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Practical Law
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Practical Law is driven by 650+ seasoned attorney-editors globally whose sole job is to create and maintain timely, reliable, and accurate resources across all major practice areas.
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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 650+ seasoned attorney-editors globally 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.
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Standard documents and clauses
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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.
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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.
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Checklists
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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.
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Additional benefits
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.
Automated documents
Quickly create custom documents using our questionnaires, getting you to a better starting place.
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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Respond to clients faster with resources such as how-to guides and checklists, created by expert attorney-editors.
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Expert attorney-editors ensure you have up-to-date checklists, overviews of legal topics, and more.
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Practical Law Basic
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Litigation or Transactional focused practice areas, with up-to-date ‘how-do-I’ content created by expert attorney-editors, as well as expanded resources types such as sStandard dDocuments and, cClauses.
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Get the most value out of Practical Law with access to our comprehensive collection of all US practice areas, Practical Law resources, and new premium features. Over 650 expert attorney-editors globally obsessively monitor the changes in the law to ensure you have up-to-date resources, providing the questions you should be asking, and guiding you along the process.
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Get access to select practice areas so you can proceed with confidence and efficiency.
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Amplify your efficiency and confidence with full access to Practical Law content like workflow tools, annotated standard documents and clauses, practice notes, checklists, and updates.
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Take your Practical Law content experience to the next level by integrating curated Westlaw legal research with Practical Law into an online resource organized by task and how you work.
Try Practical Law or Practical Law Connect free for 7 days. After your selected trial ends you can sign up for the other one, giving you 14 days total of free access to tools and content.
Try Practical Law or Practical Law Connect free for 7 days. After your selected trial ends you can sign up for the other one, giving you 14 days total of free access to tools and content.
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Practical Law
Access thousands of legal resources created by expert attorney-editors, including annotated standard documents, how-to guides, checklists, and other resources to help you practice more efficiently.