Resources in Practical Law
Find out about the up-to-date resources maintained by Practical Law's attorney-editors, which can help you complete your work with efficiency, accuracy, and confidence.
- Practice Notes
- Use Practice Notes to learn about unfamiliar areas of law or transactions. Practice Notes take different forms. Some give a broad overview of a subject, others delve into detailed information on a single topic.
- Standard Documents and Clauses
- Use Standard Documents and Standard Clauses to draft contracts, agreements, policies, settlement agreements, and discovery requests. These templates provide a starting point to help you create an initial draft. They include notes with drafting insights from attorney-editors.
- Checklists
- The step-by-step instructions in Checklists can help you to make sure you address all the relevant issues at the beginning or conclusion of a project. Checklists also take other forms such as timelines, flowcharts, tables, and decision trees.
- Toolkits
- Toolkits provide links to information about a subject so that you quickly understand new overviews, explanations of current laws and practices, document templates, articles, and checklists on legal topics or issues.
- Legal Updates
- Legal Updates are summaries and analyses of current and trending legal issues written byPractical Law's attorney-editors.
- State Q&A
- Use State Q&A to find answers to state law questions and compare laws across multiple jurisdictions.
- What's Market
- Search, review, and compare summaries of recent deals, filings, and court documents to keep up to date with trends and market practice.
- Global Guides and Cross-Border Topics
- Use Global Guides and Cross-Border Topics to get Q&As and articles on topics such as Employment and Commercial Transactions that are specific to different jurisdictions.