At the 2017 American Bar Association (ABA) annual meeting in New York City, the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) presented its annual Liberty Achievement Award to Judge Lorna G. Schofield of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The award recognizes lawyers and judges who take a leadership role by …
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Thomson Reuters and Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Announce Elite 3E Cloud Agreement
Gordon, Arata, Montgomery, Barnett, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLC, headquartered in New Orleans, will be the first law firm to adopt 3E Cloud from Thomson Reuters Elite, the global leader in enterprise business management solutions for legal industry and, today, its first true managed cloud-based financial platform. Elite 3E Cloud is a scalable technology used …
- August 14, 2017
- Alex Cook
Trainer: Intellectual Property in the Crosshairs of Trade Agenda?
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has stepped up actions to punish China for violations of U.S. owned intellectual property, with a Reuters report noting bi-partisan support for a broad inquiry into China’s trade practices. The timing of the official investigation is unknown due to China’s recent support of UN sanctions against North Korea and …
- August 11, 2017
- Alex Cook
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 16: No One is in Charge of Health Care
This is part 16 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
- August 8, 2017
- Alex Cook
For Public Consumption Episode 2: An Interview with Diana White on the Future of the Legal Services Corporation
Earlier this spring, the Trump Administration released its full 2018 budget proposal, which outlined deep cuts, and even outright eliminations, of some agencies. Among the 19 agencies on the chopping block is the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent nonprofit established by Congress to support low-income Americans with civil legal aid. While the budget for …
- August 2, 2017
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters report highlights diverse issues, loss of institutional knowledge facing government legal departments
Government attorneys face daunting workloads, tight budgets and pressure to keep current on increasingly complex laws and regulations at a time when a generation of institutional knowledge is leaving as Baby Boomer-era employees retire. That’s according to a Thomson Reuters survey across federal, state and city/county levels with 238 government attorneys responding. “Government attorneys face …
- July 27, 2017
- Alex Cook
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 15: Design Failure for Medicaid Program Reform
This is Part 15 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
- July 25, 2017
- Alex Cook
An Abbreviated History of the False Claims Act: Enlisting Citizens in the Fight Against Fraud
The Federal Government spends more than $3 trillion a year on everything from healthcare, defense, education, and housing, to technology, research and beyond. With that much money on the table, efforts to defraud the government are inevitable. Identifying, stopping or deterring fraud, however, can be difficult, given the challenging nature of detecting fraud and allocating …
- July 20, 2017
- Alex Cook
Insights from Thomson Reuters Second Annual Government Conference
Disruption doesn’t have to have a negative connotation; it can lead to opportunity. True leaders embrace it to succeed in a rapidly shifting landscape. This is a key take away from Dawn Scalici, Government Global Business Director at Thomson Reuters, on the recent Thomson Reuters Government Conference that was held in Washington, D.C. on June …
- July 19, 2017
- Alex Cook
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 14: CBO Analysis Distorts Debates
This is Part 14 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
- July 10, 2017
- Alex Cook