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Practical Law Australia is the time-saving legal guidance and know-how solution empowering law firms and legal departments, like yours, across the country.

Our in-house team of Australian legal writers are 100% dedicated to creating and maintaining practical how-to guides and resources that enable fast and efficient solutions for you and your team – so that you have more  time to focus on the bigger picture.

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Access all your Australian and global legal guidance and resources from one easy-to-use platform

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Commercial

Advertising and marketing Contract lawData protection and privacyExecution formalitiesFranchisingGeneral contracts and boilerplateIntellectual property IT and outsourcingPre-transaction agreements and confidentialitySupply of goods and services

Dispute Resolution

Alternative dispute resolution and compromiseAppealsAustralian judicial systemCase managementCommencement: originating process, pleadings and serviceCommercial contract claimsCostsDisclosureDispute resolution strategyEvidenceFederal Court claims: overview and pre-actionFederal jurisdiction and legislation, time limits and immunitiesIn-house counselInsolvencyInterim applicationsJudgments, orders and enforcementLawyers’ professional responsibilitiesMisleading conduct claimsPrivileges and confidentialityRegulatory investigationsReliefRepresentative proceedingsState and territory litigation practiceTrial practiceUnconscionable conduct claims

Company Law

Company administration and meetingsCompany formation and constitutionDirectorsExecution formalitiesGeneral contract and boilerplateShare capitalShareholder arrangementsTrusts

Employment

Anti-bullyingCross-border and immigrationEmployment contractsEnterprise bargainingFederal discrimination and harassmentFederal unfair dismissalGeneral protectionsIll and injured employeesIndustrial actionNational employment standardsPay and benefitsPoliciesPost-employment obligationsPractice and procedure in the FWCRecruitmentRedundancyRight of entrySenior executive terms and conditionsTypes of engagementWorkplace precedents

Corporate Transactions

Asset acquisitionsDue diligenceEquity capital marketsExecution formalitiesGeneral contract and boilerplateReorganisationsReturns of valueShare acquisitions: privateTakeovers

Global Law and Practice

Global guides for 80+ countries, plus more than 50 practice areas from the UK, US, Canada, China and the EU, including:

ArbitrationCommercialCompetition and antitrustConstructionCorporateData protectionDispute resolutionEmploymentFinanceFinancial servicesIntellectual property and ITInternational arbitrationMedia and telecomsPropertyProperty litigationTax

Essential know-how for Australian legal professionals

Welcome

As Chair of the Board of Advisors for Practical Law Australia, I am delighted to be a part of this significant innovation for Australian lawyers.

Practical Law is internationally acclaimed for its practical approach to legal knowledge, and we have applied that same technique to Australian law, with market leading precedents and fully maintained workflow tools that will save practitioners valuable time and enable them to advise with confidence. I am convinced that the availability of technology and content of this kind will continue the legal research revolution and allow practitioners to respond to their clients with greater speed and accuracy than ever.

Practical Law Australia is expanding with new modules releasing in 2017 and an exciting content roadmap laid out for future development. The Board of Advisors offers a wealth of experience to Practical Law Australia. We are from diverse legal backgrounds, ranging from the judiciary, law firms and corporations, ensuring that our various user groups are all represented on the Board. Our brief is to actively guide Practical Law Australia’s experienced legal writing team and ensure that we shape the service to be the very best of its kind. I hope you enjoy the Practical Law Australia experience as much as I do.

Peter Butler OAM RFD Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Chair, Practical Law Australia – Board of Advisors

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Practice notes

Straightforward how-to guides and clear explanations of current law and practice, ranging from high-level overviews to detailed analysis for specialists.

Standard documents and clauses

Up-to-date precedents that reflect current law and practice with practical expert commentary, including detailed drafting and negotiating guidance, opposing positions and alternative clauses.

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1 Access your Practical Law international subscriptions at the click of a button

2 Compare the law across multiple jurisdictions with Practical Law’s complimentary global guides

3 Browse by keyword, practice area, resource type or jurisdiction

4 Save any practice area, resource or topic page as a favourite for quick and easy access

5 Quickly access your recently viewed documents or search results

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Checklists and flowcharts

Quick reference reminders to ensure you cover all the bases.

Legal updates

Legal updates explain what you need to know about new cases or legislative changes in your area of practice. Opt in to get update emails delivered straight to your inbox.

Global guides

Simple Q&A guides written by international and local experts that compare the law across jurisdictions. Guides feature cross-border analysis articles and a Q&A tool which allows you to generate custom comparison reports.

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1 Save any document or document note in your personalised folders

2 Change your client ID to keep track of work done on different matters

3 The maintained symbol means that your resource is fully up-to-date and reflects current law and practice

4 Find recommended content related to a specific resource

5 Search or browse the comprehensive glossary of legal terms

6 View related legislation on Westlaw AU for free as part of your subscription

7 All resources are cross-referenced and interlinked to guide you through a legal problem

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Meet the team

Michael Milnes

Head of Commercial Law

Michael Milnes has extensive legal and commercial experience, practising both as in-house counsel and at leading law firms in Australia, the UK and France. Michael has experience of advising at a strategic and operational level, across a wide range of commercial legal practice, including major contracts, competition and consumer law issues, marketing law, technology, IP and brand protection. Michael is also currently completing a Masters of Business Administration.

Ian Wylie

Head of Dispute Resolution

Ian Wylie practised as a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright followed by Ashurst for 16 years, then as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar for 11 years. He has experience in a range of industry sectors advising on dispute resolution management and strategy, and appearing in regulatory investigations and competition and consumer protection, intellectual property and other commercial litigation.

Robert Macredie

Head of Current Awareness

Robert Macredie has more than 12 years practising experience at leading international law firms in Australia and the United Kingdom, including Baker & McKenzie and Herbert Smith Freehills. Robert’s expertise includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment funds, restructures, capital raising, corporate governance, directors’ duties and commercial contracts.

Tim Perry

Head of Corporate

Tim Perry has more than 12 years’ experience practising at leading law firms in Australia, including Gilbert + Tobin and DLA Piper. Tim’s expertise includes advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructures, capital raisings, privatisations and other government transactions, corporate governance, directors’ duties and commercial contracts.

Linda Taylor

Head of Employment

Linda Taylor has more than 15 years’ experience in employment, industrial relations, and work health and safety law in both private practice and in-house roles. Prior to joining Practical Law Australia, Linda held senior management positions with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where she advised on a variety of matters, including termination of employment, transfer of business, and disciplinary and grievance investigations.

The Practical Law Australia family comprises an external board of advisors and in-house team of legal writers. All our team members have specialist practice experience, and are dedicated to delivering practical and concise guidance to busy legal professionals.

Meet the rest of the team at legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/practical-law-team

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