Practical Law Australia

Globally trusted guidance and know-how solutions for legal professionals.

Practical Law is the time-saving solution that's transforming the way Australian law firms and legal departments do business.

Our in-house team of Australian legal writers are 100% dedicated to creating and maintaining practical how-to guides and resources that enable fast and efficient solutions for you and your team — so that you have more time to focus on the bigger picture.

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Why Practical Law Australia?

Increase your efficiency

Demonstrate immediate time and cost efficiencies. Practical Law Australia's step-by-step guides, template documents and checklists provide up-to-date, practical expertise and know-how to help you respond to legal issues with ease and confidence – freeing up more of your time to focus on providing greater value to your internal and external clients.

Rely on trusted content

Feel confident knowing that your content is created and maintained by legal writers with specialist practice experience gained from Australia's leading firms and corporate legal departments. Our Advisory Board and extensive review processes ensure that resources always reflect current law and are of practical use to busy professionals.

Enhance your knowledge

Get up to speed on specialist or unfamiliar areas of law, fast. Practical Law Australia's intuitive and user friendly interface makes it quick and easy to find practical guides and precedents, and regular legal updates keep you on track with all the latest developments in your field. Plus, view related legislation for free on the Westlaw AU legal research platform as part of your subscription.

Who uses our know-how resources?

Law firms

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Senior associates

Junior lawyers

Knowledge managers and legal librarians

Paralegals

Corporations

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In-house lawyers

Human resources and industrial relations professionals

What's included

Practice notes - 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 - Up-to-date precedents that reflect current law and practice with practical expert commentary, including detailed drafting and negotiating guidance, opposing positions and alternative clauses.

Checklists and flowcharts - Quick reference reminders to ensure you cover all the bases.

Legal updates - Legal updates explain what you need to know about new cases or legislative changes in your area of practice. Opt in to get update emails delivered straight to your inbox.

Global guides - Simple Q&A guides written by international and local experts that compare the law across jurisdictions. Guides feature cross-border analysis articles and a Q&A tool which allows you to generate custom comparison reports.

Commercial

Advertising and marketing
Contract law
Data protection and privacy
Execution formalities
Franchising
General contracts and boilerplate

Intellectual property
IT and outsourcing
Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality
Supply of goods and services

Company Law

Company administration and meetings
Company formation and constitution
Directors
Execution formalities
General contract and boilerplate

Share capital
Shareholder rights and remedies
Trusts

Corporate Transactions

Asset acquisitions
Due diligence
Equity capital markets
Execution formalities
General contract and boilerplate

Reorganisations
Returns of value
Share acquisitions: private
Takeovers

Dispute Resolution

Alternative dispute resolution and compromise
Appeals
Australian judicial system
Case management
Commencement: originating process, pleadings and service
Commercial contract claims
Costs
Disclosure
Dispute resolution strategy
Evidence
Federal Court claims: overview and pre-action
Federal jurisdiction and legislation, time limits and immunities

In-house counsel
Insolvency
Interim applications
Judgments, orders and enforcement
Lawyers' professional responsibilities
Misleading conduct claims
Privileges and confidentiality
Regulatory investigations
Relief
Representative proceedings
State and territory litigation practice
Trial practice
Unconscionable conduct claims

Employment

Anti-bullying
Cross-border and immigration
Employment contracts
Enterprise bargaining
Federal discrimination and harassment
Federal unfair dismissal
General protections
Ill and injured employees
Industrial action
National employment standards
Pay and benefits

Policies
Post-employment obligations
Practice and procedure in the Fair Work Commission
Recruitment
Redundancy
Right of entry
Senior executive terms and conditions
Types of engagement
Workplace precedents

Global Law and Practice

Global guides for 80+ countries, plus more than 50 practice areas from the UK, US, Canada, China and the EU, including:

Arbitration
Commercial
Competition and antitrust
Construction
Corporate
Data protection
Dispute resolution
Employment

Finance
Financial services
Intellectual property and IT
International arbitration
Media and telecoms
Property
Property litigation
Tax

“... I am delighted to be a part of this significant innovation for Australian lawyers ... I am convinced that the availability of technology, precedent legal documents and guidance of this kind will continue the legal research revolution and allow practitioners to respond to their clients with greater speed and accuracy than ever.”

Peter Butler OAM RFD Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills & Chair, Practical Law Australia -
Board of Advisors

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This toolkit provides practical know-how resources to enable you to respond to a data breach incident quickly and with confidence, including:

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