Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is pleased to announce that its annual Super Lawyers Pro Bono Awards program is now open for nominations. The awards honor legal professionals, students and institutions that have exhibited excellence in offering no-cost legal services to the poor, exploited, vulnerable or disadvantaged. In 2011, Super Lawyers launched the inaugural …
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Yamate named 2012 TIPS Liberty Achievement Award recipient
At the 2012 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago recently, the Liberty Achievement Award was awarded to Sandra Yamate by the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was created in 2008 to honor lawyers and judges who promote diversity in the legal profession. Yamate, a strong advocate for promoting …
Clumsy burglars, Kevin Durant and LA street murals — Podcast: July 2012
We’ve got a great episode for you this month highlighting the legal aspects of some major news stories. To start, our “Chaos in the Courts” segment features an interesting story about an alleged burglar who was found stuck under the garage door of a Rent-A-Center store. Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we feature …
Los Angeles street murals: Protected art or urban eyesore?
Los Angeles, known for its abundance of talented street artists and their mural art, may not be known for those murals much longer. With murals being painted over by an existing ban on private murals within the city, the mural capital of the world is currently in jeopardy and city legislators are taking it upon …
All things mobile
A major objective of Thomson Reuters is helping customers improve their productivity and deliver better client service by allowing them to access their legal information and tools anytime, anywhere. Over the last several months, Thomson Reuters has introduced or updated numerous mobile products and apps to meet the increasingly mobile workflow of legal professionals. “Thomson Reuters …
Peer Monitor Index falls in second quarter
The Hildebrandt Institute Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, fell four points in the second quarter of 2012 to a reading of 51, its third decline in the last four quarters. PMI is a composite index of law firm market performance using real-time data drawn from major …
US and UK M&A activity up in Q2
Global M&A activity remained slow in the second quarter, with deal volume sitting at its lowest levels in three years, according to the latest M&A Trends & Insight for Lawyers report from Thomson Reuters Business Law Advisor – M&A. U.S. and UK M&A activity, however, bucked the global trend, with volume up 14 percent and …
Expert Witness 101 video series launched
Litigators are demanding more than just area expertise from expert witnesses these days. They expect expert witnesses to understand more of the litigation process, and what the expert’s role in that process is. Litigation is too important to go in with an untrained expert witness. Thomson Reuters Expert Witness Services (TREWS) today launched Expert Witness 101, the first …
Books for Africa update
As part of our mission to help the legal system perform better everyday worldwide, Thomson Reuters is honored to support the continued success of Books For Africa’s Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative. During its recent fiscal year of 2011-12, Books For Africa continues to make significant strides to further the rule of law. “The …
“Tomorrow’s Marketplace” – AALL 2012 keynote
The 2012 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference kicked off with an inspired and energized view of the future of the legal profession, courtesy of keynote speaker Professor Richard Susskind. Prof. Susskind, speaking to an estimated 1,500 law librarians gathered for the opening general session and keynote, explored the forces that have driven change …
