The perception of in-house legal departments as insular and obstructive can impede their ability to best serve the business. And while perceptions often don’t reflect reality, repositioning the legal department as a valued, equal and constructive part of the organization will have a dramatic effect on both the lawyers’ job satisfaction and overall efficiency in …
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Forum Magazine: What 2015 looks like for some of Asia’s largest economies and their legal industries
What will 2015 look like for some of Asia’s largest economies and their legal industries? Law firms from around the region offer some answers. In this article in the latest Forum Magazine, we look at what 2015 holds in terms of legal and regulatory developments in some of Asia’s largest economies, as well as how …
Forum Magazine: Big data law
The pace of change in the legal profession has been accelerating over the past few years – a technology driven transformation of the legal system. Rarely a day goes by that we don’t read about new technology that promises to make lawyers more efficient than ever before, or replace them altogether. Compared to other service …
Forum Magazine: How MoloLamken plays larger than its size
Super Lawyers talked with Steve Molo and Jeff Lamken, founders of the litigation boutique MoloLamken, about their decision to leave large law and form their own firm. Molo was a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and Lamken was a partner at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. before joining forces in October …
Robe Off! The Entrepreneur Lawyer interviews The Entrepreneur Advocate
Barrister Sinead King of 36 Bedford Row talks to Chrissie Lightfoot about the skills required to operate as a barrister in today’s fast-moving business environment. It’s time for barristers to de-robe and get with the program, The Naked Lawyer author Chrissie Lightfoot maintains. But what does barrister Sinead King make of this new world and …
Forum Magazine: The Yanks are coming! The Brits are coming!
In November 2013, The American Lawyer® published a provocative article by its Chief European Correspondent Chris Johnson entitled “How the Magic Circle Lost the Battle for New York.” In it, Johnson argued that, despite 25 years of work and huge investments, the leading UK law firms had failed to gain any significant share of the …
Thomson Reuters sponsors National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Central Regional Conference
The Minnesota Asian Pacific American Bar Association (MNAPABA) is hosting the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s (NAPABA) Central Regional Conference from September 18-20, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN, and Thomson Reuters is one of the proud sponsors. NAPABA is the national association for Asian Pacific American legal professionals, representing the interests of over 40,000 attorneys …
Rise of the SocialHuman Barrister?
In July in the Global Legal Post, I shared my vision, insights and opinion about why it is becoming increasingly necessary for all of us lawyers to become SocialHuman in order to future-proof our careers as cognitive computing, artificial intelligence and robots infiltrate the entire legal eco-system and make some of our roles obsolete. It …
Forum Magazine: Looking at legal expertise from both sides of the table
Forum spoke with Gregory B. Jordan, general counsel of PNC Financial Services Group, and former global managing partner of Reed Smith LLP, about evolving client relationships, the exacting nature of determining client needs, and why both parties want the other to succeed. The evolution of the legal profession, especially the relationship between law firms and …
Ill Repute episode 9: The Daily Show and the downfall of Jared
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as my colleague in Corporate Affairs at Thomson Reuters, Alex Cook. This week, we discuss how the …
