Monday 6th Oct 2014
Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor has issued its Mid-Size Law Firm Report for the second quarter of 2014, and the findings indicate that the market for mid-size law firm services may be showing some signs of stability and tentative improvement. Overall demand for legal services from mid-size firms declined by 0.6 percent for the first seven months ...
Thursday 2nd Oct 2014
This article was originally published in the Sept. 19, 2014 issue of Australasian Lawyer Thomson Reuters research has revealed some emerging concerns in the Australian legal market, including that 30 percent of the participants had never reviewed client satisfaction. The study questioned 132 senior fee-earning legal practitioners among medium to large firms across the country ...
Wednesday 1st Oct 2014
Recently, Joshua Kubicki, who designs new business models and innovation strategies for law firms and corporations of all sizes and is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University College of Law, visited Thomson Reuters for an employee event. While he was here, David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, sat down with Kubicki ...
Wednesday 1st Oct 2014
Serengeti Tracker has been helping legal departments improve their operations for more than a decade. Assistant General Counsel Jim Sullivan of FMC Technologies, one of the first Serengeti customers, shared his insights at the 2014 Serengeti Summit and how his law department leverages Serengeti Tracker. Sullivan noted that Serengeti Tracker may be best known as ...
Tuesday 30th Sep 2014
On October 2, 2014, the Southeastern M&A/Private Equity Forum will be held at the TWELVE Hotel Atlantic Station in Atlanta, GA, celebrating a decade of insight into M&A trends, networking and education. Attendees typically include corporate counsel, strategic sellers, investment bankers, M&A lawyers and business entrepreneurs. Topics this year include a look at the state of ...
Tuesday 30th Sep 2014
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 The Professional Development (PD) Group of Thomson Reuters continues to prepare new resource materials related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As implementation of the ACA continues to reshape the ...
Monday 29th Sep 2014
At this year’s VANTAGE conference in London, Law firms from across the EMEA region were treated to an unmissable opportunity to connect and network with their peers in person and to learn how Elite is working to help them take their business forward. Kicking off the conference was the keynote speech delivered by Bill Burch, ...
Thursday 25th Sep 2014
Egil “Bud” Krogh might be more famous as a “plumber” than a lawyer. Krogh opened the 2014 Serengeti Summit with a keynote speech focusing on integrity, discussing the lessons he learned from his time serving as an official in the Richard Nixon administration. Krogh began by highlighting the importance of the code of ethics for ...
Thursday 25th Sep 2014
Many people are adverse to change, where others get excited by new opportunities. Many legal departments fall into these categories as well. The first panel at the 2014 Serengeti Summit brought together four vastly different legal departments to discuss how Serengeti Tracker has helped transform their department through reporting and workflow improvements, as well as ...
Wednesday 24th Sep 2014
News from our friends in Australia this week: Victoria Police has adopted Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw AU and ProView services – delivered via tablet and desktop computer – to help its prosecuting officers better conduct legal research and determine strategies for effective presentation of cases. Noting the demands placed on prosecutors as a result of an ...
Wednesday 24th Sep 2014
As legal department staff descend on Seattle for the 2014 Serengeti Summit, attendees will discuss and learn new ways to improve their department’s operations and efficiencies. Establishing a process for managing a company’s legal holds is somewhat like purchasing an insurance policy. Legal departments may not have to use it every day, but when the ...
Tuesday 23rd Sep 2014
This post was written by John Duprey, technology architect at Thomson Reuters Introduced in time for this week’s UN Climate Summit 2014 and Climate Week NYC, Sustainability Analytics, a new tool from Thomson Reuters, captures and reports changes in interest levels and examines the appearance and impact of major climate-related events, discussions and campaigns across ...
Tuesday 23rd Sep 2014
The New York Law Journal Reader Rankings were recently announced, and the survey of 8,000 readers gave top honors for quality and ease-of-use to WestlawNext, the WestlawNext iPad App, the Westlaw Portfolio App, Concourse, and Pangea3. For the fifth year, WestlawNext was selected as the Best Online Research provider and the Westlaw Portfolio iPad App was ...
