Practical Law features

Enhance your daily work and accelerate how you get answers to your "how-do-I" questions 

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Generative AI and dynamic tools

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Search & Summarise Practical Law

Accelerate the way you get answers with Search & Summarise Practical Law, a CoCounsel generative AI experience using large-language models trained by the knowledge and expertise of more than 650 legal editors. Ask a natural-language question and get a summarised answer with links to the most relevant Practical Law resources.

Knowledge map

Complete your research faster with an interactive way to explore the topics and resources available in the Practical Law collection so you can get a complete picture of your matter and identify issues you may have missed.

Interactive Matter Maps 

Access a visual step-by-step process for tasks on a variety of legal matters with editorially curated links to relevant resources. This interactive feature allows you to customize any Matter Maps to help you find the right Practical Law content for the task at hand.

Quick Compare 

Create custom charts with just a few clicks that compare answers to key questions across multiple jurisdictions, helping to identify local laws faster.

What's Market Analytics 

Search, compare, and analyse agreements, public deal summaries, market practice analyses, and AGM materials summarised by our experts. In a fraction of the time, create data-driven insights and visualisations of essential terms in documents and agreements.

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Resource types

Access up-to-date, expert guidance so you can practise and work with confidence.

Standard documents and clauses

Take advantage of draft templates you can use as a starting point to work on contracts, agreements, and clauses. Embedded notes and negotiation tips from our team of legal experts explain in plain language how to approach the matter at hand.

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Practice notes 

Quickly expand your expertise with current explanations on a general subject or a deep dive into a single topic so you can advise with confidence. Our team of over 650 expert legal editors continually updates practice notes to reflect significant changes in law or practice.

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Checklists and flowcharts 

Ensure you've covered everything with quick-reference reminders for use in common transactions. With timelines, flowcharts, tables, decision trees, and lists of issues, you can have the peace of mind that you’re addressing all phases of a legal matter.

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Country Q&A 

Instantly understand country requirements on a variety of critical topics in your practice area. You can compare laws across multiple countries and use country resources when you need authoritative knowledge on legal matters involving one country or many. 

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Content coverage

More than 650 full-time legal experts monitor changes in the law as well as create and maintain resources, ensuring the topics and jurisdictions that matter to you are always up to date.

Global Content

Designed for the cross-border legal professional, Global Content keeps you updated on vital legal developments for over 100 countries and key EU member states so you can advise and practise with confidence. Get up to speed on international matters and regulations, quickly identify local laws, and compare critical questions across multiple jurisdictions with confidence.

Current awareness 

Get customised daily, weekly, and monthly emails with overviews, current law explanations, document templates, articles, and checklists written by our experienced legal experts and focused on the practice areas that matter to you. 

Beyond Brexit: The legal implications 

Quickly access Brexit-related topics across practice areas and sectors, see chart-related developments, search all relevant legal updates, and examine trade and customs content to guide you through the post-Brexit trade systems.

Get vital legal content and updates from around the globe with Practical Law

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