Jump to content

Practical Law Company: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
tagging for improvement
AnomieBOT (talk | contribs)
m Dating maintenance tags: {{Refimprove}}
Line 1: Line 1:
{{refimprove}}
{{refimprove|date=July 2012}}
[[Image:PracticalLawCompany.png|right|frame|Company logo]]
[[Image:PracticalLawCompany.png|right|frame|Company logo]]
'''Practical Law Company''' (or PLC) is a UK-based legal publishing company which provides legal know-how for business lawyers. It also acts as secretariat for the [[General_counsel#GC100|GC100]] group of [[general counsel]] and company secretaries.
'''Practical Law Company''' (or PLC) is a UK-based legal publishing company which provides legal know-how for business lawyers. It also acts as secretariat for the [[General_counsel#GC100|GC100]] group of [[general counsel]] and company secretaries.

Revision as of 21:45, 18 July 2012

File:PracticalLawCompany.png
Company logo

Practical Law Company (or PLC) is a UK-based legal publishing company which provides legal know-how for business lawyers. It also acts as secretariat for the GC100 group of general counsel and company secretaries.

The company was set up in the early 1990s by Chris Millerchip and Rob Dow to publish PLC Magazine. Since then it has expanded to provide predominantly web-based subscription services to law firms and law departments across a range of specialist subject areas such as corporate, finance, property, tax and intellectual property. UK based services include:

  • PLC Arbitration
  • PLC Commercial
  • PLC Competition
  • PLC Construction
  • PLC Corporate
  • PLC Cross-border
  • PLC Dispute Resolution
  • PLC Employment
  • PLC Environment
  • PLC Finance
  • PLC Financial Services
  • PLC IPIT & Communications
  • PLC Law Department
  • PLC Pensions
  • PLC Private Client
  • PLC Property
  • PLC Public Sector
  • PLC Publications Portal
  • PLC Restructuring and Insolvency
  • PLC Share Schemes & Incentives
  • PLC Tax
  • PLC Which lawyer?

PLC has a staff of over 600, around a third of whom are lawyers, at its offices in Southwark, London and New York.

PLC launched its first US services in December 2008. US based services now include:

  • PLC Finance
  • PLC Corporate & Securities
  • PLC Law Department
  • PLC Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
  • PLC Labor & Employment
  • PLC Intellectual Property & Technology