Is any law firm or company immune from Brexit, trade law or global privacy (GDPR) issues? Thomson Reuters is 
responding to the growth of cross-border legal issues with the launch of the Practical Law Global which allows researchers to browse for foreign law answers by country or topic. Jurisdiction-specific resources are written by a prestigious roster of local experts. Practical Law Global will be available on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.
Practical Law Global offers:
- A seamless navigation between domestic and global content
- A new global practice taxonomy
- Access to Global In-House Resources on the home page
- Ability to customize a personal list of country favorites in a Featured Countries section
- A country Q&A comparison tool to compare answers to key questions across multiple jurisdictions
- Ability to set up alerts to track issues around the globe.
What is Practical Law Global? Practical Law Global puts all Practical Law content into a unified, simple interface for users in need of know-how outside their primary jurisdiction. New topical and jurisdictional content has been added to the global platform. Major jurisdictional materials from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and China are supplemented with additional coverage from more than 100 other countries.
According to Emily Colbert, vice president, Practical Law Product Management, the major benefit of Practical Law Global is an enhanced user experience which allows lawyers to more easily discover relevant international materials by searching or navigating through either topics or jurisdictions. Thomson Reuters has created a new hierarchy of 14 global practice areas broken into granular subtopics. Thomas Sander, director, Practical Law Product Management, highlighted the pervasiveness of privacy issues in legal which Thomson Reuters has addressed with the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters Global Data Privacy & Security Center into the Practical Law Global platform.
What are the 14 global practice areas in Global? • Antitrust & Competition • Arbitration • Benefits, Share Plans & Executive Compensation • Capital Markets • Commercial • Corporate • Data Privacy & Security • Employment • Finance & Financial Regulation • Intellectual Property & Technology • Life Sciences • Litigation & Dispute Resolution • Real Estate • Restructuring & Insolvency.
Upgrading Practical Law Global Subscribers to country specific content (E.g. US, UK, Canada, Australia) will have the opportunity to upgrade to “Global.” All Practical Law subscribers can get to the Global content by clicking the “Global” home button at the top of the home page. Access to the new global experience pages is not restricted, however, out-of-plan content will still be restricted in the same way as current out-of-plan content. No one will lose access to any content which is currently available to them.
View a video about the Practical Law Global here.
