Move from questions to work product faster with AI-driven Search & Summarize Practical Law
Highlights
- Legal professionals shouldn't be expected to have instant recall of every law. Fast, reliable tools help you find accurate answers when time matters most.
- Advanced AI built on curated legal data helps prevent hallucinations and misleading information, ensuring accuracy and transparency in your professional work.
- Your legal knowledge is invaluable for strategy and application. Let technology handle the searching so you can concentrate on high-value client work.
When a client or colleague has a “quick question” for you, how often do you have a “quick answer”? Maybe their question is about recent amendments to the Competition Act or filing an appeal with the Industrial Relations Board. Despite years of law school and practice, you might not have those answers off the top of your head, nor should you be expected to.
When questions arise in practice areas with ongoing changes or those you don’t work in regularly, it’s not necessary or realistic to have instant recall of every law. You just need fast, reliable tools to find the answers. For those times when a “quick question” requires research, validation, and a clear explanation, Practical Law Canada can help you find the right answer faster.
Instead of spending valuable time hunting down answers, Search & Summarize Practical Law helps you find reliable legal insights quickly and communicate them effectively.
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Search & Summarize Practical Law is a tool designed to streamline your work. It examines the vast Practical Law collection, extracts key insights, and provides concise summaries – so you can move from question to actionable knowledge in a fraction of the time, surpassing the speed of traditional search methods. Because this tool is built on Practical Law’s trusted content, you can be confident in its response accuracy. Additionally, with footnotes linking to sources, verification is always within easy reach.
A safeguard against errors
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to revolutionize the practice of law. It also has the power to create information that doesn’t exist, called hallucinations. Using Thomson Reuters AI legal assistant CoCounsel, Practical Law provides output you can trust. It is built on a carefully curated, closed set of data, ensuring a high level of accuracy. If the system lacks sufficient information to respond, it will communicate this clearly, upholding transparency and reliability in its operations. This safeguard helps prevent hallucinations and misleading summaries.
Trusted by leading legal professionals
Practical Law has earned its reputation as a cornerstone of legal practice know-how. Here’s why professionals across Canada rely on it:
- A team of expert attorney editors, with an average of 12–14 years of experience, curate and update the content.
- Every resource undergoes rigorous peer review and follows a strict publication process.
- Provincial expertise means you can easily review and compare laws in different jurisdictions.
- The editors search hundreds of sources to monitor new and emerging legal trends. They continuously add new resources to provide the most up-to-date guidance for informed decision making.
- Knowledge Maps provide a digital overview of every aspect of a matter.
- What’s Market enables high-speed comparison of market practices across a wide range of public deals and agreements.
- More than 140,000 lawyers worldwide already use Practical Law.
How it works
Using Search & Summarize Practical Law is simple:
- On the Practical Law home page, click “Access Now” in the Search & Summarize box to the right.
- Enter your natural language legal question in the prompt box.
- Let the AI tool generate a summary, backed by Practical Law resources.
- Review the cited materials, explore related insights, or refine your query with follow-ups.
Search and Summarize Practical Law retains your search history, ensures contextual accuracy, and delivers answers you can trust.
Focus on strategy, not searching
Your legal expertise is invaluable, but spending half an hour crafting a simple explanation or searching for case law isn’t the best use of your time. Clients and colleagues count on your ability to apply legal concepts effectively, not to memorize statutes on demand. With Search & Summarize Practical Law, you gain quick access to key legal insights, helping your team move forward confidently and efficiently.
Want to gain more time for work product and high-value tasks? Explore Search & Summarize Practical Law, watch demonstrations, and discover how this tool can streamline your practice.
