Brightmine vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

XpertHR is well suited to providing a good starting point for introducing a new policy or reviewing an existing one. The content organization helps reduce the risk of overlooking relevant considerations. A section on Trending topics provides a helpful prompt to keep current on current issues. The regular email alerts are sound, too, flagging up new resources.

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PracticalLaw offers excellent Practice Notes, Checklists, Precedents, and Toolkits for a variety of practice areas - which is very helpful to in-house counsel and law clerks that are working on files across different practice areas. Less appropriate when there are already many resources available to me to help in drafting documents - then there is not much use to look up PLC.

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• Template policies are perfect, up to date and read very well
• The manager training sections are great as you can build them into your own sessions and provide accurate answers
• Their themed packs are excellent resources when you are venturing into new guidance, for example supporting menopause in the workplace

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• Resource guides
• Practical tips from practitioners
• Templates
• Recent articles and news

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• The employment law service is a bit too basic. The lawyer often gives you very basic or scripted advice that is not tailored to the situation needed
• The functionality search sometimes is not great. You risk getting lost between hundreds of articles without finding what you really need
• Sometimes the articles are too lengthy and you only need a very quick response

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• Navigation can get tricky with some scenarios
• Some of the features can be offered for free as opposed to paid
• Sometimes there are precedents and forms that are not updated

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It depends on renewal price

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It's great and mostly user friendly. Some of the team have skipped over great information in there as the site was not as intuitive as expected, e.g. finding particular templates

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I have never, in 14 years, known XpertHR to be offline!

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The site is extremely responsive and loads quickly. Huge searches appear immediately

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I requested access to an additional country and they came back very quickly and quickly granted me access

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I already knew how to use it so did not need support with this

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I have not directly used it but used it by passing on questions and queries to my HR network to obtain their advice. Often I felt that they do not provide direct advice to directly address my concerns or queries but more generic feedback that might be applicable or not. I think their advice often provides multiple and vague outcomes but not tailored to the outcome the business wants

Incentivized

They are pretty similar. I rely on practical law for certain practice areas more, and rely on the other platforms for other areas as they are more comprehensive and up to date. Lexis also is connected with Law360, and has a different set of resources, and has a strong shepherdizing tool that integrates well with what I need to do sometimes.

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WE only use it in HR but, I have no doubt that it could be scaled across other sites / teams.

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• saves so much valuable time when updating policies which is huge as we have a small team and time is limited.
• Normally, it saves time on hours or research as you can find it all on the site, including salary review data.
• Reduces the cost of using employment lawyers all the time for policy updating and other advice.
• It's like a one-stop shop that enables the user to find everything they need on a multitude of topics with extensive information that requires minimal time by the user, but to search for that information individually would take hours, if not days, in some cases.

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• Able to efficiently work on more files
• Get up to speed on new topics
• Better help cross-functional departments with more diverse issues

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