Susan Hackett, CEO and CLO of Legal Executive Leadership, and former general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel for more than 20 years, spoke with Legal Current about what she was seeing at the 2012 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. She shares her insight around the valuable CLE opportunities, the excitement from the show …
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The flat world and the future of document review
Greg McPolin, managing director of Pangea3 and Corporate Counsel, Litigation at Thomson Reuters, was a panelist for The Flat World and the Future of Document Review discussion at the Association of Corporate Counsel annual conference.The panel was sponsored by Pangea3 channel partner Stroz Friedberg and the panelists discussed the evolution of document review and how …
- October 4, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Educators and businesses come together to close skills gap for students
A story in Minnesota Business featured Thomson Reuters as an example of how some businesses are working with higher education in interesting new ways. The Business of Education focuses on why it’s important for companies to build relationships with educators and universities in order to prepare students for success in the workplace. This type of …
- October 4, 2012
- Susan Martin
Is your legal department doing great or just so-so?
The presentation I moderated at the ACC Annual Meeting drew a capacity crowd because of our great panel that included thought leaders from a large law department, Molly Dodge from Capital One, and a small law department, Jim Sullivan from FMC Technologies, as well as the general counsel of the ACC, Jim Merklinger. The topic …
- October 4, 2012
- Rob Thomas
Top five things to keep in mind when creating a contracts playbook
Deployed correctly, contracts playbooks can be powerful tools that save time and minimize risk. If our sold-out session at the Association of Corporate Counsel annual conference, A Play-by-Play Guide to Creating a Contracts Playbook, is anyindication, they are also not completely understood. During the panel, we fleshed out some of the most important issues in-house …
- October 3, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Top 5 technology gaps in law departments
A new Thomson Reuters survey of law department leaders, attorneys and staff has identified the top 5 critical tasks that are most often not being managed with automated solutions. The survey found that while law departments are frequently using technology to help manage certain critical tasks – such as legal research and matter management, many other …
- October 3, 2012
- Scott Augustin
What’s new with CLEAR
CLEAR, the industry-leading public records search product, recently rolled out some great new features, including a photo line-up feature and real-time incarceration data. Andy Russell, vice president of the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business, talks about the latest add-ons to the CLEAR search product, as well as some of the events and happenings he is …
- October 2, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Third-party compliance
As emerging markets evolve, companies often rely on third parties to sustain and increase their positions in those markets. Regulators have started to focus on these relationships, causing compliance officers and legal departments to do the same. Natasha Wyss, senior vice president of Global Business Compliance for Thomson Reuters, participated on a panel that discussed …
- October 2, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Welcome to IACP 2012!
The annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police is in full swing in sunny San Diego, California. Inside the sprawling exhibit hall in the San Diego Convention Center, the booth for Thomson Reuters CLEAR was bustling on the first day of the show. As show-goers filtered by, Thomson Reuters booth staff demonstrated …
- October 1, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
A practical guide to contracts playbooks
This year, the Association of Corporate Counsel annual conference will attract thousands of attendees from around the world who come to exchange strategies for creating more dynamic legal departments. All four panelists in the ACC session A Play-by-Play Guide to Creating Contracts Playbooks are corporate counsel with a range of experiences—from in-house counsel at a …
- October 1, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
