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Practical Law for law firms

From delegating to a graduate to ensuring all lawyers can get up to speed quickly on specialist or unfamiliar areas of law, Practical Law can help your firm achieve operational efficiency and stand out from its competitors.

Practical Law's how-to guides and resources equip you and your team with the practical tools, know-how and insight you need to perform at your peak.

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Watch how law firm Jackson McDonald is using Practical Law to bridge the gap between published guidance, laws, and the practical application of key concepts.

"I highly recommend Practical Law by Thomson Reuters. The resources are at a high quality and written in clear language that is easy to understand on the go without compromising on the complexity of the legal issues at hand."
Caroline Mense
Principal Lawyer, Legal Enablers

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Global Law and Practice

Multi-jurisdictional Q&A guides for 80+ countries, plus more than 50 practice area modules from the UK, US, Canada, China and the EU.*

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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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Stay informed with in-depth updates on the most relevant and significant legal developments in your areas of interest. Plus, opt in to get current awareness emails for selected practice areas delivered straight to your inbox.

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Integration with Westlaw AU

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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.

Multi-jurisdictional Q&A 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.

What makes Practical Law unique?

Peter Butler OAM RFD, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills & Chair, Practical Law - Board of Advisors, shares his insights.

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Our quality starts with our people.

Practical Law's legal writers have practical legal expertise gained from some of Australia's leading law firms. Now their job is to provide practical legal guidance and know-how to you and your team – so that you have more time to focus on offering greater value to your clients.

Tim Perry Head of Corporate Tim has more than 12 years' experience practising at leading law firms in Australia, including Gilbert + Tobin and DLA Piper. Tim's expertise includes advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructures... Read more »

Michael Milnes Head of Commercial Law Michael has extensive legal and commercial experience, practising both as in-house counsel and at leading law firms in Australia, the UK and France. He has experience advising at a strategic and operational level, across a wide range of commercial legal practice... Read more »

Hanna Soderlindh Senior Writer, Commercial Hanna has more than 10 years' experience in corporate law, having practised at leading Australian law firms, including Ashurst and Jones Day. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions... Read more »

Tim Perry has more than 12 years' experience practising at leading law firms in Australia, including Gilbert + Tobin and DLA Piper. Tim's expertise includes advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructures, capital raisings, privatisations and other government transactions, corporate governance, directors' duties and commercial contracts.

Michael Milnes has extensive legal and commercial experience, practising both as in-house counsel and at leading law firms in Australia, the UK and France. Michael has experience of advising at a strategic and operational level, across a wide range of commercial legal practice, including major contracts, competition and consumer law issues, marketing law, technology, IP and brand protection. Michael is also currently completing a Masters of Business Administration.

Hanna Soderlindh has more than 10 years' experience in corporate law, having practised at leading Australian law firms, including Ashurst and Jones Day. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions and a broad range of corporate advisory matters. Hanna also holds a Swedish Master of Laws Degree from Stockholm University.

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