The National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) announced the 2011 Thomson Reuters Scholarship winners at their annual convention, held recently in Minneapolis. Mary K. Hanson from Sacramento, CA, who is a paralegal student at Heald College, received highest honors and the $3000 scholarship. Her scholarship described her path to the paralegal program from the foreclosure …
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FindLaw launches Legal Pulse
FindLaw.com is introducing FindLaw Legal Pulse, a new content area that offers continuously updated legal headlines from around the world, along with news, photo feeds and analysis from such sources as Reuters, the Associated Press, New York Times and Washington Post. The content covers a broad range of law-related topics—everything from Supreme Court decisions to legislative …
- December 1, 2011
- Susan Martin
Westlaw AU launched for Australia
Westlaw AU, a new online legal research service for legal professionals in Australia has just launched. Westlaw AU offers content from case law and journals, legislation and commentary to precedents, encyclopaedia and news, as well as legal and tax information. Built upon Westlaw technology, Westlaw AU is developed specifically for Australian customers and is modeled after …
- November 23, 2011
- Jeff McCoy
Women in the Law & Judiciary event in Dubai underscores importance of women practitioners in UAE law
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and the region’s leading legal research experts, Thomson Reuters Westlaw Gulf, held the first “Women in the Law & Judiciary” panel discussion in the region this week. “Attracting and retaining women in the legal profession is a key challenge. This event offers an invaluable platform for some of the …
- November 23, 2011
- Paul Sandell
How we listened to customers at the ONESOURCE user conference
Hundreds of tweets…204 written comments…10 executive listening sessions… dozens of video interviews….and 1,500 pairs of orange sunglasses. Those were the stats from the “We’re Listening @ ONESOURCE” booth, where attendees at Tax & Accounting’s ONESOURCE user conference were able to provide feedback to Thomson Reuters about our products, services and anything else on their mind. “We’re Listening” …
- November 22, 2011
- Susan Martin
PA firm is the 25,000th small firm to adopt WestlawNext
Our firm has been in existence for more than 25 years, helping local and national businesses and other organizations. Many of our attorneys came from larger, inner-city firms. We’ve developed into a firm where many of our clients aren’t large enough to have their own in-house counsel, and as a result, we often act not …
- November 18, 2011
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters supports launch of United Nations database
Thomson Reuters partnered with the United Nations and Freedom Now recently to create the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Search database, introduced in a ceremony in Paris earlier this week. This publicly available database contains more than 650 opinions from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and will serve as a valuable resource supporting …
- November 18, 2011
- Susan Martin
Changes to the WestlawNext iPad® app
The WestlawNext iPad app has been very successful in recent months, with 264% user growth since June! The WestlawNext iPad app even won the National Law Journal Best of Legal Times survey as the best legal research iPad app. Based on user feedback, version 2.2.0 was released in September, and version 2.3 launched November 9. The new version includes: – The …
- November 17, 2011
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters to donate $10,000 to veterans village of San Diego on behalf of DLA Piper
He was a burly man, easily standing more than six feet tall, a military veteran who’d been hardened by life on the streets. Yet, there he stood, with tears streaming down his face, as he heard the voice of the twin sister he hadn’t spoken to in nearly 20 years. This vignette is just one …
- November 11, 2011
- Susan Martin
Free webinar on strategies for managing trademarks and patents
Saving time and saving money are two things that most IP professionals would readily agree are important. To that end, Thomson CompuMark and Thomson IP Management Services are teaming up to offer a webinar to help you develop strategies for successfully integrating the management of trademarks and patents into your workflow. In the webinar, leading experts will share information …
- November 9, 2011
- Susan Martin
