by its ties to the wider Bloomberg organization, which is owned by a prominent figure in U.S. politics and philanthropy.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-10; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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