On Friday, August 9, 2013, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Relations and Government Affairs at Thomson Reuters, presented the American Bar Association’s annual TIPs Liberty Achievement Award to Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The award ceremony and reception, held at the law offices of Sedgwick LLP in …
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Day of the Woman celebrated at the ABA Annual Meeting
Women attorneys of America – unite! Women attorneys were celebrated on Aug. 9, 2013 at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. “The Day of the Woman,” which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Commission on Women in the Profession, marked the progress women lawyers have made and the work still to be …
Podcast: Sharon Sayles Belton and ABA TIPs Liberty Award winner Steven Shapiro
Just in time for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco later this week, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Affairs at Thomson Reuters, chatted with this year’s ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPs) Liberty Award recipient, Steven Shapiro. The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, will be presented to …
Podcast: Retention and promotion of women in law firms
The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) recently concluded its annual meeting in New York. Among the topics discussed at the meeting was skills, strategies and stumbling blocks for women lawyers in their career path. Last year, NAWL released its National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms and remarkably little has changed for women at …
Join Firm Central at the 2013 Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms conference
This article was written by Jeff Kohl, intern for Small Law Firm Marketing. Firm Central is thrilled to be one of two platinum sponsors at the 2013 Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms conference this weekend in Duluth, Minn. Representatives will be on hand to talk about practice management tools and cloud services specifically for the …
Personal injury claims, poppy seed bagels and cybercrime – Podcast: July 2013
After a brief hiatus, the Legal Current monthly podcast is back! In the July 2013 edition of the Legal Current podcast, we discuss: Legal Trends & Insights: The impact of the new RTA Claims Portal on personal injury claims in the UK Legal News: An interview with Prof. Ronald Rotunda of Chapman University on the …
New government white paper on preservation and legal holds in the public sector
The amount of electronically stored information (ESI) is growing, and government agencies are becoming increasingly concerned about the necessity to preserve ESI and the negative consequences that may result if preservation doesn’t happen. Failure to protect ESI for potential audits, investigations, administrative proceedings, or anticipated litigation can put an agency at a higher risk of being …
Lessons learned at AALL
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys have always had a strong affinity with law librarians. Our jobs are similar. We respond to a maddeningly diverse set of research requests and, as the legal market changes, so do our responsibilities. Now, we find ourselves taking on more responsibilities …
The new alert management center on WestlawNext
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! Although we have not departed radically from what we have been doing for 140 years, Thomson Reuters has helped its solutions to evolve naturally with legal business …
From the floor at AALL: Practice technology for academics
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys are among the folks participating in this year’s American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference. At the end of the first day on Sunday, we chatted about some trends we noticed working the trade show floor. One clear trend was the …
