Practical Guidance is Winning Converts

According to the Feit Consulting Consumer Insights Report: “After years of development and several iterations, is Lexis’ Practical Guidance ready for prime time? For the focus group participants, the answer was . . . Yes!” Feit Consulting convened four focus groups of lawyers and librarians in a vendor-neutral setting and asked them to compare Lexis Practical Guidance with Thomson Reuters Practical Law.

The report notes that “Practical Guidance is winning attorney and librarian converts from Practical Law.”

Here are a few of the key takeaways from the focus groups:

• Participants identified organization, layout, and ease-of-use as being superior and Lexis Practice Guidance.
• Participants suggested that the Lexis Practical Guidance results are more targeted than Practical Law.
• The participants also noted significant differences in the tools including:
• The Practical Guidance State Law Comparison Tool can compare state laws AND the federal law on a topic while Practical Law’s tool is limited to state law only.
• Practical Guidance Market Standards data visualization and analytics tools are automatically included for all subscribers to the content. Practical Law has released visualization tools, but it is sold as an add-on with an additional reoccurring subscription cost.

“This is sweet news for the many firms choosing between Westlaw and Lexis, given Lexis’ attractive pricing,” according to Feit Consulting.

You can read more about the Feit Consulting study and download the full findings from the focus group inquiry by clicking here.