What is your preference between Practical Law, Lexis, or Bloomberg?

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The entire Westlaw platform is my preference; never relied solely on practical law but it has had helpful aspects of it.

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Bloomberg but never tried Lexis. Practical law wasn’t as practical as I thought it would be 😂

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Practical law has much higher quality templates and explanations, but from what I remember Lexis had a wider variety of templates for specific situations

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Practical law

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Practical Law

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Practical law. It's by far the best of the 3 for corporate and employment.

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Westlaw all the way.

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Practical law and it’s not even close

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Lexis always!

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I prefer Lexis!

I’ve used all 3 but haven’t used Practical Law in the last couple of years. I use Lexis now and it seems to be quite good. Had used Bloomberg for prior 2 years and it just did not have the breadth of templates and guides I needed. It was good for learning, not so much for practicing.

When I had Practical Law, it was fantastic. I’m sure it’s only gotten better. As the lone in house lawyer, however, it is significantly more expensive. Amazingly, Lexis was the cheapest of the 3 by far and I have everything I need (so far).

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