Balancing employee rights with employer’s data security needs and data privacy requirements can be tricky. Anna Suh with Fenwick & West discusses how employers can manage this balance.
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Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 17: Groups and Organizations Drive Program Decisions
This is Part 17 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
Collaborative Disaggregation – a New Model for Firms? ILTACON 2017
Legal departments are increasingly turning to alternative legal service providers to handle certain legal tasks and matters on a more cost-effective basis. But now, some law firms are also engaging alternative legal service providers to help their client reduce costs and strengthen the firm’s client relationships. Jeffrey Sharer, co-chair of Akerman’s Data Law Practice, talked …
Innovation in Legal Services is Being Fueled by Technology & Business Need
We are witnessing a legal services market that is undergoing an enormous amount of change; new market entrants, technological disruption and the rise of the general counsel are just some of the forces driving this change. In response, forward-looking law firms are finding new ways of doing business, harnessing disruptive technologies and embracing the need …
Thomson Reuters Analysis Reveals 484% Increase in New Legal Services Patents Globally as Law Firms Around the World Invest in Legal Tech
There has been a 484 percent increase in the number of patents filed covering new legal services technology globally in the last five years, reveals an analysis from the legal business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of news and information for businesses and professionals. According to Thomson Reuters, 579 patents relating to new …
ILTACON Panel Recap – The Promise of Blockchain
Blockchain and distributed ledgers will transform contracts and transactions in finance, banking, insurance, real estate and other industries with complex supply chains. The promise of the distributed nature of blockchain is that it eliminates many costs and risks from large-scale transactions. And it will also create new roles for lawyers capable of understanding the unique …
Judge Lorna G. Schofield Receives 2017 Liberty Achievement Award
At the 2017 American Bar Association (ABA) annual meeting in New York City, the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) presented its annual Liberty Achievement Award to Judge Lorna G. Schofield of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The award recognizes lawyers and judges who take a leadership role by …
Transforming the Business of Law with Cognitive Computing, ILTACON 2017 Keynote
Brian Kuhn, founder of IBM Watson Legal, addressed key misconceptions around artificial intelligence and cognitive computing in Tuesday’s keynote at ITLACON 2017. Kuhn talked with David Curle, Thomson Reuters director of market intelligence, and shared insights from business-of-law use case workshops IBM conducted with corporate legal departments and law firms over the last two years. …
ILTA Day 1 Podcast: Artificial Intelligence & Ethics
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in the legal profession. But while the focus is usually on the technology, AI raises complex ethical issues as well. Chris Mammen, a partner at Hogan Lovells and a faculty member of University of California – Hastings’ Innovation Law Institute, participated in a panel at ILTACON today …
Thomson Reuters and Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett Announce Elite 3E Cloud Agreement
Gordon, Arata, Montgomery, Barnett, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLC, headquartered in New Orleans, will be the first law firm to adopt 3E Cloud from Thomson Reuters Elite, the global leader in enterprise business management solutions for legal industry and, today, its first true managed cloud-based financial platform. Elite 3E Cloud is a scalable technology used …
