Tuesday 1st Apr 2014
Students and faculty at U.S. law schools can now access Practical Law through WestlawNext. Practical Law’s know-how content takes students beyond primary law and traditional legal research, giving them first-hand experience at putting legal theory into practice. Law school students can quickly and easily incorporate know-how content into their research, and faculty can incorporate it into ...
Monday 31st Mar 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal news: Daughter’s Facebook brag costs her family $80,000 Legal trends & insights: Contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act News from Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters creates Solutions suites On the legal blogs: Woman stabs teddy bear, faces felony assault charge You can listen to the episode now by clicking the play button on the ...
Saturday 29th Mar 2014
Yesterday seemed to fly by here in Chicago, as did today. I attended two of the morning sessions: Tools of the Trade for Paperless Practice, presented by JoAnn Hathaway and Richard Serpe, and How to Collect and Use Social Media for E-Discovery, presented by Hon. General Bruce Lee and Sharon Nelson. In the first session, ...
Friday 28th Mar 2014
Practical Law is an integral part of many of the products and services that we’re discussing at ABA Techshow 2014, as Practical Law continues to add innovative new ways for practitioners to access its leading know-how content. In the U.S. and U.K., new Practical Law websites have been launched with additional practice areas. Practical Law China ...
Friday 28th Mar 2014
In the wake of ABA Techshow in Chicago this week, Brian Quinn, senior product developer for WestlawNext, sat down with Legal Current to talk about the latest enhancements to WestlawNext, including Custom Pages, eLibraries and the addition of PeopleMap. He also talked about what the WestlawNext team will be doing at ABA Techshow. “We will ...
Thursday 27th Mar 2014
They don’t call it the windy city for nothing. Legal Current blew into the ABA Techshow 2014 on Wednesday evening, but the festivities didn’t officially begin until this morning. To kick things off, I attended a session titled “Ethics of Social Media Marketing,” presented by Bob Ambrogi, Jennifer Ellis and Jeff Lantz. I thought this was ...
Thursday 27th Mar 2014
Firm Central launched just over a year ago and received an excellent acceptance rate as a productivity solution. But now that the dust has settled, additional features will be rolling out to make it an even more efficient tool for practitioners. In the video clip below, Laura Zastrow, senior product developer for Firm Central, talks to ...
Wednesday 26th Mar 2014
Karl Florida, managing director of the small law firm and customer segment at Thomson Reuters, welcomes Legal Current visitors to ABA Techshow in the video clip below. He also talks about the trends he is seeing as law firms are increasingly adopting the cloud to help manage their practice and manage their technology, as well ...
Wednesday 26th Mar 2014
Thomson Reuters has introduced Custom Pages on WestlawNext, enabling users to create searchable, personalized pages from specific content sets. Available at no cost for all WestlawNext subscribers, Custom Pages can be tailored to specific research needs while providing the convenient benefits and innovation WestlawNext offers, including WestSearch, Find a Citation, KeyCite a Citation, Folders and Favorites. ...
Tuesday 25th Mar 2014
In the world today, transparency continues to be of utmost importance for businesses. Tim Nixon, managing editor for sustainability.thomsonreuters.com, moderated a panel at the Global Ethics Summit last week that discussed transparency of global supply chains and third party compliance. The panelists included: Kim McMath, chief ethics and compliance officer, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; Mark J. Ohringer, ...
Monday 24th Mar 2014
The sixth annual Global Ethics Summit took place March 20-21, 2014, in New York and was hosted by the Ethisphere Institute and Thomson Reuters. The event featured keynote and panel discussions engaging debate among executives, compliance officers, legal professionals and more, offering insight into business operations in the current global environment focusing on governance, anti-corruption, ...
Monday 24th Mar 2014
In today’s legal market, clients are working with slimmer budgets and have a keener desire to allocate their limited funds prudently. That means messages about uniquely tailored service, cost efficiency and an informed, reasonable preparedness for the outcome of a given matter hold more appeal. In order to be the provider of legal services that ...
Thursday 20th Mar 2014
What better predictor of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship than by number of attorneys selected to the 2013 Super Lawyers list who graduated from the participating colleges’ law schools? After crunching the numbers, Super Lawyers predicts that on the evening of April 7, after a hard-fought, back-and-forth game, Harvard will prevail over Michigan 97-91. It will be ...
