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.
Track Legal Developments with Ease
Be the authority in every room with over 140 of our easy-to-use legal trackers.
Negotiate Better Deals with Market Standards
Practical Guidance has the most robust deal point analysis tool in the market. Get an edge in negotiations with insights from publicly filed documents in four practice areas to obtain all the information needed to build the best deals.
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.
- 99% of the LAW360 Pulse Leaderboard firms author for Practical Guidance
- 98% of the Am Law 100 firms author for Practical Guidance
Built Into the Most Powerful Legal AI on the Planet
Practical Guidance helps power Lexis+ AI, 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.
What your peers are saying
I had to get up to speed on the federal victim’s recovery law for a conference call. I was able to find great articles and information on that federal law and sound very knowledgeable on my call.
Many great checklists and basic primers for legal issues on a given topic. Helps organize areas of research needed for a project.
I can send the guidance to young associates so that they can efficiently learn a new subject area to them.
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Practical Guidance Features
Intuitive Navigation
The Practical Guidance Interface is intuitive and easy to navigate.
Resource Kits
View all the relevant practical guidance for a specific task.
State Law Comparison Tool
Compare laws across multiple jurisdictions including state and federal.
Automated Templates
Build your document based on answers you supply to an interactive questionnaire.
Legal Developments
Get impact analysis and end-to-end coverage of emerging legal developments in your practice area.
Trackers
Monitor statutory, case law and regulatory developments.
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