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About checklists

Checklists can help you cover all aspects of a legal matter, describe the scope of work, inform discussion, and allocate work.

What are they?

In Practical Law, checklists are usually lists of actions and points to consider, but some are timelines, flowcharts, tables, or decision trees.

Why use checklists?

Checklists will help you write procedures that make sure you and your team complete tasks thoroughly and consistently.
Checklists can also help you in the following ways.
  • To describe the scope of your work to clients and business partners.
  • To consider how to allocate work on a project to team members.
  • To prepare meeting agendas.

Why you can rely on checklists in Practical Law

The checklists are written by our team of expert editors, who have experience gained in law firms, companies, and public sector organisations. They are peer reviewed, maintained, and include a history of when and how they've changed.

Customise checklists

You can download a checklist as a Microsoft Word document to help you customise it for your practice.

Keep your customised checklists up to date

Set up a
Document Alert
 to notify you when Practical Law makes a change to checklist that you've customised.

Restrictions on the use of checklists

Select
Legal Information
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. These documents contain the terms of use for Practical Law content.

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