Over the past few weeks, the Westlaw Insider blog has been featuring posts from the Westlaw Editorial team, who analyze cases, statutes and Headnotes, as well as the rest of our editorial enhancements. This series provides a concise review of some of the most important court cases of last year. While explaining the legal significance …
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Karl Florida weighs in on Firm Central launch
This week marks the launch of Firm Central, the only online practice management solution for solo and small firms that connects legal research, drafting, matters, contacts, calendar, and more. Firm Central was designed to be tightly targeted to what customers are saying they need. In the video clip below, Karl Florida, managing director of Small …
- February 1, 2013
- Susan Martin
Legal solutions from Thomson Reuters: New video debuts
Watch our new video, which provides a customer’s perspective on how our solutions can help legal professionals better practice, manage and thrive in today’s reality. Our customers are also seeing similar messaging in print and online ads and throughout the streets of New York during the LegalTech this week.
- January 31, 2013
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters new current awareness offering, WestlawNext Practitioner Insights, coming soon
In the video clip below, Jill Roisum, senior director of product development, discusses Thomson Reuters’ new current awareness offering, WestlawNext Practitioner Insights, and why it is important to attorneys. Legal current awareness is important to attorneys for three main reasons, according to Roisum. Attorneys need to be well-informed in order to track what’s going on …
- January 31, 2013
- Susan Martin
Can your computer conduct document reviews?
This post was written by Patricia Taylor. In complex litigation, document review is often the timeliest and most costly aspect of the discovery process. A recent ruling in a Virginia court and a 2011 article published in the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology may change that. In June 2012, a Virginia state court judge …
- January 28, 2013
- Susan Martin
Introducing hosted practice technology
The American Lawyer’s 16th Annual Survey gathered responses from 82 law firms and revealed that 65 percent of them use hosted technology/cloud computing. Of those firms using the cloud, 77 percent described it as a positive experience. Thomson Reuters legal solutions business has been trusted by customers for decades to provide efficient, reliable e-discovery and …
- January 23, 2013
- Susan Martin
McCarthy once again cited by the Supreme Court
Professor J. Thomas McCarthy’s premier treatise on trademark and unfair competition law has been cited once again by the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent ruling in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., — S.Ct. —, 2013 WL 85300, *10 (2013). This case started when Nike filed suit, alleging that two of Already’s athletic shoes violated …
- January 17, 2013
- Susan Martin
Understanding transactional attorneys in their native habitat
How can we better understand our customers and their needs? That’s a question a research team from the Thomson Reuters legal businesses has been working to answer through ethnography, a research method that focuses on observation rather than inquiry. Ethnographic research is a branch of anthropology that uses observational methods to gather empirical data to …
- January 15, 2013
- Susan Martin
Legal marketplace predictions for 2013: Robert Schukai
Through the end of 2012 and into early 2013, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – a short answer to the following question: What do you see as a significant trend for the legal marketplace in 2013? Next up is Robert Schukai, global head of mobile technology: …
- January 8, 2013
- Susan Martin
Legal marketplace predictions for 2013: Chang Wang
With the holidays approaching, we look forward to the start of a new year. Once again, anything is possible. It’s a time to think big thoughts. What will this New Year hold? Through the end of 2012, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – an answer to …
- December 20, 2012
- Susan Martin
