Silvia L. Coulter, principal, LawVision Group LLC, writes about her experience at the West LegalEdcenter 22nd Annual Marketing Partner Forum, including firm marketing trends that may emerge over the coming months: Each year Thomson Reuters Marketing Partner Forum presents a host of opportunities for attendees. My favorites for 2015 included: Visiting with various sponsors and …
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Justice Ginsburg Tops Super Lawyers Supreme Court Lunch Date List
EAGAN, Minn. – The dream of sharing a meal and conversation with a Supreme Court justice would seem to be the ultimate lunch date. But which justice? And where would you take them? Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, surveyed 99 of the top lawyers in the U.S. and asked them, “Which U.S. Supreme Court …
Practice Management and Other Legal Cloud Services Specifically for the Solo or Small Firm
Moving to the Cloud can be a big step for a small firm or solo practitioner. But it can also mean big benefits. Some attorneys who have successfully transitioned their practices to the Cloud were part of a panel discussion at LegalTech New York last month on “Practice Management and Other Legal Cloud Services Specifically for …
200 years of innovation
This post was written by Robert Mccorquodale, marketing executive in the Legal UKI business of Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the strategic partner to the Global Law Summit, held this week in London to mark 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta. The event celebrates the history of this important document and its impact …
West LegalEdcenter to host Women’s Transformative Leadership event this week
On Tuesday, March 3, West LegalEdcenter will host Transformative Leadership: Empowering Women by Improving Participation and Representation – an inaugural event designed to address the challenges affecting leadership opportunities for women in the world’s largest organizations. And with International Women’s Day on March 8, the event takes on a particularly timely tone. Patsy Doerr, global …
Wait, What? Episode 3: You gotta have heart, even if you can’t measure it
In the third installment of Wait, What? the guys jump right into the topic of technology’s impact on sports and athletes. The conversation starts out with quantifying professional and amateur athletes and quickly transitions into “heart” versus analytics. The discussion moves into the topic of the stadium experience associated with professional sports teams and how the events compete with television, video game consoles, and mobile technology. We’d …
Predict the future: What will the courts be like in 20 years?
We tend to see a lot of future-gazing around the changing role of the law firm, but relatively little on the future of the court system itself – the fundamental common law institution that for hundreds of years has served as a bedrock of legal process and justice across the globe. So, we set ourselves …
Do free citizens have the right to be forgotten?
The Legal business of Thomson Reuters brought together some of the sharpest minds from the law, media and politics last week for its inaugural debate on “the right to be forgotten.” The debate, which took place on Feb. 17, 2015, was recorded in front of an audience of customers and partners, and was moderated by Reuters Axel …
Bob Schukai: If it has a screen, it’s fair game
There has been exploding growth in the area we call the “Internet of Things,” particularly when it comes to wearable and automotive technologies. So what does this mean for Thomson Reuters? Well, according to Bob Schukai, head of advanced product innovation at Thomson Reuters, “if it has a screen, it’s fair game.” In the coming year, his …
Peer Monitor Index drops in Q4
The see-saw trends in the market for law firm services continues. The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, fell in the fourth quarter, dropping three points to 54. Overall, 2014 saw weak but steady growth in demand. However, falling productivity and rate growth helped to dampen law …
