Brightmine vs. Thomson Reuters Practical Law

When troubleshooting and needing state specific compliance, I have been able to quickly access and validate data to make informed decisions. For example, when working with a multi-state population of employees, I have repeatedly used Brightmine to review state specific laws at employment separations. When working on employee handbook updates, I have been able to utilize Brightmine to review current policy requirements as well as use as a starting point for drafting policy updates. It has been a very great tool - very turnkey.

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Legal research on specific laws and regulations in city, county, state, and federal venues. Since we have operations in virtually every state, nationwide content is very important to our organization to ensure we stay on top of new legislation and developments.

• Legal updates - keeping up with constant changes.
• Great letter and other document templates.
• Useful and well formatted Policy Templates - helping us keep up with changes to legislation.
• Handy dashboard with trending topics, updated & last viewed items.
• Daily newsletter updates are very useful for keeping up with current issues and changes to policies.

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• Real decisions from the courts
• Practical guidance from top practitioners
• Updated forms for different practice areas
• Overall solid coverage for my legal needs

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• Frequent technology issues - the system will not be available and I get an error code. This is not good when I need to find information right then. I feel concerned when this happens because I pay a lot for the product and I expect it to be available when I need it.

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• Easier interface.
• More searchable features.
• Cost

Without realising it we use Brightmine so often and it is so beneficial as our daily roles are onerous. By having a tool there that covers such a wide variety of products we can rest assured we know if we need something we can find it on there easily. With no hassle.

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So simple to use and really a few clicks to finding what you need, also appreciate the layout and alphabetical organisation. Not to mention how things are written out it makes finding templates a breeze and navigating to exactly what you need. Makes a stressful job so much easier!

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It is almost always available when I need it. I have only ran into 2 situations where I received an error message and could not get logged in but was told this was a widespread issue that would quickly be resolved.

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Everything loads quickly and is exactly where I need it to be. I like how the sidebar breaks down different sections of policies for each state to help me find what I am looking for or gives suggestions or documents to review that may also be helpful

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I reached out to Brightmine support when i could not get logged in and I received a personal response within hours that was very helpful! I love that it was a real person and not automated. This type of support makes me feel that their support team truly cares about getting issues fixed timely.

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The people on the call training us were very friendly and knowledgeable! They helped me learn of new tabs for finding templates to create new trainings to update departments on policies and procedures. It also has great excel sheets so I can see side by side differences between states regarding different laws and compensation changes.

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I didnt implement but just wanted to say the person providing the training was brilliant and guided us through each page so we knew how to navigate, also allowed us to ask a lot of questions if we needed to which was helpful. So we could go away with confidence to use it

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Compared to Workday, Brightmine is more specialized and faster for HR compliance and policy work, whereas Workday is broader and stronger for core HR operations like payroll, workforce management, and analytics. We selected Brightmine because it provides more direct, practical support for compliance updates and policy creation without the complexity and configuration overhead of Workday.

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Lexis Practice Advisor is an excellent alternative - but Practical Law has more comprehensive coverage of topics and practice areas - as well as more frequent updates to tools and checklists. Also, Practice Law integrates well with WestLaw which is great for having all the legal research and files centralized.

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It can be used across all disciplines on our team, from recruiting to training, to our generalist team. Our legal team could also jump in and use it to research.

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• Reduced legal expenditures -- I didn't have to pay lawyers to make a handbook for me.
• First point of reference for legal questions
• Reduces our risk and ensures we make the right legal decisions.
• Easy to research and find content using the search function of the home page dashboard.

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• Fantastic resources
• Multiple examples
• Document saving platform

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