Lexis Advance Quicklaw vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

Well suited for case law research across many areas of law in Canada. Specifically found that it works well for extensive research where there are lots of things going on. It works well for reviewing precedents that need to be considered to make decisions for taking a decision. Less suitable for situations where we need access to real documents from the courts such as decisions or motions as Lexis doesn’t have that.

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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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• Apps
• Integrations
• Citations

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• News articles.
• Specific content on areas of law.
• Research jury verdicts and dispositive motions decisions.

• Sometimes the interface gets a little busy
• Could be more streamlined
• Too colorful

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• Some resources are more detailed and on point than others
• Competitors offer platforms that are more user-friendly
• Sometimes navigating back to an old resource takes a bit more time than other platforms

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Lexis Advance is way better in terms of usability and search features. The content is pretty much the same for both platforms except in Litigation where WestLaw is much stronger than Lexis. However, the Feature functionality of Lexis is a lot better to keep users efficient and productive and collaboration is also good.

Incentivized

Lexis Practice Advisor is an excellent alternative - but Practical Law has more comprehensive coverage of topics and practice areas - as well as more frequent updates to tools and checklists. Also, Practice Law integrates well with WestLaw which is great for having all the legal research and files centralized.

Incentivized

• Great for citations -- we have used it when writing briefs
• Good as a backup or secondary resource
• Integrates with MS Word

Incentivized

• Cost savings related to proactive training is easily in the hundreds of thousands.
• Having various types of content available in one platform makes research efficient.
• I have used Practical Law to search for judgments and lessons learned from my training sessions for our leadership.