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Practical Law Company (PLC)Practical Law's online know-how services are made for busy frontline lawyers. Their tools and resources clearly and efficiently address the challenges faced by lawyers of every level, background and expertise. Their team of 250 experts has significant practice experience at the world's leading law firms, companies and organisations. They create and continually maintain thousands of practical resources, so lawyers can spend less time reinventing the wheel and more time adding value. 100,000 lawyers around the world use PLC to give them a quality-assured head-start and work more efficiently. 3,400 organisations worldwide subscribe, including 80% of the UK's 500 largest law firms, 70% of the Am Law 100 firms and 90% of the FTSE 100. Services cover key practice areas: Arbitration, Commercial, Competition, Construction, Corporate, Cross-border, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Environment, EU, Finance, Financial Services, IPIT & Communications, Pensions, Private Client, Property, Restructuring & Insolvency, Share Schemes & Incentives. At the heart of practice The PLC team is in continual dialogue with more than 5,000 law firms and legal departments worldwide through their feedback service and consultation boards and their management of legal networks such as the Association of General Counsel and Company Secretaries of the FTSE 100. A very strong relationship with subscribers helps them to ensure that the materials provided remain current and fit for purpose. Practical approach In their own words: "Practical law doesn't just mean quality resources. It also means easy-to-find and use. Our online services are developed to high usability standards and our know-how is written in plain English. And we won't just give you a password to our site and disappear. Our experts are available to expand on resources, point you to useful material or act as a sounding board on a tricky point. We handle thousands of subscriber queries each year; almost all are answered the day they're received." Books online Practical law Company (PLC) are now publishing many of their book titles in English law, Scots law and tax titles online. The books have been licensed from legal publisher Bloomsbury and this is the first time that the books have been available online. The book content is integrated within PLC's own content so users can search for content within the books from the general PLC search and the books are listed under related PLC topics. You can browse the catalogue here and there is a free chapter available to view for each book. The books are made available on a subscription basis and all new editions are made available without additional charge during the period of the subscription. You can see more about this here. You can find more information about Practical Law here, or telephone +44 (0)20 7202 1220 or email info@practicallaw.com.
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