Convergence for Legal Professionals

The latest information, customized to meet your needsOffering a unique solution for current awareness monitoring, Convergence for Legal Professionals tracks, filters, and delivers highly relevant, critical information. Searches can be tailored to the specific needs of the firm or client, delivering information on marketing and business development opportunities and competitive intelligence as well as events or media coverage of individuals and organizations.

Convergence provides an unmatched combination of robust search, filtering power, and simplicity to harness a range of continually updated global news sources — and government and legal publications — to provide your firm or clients the information you need to make better, more informed decisions.

Patented search technologyPowered by patented search technology, Convergence’s easy-to-use taxonomy returns relevant, precise search results from a database of tens of thousands of tagged sources. Search high-level topics — Companies & Organizations; Industries, Law; Business; Government & Politics; Healthcare; Tax & Accounting; Other Topics — and then rely on the Convergence taxonomy for additional levels and sublevels of detail that ensure the quality of search results.

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Convergence leverages multiple news sources, focusing search results and filtering by thousands of topics, practice areas, locations, company names, and more. An intuitive interface allows you to build powerful searches with a few clicks on our pre-built filters. Full Boolean search operators are also available.

Easy setup and deliveryAfter establishing your search parameters, Convergence’s alerting functionality allows you to schedule start and end dates and the timing and recurrence of notifications. You can also create and save distribution lists for email notification. Search results can be integrated into intranet or shared internal websites for easy access or shared externally as emails or customized newsletters. And you can manage content and distribute it the way you want (e.g., reports, dashboards, RSS, HTML, API). Convergence’s mobile app provides on-the-go access to search results.

Convergence also allows you to curate articles, reports, and information, providing flexibility in gathering and disseminating information.

High-quality dashboards and reportsSearch results can be formatted in Convergence dashboards to provide quick, current views of the information that matters most. You can choose from tens of thousands of pre-built dashboards or you can customize a dashboard to meet your specific needs.

“Supercharge your library’s ability to find and deliver information. Convergence enables you to create branded reports using their taxonomy searches, your keywords. Now on a daily basis we can send automated and curated reports meeting the information needs of users. The system is easy to learn and coupled with excellent customer service.”JENNIFER SPECTORThompson Coburn LLPElectronic Resources LibrarianOne US Bank PlazaSt. Louis, Missouri 63101www.thompsoncoburn.com

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Creating publishing opportunitiesWith Convergence, you can create customized newsletters that place your firm or organization on the cutting edge of thought leadership. You can monitor the competitive landscape, leverage industry information to showcase your practice or expertise, or track your organization’s position in the marketplace. Relying on Convergence, the possibilities for developing your business, gaining competitive intelligence, and generating brand awareness are virtually unlimited.

Complementing a Bloomberg Law subscriptionAs a subscriber to the complete Bloomberg Law® platform, Convergence allows you to integrate our Dockets into your client alerts. Also, alerts shared on an intranet site or circulated internally will provide linked access to all Bloomberg BNA Law Reports and other news sources and current awareness sources on the platform.

“[Convergence] allows me to control the content sources, the look and feel, the frequency, and the distribution lists of the alerts I create and keeps me informed about the topics I’m monitoring.”ELAINE LEEBaker & Hostetler LLPContent Integration Lead