LexisNexis® Practical Guidance is your go-to resource for real-world legal support, built by lawyers, for lawyers. Access step-by-step guidance and market insights across 12+ practice areas. Whether you're tackling a familiar task or exploring new legal terrain, Practical Guidance helps you boost productivity with expert-driven legal guidance designed to streamline your workflow.
Practical Guidance delivers reliable, real-world knowledge and resources. Leverage the depth and credibility of a trusted network of over 380 Canadian practitioners and 185law firms† to navigate legal challenges with confidence.
*Based on information available as of June 2025.
Prepared and updated by leading experts in the area, practice notes provide high level “how- to” guidance and direction on a given deal, task or issue and include links to related documents such as precedents and forms.
Includes hundreds of relevant forms, model documents, sample court documents, drafting notes and practice tips.
Checklists, tables and flowcharts provide step-by-step guidance for a given deal, task or process and strategies for dealing with issues that may arise.
Calculators: help you speed up repetitive tasks and make the most of your time.
Create high quality first drafts of documents by providing answers to an interactive questionnaire.
Simplify your workflow and reduce your turnaround time by accessing a single view of all tasks, documents, and information needed to complete a particular process.
Access robust deal point analysis and get an edge in your negotiation with insights from pinpoint searches of publicly filed deal documents across the mergers & acquisitions practice areas.
Further reading includes analytical materials from leading treatises including Halsbury’s Laws of Canada.
Key statutes, procedural rules and cases relevant to the topic are included, and are selected by leading practitioners.
Our extensive collection of content is created by leading practitioners and former in-house counsel, and bolstered by our internal team of corporate legal, and private practice experts. Find content, fresh perspectives and the latest trends on the topic you that matter most to you.
Practical Guidance allows you to draw on a virtual dream team law firm of practice area specialists. With a few clicks, a niche discipline like Entertainment Law is made accessible through the guidance and precedents of lawyers who work in that area day in and day out.
Time management is critical to success. Lawyers who use Practical Guidance will immediately benefit from the comprehensive information and precedents provided.
Practical Guidance is designed to be practical and helpful, whether it’s in the courtroom, boardroom or in the practitioner’s office.
You have questions, we have answers
Below are a number of on-demand resources including demos, user guides, module snapshots and more, designed for your success with Practical Guidance.
Our enhanced online assistance provides context-sensitive help, animated tutorials, and “How-to” links for learning specific tasks.
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