Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, hosted by Thomson Reuters and Stanford …
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The long road to a patent: Distributed search proves innovation comes in multiple forms
Thomson Reuters provides information so our customers can make informed decisions for their businesses and their clients; and the way our customers access that information is through our online products. Because of the vast amount of content we have available, we must both store all of that content and make it searchable for our customers. …
Legal Debate Series on European Court of Human Rights
An audience of senior lawyers from law firms, chambers, and inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the motion that ‘the European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy’ at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening. With human rights and the ECHR at the forefront of national attention in …
Pro Bono industry is global and thriving – 2015 TrustLaw Index
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched the second annual TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, an annual survey that captures and analyzes global pro bono trends across the legal industry, revealing fascinating insights into the scale and potential growth of the sector. This year’s Index showed that law firms are increasingly devoting extraordinary resources to support …
The 5th annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum: Data privacy, security and the globalized law firm
This post was written by William Scarbrough, chief operating officer of Bodman PLC This year’s Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum in New York City will focus on data privacy, security and the globalized law firm, certainly one of the biggest and most important management challenges facing law firm leaders today. Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute has assembled a particularly …
Thomson Reuters employees support free legal advice and celebrate Magna Carta
Employees from the Legal business of Thomson Reuters recently joined forces with more than 8,000 lawyers, including more than 100 judges and magistrates, to support the London Legal Walk, a 10km walk to raise money for the London Legal Support Trust (LLST), an independent charity that raises funds for free legal services in London and the …
Biased jury claims rarely convince judges to change venue
EAGAN, Minn. — Attorneys seeking a change of venue over concerns of biased jurors may figure it doesn’t hurt to ask. But it rarely helps. In fact, according to data from Thomson Reuters Westlaw, the leading legal research service, change of venue is seldom granted. Recently, attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought …
Biased jury claims rarely convince judges to change venue
Attorneys seeking a change of venue over concerns of biased jurors may figure it doesn’t hurt to ask. But it rarely helps. According to Westlaw data, change of venue is seldom granted. Recently, attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to have his trial moved, citing the tremendous amount of pre-trial publicity surrounding …
David Curle discusses Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions with Manoj Jain
Just as technology has changed the practice of law, its impact has also altered the way that courts manage case loads and interact with justice partners and the public. That is where Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions – and its key product offering, C–Track – comes in. David Curle, director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence at Thomson …
Podcast: “Play Ball!” with Cuba
The potential reopening of ties between the US and Cuba has people excited about the possibility of Cuban treasures reaching US shores, such as cigars, rum and…baseball players? Cuba has been the birthplace of many a major league stars over the years, and baseball fans – as well as basketball and football fans – are imagining …
