In the eighth episode of “Wait, What?”, the show delves into the unintended consequences of technology. Jason starts off with an example of the dual uses of an everyday hammer. The guys start talking about the misuse of things like the Tor – which are intended for good, but are used for nefarious things as well. Another unintended consequence of technological …
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Ill Repute episode 4: NFL draft and the activist CEO
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact it. In this episode, resident PR consultant Leonard Lee speaks with John Shaughnessy, vice president of Business Communications, and Jeff McCoy, manager of External Communications at Thomson Reuters, about the recent NFL draft, and activist and celebrity …
- May 5, 2015
- Susan Martin
New “issue spotting” strategies for health lawyers
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA One of the major challenges facing health law attorneys today is how to best track the changes that are taking place in programs that effect clients. Over the past five …
- May 5, 2015
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters Launches iOS app for 10th Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary
Thomson Reuters has released the iOS app for Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. It also is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions. Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th …
- May 4, 2015
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters Launches iOS app for 10th Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary
EAGAN, Minn – Thomson Reuters has released the iOS app for Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. It also is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions. Black’s Law …
- May 4, 2015
- Susan Martin
New Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure is approved by President Dilma Roussef
This post was written by Marisa Harms, editorial director of editorial label Revista dos Tribunais, Thomson Reuters. The full article can be found in Portuguese below the English version. After six years pending in Congress, on March 16, 2015, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved a new Code of Civil Procedure (Código de Processo Civil, CPC), …
- May 4, 2015
- Susan Martin
FindLaw survey: Law Day and constitutional rights
Today is Law Day in the US, so FindLaw wanted to look at Americans’ feelings on the basis for their legal rights: the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. FindLaw asked 1,000 Americans what constitutional right they consider to be most important. The results were somewhat surprising: Freedom of speech: 30% Due process rights: 20% …
- May 1, 2015
- Susan Martin
David Curle on Georgetown Law’s Iron Tech Lawyer competition
David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, recently visited Georgetown Law in Washington DC for its semi-annual Iron Tech Lawyer competition. In the video below, he gives a summary of his time there. You can also read about it in this post from the LEI blog.
- May 1, 2015
- Susan Martin
New tool for attacking cyberpiracy
This post was written by Rod S. Berman, Esq. and Jessica Bromall Sparkman, Esq. Recent decisions in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (“AMPAS”) v. GoDaddy.com, Inc., CV 10-03738 (C.D. Cal.), lay the foundation for brand owners to skip the haggle with domain registrants, and take their issues with infringing domain names straight to …
- May 1, 2015
- Susan Martin
Fish are friends, not food. What about sharks, can they be a trademark?
This post was written by Douglas J. Sorocco is a director and shareholder at Dunlap Codding While Katy Perry’s ongoing attempt to conquer and rule all things “shark” has run into a couple of snafus the last couple of weeks, one thing is for certain: this battle is not the Waterloo being heralded by many Internet …
- April 29, 2015
- Susan Martin