Monday 14th Oct 2013
The world lost a true American hero last week. Minnesota’s last surviving Tuskegee Airman, Joseph Gomer, died in Duluth, Minn. at the age of 93. During World War II, Gomer was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first black fighter pilots, who protected U.S. bombers and were renowned for their flying skill, effectiveness and ...
Wednesday 9th Oct 2013
As 2013 starts to wind down, 2014 profitability may be top of mind for many small law firms. In a new article posted on the Legal Solutions site, Karl Florida, managing director of Small Law Firms for Thomson Reuters, applies smart business acumen to the current small law firm environment. In How Technology Drives Short- ...
Thursday 3rd Oct 2013
Since last summer, the legal department of Subway restaurants has come a long way from their old litigation database and invoice approval system. In just a year after adopting Thomson Reuters Serengeti Tracker, the successful implementation earned them the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Legal Departments of the Year award for Best Use of Technology. It started ...
Wednesday 2nd Oct 2013
When more than 4,500 female technologists gather this week in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the sold-out annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, representatives from Thomson Reuters will be there to greet them. As a platinum sponsor for the event, which is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing, Thomson Reuters is proud ...
Monday 30th Sep 2013
Many people look back at college as a fun, rewarding experience. But for a fair number of Americans who have since graduated, it’s also an experience that they are still paying for. A new FindLaw.com survey reveals that 17 percent of Americans say they still owe money on student loans taken out to help with ...
Tuesday 24th Sep 2013
Getting Westlaw registered as a trademark in China has been a Herculean task spanning ten years. Ryan Sheppard, vice president of Trademark Assets for Thomson Reuters, recently talked to Donna La Vardera, trademark manager for Legal at Thomson Reuters, about her dogged pursuit of the mark which was finally granted this year. Donna, why is ...
Monday 23rd Sep 2013
This week, the National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF), is holding their ninth annual NAMWOLF Meeting and Expo in Minneapolis. NAMWOLF, founded in 2001, is a nonprofit organization comprised of minority and women-owned firms. Their organization states, “Many corporations and public entities interested in diversifying their outside law firm ranks have ...
Friday 13th Sep 2013
The Thomson Reuters 2012 Carbon Disclosure Project score (CDP) was released this week and it has increased to 95 from 61 in 2011. We reduced our carbon footprint to 496,000 metric tons carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), which is a 2.4 percent reduction from 2011. This reduction saves Thomson Reuters $2,385,450 which is equivalent to 68,815 trees! CDP ...
Thursday 12th Sep 2013
Thomson Reuters recently aligned with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) to form the Digital Economy Task Force. The task force, led by co-chairs Steve Rubley, managing director, Government segment for the Legal business of Thomson Reuters, and Ernie Allen, president and CEO of ICMEC, was developed to focus on the benefits ...
Wednesday 11th Sep 2013
It’s not often that a major corporation like Thomson Reuters teams up with an educational institution to create an entirely new course and curriculum. FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, and the University of Wisconsin-Stout just started what is believed to be the first post-secondary course in the nation on search engine optimization (SEO). It’s part of ...
Wednesday 11th Sep 2013
Over 300 technologists and employees got their inner geek on at the first-ever Eagan Technology “Unconference,” held last week at the Thomson Reuters Eagan, Minn. campus. The day followed a participatory model used by other unconferences held at various Thomson Reuters locations in St. Louis, London and Bangkok, where attendees set the agenda to create ...
Monday 9th Sep 2013
Exciting news out of Chicago today, as the American Bar Association (ABA) reached an agreement designating Thomson Reuters as the printer for the ABA’s books and journals. This entails printing and binding services for an expanding line of ABA titles, as well as the ABA’s established line of 13 journal publications. Printing and manufacturing services for ...
Thursday 5th Sep 2013
While most students are now back in school for the year, a group of local teachers took the opportunity to visit Thomson Reuters last week before their classrooms were filled once again. A unique partnership between Thomson Reuters and the Rosemount-Eagan-Apple Valley, Minn. School District brought 120 Rosemount High School (RHS) teachers to the Eagan campus so ...
