Misspellings and common errors like missing parentheses are corrected (note: three characters or less
in length will not be corrected for misspellings, and words in all capital letters are not corrected).
Unquoted keywords that are abbreviations or common agency acronyms are automatically expanded.
Legal searches on Bloomberg Law ignore common words, such as "of," be," "and," or "the." To search
for a phrase containing such terms, place the phrase in quotation marks.
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OPERATOR |
EXAMPLE |
DESCRIPTION |
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(space) |
securities fraud knowledge |
Terms entered in the Keywords field without an operator will interpret them joined by AND |
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AND |
change and "res judicata" |
Returns results that contain both search terms/phrases. |
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OR |
default or foreclosure |
Returns results that contain at least one of the search terms/phrases. |
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NOT, AND NOT, BUT NOT |
collateral not estoppel |
Returns results that do not contain the identified term/phrase. |
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“ “ |
standard and "expedited proceeding" |
Returns results that contain an exact phrase. |
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^ “ “ |
^"arm" |
Returns case sensitive results that contain an exact phrase. |
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( ) |
trade secrets and (discovery or acquisition) |
Used to nest multi-part searches and control the order in which search operations are performed. |
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* |
Fact* |
Returns recognized terms that match any single character in the middle or at the end of a word. |
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! |
fact! |
Returns recognized terms that match any number of characters in the middle or end of a word. |
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N/x, /x, W/x |
(motion n/3 approve) n/5 collateral |
Returns results that contain search terms within a specified range of a term, regardless of the order in which the terms appear. |
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NP/x, PRE/x, +x |
transcript np/5 clerk |
Returns results that contain search terms within a specified range of a term in a specified order. |
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S/, /S, /SENT |
motion s/ denied |
Returns results that contain search terms within the same sentence. |
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P/, /P, /PARA |
respondent p/ answer |
Returns results that contain search terms within the same paragraph. |
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ATLx, ATLEASTx |
atl5(forum shopping) |
Returns results with at least a specified number of occurrences of a search term/phrase. |
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ATMx |
atm5(fraud) |
Returns results with at most a specified number of occurrences of a search term/phrase. |