This week, legal technology thought leaders and experts, legal industry early adopters and technology-focused vendors will gather to hash out how technology is affecting, supporting and changing the legal industry at ILTACON 2017 (International Legal Technology Association) August 13-17 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This year, Thomson Reuters hosts four thought leadership sessions on …
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Trainer: Intellectual Property in the Crosshairs of Trade Agenda?
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration has stepped up actions to punish China for violations of U.S. owned intellectual property, with a Reuters report noting bi-partisan support for a broad inquiry into China’s trade practices. The timing of the official investigation is unknown due to China’s recent support of UN sanctions against North Korea and …
Big Law & the Battle for Market Share
Large law firms have faced their share of challenges in recent years. But while the challenges and opportunities may be similar across firms, how they respond – and consequently, the rewards and downturns – have been far from similar across the market. On the surface, the latest Peer Monitor report shows a large law market …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 16: No One is in Charge of Health Care
This is part 16 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 …
“Big Law” Finds Renewed Strength at the Top: Peer Monitor
The large law firm market has largely been split so far this year, with the very largest segment of firms seeing gains, while other segments of the market are facing more challenging conditions. The latest Peer Monitor report shows that through the first six months of the year, much of the strength in the market …
For Public Consumption Episode 2: An Interview with Diana White on the Future of the Legal Services Corporation
Earlier this spring, the Trump Administration released its full 2018 budget proposal, which outlined deep cuts, and even outright eliminations, of some agencies. Among the 19 agencies on the chopping block is the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), an independent nonprofit established by Congress to support low-income Americans with civil legal aid. While the budget for …
Drafting Assistant Enhancements Streamline Document Creation
Drafting legal documents can be a complicated, tedious task. Drafting Assistant has some new enhancements that can boost drafting productivity. A PDF converter allows any PDF to be converted into a Microsoft® Word document. This is particularly useful when a user wants to closely examine an image-based PDF received from counterparties, clients or colleagues by running …
Thomson Reuters report highlights diverse issues, loss of institutional knowledge facing government legal departments
Government attorneys face daunting workloads, tight budgets and pressure to keep current on increasingly complex laws and regulations at a time when a generation of institutional knowledge is leaving as Baby Boomer-era employees retire. That’s according to a Thomson Reuters survey across federal, state and city/county levels with 238 government attorneys responding. “Government attorneys face …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 15: Design Failure for Medicaid Program Reform
This is Part 15 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 …
An Abbreviated History of the False Claims Act: Enlisting Citizens in the Fight Against Fraud
The Federal Government spends more than $3 trillion a year on everything from healthcare, defense, education, and housing, to technology, research and beyond. With that much money on the table, efforts to defraud the government are inevitable. Identifying, stopping or deterring fraud, however, can be difficult, given the challenging nature of detecting fraud and allocating …
