Thomson Reuters Elite has been recognized as a 2013 American Business Awards/Stevie Awards finalist in the Marketing Campaign of the Year category for the You VS marketing campaign. The Stevie Awards annually recognize outstanding work in the marketplace. There was a record number of Stevie Award nominations this year, with more than 3,200 submissions from …
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Kids learn computer coding at Thomson Reuters
Do you know how to program a computer in Java or Python? Thanks to the enterprising work of some employee volunteers in Eagan, Minn., several dozen young middle school students have learned valuable skills that could someday lead to careers in technology. After noticing a lack of computer programming classes in schools, a group of …
The UpTake: Alternative news gathering and reporting
Legal Current recently caught up with Michael McIntee, co-founder and executive producer of The UpTake, for a fascinating conversation about alternative news gathering and reporting. Those who follow politics are probably familiar with TheUpTake.org, which bills itself as a “citizen-fueled news” site. The site originated in 2007 as an experiment to see how technology could …
Youth Perspectives on Sustainability – Merculine Maoncha Rabera, Kenya
In honor of Earth Week, Thomson Reuters launched Youth Perspectives, a new sub-site of the Thomson Reuters Sustainability site featuring observations from environmentally-conscious young people across the globe. Legal Current will regularly feature stories from Youth Perspectives that offer unique insights on sustainability, particularly where it intersects the law or human rights issues. This week, …
David Pogue talks disruptive technologies and favorite apps
While we bid adieu to ABA Techshow for another year, we won’t soon forget the dynamic keynote presentation given by David Pogue, columnist for the New York Times and Scientific American, as well as an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the current host of NOVA ScienceNow. Pogue sat down with us before …
Thomson Reuters garners seven top honors in 2013 Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings
The second annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings was released last week and Thomson Reuters products and services took top honors in seven categories. WestlawNext was recognized as the Best Legal Research Vendor (including offline) for the second consecutive year. WestlawNext also earned top accolades for Best Legal Research iPad® App and …
Cary Burch discusses the Elite culture and legal solutions
How does Elite fit into the legal solutions vision? What makes the Elite culture so unique? What key things happened in 2012 that made Elite the success it is today? Listen to Cary Burch, managing director of Elite, discuss these topics, along with the best part of his job, and what he thinks the law …
Thomson Reuters honors Everyday Heroes
Heroes come in all forms and the Everyday Heroes being honored by Thomson Reuters are no different. Each year, the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business of Thomson Reuters chooses recipients for the Everyday Heroes award based on compelling success stories through the use of one of its public records search products: CLEAR, Westlaw People Map …
Legal News Brief – March 1, 2013
Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. D.C. law firm Patton Boggs lays off lawyers, sources say The firm, which has more than 550 attorneys in nine offices worldwide, is known best for its lobbying and public policy work in Washington. Appeals court …
Thomson Reuters uses social media to engage in customer support initiatives
Two years ago, an innovative customer service strategy began to emerge at Thomson Reuters that would eventually evolve into the company’s Customer Experience Operations’ use of Twitter to find and respond to customer complaints. The project began in 2010 with the Reference Attorney Summer Associate Blog, which was targeted toward summer associates at law firms. …
