One year ago, the opening day general session at New York LegalTech featured Thomson Reuters, Legal CEO Peter Warwick and Mohammed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. This session was a centerpiece of the WestlawNext launch, and their discussion explored the rule of law in …
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New York LegalTech – Let’s try mobile
My first LegalTech experience has started off well. Arrived at the Hilton with plenty of time to get lost in the sea of vendor booths (never, of course, being able to find the one I wanted). Yep, that was me looking lost, confused, and trying desperately to hide my fear behind my Blackberry. I stopped …
- January 31, 2011
- Gretchen DeSutter
One year later, WestlawNext returns to LegalTech with a lot of momentum
A year after a big launch at LegalTech New York 2010, the WestlawNext team is talking to LegalTech attendees about the innovations that have become part of the service this past year – from a WestlawNext mobile site designed to work well on all smartphones, to an iPad app and research-sharing capabilities that enable firms …
- January 31, 2011
- Gretchen DeSutter
Focusing on the changing business of law
With the enormous changes in the global economy, businesses have had to adapt to become more efficient and better able to tap global marketplaces. Likewise, law firms are responding to the new normal and the myriad pressures that the changing competitive landscape is asserting. Successful firms that are tracking with these changes are evolving their …
- January 31, 2011
- Susan Martin
On the showroom floor of LegalTech
Our booths are hard to miss – first ones you see when you walk into the exhibit hall – and staffed by some Thomson Reuters experts. One of those experts is Bob Azman, senior vice president, Customer Experience and Education. Hear what he has to say about the show in this quick video: Be sure to …
- January 31, 2011
- Gretchen DeSutter
LegalTech S.W.A.G
If we are honest with ourselves, the give-away items at conferences – or as Michael Scott from NBC’s The Office likes to call it, S.W.A.G (stuff we all get) – are among the perks of attending a tradeshow. And this year at LegalTech the tchotckes are in abundance. In fact, Monica Bay, editor-in-chief for Law Technology News recently wrote …
- January 31, 2011
- Gretchen DeSutter
New Managing Editor for Legal Current
I’m delighted to introduce our new managing editor of social media, Jessica Leibrock. Jessica is taking over the role formerly held by Kevin Hunt, who left to take a position with General Mills last December. Jessica is no stranger to Thomson Reuters, Legal and joins us from the employee communications side where she supported a variety …
- January 28, 2011
- John Shaughnessy
Social media and the law – Podcast: January 2011
Steve Martin’s recent Tweets on jury duty, and interviews author John Browning (The Lawyer’s Guide to Social Networking) in the first of a three-part series on the impact of social media on the law. Also in the episode, we preview the LegalTech New York Conference with an interview of keynote speaker Michael Rogers, MSNBC’s Practical Futurist. We’ve got those …
- January 28, 2011
- Leonard Lee
Sharon Sayles Belton on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show
Yesterday, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president, Government Affairs and Community Relations for Thomson Reuters, Legal, was a guest on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show speaking about Minnesota’s high levels of civic engagement. Filmed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, yesterday’s program was part of a larger campaign, “Steel on Wheels,” which aims to identify and discuss …
- January 27, 2011
- Susan Martin
Our commitment to Haiti: One year later
One year later, devastating images, videos and testimonies continue to pour out of Haiti from last year’s earthquake. Many organizations have stepped up to help and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, our company’s charitable arm, is no exception. Earlier this week the Foundation launched the “Haiti in Focus” campaign which will put our free legal, humanitarian …
- January 21, 2011
- Susan Martin
