Thomson Reuters Sustainability website has been named Best Publication by Ragan PR Daily’s 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. Sustainability was launched in September 2012 to be the voice of Thomson Reuters on topics ranging from climate, energy and health, to law and corporate governance. The site features key voices from politics, non-governmental organizations and corporations as …
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Understanding the digital marketing game
How do the best digital marketers consistently achieve above average performance for their marketing programs? FindLaw addressed this question in a session at the recently concluded ABA Techshow. The answer lies in understanding the “Digital Marketing Game.” The rules of the game The first thing anyone engaged in digital marketing must understand is the highly …
- April 3, 2014
- Mark Jacobsen
ABA Techshow: Day two recap
Yesterday seemed to fly by here in Chicago, as did today. I attended two of the morning sessions: Tools of the Trade for Paperless Practice, presented by JoAnn Hathaway and Richard Serpe, and How to Collect and Use Social Media for E-Discovery, presented by Hon. General Bruce Lee and Sharon Nelson. In the first session, …
- March 29, 2014
- Susan Martin
ABA Techshow: Day one recap
They don’t call it the windy city for nothing. Legal Current blew into the ABA Techshow 2014 on Wednesday evening, but the festivities didn’t officially begin until this morning. To kick things off, I attended a session titled “Ethics of Social Media Marketing,” presented by Bob Ambrogi, Jennifer Ellis and Jeff Lantz. I thought this was …
- March 27, 2014
- Susan Martin
Enhancements to Firm Central coming soon
Firm Central launched just over a year ago and received an excellent acceptance rate as a productivity solution. But now that the dust has settled, additional features will be rolling out to make it an even more efficient tool for practitioners. In the video clip below, Laura Zastrow, senior product developer for Firm Central, talks to …
- March 27, 2014
- Susan Martin
Tim Nixon moderates panel on transparency and compliance at Global Ethics Summit
In the world today, transparency continues to be of utmost importance for businesses. Tim Nixon, managing editor for sustainability.thomsonreuters.com, moderated a panel at the Global Ethics Summit last week that discussed transparency of global supply chains and third party compliance. The panelists included: Kim McMath, chief ethics and compliance officer, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; Mark J. Ohringer, …
- March 25, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
Transparency, tone from the top highlighted at Global Ethics Summit
The sixth annual Global Ethics Summit took place March 20-21, 2014, in New York and was hosted by the Ethisphere Institute and Thomson Reuters. The event featured keynote and panel discussions engaging debate among executives, compliance officers, legal professionals and more, offering insight into business operations in the current global environment focusing on governance, anti-corruption, …
- March 24, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
Super Lawyers picks the winners of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship
What better predictor of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship than by number of attorneys selected to the 2013 Super Lawyers list who graduated from the participating colleges’ law schools? After crunching the numbers, Super Lawyers predicts that on the evening of April 7, after a hard-fought, back-and-forth game, Harvard will prevail over Michigan 97-91. It will be …
- March 20, 2014
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters and ICMEC outline key recommendations for the digital economy on Capitol Hill
After the release of the Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) report, Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) took their next step recommendations on the future of the digital economy to representatives of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs last Wednesday. DETF co-chairs Steve Rubley, managing …
- March 11, 2014
- Alex Cook
Key author of the month: Professor Marilyn E. Phelan
Beginning last month, Legal Current launched the first in a highlight series of Thomson Reuters key authors of the month. This month, we highlight professor Marilyn E. Phelan, Paul Whitfield Horn professor of Law, a professor of Museum Science at Texas Tech University School of Law, and the author of Nonprofit Organizations: Law and Taxation and Representing …
- March 10, 2014
- Susan Martin