Last month, I participated in a panel discussion on the status of mass tort multidistrict litigations (MDL) at a meeting of the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association (ABA) in Squaw Valley, Calif. A fortuitous snowfall of about 100 inches fell that same week, so the skiing was great. But I digress: the …
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Mitchell & Mitchell: Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 3: How Should ACA Replacement Options Be Sorted Out?
This is the third post in an ongoing series regarding potential changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the new 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 …
ProView-Handshake Integration Opens Up Information Workflows for Legal Professionals
Thomson Reuters ProView already provides the ultimate eBook user experience for professionals. ProView users can now integrate their ProView libraries with their information workflows through Handshake Software’s Portals and Universal Search. Handshake is the leading provider of SharePoint®-based products and services to the legal sector. Attorneys and law librarians will now have integrated access to their …
Thomson Reuters Launches CLEAR ID Confirm
Thomson Reuters has launched a new solution to streamline the identity verification process – CLEAR ID Confirm. As part of the CLEAR online investigations suite, CLEAR ID Confirm leverages comprehensive, up-to-date public and proprietary data to enable organizations to verify an individual’s online identity, payee identity and customer identity. CLEAR ID Confirm is designed for …
A Day in the Life of a KM Attorney – KM with Kim, episode 6
There’s no such thing as a typical day for someone who runs knowledge management for a law firm, in the same way that there’s no such thing as a typical KM setup, or even a typical person who manages KM for a firm. The person in charge of KM can be anyone from a law …
Large Law Firm Demand Continues to Drop — Peer Monitor Index
Demand for large law firm services fell 1.4% in the fourth quarter – the third consecutive quarterly decline and the biggest drop since Q1 2013. For the full year, demand fell 0.6% – the first annual decline in demand since 2013. Those are among the key findings from the Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) report for …
Podcast: The Estate Strikes Back – Deceased Stars, Star Wars & Posthumous Rights
On Jan. 26, 1997, many homes across America were tuned-in to Super Bowl XXXI. While much of the game itself may be a blur, most people who watched that night likely remember one image: Hollywood legend Fred Astaire, who had died nearly a decade before, dancing with an electric broom in a vacuum commercial. While …
Mitchell & Mitchell on Health Care and the Trump Agenda, Part 2: What Are the Realistic Options for Repeal & Replacement of the ACA?
This is the second post in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the new 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 …
Challenges Identified by Small Law Firms – Legal Week NY 2017
The new Legal Small Firm track of LegalWeek New York featured a panel discussion: Challenges Identified by Small Law Firms: How They Threaten Your Success. Mary Juetten, CEO, Traklight & Co-Founder, Evolve Law; Bob Ambrogi, practicing solo attorney, ABA Journal columnist and creator of the LawSites blog; and Bill Josten, Senior Legal Industry Analyst, Thomson Reuters Legal …
Forecast for 2025: Cloud Technologies – LTNY 2017
Cloud technology is changing so quickly that it’s difficult to keep up even from day to day sometimes. What happens when technologists start to visualize where Cloud technologies could take the practice of law in five or even more years down the road? Eric Sugden, CTO of Thomson Reuters Elite and Thomson Reuters Legal chief …
