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Practical Law Company and Drinker Biddle Join Forces to Help Lawyers Increase Efficiency
PLC to Provide Its Innovative Services to Help Firm's U.S. Transactional Lawyers Deliver Greater Value to Clients
| Source: Practical Law Company, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - Practical Law Company (PLC),
a leading provider of practical know-how for business lawyers, continues to
expand the reach of its efficient and innovative services by signing an
agreement with Drinker Biddle &
Reath LLP, a national law firm with nearly 700 lawyers, to support its
U.S. business practice. Both PLC and Drinker Biddle embrace the increased
focus within the legal profession to increase efficiency and deliver
greater value to clients.
Coinciding with Drinker Biddle's recently announced
training program and apprenticeship for its newly graduated lawyers,
PLC will provide Drinker Biddle associates and partners with an expansive
set of up-to-date resources to bring them up to speed faster, enabling them
to spend more time interacting with, and providing strategic counsel, to
their clients.
"Drinker Biddle recognizes the necessity for efficiency and is taking
market-leading steps to innovate," notes Jeroen Plink, CEO of PLC U.S. "We
are delighted that they have chosen PLC to be a part of their solution."
At a time when it is critical to be as efficient as possible and deliver
even greater value to clients, more U.S. law firms and in-house counsel are
turning to PLC for assistance.
"We recognized the benefit of PLC's resources and their role in helping us
to be more efficient and responsive to our clients' needs," explains F.
Douglas Raymond III, chair of Drinker Biddle's Corporate and Securities
Practice Group. "We look forward to working with PLC to help us achieve our
goals of greater efficiency internally and delivering the value that our
clients deserve."
Practical Law Company (PLC), leading provider of practical know-how for
business lawyers, provides its clients with resources needed to practice
more efficiently and deliver greater value to clients. Started in the UK in
1990, PLC's clients include approximately 80% of the UK's largest 500 law
firms; 70 of AmLaw 100 firms; and over 1,700 legal departments worldwide.
PLC's recently launched U.S. services are created and maintained by its
team of editors with significant front-line experience practicing at the
world's leading law firms and corporate legal departments. For more
information, please visit PLC's U.S. website at www.practicallaw.com/us.