Practical Law features
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Standard documents and clauses
Eliminate the need to start from scratch with annotated templates containing embedded drafting notes and clause-by-clause guidance.
Practice notes
Save time with how-to guides written by attorney experts, legal primers on the law, high-level overviews, and detailed analyses on narrow topics. All designed to be read in 20 minutes or less.
Checklists
Get a 360-degree view of a project or legal task with one-stop-shop access to updated, relevant resources with step-by-step explanations. Easy-to-use formats include bulleted checklists, timelines, tables, decision trees, and more.
Matter maps
Access a visual step-by-step process for tasks on a variety of legal matters with links to relevant Practical Law resources.
Toolkits
Optimize your work with a collection of how-to guides, document templates, checklists, and legal updates — all in one place.
Legal updates
Keep up with changes in the law and regulations in your practice area. Subscribe to weekly or monthly legal updates.
Presentation materials
Pre-built, off-the-shelf collection of presentation materials. Great for internal training or presenting topics of interest to your clients or business partners.
Gain insights in minutes with tools that enable you to easily search, compare, draft, and analyze your legal matter.
State Q&A
Save hours on research when comparing law across multiple states. State guides are organized by topic over multiple practice areas on legal matters involving one or many states.
What's Market
Search, analyze, and compare deals and public filings summarized by our experts. Quickly compare terms or features across multiple deals and access underlying public documents.
Automated documents
Quickly draft custom agreements and contracts using guided questionnaires powered by Contract Express. Then create a unique document you can edit and download in Word.
Dynamic search
We combine the power of artificial intelligence with Practical Law’s editorial knowledge so your searches get editorially created answers with links to related content.
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State-of-the-art tools allow you to visualize content in dynamic ways.
Knowledge map
Broaden your research to find additional relevant resources with a visual map of related topics to consider.
Interactive matter maps
Customize and organize phases of your project with matter maps. Add or remove tasks, include additional Practical Law resources, or build your own map to share with colleagues.
Quick compare
Identify and compare local laws that answer critical questions across states faster with custom charts. Select the jurisdictions, topics, and data points that matter to you.
What's Market Analysis
Get insights and information quickly by creating compelling charts and graphs to visualize and share deal terms and market trends easily. Fueled by What’s Market.
Our attorney-editors reliably monitor changes in the law to ensure you have up-to-date resources for the topics and jurisdictions that matter to you.
Domestic Coverage
Practical Law resources cover content for all 50 state jurisdictions, 10 business sectors, and 17 major practice areas.
Practical Law The Journal
The trusted companion to our online services. Practical Law The Journal covers the latest topics across major practice areas with focused editions available for Transactions & Business and Litigation.
Global Content
Practical Law Global is designed for the cross-border legal professional. Navigate complex legal matters and transactions to meet the needs of your clients’ expanding global footprint. Get up to speed on international matters and regulations, quickly identify local laws, and compare key questions across multiple jurisdictions with confidence.
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