Practical Law tools

Save time and avoid duplicating effort with Practical Law tools.

Practical Law tools

Draft faster with FastDraft.

Create advanced first drafts in half the time with our automated drafting tool, available on 150 documents. Find out more.

Share notes easily with Annotation.

Create your own notes on Practical Law resources and share them securely with colleagues. Find out more.

Forget formatting with FirmStyle.

Download Practical Law standard documents in your organisation's house style. Find out more.

Get a head start on business development with PLC Briefing.

Download white label content to send to your private company clients. Find out more.

FastDraft

Create advanced first drafts in half the time.

FastDraft helps you to create documents faster by using shortcuts such as importing data from your existing projects, your contacts or from Company’s House. It’s available on 150 documents and it’s free as part of a Practical Law subscription.

A recent survey showed that 65% of users saved 40% or more of their drafting time by using FastDraft.

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"FastDraft enables us to turn around complex agreements at speed and without compromising accuracy or quality. Once again, Practical Law has designed something that makes you question how you managed without it."

Phil Riman
Partner and FastDraft user, White and Black

How does it work?

By making a few important choices up front and entering key data, you can quickly create a focused, honed first draft. FastDraft shares information from one document across a suite of relevant documents, allowing you to produce ancillary documents at the touch of a button. You can see how the system works and the benefits it provides by viewing this demonstration

Get started

fastdraft - how it works
  1. Log in using your unique username and password, or request a free trial to any service (see options on right).
  2. Choose a document: look for the PLCFastDraft icon in topic lists, or select from the list of FastDraft documents here.
  3. Click Go » to enter FastDraft and answer a short set of questions.
  4. Export to Microsoft Word when you are ready.

Fastdraft is free to existing subscribers. You must be logged in with your unique username and password to use it. If you do not have one, or would like a reminder, please e-mail info@practicallaw.com.

Help?

User guides

Training

Our training team can help your organisation get the most out of FastDraft, including:


Annotation

Create and share your own notes on resources.

Annotation lets you create and maintain your notes on our resources and share these annotations securely with colleagues. It’s free as part of a Practical Law subscription.

  • Capture and record useful know-how around Practical Law resources
  • Supplement a Practical Law resource with additional commentary
  • Link to internal know-how and documents
  • Indicate reliance on a Practical Law resource where no internal equivalent exists
  • Share knowledge among teams

How does it work?

Annotation uses a simple text-editor interface. Your notes can be as detailed or brief as you like and you can be safe in the knowledge that they can only be viewed by people in your organisation.

  • Annotations appear at the top of each Practical Law resource.
  • Full history and edit details stored for future reference.
  • Customise multiple groups of "readers" and "writers" to suit different areas of interest within your organisation.
  • Choose who can create or edit annotation note entries.
  • Enable read-only access for all or part of your organisation.
Example annotation

Get started

Annotation is simple to set up. To get started, please e-mail annotation@practicallaw.com

If you would like a short demonstration, please email training@practicallaw.com

FirmStyle

Download Practical Law standard documents in your organisation’s house style.

FirmStyle delivers our precedents in your house style at a fraction of the cost of doing the conversion work internally. Get client-ready documents without having to fiddle with formatting.

  • Removes the hassle of converting our documents to your house style.
  • Improves turnaround time and enables you to work on a precedent from anywhere in the world without secretarial input.
  • Guarantee consistency of formatting across departments.
  • Allows for seamless integration of Practical Law standard documents with your own.

How does it work?

With FirmStyle you can download any Practical Law standard document in your organisation's house style. Our documents become customised to your brand, including logos, numbering style, contents and execution clauses.

Get started

To start using FirmStyle, please contact your account manager or fill in the form opposite.

"Subscribing to Practical Law allows us access to a range of standard documents continuously being developed and updated. Combining this with FirmStyle means that the documents are delivered in our own house style. This allows us to deliver a consistent and high quality service to our clients."

Varun Maharaj, Partner Property Department, Mace & Jones

White-label content you can use for business development

Your clients expect a certain amount of insight for free and providing generic advice to prospects can help you win business. But producing regular content for business and practice development can be time-consuming, especially without access to a professional support team.

PLC Briefing provides you with regular checklists, written for non-lawyers in private companies, which you can top and tail and publish on your website or send to clients and prospects.

Each month, we send out new checklists in our PLC Briefing e-mail. You can sign up to receive the e-mail by filling in the form opposite or view the latest checklists by following PLC Briefing on Twitter.

We also offer a set of 50 core checklists, which we continually update to reflect changes in law. Please see below for the full list

Commercial

Data protection and IT

Employment and benefits

Health and safety and environment

Property

Restructuring and insolvency

Tax