Legal DeskNew legal items by practice area, ranked with the reasons shown.
- 8-K legal items, litigation and regulatory flags, federal rules, recalls and sanctions context in one wall
- Practice areas: securities, M&A, antitrust, trade and sanctions, environmental, healthcare and life sciences, employment, data privacy
- A filter for the client companies of your firm's matters
- Regulatory Tracker: rules and proposed rules by practice area, open comment periods first with their deadline
In the app: Workflows, Legal WorkflowCase BuilderA chronology of the public record on a company, inside a matter.
- Filings and their 8-K items, Watchtower flags, Federal Register documents that name the company, recalls, federal contracts and news, oldest first
- Choose the company and the dates
- Export to a Hub document shared with the matter, every line linked to its source
In the app: a matter in your firm workspaceFiling eventsThe 8-K items a lawyer reads first, as soon as they are filed.
- Non-reliance on prior financials, auditor change, bankruptcy, debt acceleration, impairment, officer changes, listing notices, change in control
- Late-filing notices (NT 10-K and NT 10-Q)
- Each item opens the filing on SEC EDGAR
In the app: the Legal tab on every company pageWatchtowerRed flags on the companies you follow, ranked by severity.
- New litigation: a legal proceeding reported in an 8-K or 6-K, or new in a 10-K or 10-Q
- New risk factors: a risk factor the previous report did not list
- Your own severity or mute for each rule
In the app: Workflows, Hedge Fund Workflow, and the company Legal tabFederal rulesRules, notices and hearings from the federal government.
- Federal Register documents that name a company, on its Legal tab
- The United States desk: federal pulse and a calendar of rules and hearings
- A regulatory watch note template in the Hub
In the app: company Legal tab, Risk Atlas, United States deskCountry contextSanctions and regulatory context in the countries a company does business in.
- Countries of business read from the company's annual report, with the sentence quoted
- For each, the Risk Atlas regulatory score, its sanctions and governance themes, and sanctions and policy events in 90 days
- The knowledge graph shows how a company links to a country or another company, link by link
In the app: company Legal and Country risk tabs, Risk Atlas, Graph