Practising Law Institute

Nonprofit CLE provider and legal research platform, founded 1933, chartered by NY Regents. Delivers accredited continuing legal education across 33 practice areas via live, on-demand, and webcast formats — over 10,000 hours of content. PLI PLUS is the research arm: a secondary-source platform with treatises, course handbooks, answer books, and journals, described by Harvard Law Library as ‘especially strong for transactional materials.’ 4,000+ volunteer faculty drawn from practicing attorneys, judges, and regulators. Ranked #1 CLE provider by credits delivered in Minnesota (2022-2024 Board data). US CLE market is $5.26B (2024) growing to $8.35B by 2030 at 8% CAGR — PLI is a key vendor alongside Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis. Individual Membership $3,495/yr (7-15x more than Lawline or LexisNexis CLE); enterprise Privileged Membership is unlimited firm-wide access at one flat annual fee. Launched Corporate Counsel Corner (April 2024) with Business and Leadership Academy specifically for in-house practitioners. PLI redesigned PLI.edu in 2025 with enhanced personalization. Dedicated Paralegal Center with free resources. ‘My Credit Tracker’ tool for CLE compliance tracking (launched 2019). Strong Reddit sentiment: practitioners praise depth and quality, but solos and small firms find pricing prohibitive without employer-provided access. No G2/Capterra reviews found. No SOC 2, SSO, or security documentation found publicly — a notable gap for enterprise buyers evaluating PLI PLUS as a research platform handling potentially sensitive query data.

Capabilities

Spans 2 product areas: Legal Education & Training, Legal Research.

Workflow Coverage

Based on published feature listings, this tool maps to 2 workflow areas:

• Firm Operations & Growth
• Research & Analysis

Workflow mappings derived from published feature lists. Not independently verified.

What We Haven’t Verified

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