Company Current
Tuesday 14th May 2013
Thomson Reuters just launched Case Notebook 3.5 and Drafting Assistant – Litigation with Authority Compiler. So what does this mean for you? Well, both new versions come with new tools and functionality so practitioners can efficiently build strong cases. Case Notebook pulls essential case information together in one place, including documents, briefs, transcripts, pleadings, key ...
Tuesday 14th May 2013
Earlier this year, Super Lawyers announced the seven recipients of the 2012 Super Lawyers Pro Bono Awards. The annual Awards honor individual lawyers, law firms, law students, law schools and other institutions in the legal profession that exemplify excellence in practice through delivery of volunteer legal services to the poor, underrepresented or exploited. In a ...
Monday 13th May 2013
This article is a guest post written by Robert L. Brown and Alan S. Gutterman Several interesting factors are converging in the U.S. economy. One unfortunate trend has been the escalating rate of long-term unemployment among seasoned workers, including many former senior managers who lost their jobs during the Great Recession and have been unable ...
Thursday 9th May 2013
Do you know how to program a computer in Java or Python? Thanks to the enterprising work of some employee volunteers in Eagan, Minn., several dozen young middle school students have learned valuable skills that could someday lead to careers in technology. After noticing a lack of computer programming classes in schools, a group of ...
Monday 6th May 2013
Thomson Reuters has been a supporter of the National Kidney Foundation for many years. But recently, FindLaw had a very special reason to continue its support. Matthew Rognstad, a senior front end developer for FindLaw, has struggled with kidney disease since October 2011. When his kidneys failed and he went on dialysis, he started the ...
Thursday 2nd May 2013
Last week, two talented law school students were recognized at a U.S. Supreme Court reception during the ABA International Section Spring 2013 Meeting, hosted by WestlawNext. The spring meeting is one of the world’s most important gatherings of international lawyers and drew over 1,100 attendees from over 80 countries. The more than 500 guests at ...
Tuesday 30th Apr 2013
In honor of Earth Week, Thomson Reuters launched Youth Perspectives, a new sub-site of the Thomson Reuters Sustainability site featuring observations from environmentally-conscious young people across the globe. Legal Current will regularly feature stories from Youth Perspectives that offer unique insights on sustainability, particularly where it intersects the law or human rights issues. This week, ...
Friday 26th Apr 2013
Three cities. One day. One conference. All connected. In a groundbreaking, cross-continental conference that will take place in three cities on May 1, Thomson Reuters, in conjunction with Electronic Discovery Institute, will host The Consortium on Litigation, Information Law & E-Discovery. This conference will employ Cisco TelePresence technology to seamlessly connect panelists and attendees from ...
Thursday 25th Apr 2013
Have you checked your credit report lately? According to a new survey by FindLaw, nearly one in four Americans has never looked at their credit report. People with more income are somewhat more likely to check their reports. However, a significant percentage of people even at the highest income levels say they have never checked ...
Thursday 25th Apr 2013
Nationally renowned author, professor, attorney and IP Hall of Famer J. Thomas McCarthy, celebrates 40 years as a Thomson Reuters Westlaw author in 2013. McCarthy has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the 2012 Intellectual Asset Management’s Intellectual Property Hall of Fame, and is also founding director of the University of San Francisco’s McCarthy Institute ...
Monday 22nd Apr 2013
This article originally ran on the Thomson Reuters blog, the Knowledge Effect. Today, more than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day. We recognize the importance of not only becoming more aware of what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint, but of how we can engage the next generation in ...
Friday 5th Apr 2013
Day two at ABA Techshow is turning out to be even more informative and exciting than day one. Thomson Reuters hosted six Lunch & Learns, plus we checked out sessions on predictive coding for productive practitioners and mobile collaboration. David Pogue gave a dynamic keynote presentation, where he talked about disruptive technologies and augmented reality ...
Thursday 4th Apr 2013
It’s a beautiful day in Chicago, and ABA Techshow is the place to be. From cloud and collaboration topics to e-discovery strategies and social media, ABA Techshow offers something for everyone. In between product demonstrations, we attended a session on leveraging social media to build relevance, and another on trends and ethics in cloud security. ...
