Brightmine vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

It is an invaluable tool if you don't have in house counsel and you don't want to always be contacting outside counsel for information. The resources in the platform cannot be found anywhere else. You don't get this level of content from SHRM, and I feel confident with the information because I know it is a legal entity that runs the platform, not an association.

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Legal research on specific laws and regulations in city, county, state, and federal venues. Since we have operations in virtually every state, nationwide content is very important to our organization to ensure we stay on top of new legislation and developments.

• Legal updates - keeping up with constant changes.
• Great letter and other document templates.
• Useful and well formatted Policy Templates - helping us keep up with changes to legislation.
• Handy dashboard with trending topics, updated & last viewed items.
• Daily newsletter updates are very useful for keeping up with current issues and changes to policies.

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• Real decisions from the courts
• Practical guidance from top practitioners
• Updated forms for different practice areas
• Overall solid coverage for my legal needs

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• I'd like the job functions to be more up to date with technologic trends and movement - i.e AI roles, and DevOps
• I'd like to see more Technology data in Cendex to benchmark my company against
• I'd love to see a chatbot

Incentivized

• Easier interface.
• More searchable features.
• Cost

Without realising it we use Brightmine so often and it is so beneficial as our daily roles are onerous. By having a tool there that covers such a wide variety of products we can rest assured we know if we need something we can find it on there easily. With no hassle.

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So simple to use and really a few clicks to finding what you need, also appreciate the layout and alphabetical organisation. Not to mention how things are written out it makes finding templates a breeze and navigating to exactly what you need. Makes a stressful job so much easier!

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It is almost always available when I need it. I have only ran into 2 situations where I received an error message and could not get logged in but was told this was a widespread issue that would quickly be resolved.

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Everything loads quickly and is exactly where I need it to be. I like how the sidebar breaks down different sections of policies for each state to help me find what I am looking for or gives suggestions or documents to review that may also be helpful

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I reached out to Brightmine support when i could not get logged in and I received a personal response within hours that was very helpful! I love that it was a real person and not automated. This type of support makes me feel that their support team truly cares about getting issues fixed timely.

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The people on the call training us were very friendly and knowledgeable! They helped me learn of new tabs for finding templates to create new trainings to update departments on policies and procedures. It also has great excel sheets so I can see side by side differences between states regarding different laws and compensation changes.

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I didnt implement but just wanted to say the person providing the training was brilliant and guided us through each page so we knew how to navigate, also allowed us to ask a lot of questions if we needed to which was helpful. So we could go away with confidence to use it

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Having used both Mineral and Brightmine, overall I think they are comparable tools. Brightmine has stood out as being an easy to use platform. I also appreciate that when searching for information, on the Brightmine site, there are suggestions links/additional links presented which helps me to truly find more information on the topic I am looking for - I find that very proactive.

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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.

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It can be used across all disciplines on our team, from recruiting to training, to our generalist team. Our legal team could also jump in and use it to research.

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• Brightmine reduces the time it would take me to research certain items on my own. As a consultant, this increases my capacity, allowing me to take on additional clients and increase my revenue.
• Using Brightmine saves me from needing to hire someone to help me perform research or to help me stay up-to-date on changing laws. Although I pay for the service, it is at least 80% less than an employee would cost.

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• Fantastic resources
• Multiple examples
• Document saving platform

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