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Expertly written legal content. Time-saving templates. Dedicated how-to guidance.

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Practical Law is driven by seasoned lawyer-editors whose sole job is to create and maintain timely, reliable, and accurate resources across all major practice areas.

How-to guidance

Easily and expertly apply your new knowledge with practical resources to help you work efficiently and with confidence. 

Jumpstart your work

Spend less time searching for a template, building a presentation, or delving into an unfamiliar area with easy-to-use tools that provide a great starting point. 

Tap into a team of experts

Practical Law is driven by seasoned lawyer-editors whose sole job is to create and maintain timely, reliable, and accurate resources across all major practice areas.

How-to guidance

Easily and expertly apply your new knowledge with practical resources to help you work efficiently and with confidence. 

Jumpstart your work

Spend less time searching for a template, building a presentation, or delving into an unfamiliar area with easy-to-use tools that provide a great starting point. 

See how our time-saving content and tools fit into your daily work

Standard Documents and Standard Clauses

Accelerate the drafting process

Access up-to-date Standard Documents and Standard Clauses filled with drafting annotations, notes, and negotiation tips, provided in the recommended legal language of our expert lawyer-editors.

Practice Notes

Expand expertise by leveraging ours

Practice Notes provide plain language explanations of complex legal issues and help you get up to speed on a new or existing matter, allowing you to do more work in less time.

Checklists

Complete tasks with confidence

Checklists are presented in the form of timelines, flow charts, tables, decision trees, and lists of issues, ensuring end-to-end completion of any legal matter.

Additional benefits

What’s Market

Gain access to a database of summaries for publicly filed deals. Analyze and compare terms or features across multiple deals and link to underlying public documents.

Toolkits

Toolkits provide broad coverage of a topic with a collection of Standard Documents, Standard Clauses, Practice Notes, and Checklists that enable you to complete your work with confidence.

Provincial Q&A

Instantly understand, review, and compare law and practice across all Canadian jurisdictions.

Videos

Presented by lawyer-editors and market-leading experts across various practice areas, videos help you work through complex legal topics and stay on top of industry best practices.

Automated Documents

Quickly draft a selection of Standard Documents that have been automated with guided questionnaires on Contract Express.

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Practical Law Canada Knowledge Map

More ways to unlock the power of Practical Law's expertise 

Knowledge Map is a dynamic way to explore topics and resources, allowing you to visually navigate through the collection on Practical Law Canada. Get the complete picture of your matter and identify issues you may have missed so you can complete you research faster.

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