ABA Techshow started out with a bang this morning at the heavily-attended session titled “Your Information is Digital and YOU Need to Know Digital Security.” Presented by Kenneth Lyons, senior manager of IT engineering and security at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and Matt Kesner, CIO of Fenwick & West, LLP, the session covered the security practices all …
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What the product development team will be doing at ABA Techshow
Stephanie Fox, director of customer marketing, and Laura Zastrow, manager of productivity solutions with Thomson Reuters, talk about what the product development team will be doing at ABA TECHSHOW this year and what’s new with Firm Central. Watch the short video below to learn more, or stop by the Thomson Reuters booth at ABA Techshow in Chicago …
- April 15, 2015
- Susan Martin
ProView at ABA Techshow
Four years ago, Thomson Reuters launched a new proprietary professional-grade platform for ebooks called ProView. Since the product launch, we have gone from 50 ebooks to over 700 available ebooks. ProView has allowed attorneys to go paperless, be mobile and still access legal resources and stay on top of new and important content releases. In the video clip …
- April 14, 2015
- Susan Martin
Futureproof? Protecting innovation in rapidly evolving technologies
This post was written by Mohammed Karim, attorney at Bird & Bird international law firm Gordon Moore’s law that computer processor speeds would double every two years has historically held true. Ray Kurzweil’s modern theory of human development and the Law of Accelerating Returns proposes that the rate of human progress exponentially increases throughout time. …
- April 14, 2015
- Susan Martin
Podcast: Interview with ABA Techshow keynote speaker Nicholas Carr
With the Annual Bar Association’s (ABA) Techshow 2015 coming up next week, we talked with WestlawNext-sponsored keynote speaker Nicholas Carr to get a preview on what he will be discussing. In the podcast below, Carr also talks with us about the consequences surrounding our dependence on computers, how our relationship with technology has changed the …
- April 13, 2015
- Susan Martin
Wait, What? Episode 6: Remember those pictures you took? Well, mom just found them
This episode starts off with a question regarding whether or not any of the guys have any embarrassing photos on the internet. This quickly leads into a conversation about the “Right To Be Forgotten” and whether or not people have a fundamental right to have their mistakes removed (or at least suppressed) from the internet. …
- April 10, 2015
- Susan Martin
It’s the little things: Recent Westlaw enhancements
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney advisor at Thomson Reuters I’m very excited to be attending the American Bar Association (ABA) Techshow next week in Chicago. The Techshow is a great time for me to receive feedback, discuss product ideas and updates to Westlaw, and other legal solutions. So often, it’s …
- April 10, 2015
- Susan Martin
Do divorce courts favor men or women?
Do divorce courts favor men or women? Well, the answer depends on whom you ask. A new survey from FindLaw.com says men and women have sharply different views on whether divorce courts tend to favor men or women. The majority of American men (57 percent) believe that divorce courts generally favor women. However, a nearly equal majority …
- April 8, 2015
- Susan Martin
Podcast: Ill Repute episode 2
The second episode of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it, is now available. In this episode, I talk with Alex Cook, senior communications specialist, and Leonard Lee, our resident PR consultant. We discuss election year reputation management, Ted Cruz, issuing a public apology …
- April 6, 2015
- Susan Martin
Adapting to rapid change in health care
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 The pace of change in health care continues at a high level. The Affordable Care Act is struggling to reach out to uninsured groups, and still trying to make corrections …
- April 6, 2015
- Susan Martin