Integration tools

Easier, faster access to Practical Law know-how.

Practical Law has developed a series of tools to help you access the know-how you need, where and when you need it. Whether you are drafting in Word, working in your matter management system, searching your intranet or browsing on your mobile, you can access Practical Law know-how without disturbing your routine.

Integrating with Microsoft® Word®

Open Practical Law documents in Microsoft® Word®.

Features

  • Open Practical Law standard documents, clauses and drafting notes in Microsoft® Word®.
  • You can set up Firmstyle in just 48 hours using our simple online process, and download Practical Law standard documents in Microsoft Word, preformatted to your organisation's house style.
  • Draft documents faster using automated drafting tool FastDraft, then open your completed document in Microsoft Word. Available with 150 Practical Law documents.

Benefits

  • Instinctive – access Practical Law without interrupting your flow.
  • Efficient – no need to jump between databases.
  • FirmStyle:
    • Removes the hassle of converting our documents to your house style.
    • Greatly improves turnaround times – no waiting for document production team.
    • Strengthens your brand by ensuring consistency.
    • Work on a precedent anywhere in the world without secretarial input.
    • Free as part of subscription.
  • FastDraft:
    • Create a honed first draft in half the time.
    • Uses shortcuts such as importing data from Company’s House.
    • Shares information across a suite of documents, producing ancillary documents at the touch of a button.
    • Free as part of subscription

Integrating with Microsoft® Outlook®

Keep up to date and access Practical Law directly from Microsoft® Outlook®.

Features

  • Receive daily, weekly or monthly e-mails highlighting and explaining legal and regulatory developments in your practice area.
  • Receive updates on Practical Law resources as soon as they are published via RSS feeds directed to an inbox folder.
  • Navigate to pre-selected Practical Law resources via FileSite or WorkSite (for more information, see DMS/MMS).

Benefits

  • Get the latest news and resources in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit the Practical Law website.
  • Benefit from quality authored content, tailored for you.
  • Updates written by our team of 170 legal experts – not selected and compiled by a machine.
  • Access Practical Law resources in the same way that you access your matter folders or internal knowledge workspaces.

Integrating with Microsoft® SharePoint®

Access Practical Law resources from your intranet.

Features

  • A web part is a software program which is placed on a webpage and hosted in Microsoft® SharePoint®.
  • Web Parts enable you to quickly and directly access selected sections of Practical Law’s online services from your own intranet or portal areas.
  • Three Web Parts are available:
    • Documents – always links to the most recent, maintained version of your selected practice notes, standard documents, clauses or drafting notes. When Practical Law creates new resources matching your selection criteria, they will appear automatically, so you are always up to date.
    • Taxonomy – displays and links directly to some or all of the standard Practical Law topic taxonomy in a familiar file manager format which can be edited to rename topics using terminology more familiar to you, to include your own additional topic headings (providing direct links to internal resources) or to remove topics falling outside your team's scope.
    • Updates – displays Practical Law's legal updates in real time and allows users to email links to colleagues, rate articles, make comments and print individual items.

Benefits

  • Simple integration of internal know-how with Practical Law content, delivered dynamically into your practice group or sector pages.
  • Easy to classify and link to know-how resources.
  • Colleagues can easily discuss and share Practical Law updates.
  • Make the most of both your Practical Law and Microsoft® SharePoint® investment.
  • Minimal IT support required.
  • Free as part of your subscription.

You can also search across Practical Law resources from your intranet. Find out how

DMS/MMS integration

Integrate Practical Law resources into your internal document or matter management system.

Features

  • Integrate Practical Law resources into your internal document management system (DMS) or matter management system (MMS).
  • Pre-populate your matter workspace with Practical Law standard documents, clauses or drafting notes.
  • Link directly to the most recent maintained versions of Practical Law resources from within your DMS/MMS.

Benefits

  • Saves time by enabling fee earners to access internal know-how and Practical Law resources in one place.
  • Maximise your investment in internal knowledge and Practical Law.
  • Practical Law hosts and maintains the resources, so they are always up to date.

Federated search

Search across your internal know-how and Practical Law resources at the same time.

Features

  • The search terms you enter are submitted to multiple search engines – your own, Practical Law's and other resources.
  • Search results from different sources are typically presented on different tabs.
  • Search results are delivered by interacting with our search API technology, so ranking is consistent with that of the Practical Law website.

Benefits

  • Search across internal and external know-how at once, saving you time and widening your exposure to a breadth of resources.
  • Maximise your investment in internal knowledge, Practical Law and other resources.
  • Simple to set up as uses the existing search engine functionality of source websites.

For more information on federated search please contact us on +44(0)20 7202 1220 or at info@practicallaw.com

Enterprise search

Search across your internal know-how and Practical Law resources at the same time.

Features

  • The search terms are submitted to one search engine which trawls for content across different sources – your own, Practical Law's website, other resources.
  • Practical Law's search results from different sources are presented in one place.

Benefits

  • Search across internal and external know-how at once, saving you time and widening your exposure to a breadth of resources.
  • Maximise your investment in internal knowledge, Practical Law and other resources.
  • Control classification and ranking of search results, in the format preferred by your users.

