Overview for in-house legal departments
Practical Law for in-house legal departments
As an in-house lawyer, you're expected to provide answers on a broad range of legal issues quickly and confidently. This isn't always easy, especially when you face questions on issues outside your areas of expertise. But there is a solution that can help.
Practical Law's how-to guides and resources equip you and your team with the practical tools, know-how and insight you need to enhance your role as your organisation's trusted adviser.
Our newly enhanced In-house Centre draws all of these resources together in a way that works for in-house counsel, and also includes over 100 additional resources dedicated to in-house-only topics and skills, together with exclusive training presentations for simultaneous upskilling of the legal team and the wider business, and for fulfilling your CPD requirements.
"Practical Law offers in-house counsel expertly drafted practice notes and a library of maintained precedents, so that they can quickly get up to speed on new areas of the law or check for recent developments, and provide pragmatic solutions to their business."
Rachel Launders,
General Counsel and Company Secretary,
Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Ltd
& Practical Law Advisory Board Member
"I know what it takes to run an in-house team, manage competing business interests and juggle everyday work and time pressures. That’s why I’m very excited to introduce Practical Law's new and improved In-House Centre. The In-house Centre gives you the keys to create and run an efficient and effective legal team."
Tyrilly Csillag,
Head of Commercial and In-house, Practical Law
Resources are organised under themes designed to reflect your workflow
Day-to-day matters
Contracts, confidentiality, legal professional privilege, supply of goods and services, technology issues, data protection and privacy... more »
Managing employees
Recruitment, induction and internal company policies and procedures, minimum terms and conditions of employment... more »
Major projects and corporate transactions
Heads of agreement and exchanges of confidential information, intra-group reorganisations, share and asset acquisitions... more »
Company secretarial
How to incorporate a company, general housekeeping and day-to-day matters, company administration... more »
Managing the in-house legal function
Managing legal department operations, practical tips to help new general counsel and in-house lawyers transition into their roles, using technology to improve efficiency... more »
Managing disputes and litigation
Pre-action considerations, letters of demand, starting proceedings, production of documents, evidence preparation... more »

Updated
In-house Centre
We understand that in-house lawyers work differently to their law firm counterparts and that your legal problems rarely involve just one area of the law. Designed by in-house lawyers, Practical Law's newly enhanced In-house Centre now offers over 100 additional resources grouped into topics and themes designed to reflect your in-house workflows. Now with a more intuitive user experience, built for browsing, access more content focussing on soft skills, forms and processes that your in-house team can implement quickly to be more effective. Enjoy the added convenience of conducting CPD training and upskilling simultaneously with over 30 new and exclusive maintained training decks for your team, and your whole business.
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New
New Zealand Resource Centre
Get access to curated bespoke New Zealand law content to boost the power of your existing Practical Law subscription. This new feature offers broad coverage of key commercial law topics such as IT & Outsourcing, Corporate Transactions and Company Law or General Contracts and Boilerplate.
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Integration with Westlaw AU
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In today’s highly regulated, digitally disrupted business landscape, general counsel are no longer simply focused on providing legal services to their organisation. Their workloads are increasing as they take on more strategic functions, often without any additional resources. Faced with a tightening legal market, the pressure is on for legal departments to nurture their in-house talent and invest in technology that will enable them to become more agile and efficient than ever before.
In this whitepaper, we examine how intelligent technology tools combined with a future-proofed talent management strategy can upskill and empower your in-house lawyers to perform at their peak.
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