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John M.
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What do you like best about Practical Law?

What isn't there to like about it? Any issue you can think of, you can find at a minimum, guidance, but usually it's that and so much more. It's easy to use and has been a huge time saver for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

Nothing. Honestly, so far I haven't found anything not to like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes me so efficient and able to come up with answers in half the time than before I had it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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We greatly appreciate your review, John! We are happy to hear about your positive experience using Practical Law.

Practical Law Overview

What is Practical Law?

The law is always changing. Having practical, current resources is essential. With Practical Law, get on-demand access to thousands of how-to guides, templates, checklists, comparison charts, and more, all written and maintained by experienced attorneys.  When you are faced with heavy workloads, tight deadlines, and increasing demands from clients or internal stakeholders, get to the answer with Practical Law. Practical Law’s award-winning resources help attorneys quickly get up to speed and practice efficiently. • Learn more about Practical Law: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/practical-law • Request a free 7-day trial of Practical Law: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/products/practical-law/trial-overview

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Practical Law is an online legal resource for legal professionals looking to get up to speed quickly and stay current with changes in the law. With Practical Law, access thousands of how-to guides, templates, checklists, comparison charts, and more, all written and maintained by experienced attorneys. Stay up-to-date and practice efficiently with Thomson Reuters Practical Law.


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2008
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John M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A Must-Have for In-House Counsel!"
What isn't there to like about it? Any issue you can think of, you can find at a minimum, guidance, but usually it's that and so much more. It's ea...
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"Great tool for Legal Drafting and Research"
It includes practice wise templates and ready to cook agreements with an option to make them really dynamic. Also its precision to provide legal in...
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Maria P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good practical law tool that is easy to use as a great resource"
I like that it is easy to use, offers an excellent guide for the legal world, and provides valuable resources and law templates that make all work ...
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Practical Law Media

Practical Law Demo - Practical Law Homepage
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Practical Law Demo - Practical Law Matter Maps
With Matter Maps, access a visual step-by-step process for tasks on a variety of legal matters with links to relevant Practical Law resources. Shown: Matter Maps - Representing Seller in Sale of Commercial Real Estate
Practical Law Demo - Practical Law Checklist
Using 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. Shown: Checklist - Force Majeure
Practical Law Demo - Practical Law Practice Notes
Save time with how-to guides written by attorney experts, legal primers on the law. Practice Notes provide high-level overviews to detailed analyses on narrow topics, all designed to be read in 20 minutes or less. Shown: Practice Note - US Derivatives
Practical Law Demo - Practical Law Standard Documents & Clauses
Eliminate the need to start from scratch with annotated templates containing embedded drafting notes and clause-by-clause guidance. Shown: Standard Document - Asset Purchase Agreement
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What do you like best about Practical Law?

I like that it is easy to use, offers an excellent guide for the legal world, and provides valuable resources and law templates that make all work in specific areas easier. I also like the contact forms and how to get information on legal issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

Everything is fine now, and I do see any problem I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

All is good, and I am delighted with the forms and benefits that document writing offers is a research product used for legal research documents and paper writing, and everything is going well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Practical Law?

I like that it's easy to use and is very useful for forms and getting surveys and template documentation. I like that it was easy to learn, and practical law continues to add great content and meets our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

It can often show slowness when entering one of this product's sections. But maybe it's a connection problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has been used for different forms and provides questions, answers, and legal research, so searching is now easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Practical Law?

It includes practice wise templates and ready to cook agreements with an option to make them really dynamic. Also its precision to provide legal insights is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

Till now i have found nothing that i dislike about this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

Practical law solves problems that are complicated in terms of research and drafting. Its crazy solutions to complex legal hurdles is truly amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Practical Law?

The features are accommodating to a variety of professional legal fields, easily making it a number one choice for most counsels. It has a clean UI and is very easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

Most of the knowledge provided on the website is limited to paid users. This may be a barrier to those that do not have the funds, there are few downsides to using Practical Law. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working in a newly set up legal department and having Practical Law provide useful resources in helping guide our operations and services. There are tons of useful tools that can be adapted to leverage our systems and tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JAMIE P.
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What do you like best about Practical Law?

They have updated materials and good checklists, that's nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

The price is too high for what you get and they also want crazy contract terms that greatly increase the pricing each year. They have basic forms available but not as many as what I would have wanted esp for the price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it in my IP entertainment law practice, mostly for legal research and forms. Not more productive than any other service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Practical Law?

The way they handle your problem and provides you a solution makes them exceptionally good from others. The number of resources provided makes them stand apart from others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

There is nothing as such i disliked but a little improvement in curriculum towards the need could help better. Further i liked the versatility in types of consulting. It's a one stop solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving corporate problems related to public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, asset acquisitions and reorganization, schemes and demergers. Further i am looking forward to consult for other problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Law Practice
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What do you like best about Practical Law?

On point and practical help in answering questions I have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

Depending on item, might not be relevant to questions I have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Practical Law:

Try Practical Law if you are interested in it. There are trials of Practical Law. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compliance problems. Seen a practical document and can compare with other similar documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Practical Law?

I love this software because it offers peculiar characteristics to professionals in the legal and legal area, since it presents an extensive guide of resources that are necessary to acquire data of great importance, mostly as a kind of practical advice for these experts on the matter, mentioning that it is a fantastic research assistance tool with excellent intelligent decisions that help these individuals to strengthen their knowledge and to decide in a complex way their legal work acts in controversial situations that they must exercise their performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

From a cautious point of view we can appreciate that each aspect or integral resource of this legal information maintains more detailed and precise features than others, since it should acquire a balance in its entirety for those data that are scarce in necessary text at some time due that this investigation should be implemented through this link, and sometimes we can be confused by the little contextual novelty that they usually offer in these legal cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Practical Law:

It is ideal for most of the high-level tasks that want to implement better knowledge with the subject of legal investigations, mentioning that it is an excellent starting point, thanks to its highly intelligent data integral to a legal environment, since the law It had never been so complex in development, until the web appearance of Practical Lew, exercising learning based on templates, resource guides, outstanding news, articles and among other highlights that this server offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a software widely used in the legal area of ​​our institution, mentioning that it is also encouraged in educational fields to acquire relevant information for the students that we acquire, in order to strengthen their knowledge for a total restructuring in the law career, since Normally we usually prepare these individuals in an incredible and complete way, thanks to the templates, articles, examples and guides that this system contains, with very relevant data that allow increasing learning in legal and legal fields, thanks to its updated legal intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bridget D.
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Law Practice
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What do you like best about Practical Law?

I love that this is a 'marriage' between Westlaw and Practical Law.

Also, appreciate that there are no client charges within Practical Law Connect (Practice Point).

(This title that G2Crowd is wrong - it USED to be called Practice Point, now Practical Law Connect). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Practical Law?

I sometimes find the landing page for the practice areas to be over-saturated in news rather than other features, such as documents, cases, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Practical Law:

The support team for PLC is fantastic and I have used them several times via chat, email, and phone. PLC is helpful if you are doing a 'crash course' in a specific area of law and don't want to run up client charges (in Westlaw, if that is how your company has set up). You are able to search and get the litigation side but also the Practical Law features with documents, checklists, toolkits, etc. The browse by content type is a great feature if you know exactly what you are looking for or have a citation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Practical Law solving and how is that benefiting you?

use it for quick research on specific issues in law - the dropdown menus within each practice area are easy to navigate and offer great specific topics for each area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.