Practice Point is now Practical Law Connect.
Thomson Reuters Practical Law Connect integrates Practical Law legal know-how resources, Thomson Reuters Westlaw primary law content, forms, secondary sources, and other timesaving tools in one place.
Practical Law Connect is uniquely organized by practice area and task, making it easier for you to focus on what needs to get done – without having to sort through what you don’t need. You get precisely what you need to deliver your best work faster and more efficiently, all from one innovative solution.
Developed to provide a better way to work for attorneys who advise, negotiate, and draft legal documents to ensure that your transactions comply with relevant statutes and regulations.
- Integrated Practical Law legal know-how resources, Westlaw forms and secondary sources, and time-saving tools in one place, on one platform
- Organized by practice area and task
- Curated by Practical Law attorney-editors
BROWSE NAVIGATION
Browse by task: Practical Law Connect menus are organized by legal tasks and issues, making it easier for you to identify the resources you need. Select a task and hover with your mouse. As a menu expands, the task topics become more specific. Practical Law Connect automatically filters resources as you move through the menu.
Browse by content: You can also narrow your search results by content type. Find Practical Law legal know-how, secondary sources, and other resources that automatically update based on the topic or task you choose.
INTEGRATED CONTENT
Practical Law: Access thousands of up-to-date practical legal know-how resources for a better starting point for your matter. Trusted resources include practice notes, standard documents and clauses, checklists, toolkits, legal updates, state-specific guidance, and more.
Westlaw forms: Choose from more than 600,000 forms – including state and national text forms, fillable PDF forms, checklists, and clauses.
Secondary sources: Review the largest collection of premier analytical titles, authored by leading practitioners, professors, judges, and in-house editorial experts.
Statutes, regulations, and more: Westlaw provides full coverage of statutes and regulations covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and other territories – as well as the most comprehensive annotated CFR and exclusive access to the USCA.
Current awareness: Stay on top of the latest news and trends in your practice area with Practical Law Connect Legal Updates, Practitioner Insights, and Reuters News. Best of all, expert attorney-editors handpick the content most relevant to your practice area.
On the right side of every Practical Law Connect page, you’ll have direct access to time-saving workflow tools. You’ll even notice the tools change by practice area and task.
FEATURED TOOLS
Rulebooks: Key federal laws, rules, and regulations are at your fingertips with Practical Law Connect’s exclusive Rulebooks. Scroll up or down to neighboring rules or sections and click left to navigate quickly to a different Rulebook. Or, jump directly to a specific rule or section using a key term search such as “144a.” Rulebooks are available for Capital Markets & Corporate Governance, Corporate and M&A, and Finance.
What’s Market: What’s Market lets you search, compare, and analyze a range of public and private deals and filings. Key legal provisions have been summarized by the Practical Law team and all reports are downloadable into Microsoft Word and Excel.
Business Law Center: The Business Law Center is a comprehensive collection of U.S. SEC and global filings, regulatory disclosures and transaction summaries, and much more. This rich business content is enhanced by Westlaw functionality tools – such as filters, shareable folders, and annotations – to streamline your business law research.
Company Search: Access valuable private and public company information from Company Investigator. Review financial, structural, and personnel information to research and understand potential vendors and conduct investigations.
State and Country Q&A: Get up to speed quickly on key issues, laws, and regulations from around the world and from state to state.
West LegalEdcenter and Continuing Legal Education materials: Find online continuing education courses in your practice area and state, and register for a course with West LegalEdcenter. Or, review continuing education course materials in your topical practice area via American Law Institute.
Drafting Assistant Essentials: Draft with confidence with our Drafting Assistant software’s most popular legal document drafting and analysis features.
Public records: Research public records effectively and efficiently with PeopleMap and its enhanced navigation that eliminates the need to perform multiple searches. Integration with Westlaw allows you to locate legal and public records with one global search.
ENHANCE YOUR PRACTICAL LAW CONNECT EXPERIENCE
Folders, Favorites, and History: Organize key documents and share your research with members of your research team, including anyone with a Westlaw subscription. Folders and History are shared between Practical Law Connect and Westlaw. You can access a document foldered or viewed in Practical Law Connect from the same-named folder or History in Westlaw, and vice versa.
Search: Easily drill down or broaden the scope of your search by entering a keyword or term into the search bar. Practical Law Connect only returns results related to your browse path.
Breadcrumb: Trace your steps with the interactive breadcrumb. It shows you where you are and your browse path, allowing you to keep track of your activity and quickly jump back to a previous topic page.
GUIDANCE FOR LAWYERS, ORGANIZED BY TASK
Practical Law Connect covers major practice areas to provide you with valuable task-based legal content and resources. Here‘s a look at the top tasks by practice area.
ANTITRUST
- Substantive Basis
- Merger Control
- Unilateral Conduct (Sherman Act Section 2)
- Joint Conduct (Sherman Act Section 1)
- Private Party Litigation
- Government Non-Merger Enforcement
- Compliance
ARBITRATION
- Arbitration Agreements
- Conflicts of Law & Jurisdictional Issues
- Arbitrators & Appointments
- Commencement, Procedure & Evidence
- Applications to Courts in Connection with Arbitration
- Awards, Challenges & Enforcement
- Remedies & Costs
- Investment Treaty Arbitration
CAPITAL MARKETS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- Securities Offerings
- Periodic Reporting & Disclosure
- Corporate Governance & Housekeeping
- Financial & Market Regulation
COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
- Supply of Goods & Services
- General Contract Clauses, Agreements & Ancillary Documents
- Drafting Confidentiality & Nondisclosure Agreements & Clauses
- Advertising, Promotions & Labeling
- International Trade & Compliance
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Consumer
- Insurance Claims & Coverage
CORPORATE AND M&A
- Business Organizations
- Joint Ventures
- Private Equity
- Private Equity Fund Formation
- Private Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Mergers & Acquisitions
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
- Executive Compensation
- Retirement Plans
- Health & Welfare Plans
- Business Transactions
- ERISA Litigation
FEDERAL CIVIL PRACTICE
- Case Assessment
- Commencement & Pleadings
- Discovery
- Motions
- Trial & Posttrial
- Appeals
- Settlement
- Class Actions/MDLs
FINANCE
- Financing Transactions
- Swaps & Derivatives (US)
- Securitization/Structured Finance (US)
- Financial Regulatory Advice
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
- Acquiring, Setting Up, or Disposing of a Business
- Financing a Business
- Company Business Operations
- Legal & Regulatory Compliance
- Managing Risk, Claims & Litigation
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & TECHNOLOGY
- Patent Counseling & Transactions
- Patent Litigation
- Trademark & Right of Publicity
- Copyright
- Trade Secrets & Confidentiality
- IP&T in Corporate Transactions & Collaborations
- Software, IT & Cloud
- Privacy & Data Security
- Internet & New Media
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
- Employment Litigation & Administrative Actions
- Hiring & Contracts
- The Employment Relationship
- Termination, Layoffs & Plant Closings
- Immigration
- Traditional Labor
- Public Employment
- Corporate Transactions, Due Diligence & Bankruptcy
REAL ESTATE
- Commercial Real Estate Ownership
- Financing Commercial Real Estate
- Leasing Commercial Real Estate
- Real Estate Assets in Corporate Transactions
- Construction
- Residential Real Estate
- Zoning & Land Us
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