What’s New in Practical Guidance: February 2026

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This article highlights the most valuable Practical Guidance content added in 2025 across key practice areas, including new resource kits, expanded jurisdictional materials, and insights on emerging topics like ESG and AI risk. It shows how these additions help lawyers quickly access high-impact, practice-ready guidance.

Legal teams are under consistent pressure to stay current while managing active matters across jurisdictions and practice areas. February 2026 updates to Practical Guidance reflect a continued focus on improving how attorneys access new content and apply it in day-to-day workflows.

These February updates include structural improvements to content discovery alongside targeted additions across Commercial, Employment, and Real Estate practice areas. The new content emphasizes jurisdiction-specific resources, practical drafting tools, and resource kits designed to support legal work from initial research through execution.

Improved Access to New Content Across Practice Areas

A central update this month focuses on how users locate newly added materials. Practical Guidance has renamed its “Recently Added Resources Trackers” to New Content Resource Kits and repositioned them for greater visibility within each module homepage.

These kits are now placed at the top of the resource kit section, making it easier to identify recent additions without additional navigation. Each kit consolidates newly added materials, including practice notes, precedents, checklists, tables, and flowcharts, into a single, accessible view.

Coverage spans a wide range of practice areas, including Capital Markets and M&A, Commercial, Employment, Family Law, Finance, Intellectual Property and Technology, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, and more.

This change addresses a common workflow constraint where new content exists but is not immediately visible. By consolidating updates into structured resource kits, legal professionals can review recent developments and incorporate them into active matters with less time spent searching.

Commercial Updates Focus on Western Canada and Financing Workflows

Commercial content continued to expand in February, with a clear emphasis on British Columbia and Alberta, including more than 14 new documents across key transactional topics. New materials include guidance and documents addressing:

• Damages mitigation in sale of goods contracts
• Documents of title
• Sales agency agreements
• Consumer protection law

All these resources are tailored for Alberta and British Columbia, supporting jurisdiction-specific drafting and advisory work.

In addition, new equipment financing documents have been introduced for Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. These materials are relevant for banking and finance practices and support related work across restructuring, tax, M&A, and litigation.

This expansion reflects a focus on transactional consistency across jurisdictions and supports repeat work tied to institutional lending relationships.

Employment Content Addresses Compliance and Multilingual Workflows

The February Employment updates respond directly to evolving regulatory requirements and operational needs. In Ontario, new tools address pay transparency and job posting obligations.

New additions include:

• A Pay Transparency and Job Posting Compliance Checklist (ON) to guide compliance in hiring processes
• An Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Clause (Job Posting) (ON) to support required disclosures when AI is used in screening or hiring

These tools provide structured guidance and ready-to-use language for addressing compliance requirements in recruitment workflows.

To support Québec and French-language workflows, several bilingual and French-language resources have been added:

• Executive Employment Agreements with pro-employer and pro-executive options
• Offer letters in both long and short formats
• Minutes of settlement with alternative positioning for both parties

These materials allow legal teams to adapt documents to jurisdictional and language requirements without duplicating drafting effort.

New Employment-focused resource kits further extend workflow support. The Wrongful Dismissal File Resource Kit provides guidance from initial case assessment through litigation and settlement. The Discipline and Performance Management Resource Kit supports investigations, documentation, and termination risk management.

These additions align with increased demand for jurisdiction-specific compliance tools and structured guidance for employment-related matters.

Real Estate Enhancements Expand Resource Kits and Future Coverage

Real Estate updates center on new resource kits developed in response to user demand. The February updates introduce:

• Acquisitions and Sales Resource Kit
• Leasing Resource Kit
• Playbooks Resource Kit, including the Commercial Lease (Office Space) (Long Form) Playbook for Ontario

These kits consolidate key materials for common real estate workflows, helping practitioners move from transaction planning to documentation more efficiently.

Real Estate content continues to build on four years of development in 2026, with planned expansion areas including:

• Residential real estate coverage
• Additional jurisdictional content for British Columbia and Alberta
• A municipal and land use planning section

These forward-looking areas reflect ongoing efforts to broaden jurisdictional depth and support more complex real estate matters. 

Closing

The February 2026 Practical Guidance updates reflect a continued focus on improving how legal professionals access and apply new content. From enhanced visibility through New Content Resource Kits to jurisdiction-specific materials across Commercial, Employment, and Real Estate, the release supports more efficient legal workflows grounded in current developments.

Explore February Practical Guidance updates in our latest newsletter.

FAQ's

What is new in Practical Guidance for February 2026?

The February 2026 update introduces New Content Resource Kits for improved content discovery, along with new Commercial, Employment, and Real Estate resources tailored to Canadian jurisdictions. All the updates can be found in the February newsletter.

How do the New Content Resource Kits improve workflow efficiency?

They centralize newly added materials such as practice notes, precedents, and checklists in one location, making recent updates easier to find and apply.

Which practice areas saw the most significant updates?

Commercial, Employment, and Real Estate received targeted enhancements, including jurisdiction-specific documents, compliance tools, and new resource kits.

Are the updates jurisdiction-specific?

Yes. Many additions focus on Canadian jurisdictions such as Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, and Alberta, with resources tailored to local requirements.