How-to legal content
Practical Law
Expertly written legal content. Time-saving templates. Dedicated how-to guidance.
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Practical Law is driven by 300+ seasoned attorney-editors whose sole job is to create and maintain timely, reliable, and accurate resources across all major practice areas.
How-to guidance
Easily and expertly apply your new knowledge with practical resources to help you work efficiently and with confidence.
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Spend less time searching for a template, building a presentation, or delving into an unfamiliar area with easy-to-use tools that provide a great starting point.
Tap into a team of experts
Practical Law is driven by 300+ seasoned attorney-editors whose sole job is to create and maintain timely, reliable, and accurate resources across all major practice areas.
How-to guidance
Easily and expertly apply your new knowledge with practical resources to help you work efficiently and with confidence.
Jumpstart your work
Spend less time searching for a template, building a presentation, or delving into an unfamiliar area with easy-to-use tools that provide a great starting point.
See how our time-saving content and tools fit into your daily work
Practice notes
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Practice notes provide plain language explanations of complex legal issues and help you get up to speed on a new or existing matter, allowing you to do more work in less time.
Checklists
Complete tasks with confidence
Legal checklists are presented in the form of timelines, flow charts, tables, decision trees, and lists of issues, ensuring end-to-end completion of any legal matter.
Standard documents and clauses
Accelerate the drafting process
Access up-to-date documents and clauses, filled with drafting annotations, notes, and negotiation tips, provided in the recommended legal language of our expert attorney-editors.
Essential features
What’s Market
Gain access to a database of summaries for publicly filed deals. Analyze and compare terms or features across multiple deals and link to underlying public documents.
Toolkits
Toolkits provide broad coverage of a topic with a collection of standard documents, practice notes, and legal updates that enable you to complete your work with confidence.
Matter Maps
Get an overview of everything that needs to be done on a given matter, with links to relevant Practical Law resources, all in one place.
State Q&A
Find answers to state law questions and compare laws across multiple jurisdictions.
Legal updates
Stay on top of the latest legal news and market developments in your practice area.
Global guides and cross-border topics
Resources that help you get up to speed on doing deals and conducting business around the world.
What’s New
Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set
Even more ways to unlock the power of Practical Law expertise
Navigate, visualize, compare, and interact with Practical Law resources and content to generate new, deeper insights and get the answers you need faster.
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Basic plan
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Expert attorney-editors ensure you have up-to-date checklists, overviews of legal topics, and more.
Expanded plan
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Access all the content in Practical Law Basic along with continually maintained and up-to-date standard documents, forms, and clauses with detailed annotations.
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Gain access to all the transactional and litigation Practical Law content, along with how-to guidance from our attorney-editors.
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Comprehensive plan
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Integrated plan
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Integrate Practical Law resources with Westlaw legal research, organized by task and the way you work.
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Basic plan
Practical Law Basic
Get full access to thousands of how-to guides created by attorney-editors, so you can proceed with confidence and efficiency.
Expanded plan
Practical Law
Includes all Practical Law content and time-saving tools to keep your department efficient, current, and in compliance.
Premium plan
Practical Law Connect
Integrate Practical Law resources with curated Westlaw legal research, organized by task and the way you work.
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Standard plan
Practical Law
Access thousands of legal resources created by expert attorney-editors, including how-to guides, checklists, and other resources to help you practice more efficiently.
Integrated plan
Practical Law with Westlaw Edge
Complete tasks faster and more efficiently by integrating Practical Law know-how with the leading research functionality of Westlaw Edge, including access to all State and Federal primary law.
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