Thursday 12th Mar 2015
In the fourth installment of Wait, What? the guys discuss the Science Fact that has come from the Science Fiction of Star Trek, Star Wars, Total Recall, comics, and other media. The show starts with a comparison of the devices that were used in the Star Trek universe of television and movies, and how we’re ...
Wednesday 11th Mar 2015
Smile, you’re on radar speed trap camera! More communities across the country are adopting automated radar-activated cameras to catch speeding motorists in the act, and such cameras are opposed by a majority of Americans, says a new survey from FindLaw.com. The survey found that 52 percent of Americans oppose the use of radar speed cameras, while 48 ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
Among the breakout sessions at the Global Ethics Summit was a panel discussion on compliance and the anti-corruption landscape. As Donna Dabney, executive director, Governance Center of The Conference Board, noted, in the 80s and 90s there were incentives for corporations to not have a compliance function for fear that they would have to report ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
The seventh annual Global Ethics Summit kicked off this morning in New York with a keynote conversation involving a diverse set of CEOs. Tom Pfeifer, senior vice president of sales for Thomson Reuters, moderated a panel discussion with James Roberts, president and CEO of Granite Construction; Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe’; and Rodney Martin, ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
To celebrate the ninth annual World’s Most Ethical Companies list, the Ethisphere Institute hosted the World’s Most Ethical Companies Gala in New York last night. More than 520 representatives from this year’s honorees — including Thomson Reuters — joined dignitaries at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan for this year’s event. Gala attendees also were treated to ...
Monday 9th Mar 2015
Continuing to solidify itself as the market leader, Serengeti Tracker closed 2014 with more than 800 client companies on its roster. This marked an increase in its client’s base of more than 240 percent over the last four years while maintaining a 99 percent retention rate. Serengeti Tracker is the legal profession’s most widely used and ...
Friday 6th Mar 2015
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA Over the past five years—since the initial passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—implementation of the health plan has been in turmoil. Between planning problems; implementation flaws; conflict between supporters ...
Thursday 5th Mar 2015
Would Elena Kagan and a plate of ribs make the ideal lunch date? Or sharing falafel with Stephen Breyer? SuperLawyers asked 99 top lawyers, “which U.S. Supreme Court Justice would you take to lunch, and where?” Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the top pick, followed by Antonin Scalia, whom one lawyer suggested meeting at Hussong’s Cantina ...
Wednesday 4th Mar 2015
On March 10-11, CEOs, board chairs, compliance and risk management leadership, and more will meet at the 7th Annual Global Ethics Summit, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and Ethisphere. Each year, the summit features compelling conversations on the ethical performance, behavior and reputation of organizations all over the world. Among the business leaders at this year’s ...
Tuesday 3rd Mar 2015
Silvia L. Coulter, principal, LawVision Group LLC, writes about her experience at the West LegalEdcenter 22nd Annual Marketing Partner Forum, including firm marketing trends that may emerge over the coming months: Each year Thomson Reuters Marketing Partner Forum presents a host of opportunities for attendees. My favorites for 2015 included: Visiting with various sponsors and ...
Monday 2nd Mar 2015
This post was written by Robert Mccorquodale, marketing executive in the Legal UKI business of Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the strategic partner to the Global Law Summit, held this week in London to mark 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta. The event celebrates the history of this important document and its impact ...
Monday 2nd Mar 2015
On Tuesday, March 3, West LegalEdcenter will host Transformative Leadership: Empowering Women by Improving Participation and Representation – an inaugural event designed to address the challenges affecting leadership opportunities for women in the world’s largest organizations. And with International Women’s Day on March 8, the event takes on a particularly timely tone. Patsy Doerr, global ...
Thursday 26th Feb 2015
We tend to see a lot of future-gazing around the changing role of the law firm, but relatively little on the future of the court system itself – the fundamental common law institution that for hundreds of years has served as a bedrock of legal process and justice across the globe. So, we set ourselves ...
