Lexis+ vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

Lexis Advance is highly customizable and intuitive, perfect for solo or small practitioners who lack the patience for extended training and too much searching. The contracts are also customizable and can be graduated for new practices so you don't go broke in year one paying for research. I do wish there was more contact with a dedicated account rep, and perhaps not with sales. In a larger firm, you can stack more features and content as needed. I probably would go back in time and renegotiate my contract, which stepped up quite a lot in year two and will step up again in year 3 to what I think will be an uncomfortable level. Also, Lexis has maybe one too many brands and could stand a redesign of the main home page.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• I like the annotated statutes. That is typically where I start my searches.
• I seem to find more relevant case law on Lexis than I have through Westlaw.
• Their training and research attorneys are very helpful.

Incentivized

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

• The notes from cases function is not as strong as other competitors
• Lacks some features that more novel sources use
• Costly

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

Very intuitive, easy to use visual qualitative assessments, and I like that they don't "summarize" rules but give exact quotes from cases. The product is super customizable and you can try before you buy. Unlike their main competitor, I don't feel like they tricked me or set me up to purchase more content that I don't need--so in terms of service and overall functionality, they are superior to the competition.

Incentivized

Haven't reached out except for password help but the response was quick. A couple times it locked me out for no reason

Incentivized

Lexis Advance and Westlaw do the same thing and are very comparable. We actually use both. If Lexis Advanced doesn't have content we are looking for, it can usually be found in Westlaw. They compliment each other well. If I had to pick one over the other I would choose Lexis Advanced, but it's close.

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

• It's had a positive impact in finding more cases that are on point for my cases.
• It was actually cheaper than their competitor.
• The natural language search is better than the competitor.

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.