Monday 22nd Dec 2014
2014 has been another great year for Legal Current, and we thank all of you for continuing to visit the blog and read our posts. To wrap up the year, I put together a list of the top five most read posts on Legal Current this past year. So without further ado, here they are: ...
Friday 19th Dec 2014
This post was written by Bob Schukai, head of advanced product innovation in technology operations at Thomson Reuters I came across a story on USA Today that talked about the fact that there are 1.3 million apps available today for our smartphones and tablets. It’s a huge number and finding your way through the morass of application stores ...
Thursday 18th Dec 2014
This post was written by Alicia Beilings, head of marketing for Thomson Reuters in Africa Thomson Reuters has made a contribution on behalf of all of our customers and partners to the Books For Africa Foundation. Through this donation, approximately 4,000 books will be purchased and distributed to African children who are eager to learn. Books ...
Wednesday 17th Dec 2014
Thomson Reuters was named ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the British Legal Awards. Hosted by Legal Week in association with The City of London Law Society, the awards celebrate achievement, excellence and innovation in the legal profession. Thomson Reuters was selected for the impact its innovative ProView eReader platform is having on the courts and ...
Wednesday 17th Dec 2014
The hottest issue on election ballots last month, wasn’t taxes or immigration. Voters in Cleveland voted to ban so-called red light cameras that capture motorists illegally crossing intersections during red lights. Cleveland joins several other municipalities and states that ban red light cameras. Opponents says red light cameras aren’t proven to increase safety and may simply be a ...
Tuesday 16th Dec 2014
The following post comes from Patrick Dunn of Super Lawyers marketing and communications team. It seems like everywhere you turn someone has an opinion on law school: is it worth the investment? What type of law should you study? Where should you go? To help prospective law students find answers from a trusted source, Super Lawyers has ...
Monday 15th Dec 2014
Launched the beginning of 2014, our customer magazine Thomson Reuters Exchange is completing its first year. Our fourth quarter issue is “Open for Business” and launched last week. An important topic across the financial industry, open is a concept that touches every aspect of our business, whether it is open data, open platforms or open ...
Thursday 11th Dec 2014
The Equality Effect is a non-profit charity that uses international human rights law as a crowbar to pry open justice for women and girls around the world. Drawing on a team of feisty international lawyers, the equality effect supports its regional legal partners by initiating creative legal advocacy projects to achieve systemic change. In Kenya, ...
Tuesday 9th Dec 2014
Banks continued to make up by the far the largest share of all UK High Court cases involving FTSE 100 companies in the year to June 2014, according to research by Thomson Reuters. Data from Thomson Reuters Lawtel service shows that of the 178 cases involving FTSE 100 companies that made it to the High ...
Friday 5th Dec 2014
This post was written by Joe Mosby, publishing editor, UK&I Legal, Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters celebrated the 60th anniversary of Criminal Law Review with a drinks reception at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Tuesday. The event followed the Criminal Law Review conference, which was hosted by the editor, Professor David Ormerod QC. The ...
Friday 5th Dec 2014
Joe Borstein, global director of Pangea3, was recently interviewed by Ari Kaplan, author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011), on the rise of alternative legal solutions. In the interview, Borstein highlighted examples of the “not-so-new normal” trends that have transformed the legal industry, including collaborative content creation, dynamic legal ...
Thursday 4th Dec 2014
The legal landscape continues to be filled with challenges impacting corporate counsels’ role as legal advisor as much as their responsibility to best manage limited resources. In addition to practicing law, corporate legal departments must manage a budget, staff, use of technology, outside counsel spend and non-law firm legal services, such as legal process outsourcing ...
Monday 1st Dec 2014
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Well, you better not be doing it at work! Most employers frown on employees using company time and computers to let their fingers do the shopping. Yet, that’s exactly what many of us do. A new survey from FindLaw found that 35 percent of Americans shop online while at work. ...
