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SOLUTIONS FOR SCOTTISH LEGAL PROFESSIONALS FROM THOMSON REUTERS
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Practical Law Practical Law know how resources are created by expert lawyer-editors to meet the needs of the busy practitioner. Our team has significant practice experience in top law firms and companies around the world – now their job is to help you do yours. We create and maintain online legal know how resources to help you work smarter and advise with confidence. Highlights • Vast bank of online know how including practice notes, giving clear explanations of law and practice, from overview notes to detailed guidance for specialists • Checklists and flowcharts to help you mitigate risk and ensure you have everything covered • Standard documents and clauses with integrated drafting notes that provide context, negotiating tips and links to related resources • Know how is continually maintained so you’re always up to date. Use the Resource History feature to see when a resource was last updated and how
Westlaw UK and Westlaw UK Scots Law Westlaw UK is an innovative legal research system which allows you to carry out fast and reliable legal research. Westlaw UK provides instant access to vast, authoritative databases of case law, consolidated legislation, journals and business news, together with the Sweet & Maxwell commentary you trust. All our resources are integrated seamlessly and come with intuitive time-saving tools, making it easy to leverage critical information and insights. Highlights • Fully consolidated legislation from the UK, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, all updated daily • Full ICLR content: The Law Reports, Public and Third Sector Reports, Scots Law Times and Weekly Law Reports
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Lawtel
Serengeti Tracker Solcara
W. Green provides hundreds of specialist books, looseleafs and journals covering all areas of Scots law, that are used by thousands of legal professionals every day.
Lawtel is the online research tool that delivers the law to you as it happens. What’s more, it provides same day coverage for the Supreme Court and overnight reporting of selected cases from the higher courts, as well as legislation, articles, press coverage and practical precedents.
Serengeti Tracker is an easy-to-use, web-based legal department management system that lets you manage legal projects and external law firm spend.
Our extensive library of commentary is renowned for its authority, breadth of coverage and currency, and is available in a variety of formats including books, eBooks, journals, periodicals, looseleafs, CD-ROMs and online through our legal research platform, Westlaw UK. Titles include
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• Parliament House Book
• Over 60,000 case reports across a wide range of subject areas, covering all the key courts
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• More than 180 Sweet & Maxwell and W. Green commentary titles accessible online
• Currie on Confirmation of Executors
• More than 100 full text journals and abstracts from 800 more
• The Law of Parent & Child in Scotland
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• Scots Law Times
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• Current Awareness service, updated every 15 minutes
• Juridical Review
• Integrated with cases and legislation on Westlaw UK for seamless research
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Pinpoint your area of interest out of over 100 specialist areas, and our hugely popular Daily Updates service will email you each morning with the information you need.
• Gloag & Henderson: The Law of Scotland
• Drafting Trusts & Will Trusts in Scotland
• Greens Weekly Digest
• Unreported transcripts sourced by our court reporting team, many of them exclusive to Lawtel
Whether your organisation has hundreds of in-house lawyers or a just a single General Counsel, controlling legal spend and increasing efficiency is a challenge. We’ve worked with companies around the globe to develop a service that creates a unique virtual workspace, allowing in-house lawyers and external counsel to connect and work in harmony.
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• Follow an action from the initial stages right through to a High Court decision with Lawtel’s Pending Actions • Kemp cases complete with a Schedule of Damages Application, Commentary plus other useful tools and calculators
Solcara allows you to simultaneously search across multiple resources using world-class information retrieval technology. Bring together your internal databases and your external legal information resources into one smart, simple and streamlined system that is tuned to the needs of your firm, university or even down to an individual practice group.
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