Lexis Search Advantage vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

It is good for researching previous news stories on a subject and it can be helpful for tracking down people and their biographical information. If you're looking for academic studies on a subject, this is not the best place to go in my opinion. It is also not always current with addresses and phone numbers.

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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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• Searching for news stories on a subject.
• Tracking down people.
• Tracking down previous residences of a person.

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

• Not all address location information is accurate or up to date.
• The previous search function for news stories was easier to use than what was changed last year.

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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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It's been several years since I called for help but when I did, Lexis was very helpful.

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Lexis is much more refined in its results. I use it because it is a newsroom standard and it is what is provided by the company.

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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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• No idea -- I don't deal with our finances.

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• 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.