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Pennsylvania Civil Practice Resources: PA Formbooks & Practice Resources

This guide reviews the different types of Pennsylvania civil practice resources available, and lists examples of each type of resource.

Description of Resources

Formbooks provide fill-in-the-blank templates of documents that lawyers use in practice, such as briefs, pleadings, agreements, letters, contract clauses, and many more.

Westlaw PA Formbooks

  • West's Pennsylvania Forms (providing forms relating to the areas of civil procedure, business organizations, estate planning, debtor-creditor, employment law, and commercial relations).
  • Pennsylvania Form Finder (content page category containing Pennsylvania specific text forms, fillable PDF forms, clauses and checklists available on Westlaw, derived from a number of sources including, but not limited to, state specific analytical titles and state and local courts.

Lexis PA Formbooks

  • Dunlap-Hanna Pennsylvania Forms (providing litigation and administrative forms for estates, wills and trusts, commercial transactions, general business formations, and much more, along with practical guidance and commentary).
  • Pennsylvania Transaction Guide: Legal Forms (providing transactional forms in the subject areas of Business Entities, Wills & Trusts, Commercial Transactions, Real Estate, Transactions, & Personal Transactions ).
  • Personal Injury Forms (providing forms and information for personal injury actions in the 10 most litigious counties of Pennsylvania).

Practical Law and Practical Guidance

The Practical Law and Practical Guidance content areas at Westlaw and Lexis, respectively, offer tools and information for lawyers including practice notes (explainers on legal tasks or areas of law), fill-in-the-blank template documents, sample clauses, articles, checklists, state law comparison tools, resource kits, and more.

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