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Practical Law

What is Practical Law?  

  • Practical Law is an online legal know-how service. It provides rigorous peer-reviewed resources, such as practice notes, current awareness and standard documents to help you work smarter and advise with confidence. 
  • Resources are created and kept up to date by our growing team of expert editors who have significant experience gained in the world’s leading law firms, companies and public sector organizations. 
  • Whether you are diversifying your practice and need an accessible, authoritative overview of an area of law or you simply want expertly-authored updates on your existing specialism, Practical Law can help.

Why use Practical Law? 

More than 130,000 lawyers worldwide rely on Practical Law for high quality, up-to-date know how, helping them to work faster, smarter and advise with confidence. Legal professionals use Practical Law: 

  • To advise confidently in unfamiliar jurisdictions, including across borders, with the use of practice guides and overviews 
  • To gain instant fingertip access to practical online know how resources, freeing up time to provide more highly-valued advice 
  • To get a head start by accessing resources written in plain English, based not just on the law, but on general market practice 
  • To get on a level playing field with competitors by accessing the same standard documents, clauses and drafting notes that are used across the industry 
  • To keep on top of legal and regulatory developments by signing up for current awareness written by experts, telling you what you need to know and why 
  • To lessen spend and reliance on external law firms and counsel 
  • To mitigate the risk of working from out of date or inaccurate sources 
  • To radically reduce “written-off” research time and transform non-chargeable time into profitable hours 
  • To reduce maintenance costs associated with keeping all knowledge management resources up to date. The vast bank of market-standard documents are maintained by our team of experts so you’re always starting from a template you can trust 

How to access Practical Law 

We have taken a limited user license to access. Only 50 members of our University can access and use the platform concurrently.  Therefore, one needs individual access credentials to use the platform.    

If you want to explore and use the platform, please write to eresources@jgu.edu.in.  We will help you generate access credentials on first come first basis.