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Ark Group Conference Recap – KM with Kim, episode 7
The Ark Group recently held its conference on Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library, Research & Information Services. In this episode of KM with Kim, we discuss a recap of the conference with Kim Stein, national KM manager for Thomson Reuters. [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/legalcurrent/Ark_Group_Conference_Recap_-_KM_with_Kim_episode_7.mp3]
- April 6, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Frequently Overlooked IP Issues
With the passage of the America Invents Act in 2011 and a string of Supreme Court decisions in recent years, the landscape for intellectual property filings and dispute resolution was supposed to become clearer. But they have also brought new issues and uncertainty. Jeremy Taylor with Baker Botts discusses some of the most important IP …
- April 5, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Visualized Benchmarking Data for Legal Departments from Thomson Reuters Tracker
Knowing how your legal department and outside counsel are performing compared with the competition can be invaluable information. Corporate legal departments can more easily compare their performance to industry benchmarks and streamline frequently-used workflows with new automation tools in the latest update of Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker™ (formerly Serengeti Tracker™), the market-leading e-billing and matter …
- March 21, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Abraham Lincoln, Hurricane Katrina & the False Claims Act
In November, Supreme Court heard oral arguments in State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., United States ex rel. Rigsby, a case involving the False Claims Act and misclassified claims after Hurricane Katrina. This case is important as litigation under the False Claims Act has grown remarkably in recent years. It also is relevant that the …
- March 20, 2017
- Leonard Lee
New Versions of Case Notebook Suite and LiveNote Stream
The Case Notebook suite of litigation support products has been enhanced. Case Notebook version 4.5 has been released, adding new features, including batch importing of descriptions, dates and other key facts with automatic links to source information. Reports can be created and exported with the underlying source documents in a single step. This allows users …
- March 20, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Westlaw Secondary Sources Redesigned
Secondary sources often provide critical information when conducting legal research. Now users can more efficiently interact with thousands of analytical resources through the newly redesigned Westlaw Secondary Sources experience. Westlaw users will now have a more direct route to the information they seek via new publication filter and sort options, fully browsable tables of contents, a …
- February 28, 2017
- Leonard Lee
ProView-Handshake Integration Opens Up Information Workflows for Legal Professionals
Thomson Reuters ProView already provides the ultimate eBook user experience for professionals. ProView users can now integrate their ProView libraries with their information workflows through Handshake Software’s Portals and Universal Search. Handshake is the leading provider of SharePoint®-based products and services to the legal sector. Attorneys and law librarians will now have integrated access to their …
- February 21, 2017
- Leonard Lee
A Day in the Life of a KM Attorney – KM with Kim, episode 6
There’s no such thing as a typical day for someone who runs knowledge management for a law firm, in the same way that there’s no such thing as a typical KM setup, or even a typical person who manages KM for a firm. The person in charge of KM can be anyone from a law …
- February 15, 2017
- Leonard Lee
Large Law Firm Demand Continues to Drop — Peer Monitor Index
Demand for large law firm services fell 1.4% in the fourth quarter – the third consecutive quarterly decline and the biggest drop since Q1 2013. For the full year, demand fell 0.6% – the first annual decline in demand since 2013. Those are among the key findings from the Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) report for …
- February 13, 2017
- Leonard Lee
