IP & Science announced this week findings that the quality of dementia research in the UK is second in the world only to the US, despite the low number of scientists working in the field, and that finding a cure can be accelerated by increasing the number of researchers and investment, according to analysis done using …
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Heavily regulated industries at the Global Ethics Summit
Scott McCleskey, global head of financial services regulation, Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance, served as the moderator for a panel at the 2012 Global Ethics Summit, held March 15-16 in New York, discussing heavily regulated industries. The panel featured Mitchell Avnet, senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, Lincoln Financial Group, and Tom …
- March 26, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Thomson Reuters Named to World’s Most Ethical Companies List
thisphere Institute, a leading business ethics think-tank, announced their sixth annual World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies list, and Thomson Reuters was recognized as one of the 2012 WMEs for the fourth consecutive year. The WME honorees were honored at an awards dinner on March 15 in New York where former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine …
- March 22, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Thomson Reuters relaunches “The Brief” for Mideast legal professionals
Thomson Reuters has relaunched The Brief, a monthly magazine and website designed to provide legal professionals with the hard-hitting news and analysis they need to better understand the trends and business developments in the Middle East’s legal sector. The Brief, a 40-50 page English language magazine acquired by Thomson Reuters last year, will feature key interviews …
- March 22, 2012
- Susan Martin
Evolution of the chief ethics and compliance officer
During the 2012 Global Ethics Summit, Scott McCleskey, global head of financial services regulation, Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance, served as the moderator for a panel discussing the evolution of the chief ethics and compliance officer. The panel featured a group covering multiple industries and years of experience, including: Elliott Fisch, director-internal audit and chief …
- March 21, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
ABA Journal Legal Rebels blog post: “Time to Explore New Approaches for Law Firm Management?”
Program Director of Hildebrandt Institute’s Peer Monitor, Mark Medice, recently contributed a post to the ABA Journal blog, Legal Rebels, highlighting new approaches and trends seen in law firm management. Today, law firms are pressed to find ways to deliver legal services to their clients more efficiently in an effort to better position themselves in a challenging and volatile market …
- March 20, 2012
- Susan Martin
Setting the ethical tone from the top: Highlights from the Global Ethics Summit
Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, moderated a session at the recent Global Ethics Summit in New York. The panel, Tone from the Top, a Conversation with Chief Executive Officers, featured Jack Domme, chief executive officer, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), and Jules Kroll, chairman and chief executive officer, Kroll Bond Ratings, Inc. The conversation began …
- March 16, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Accelus Compliance Manager launched
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance has launched Accelus Compliance Manager, a single platform for tracking, monitoring and understanding regulatory changes and connecting them to a business’ internal compliance process and workflow. Accelus Compliance Manager connects the five key stages of compliance: understand, evaluate and map regulatory risk; identify, monitor and track regulatory change; define and communicate controls; …
- March 15, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Men more likely to go to court than women
Nearly one in four Americans have been to court either as a plaintiff or defendant in a case. A new survey by FindLaw found that 37% of Americans have spent time in court. However, results also indicate that men are more likely to go to court than women. Forty-four percent of male respondents have been to court, …
- March 15, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
High-profile media outlets cover Findlaw.com divorce study results: March is the new Divorce Month
Some of the more prominent coverage includes articles by MSN, San Francisco Chronicle, Buffalo Business First, KPLU and The Austin Lafferty Blog. January has long been perceived as “Divorce Month.” However, Findlaw.com recently released study results that showed searches for “divorce” and related phrases such as “family law” and “child custody” jumped 50 percent – from December 2010 to January 2011, and continued …
- March 14, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
