Practical Law features

Expert content and time-saving tools

Move beyond legal research with GenAI and smart tools that connect you to Practical Law's expert-driven resources - helping you take the next step in executing your legal tasks with confidence.

Time-saving tools to help you search, compare, draft and analyse your matter

Search and summarise with Generative AI

Search and summarise Practical Law’s trusted content with a generative AI experience using large-language models trained by the knowledge and expertise of more than 700 expert lawyer writers. Ask a natural-language question and get a synthesised summary with links to the most relevant Practical Law resources.

Find relevant resources with advanced efficiency tools

  • Broaden your research to find relevant resources with knowledge maps, a visual representation of related topics so you can get a complete picture and identify issues you may have missed.
  • Save hours on research when comparing law across multiple jurisdictions with simple Q&A guides written by international and local experts.


 

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Leverage global content and local expertise

Our Australian team, with extensive experience from top law firms and corporate legal departments, dedicates 100% of their time to creating legal content and keeping it up to date, monitoring over 500 sources daily. This ensures you have access to the most current legal resources, combining local insights with the global content and expertise of our broader network, enabling informed and precise advice.

Seamless integration with Thomson Reuters solutions

  • Avoid wasting time referencing multiple platforms to find up-to-date case law. With Westlaw integration, you can find relevant practical know-how and legal research all in one search.
  • Search your Practical Law documents within HighQ.

What do our customers think?

Anthony Bekker, Managing Director and Principal, Biztech Lawyers

Practical Law breaks down the issues in a way that is very easy to use and easy to digest, with related content that is easily accessible.

Anthony Bekker, Managing Director and Principal, Biztech Lawyers

Frequently asked questions

With over 10,000 practical resources available, Practical makes sure you get expert guidance to understand what’s important, why it’s important, and how you should proceed.

  • Practice Notes
    Quickly understand current law and practice with straightforward how-to guides and clear explanations of current law and practice, ranging from high-level overviews to detailed analysis for specialists.
  • Standard documents and clauses
    Eliminate the need to start from scratch with annotated templates containing embedded drafting notes, negotiating guides, opposing positions and clause-by-clause guidance.
  • Checklists and flowcharts
    Mitigate risk and ensure you have everything covered with these quick reference reminders of the law, as it applies in practice.
  • Legal updates
    Keep up with changes in the law and regulations in your practice area with legal updates.
  • Toolkits
    Optimise your work with a collection of how-to guides, document templates, checklists, and legal updates — all in one place.
  • Current awareness emails
    Stay informed on changes to legislation, common law, regulations and market practice with regular current awareness emails sent straight to your inbox from Practical Law's team of legal experts.
  • Presentation materials
    Exceed expectations with a pre-built, off-the-shelf collection of presentation materials. Great for internal training or presenting topics of interest to your clients or business partners.
  • Glossary terms
    Quickly grasp the meanings and practical implications of key terms that you are likely to come across in practice.

Yes, Practical Law provides a curated collection of content for in-house legal counsel, the In-house Centre. Plus, our expert team have prepared a wide variety of dedicated resources for legal departments. From legal department operations and management to risk and compliance and company secretarial – our team have you covered.

Learn more

To improve your search efficiency, our Search and Summarise feature can help streamline the process. Quickly surface the most relevant resources without wading through lengthy results. 

Using natural language processing, you can ask questions in plain English to generate synthesised search results. This helps deliver more precise, relevant legal resources tailored to your specific query, reducing the need for manual filtering.