In early January, officials at the White House met to discuss the possibility of utilizing the current security algorithms which Facebook engineers use to identify and treat possible suicide risks on their site. The current algorithm is able to identify current behavioral patterns by Facebook users that coincide with known, documented qualities of individuals who …
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China’s Legal System: 2015 Reviews and 2016 Predictions
According to the Lunar Calendar, 2016’s Spring Festival on February 8 marks the end of the Year of the Wooden Sheep and beginning the Year of the Fire Monkey. At this transitional time, Legal Current invited Chang Wang and Christopher Luehr, two Chinese law experts at Thomson Reuters, to review the major legal events and …
Twitter Turns NARC in 2016: Social Media Begins Informing Users of State Sponsored Attackers
Following a recent spike in state-sponsored cyber-attacks of more than 50 attendees of a prestigious cyber-security conference, the admins at Twitter set out to begin informing their users when accounts are targeted by known state-sponsored attackers via their social network. The event was the 2015 32C3 Conference hosted in Hamburg, Germany.[1] What’s 32C3 you ask? …
LegalTech NY 2016: Is the Legal Industry Getting the Most from its Technology?
Last week’s LegalTech New York 2016 saw a heavy emphasis on the potentials and pitfalls of current legal technology – especially ediscovery – as well as a questioning of whether technology itself is best being applied and utilized to the benefit of law firms and their clients. LegalTech New York 2016 also saw the formal launch …
David Curle Talks Trends from LegalTech New York
While e-discovery may be a perennial topic at LegalTech New York, other key trends had attendees talking on the show floor. We caught up with David Curle, director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence with Thomson Reuters, at LegalTech this week to get his take on the latest trends. You can hear what he had to say …
The Making of Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Point from LegalTech
LegalTech New York 2016 may be wrapping up, but for eDiscovery Point, things are just getting started. Announced last week, eDiscovery Point made a good showing among LegalTech attendees. As a faster and easier-to-use platform, eDiscovery Point gives legal professionals unprecedented control from processing through production, in part, because the platform was designed, tested and refined based on …
Legal Current Goes to LegalTech New York
Next week, Legal Current will be on the ground at LegalTech New York. Can’t be at the show? Watch for coverage, including more on Practice Point and eDiscovery Point, from the show on our blog and on Twitter. See you in New York.
Thomson Reuters Launches eDiscovery Point
Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Point™ is set to transform the market with a faster and easier-to-use platform. eDiscovery Point gives legal professionals unprecedented control from processing through production. The new platform combines Thomson Reuters robust power, security and service excellence with cutting-edge technology. eDiscovery Point enables clients to upload and process documents in minutes. Users can …
Thomson Reuters Introduces Practice Point
Thomson Reuters today unveiled Practice Point – an innovative solution that delivers the most relevant content and tools for a given task or legal issue. It leverages key content, expertise and technology from Practical Law and Westlaw in an entirely new manner through task-based organization and editor-selected content. Practice Point was developed with the help …
Thomson Reuters Introduces Practice Point
Thomson Reuters today unveiled Practice Point – an innovative solution that delivers the most relevant content and tools for a given task or legal issue. It leverages key content, expertise and technology from Practical Law and Westlaw in an entirely new manner through task-based organization and editor-selected content. Practice Point was developed with the help …
