Thursday 30th Apr 2015
The theme is as old as history itself – technology is changing our world, but how can we catch-up? In the video clip below, Greg McPolin, COO, Legal Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, sits down with Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel, Drinker Biddle and contributor to the film The Decade of Discovery, to talk about how ...
Wednesday 29th Apr 2015
Legal Current is pleased to launch its latest podcast, Mind Your Business, a monthly review on the intersection between Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion and modern business. The podcast is hosted by Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, and is produced by the Thomson Reuters Legal Corporate Affairs team. The first ...
Tuesday 28th Apr 2015
Mitch Kowalski, innovative thinker, Canadian lawyer and author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century, was in Eagan, Minn. last week, speaking with Thomson Reuters employees. He spoke about what he calls the “Great Legal Reformation,” which is the early stages of the most disruptive period of time in the history of the ...
Tuesday 28th Apr 2015
The medical litigation practice area is clearly complex, can be difficult to navigate and for many, can be even harder to understand. Medical Litigator, now available on WestlawNext, is built to help legal professionals understand and learn medical terms, conditions, procedures, devices, and drugs, which in turn enables them to more confidently evaluate and litigate ...
Friday 24th Apr 2015
This episode starts out with the show’s reaction and discussion of the latest movie trailer for the Star Wars – The Force Awakens. For the non-nerds in our listening audience, you can fast forward a couple minutes to get to the meat of the podcast. The guys jump into a discussion about a non-government related collection of Personally Identifying Information (PII) ...
Thursday 23rd Apr 2015
Imagine this: A child is abducted by their own parent to another country. The left-behind parent is enraged, scared and confused. That parent contacts the local authorities to help retrieve the child. INTERPOL alerts are raised, news agencies pick up the story and the general public cries out for justice under the Hague Convention: the return ...
Thursday 23rd Apr 2015
Insurance is just that, an item that most people have and may not rely on often, but when the time comes and it is needed, they are glad they have insurance. Thomson Reuters recently announced the addition of a new practitioner-focused page covering the insurance industry on WestlawNext. Regulatory and legislative coverage for the insurance ...
Wednesday 22nd Apr 2015
You can now speed through store checkout lanes just by waving your smartphone. New mobile payment systems purport to be fast, convenient and secure. Well, maybe not that last part. In the podcast below, Bob Benjy, an attorney with Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, who works with financial institutions, says mobile payment systems such as Apple Pay, ...
Wednesday 22nd Apr 2015
Leading minds in the world of law gathered at Thomson Reuters offices in Canary Wharf on Thursday, April 16 to hear a lively debate on the highly contentious issue of corporate wrongdoing – and who should pay. The event, moderated by Axel Threlfall, editor at large for Reuters, was the second in the Thomson Reuters ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
When it comes to firm marketing, it can be easy to become fixated on metrics like website visits and search rankings, but do they tell the whole story? Mark Jacobsen, senior director of Strategic Development & Thought Leadership for FindLaw, sits down with Sean Sands, digital marketing expert, Web Content for FindLaw, about their new ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters, in partnership with global law firm Linklaters LLP, recently completed a pro bono project for Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), a not-for-profit organization with centers in the US, UK, and Kenya, that supports global justice sector capacity building through training, observation, technical support, and access to justice initiatives. LWOB fulfills its mission, in part, ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
While marketing may not be the favorite pastime of many attorneys, most would agree that in today’s hyper-competitive environment, it has become an activity that law firms must understand and, increasingly, embrace. In light of this, the 2015 ABA Techshow lunch and learn session, “The Future of Advertising,” sponsored by FindLaw and presented by Eli ...
Monday 20th Apr 2015
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Examples of net neutrality violations include when the Internet service provider Comcast intentionally slowed peer-to-peer communications. On ...
