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FromCounsel is an innovative and fully maintained online English corporate law service.

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We harness the collective expertise of leading barristers and our team of experienced professional support lawyers.

We deliver authoritative legal commentary and analysis on complex areas of corporate law.

Q&A Content

Our expert team formulate answers by reviewing information and amalgamating both the public, and importantly private, data and insights with the views and expertise of leading counsel.

Rather than returning a range of different resources for the user to review, our content is delivered in Question and Answer (Q&A) format, ensuring you get straight to the answer you need. 

FromCounsel’s SmartSearch enables you to express a search in the form of the natural language question you are trying to answer. 

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Content depth

Our Q&A content is presented in two ways:

  • Full fat: For self-contained answers with deep, comprehensive analysis

  • Skimmed: For a brief overview of the topic

Our archive is for reference only.

 

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Editors' views

By using the private 'information bank' available through our team of leading barristers, FromCounsel is able to give a trusted ‘editors’ view’ on difficult or complex points of law.

This ensures FromCounsel always provides an answer to the questions that practitioners face. 

 

 

 

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SmartSearch

SmartSearch allows you to express your Q&A search term in the form of the natural language question that you are trying to answer.
 
This Q&A search function combines traditional keyword matching with semantic search powered by word embeddings, which produces more relevant results for your query.
 
You have the option to toggle off SmartSearch if you wish to use the traditional search function.
 
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Legislation

FromCounsel’s fully maintained legislation service provides all key company legislation for corporate lawyers.
 
Legislation is integrated into our Q&A commentary, so that you can review referenced provisions alongside our Q&A content at the click of a button.
 
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News

Our news service keeps you up-to-date with Daily Briefings sent straight to your inbox. Quick-read updates keep you on top of developments. Features include insights from leading counsel on the latest case law. 
 
News updates go live on the site in real-time and our archive is fully searchable.
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Documents

FromCounsel provides high-quality corporate legal precedent documents for subscribers to download and use in Word, with complete drafting notes.
 
Your subscription can be upgraded to include access to automated, dynamic document suites, where a single change will update throughout all related documents.
 
For more information click here or contact your account manager. 
 
 
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Markets

FromCounsel Markets provides deal information, analytics and expert commentary in relation to public company transactions and related matters.
 
The service covers IPOs and Secondary Offers (AIM and Main Market), and UK public M&A. Profiles give deal information and access to deal documents. 
 
Our analytics dashboard enables you to stay up to date with current deal trends.  Our comparison tool allows you to compare deals using comparison parameters and build a downloadable table.
 
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Toolbar

You can select content by clicking on the use box next to Q&A, News, Legislation and Documents. Once you’ve found the information you need you can share, email, print, or download it with ease. 
 
When sharing a link, you must click on the share icon, then click on the paperclip icon and wait for the turquoise box to disappear - this tells you that the link to your bespoke selection is now created and ready to share.
 
In order to download documents, you must click on the download arrow next to the use box. 
 
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Annotations 

Annotations can be activated by contacting your account manager and requires single sign-on (SSO) to be in place. 
 
FromCounsel’s advanced annotations tool allows users to add secure annotations to our Q&A and Legislation, including links to firm precedents and other internal know-how. Individuals can add private annotations, and designated 'super users' can add annotations visible to the whole firm.
 
 
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My Account

The My Account feature allows subscribers to:

  • reset password
  • view search history
  • manage daily briefing preferences
  • view PIN

 

 

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Setting your 'Daily Briefing' frequency

You can change Daily Briefing frequency by going 'My Account', then selecting 'My Account', then My Preferences.

You can opt in or out and set the frequency.

 

 

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Access using your PIN

If your firm uses single sign-on, you can access FromCounsel outside your firm's network by using your PIN. To log in using your PIN, go to www.fromcounsel.com, and after clicking on 'Sign In', click the link 'To log in using your PIN, click here', then enter your work email and your PIN. 
 
Your PIN will not work as your password - you must go to the PIN login. We recommend you make a note of your PIN as you can only access this when logged into the service. 
 
If you do not have single sign-on and wish to enquire about this, please contact your account manager. 
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