For more information on federated search please contact us on +44(0)20 7202 1220 or at info@practicallaw.com

Practical Law enjoys good relationships with the major federated and enterprise search providers, and is happy to liaise directly with your chosen supplier, or with your IT department, as required.

Federated and enterprise search providers

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Testimonials

click to enlarge Reed Smith intranet "We consider Practical Law know-how to be our know-how – so it made sense to integrate Practical Law content into our intranet using enterprise search. Reed Smith pays to subscribe to various know-how databases and we want to make the most of our investments. That’s what we’ve done with Practical Law."

Loyita Worley, Senior Manager of EMEA Library Operations, Reed Smith

click to enlarge Macfarlanes intranet "We wanted to reduce the number of databases our fee-earners had to interrogate to get to crucial internal and Practical Law know-how, so we created a one-stop knowledge portal using enterprise search and federated search."

Sally Roberts, Intranet and Knowledge Manager, Macfarlanes

 

Further information

For more information please contact the customer relations team or call +44 (0)20 7202 1220.

Annotation

Create and share your own notes on Practical Law resources

Features

  • A simple text-editor interface, enabling designated users in your organisation to add specific annotations to Practical Law resources.
  • Your annotations appear at the top of individual resources, confidential to your chosen audience.
  • Choose who can create, edit and view annotations.
  • Optional customisation – ability to create multiple groups (for example authoring and editing) to suit different areas within your organisation.
  • Full history and edit details are stored for future reference.

Benefits

  • Supplement Practical Law resources with additional commentaries, making it easier to capture and share your knowledge and experience.
  • Annotations may link to internal know-how or individual documents, and are only viewable by designated users within your organisation.
  • Set up, maintenance and hosting are all sorted out for you by Practical Law.
  • Free as part of your subscription.
Further information

For more information or to try Annotation, please click here.

Linking resources

Reference and create links to Practical Law resources from internal know-how.

Features

  • Create link to Practical Law webpages, or individual practice notes, documents and articles from your internal know-how.
  • Each Practical Law resource and web page has a unique identification number.
  • Add links to Practical Law resources to your Favourites or bookmarks.

Benefits

  • Reference related Practical Law materials within your own know-how to point others to further reading.
  • Maximise your investment in internal know-how and Practical Law.
  • Boost internal know-how by linking to related maintained Practical Law resources.
  • Reference Practical Law resources with the confidence that the link will not be broken, because we do not delete notes or articles, or change their URL.

For more information about linking to Practical Law know-how, please click here.

You can also search across Practical Law resources and your own internal know-how at the same time. To find out how, please click here.

RSS

View Practical Law updates on your iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry or smart phone.

Features

  • A simple text-editor interface, enabling designated users in your organisation to add company specific annotations to Practical Law resources.
  • RSS readers scan for page updates and display them for you, so you can see when we have added new legal updates, practice notes and articles.
  • You will need a feed reader or news aggregator application.

Benefits

  • Get the latest news and resources when you’re on the move, as soon as they are published and without having to visit the Practical Law website.
  • Our legal updates are accessible from most mobile devices including iPads, through RSS feed readers such as Flipboard or Reeder.
  • Much quicker than visiting a page several times a day to check for updates.
Further information

For more information on Practical Law's RSS feeds to your mobile please click here or fill in the form on this page.
For more information on viewing Practical Law RSS feed through Outlook, please see here.

 

Twitter

Follow us on Twitter for service-specific updates to your desktop or mobile.

Features

  • Twitter is a real-time information network connecting you to the latest information 'tweeted', by accounts you choose to follow. Practical Law has several Twitter accounts, you can opt to follow as many or as few of these as you wish.
  • To follow Practical Law on Twitter from your mobile you’ll need to download an application that supports Twitter.

Benefits

  • Stay on top of Practical Law updates, UK and EC legislation and regulations, significant new cases, changes in market practice and consultation papers from the EC, UK government and other relevant bodies.
  • There is a Twitter page for each Practical Law service where the legal updates are published, making it easy to keep track of new content related to your areas of expertise and interest.
  • Track Practical Law updates whether at your desk or on-the-go.
  • Read our tweets independent of your current subscription, although you will need a subscription to view the underlying content.

To view a list of Practical Law service specific accounts, please click here.

UK general Twitter accounts

  • PracticalLawUK

    This is our main Twitter account for the UK, publishing company news, press releases and any freely accessible content from our know-how services.

  • Practical LawSubsAssistUK

    Subscriber assistance. Tweet us if you have any problems or queries, or would like a telephone tutorial. We're here to help!

  • Practical LawEvents

    Our official Events Twitter account. Follow for information on upcoming events, as well as tweets from the events themselves.

  • Practical LawUKTraining

    Tweets from our training department. Get news on training webinars, face to face training sessions and tips on how to get the most from your subscription.

  • Practical LawMagazine
Further Information

For more information on Practical Law’s Twitter pages, please contact us on +44(0)20 7202 1220 or at info@practicallaw.com

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