LexisNexis® Practical Guidance

Step-By-Step Legal How-To that Accelerates Your Work

Boost productivity and free up time for high-value work with a library of cutting-edge legal how-to.

Exclusive legal how-to at your fingertips

Updated regularly, Practical Guidance offers you award-winning notes, checklists, templates, and tools, all in one platform.

Quickly Compare Laws in Any State

Skip the time spent researching the relevant statutes, regulations, and case law in each applicable state.

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Be the authority in every room with over 140 of our easy-to-use legal trackers.

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Trusted Guidance from Seasoned Practitioners

Practical Guidance delivers legal knowledge and resources you can trust. Tap into the real-world expertise of over 2,000 leading lawyers with Practical Guidance's unmatched author base.

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Built Into the Most Powerful Legal AI on the Planet

Practical Guidance helps power Lexis+® with Protégé™, the fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analysis, and linked legal citations.

Awards

National Law Journal’s 2025 Awards

Practical Guidance was recognized in the National Law Journal's 2025 Awards Hall of Fame for being in the top three for several consecutive years.

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