Interesting news out of the United Kingdom this week: The number of reported defamation court cases against media companies in the UK has reached its lowest point in five years, falling from 48 in 2008-2009 to just 20 in 2012-2013,* according to research by the Legal business of Thomson Reuters. In addition, there were a total …
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Top ten observations from ACC 2013
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters A famous song proclaims that “it never rains in Southern California,” which was definitely not the case last week as crowds of corporate counsel converged onto the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 2013 Association of Corporate …
Discussing Business Law Solutions at ACC 2013
This post was written by Jen Merwin, senior marketer for Business Law Solutions at Thomson Reuters The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) 2013 Annual Meeting is well underway in Los Angeles. Corporate lawyers from around the world are gathered to discuss industry trends, participate in more than 100 CLE/CPD programs, and learn about new solutions. Thomson …
Extradition requests from the US almost double in a year
There has been an almost doubling in the number of arrests in the United Kingdom of individuals for extradition to the United States over the last 12 months, says Sweet & Maxwell, the legal information provider and part of Thomson Reuters. According to data provided to Sweet & Maxwell by the UK’s Home Office, 22 …
Ignore the First Amendment at your peril: 2013 Silha Lecture
This post was written by Megan Gustafson, journalist and former Thomson Reuters employee The lessons of the Pentagon Papers – the landmark 1971 First Amendment case – are coming full circle in today’s environment, said attorney James C. Goodale last week at the 2013 Silha Lecture, at the University of Minnesota’s Silha Center for the …
eDiscovery: Backup and cloud safeguards
This post was written by Joe Raczynski, technology manager for Large Law Firms, Thomson Reuters “Not preparing for eDiscovery will cause your company to spend millions meeting an eDiscovery request via a lawsuit or investigation or worse – losing a multi-million or multi-billion dollar lawsuit because you cannot retrieve data in time to satisfy a judge.” …
Marijuana legislation continues to grow among states
Thomson Reuters recently produced a 50-state survey of marijuana laws which revealed a general trend toward liberalizing restrictions on marijuana use and cultivation. An infographic is available here. To read a follow up from the Thomson Reuters Reference Attorney group which includes updates to the original survey data, visit the Legal Solutions blog.
Serengeti featured in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
In an article recently published in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel online, Patrick Johnson, senior marketer for Serengeti discusses the importance of legal spend and matter management software. Effectively tracking vendor legal matters and spending are of the utmost importance to efficiently managing even a small legal department. While accounts payable (A/P) software can report on some …
Winning a ten year trademark battle in China
Getting Westlaw registered as a trademark in China has been a Herculean task spanning ten years. Ryan Sheppard, vice president of Trademark Assets for Thomson Reuters, recently talked to Donna La Vardera, trademark manager for Legal at Thomson Reuters, about her dogged pursuit of the mark which was finally granted this year. Donna, why is …
Webinar on NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?
Big data. The value of information. Corporations, organizations and government agencies are all analyzing the proliferation of data that has become available in recent years to improve efficiency, support investigative work and generate more revenue. And as the volumes of data have grown, so too has the debate surrounding the acquisition and analysis of this …
