What are the skills and mindset needed to adjust, innovate and thrive in the legal landscape? Colleen Casey Voshell, managing director, FTI Technology, moderated the “Disruption: Three Forces Shaping the Legal Landscape” panel at Legal Tech New York last week. In the video clip below, Voshell and her panelists, including the Honorable John M. Facciola, United …
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A send-off to Monica Bay
I first met Monica Bay when, as editor of The Recorder, she participated in the West-sponsored Editor Exchange conference, which gathered legal trade and bar association editors together to discuss critical issues of the day and attend writing and editing workshops. Because of her passion for law, and for writing, Monica instantly became a leader …
Nina Totenberg: From the fallopian jungle to the Supreme Court Press Corps
Recently, Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award winning legal affairs correspondent, was the keynote speaker at the Twin Cities Cardozo Society Annual Dinner celebrating the legal community. She stopped by the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus to give a packed house of employees an inside look into the Supreme Court. We sat down with Totenberg and asked about …
Know-How for Canadian law firms and corporations: Practical Law Canada announced
Today Thomson Reuters launched Practical Law Canada, providing legal know-how for Canadian law firms and corporate law departments on transactional law and practice in the areas of Corporate M&A, Capital Markets and Securities. “Since 1990, lawyers in the UK, and since 2009 lawyers in the US have been relying on Practical Law to provide them …
Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor exhibit opens today
Today at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., “Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor” opened to a large gathering. The opening ceremony was hosted by David Mao, Law Librarian of Congress, with his most distinguished guests and speakers Her Highness The Princess Royal and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Remarks were also shared from the most …
Thomson Reuters and Library of Congress honor Magna Carta anniversary in new book
Today I had the privilege of looking at Magna Carta. It was amazing to be just inches of glass away from the seed of the rule of law globally. While I was excited, the gentleman to my right said he had driven 3,000 miles to see Magna Carta, and a 10-year-old boy standing to my …
New York Law Journal readers pick Thomson Reuters WestlawNext, Concourse and Pangea3
The New York Law Journal Reader Rankings were recently announced, and the survey of 8,000 readers gave top honors for quality and ease-of-use to WestlawNext, the WestlawNext iPad App, the Westlaw Portfolio App, Concourse, and Pangea3. For the fifth year, WestlawNext was selected as the Best Online Research provider and the Westlaw Portfolio iPad App was …
Podcast: Interview with ABA Liberty Award winner Okianer Christian Dark
Fueled by her witness to and personal experience with discrimination, Dean Okianer Christian Dark channeled her sorrow and anger into action serving as lifelong role model of, and champion for, justice and equal rights in the public sector, private sector, and today as a teacher, mentor and dean at Howard University School of Law. This …
Vantage attendees flock into “What’s New in ProLaw 2014.1”
It was standing room only in the “What’s New: ProLaw 2014.1“ session held during the Elite Vantage Workdwide Conference in New York City last week. Ken Bassham, senior director of Sales for Elite, and Carolyn Smallwood, CLM, chief financial officer of ProLaw client Ezra Brutzkus Gubner (EBG) LLP, highlighted the “latest and greatest” in the …
Service before self: Dan Clark closing keynote at Vantage Worldwide Conference
New York Times best-selling author Dan Clark spoke to attendees at the Vantage Worldwide Conference in New York City last week about the importance of service. Clark knows a thing or two about this subject area, having written over 20 books with his most recent titled, The Art Of Significance: Achieving the Level Beyond Success. Clark attended …
