Tuesday 24th Nov 2020
Hundreds of lawyers around the world participated in The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP), a 24-hour global hackathon to create new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, earlier this month. Thomson Reuters was honored to sponsor the hackathon, which focused on creating legal frameworks that enable and encourage businesses and communities to have ...
Friday 20th Nov 2020
The addition of Damages in Litigation Analytics on Westlaw Edge gives legal practitioners a greater ability to analyze damages in federal court cases. It helps users better evaluate and value potential cases, see how damage awards differ by case type, judge or court, and more effectively manage settlement negotiations. It’s the latest enhancement to the ...
Thursday 19th Nov 2020
Thomson Reuters was recognized at the Minnesota Technology Association (MnTech) Tekne Awards celebration, held virtually yesterday, in two categories: the Tech Talent – Corporate Initiative division for its Leadhership1 program and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Managing Director of Operations Rick King. MnTech’s annual Tekne Awards shine a spotlight on Minnesota’s science and technology industry, ...
Tuesday 17th Nov 2020
Today Thomson Reuters introduced Legal Home, an integrated digital launchpad to serve as a central entry point for legal professionals to access essential resources and information in one place. Delivering seamless access to Thomson Reuters applications through a single sign-on, Legal Home brings together filtered information from multiple applications and sources, making it a convenient ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2020
Corporate law departments are expected to meet growing demands for in-house legal professionals’ time, while cutting departmental spending and confronting changes in legal technology and process innovation. These are among the findings of the 2020 State of the Corporate Law Departments Report released today by Thomson Reuters. While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected corporate law departments, ...
Thursday 18th Jul 2019
Thomson Reuters has acquired HighQ, a leading collaboration platform for the legal and regulatory market. Based in London with offices globally including in the United States and India, HighQ offers a secure, cloud-based platform for business collaboration, workflow automation and client engagement. This acquisition will expand on Thomson Reuters strategic objective to provide more cloud-based ...
Thursday 29th Nov 2018
Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law has been honored with the Gold Stevie® Award as the “Website or Blog of the Year”. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are given to female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run in recognition of business achievement. The Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law program aims ...
Monday 28th Aug 2017
As Hurricane Harvey continues to impact South Texas and surrounding areas, the country is watching the news and looking for ways to help. We have seen dramatic rescues by emergency responders, but we’re also hearing a number of accounts of neighbors helping neighbors. It’s in this spirit that Thomson Reuters is reaching out. We understand ...
Monday 6th Mar 2017
Thomson Reuters was named today as one of the 2017 Best Workplaces in Canada for Women. Organizations recognized have a minimum 90% positive employee response to the statement “I am treated fairly regardless of my gender.” To be recognized for high workplace equality, companies are assessed based on levels of workplace trust experienced by their ...
Wednesday 16th Nov 2016
The Aspire to Lead Conference was recently held in Minneapolis. Hundreds of women and men from around the region met for a day full of speakers and networking to empower women to take more active leadership roles in their careers, communities and day-to-day lives. Matt Wallaert is a behavioral scientist working at the intersection of technology ...
Wednesday 2nd Nov 2016
Since I started working with the Thomson Reuters law school business, I have been struck by the diversity of ideas and fresh solutions coming from students, faculty, clinical professors and other leaders, including a genuine curiosity for how to use technology to advance the practice of law. That’s why I was so excited when our ...
Friday 21st Oct 2016
“Technology cannot forget the importance of the humanity that interacts, uses, and creates it.” One never knows where inspiration will strike or what will spark a lifelong passion. As chief technology officer, Lisa Schlosser has always had an appreciation and passion for technology. But as she attends the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ...
Wednesday 19th Oct 2016
The world’s largest gathering of women technologists gets underway in Houston today. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will draw more than 15,000 people from over 80 countries for discussions, presentations and networking to increase the role of women in technology in industry, government and academia. A broad contingent of Thomson Reuters people ...
Wednesday 21st Sep 2016
More than 200 law firm leaders, technologists and academics discussed the future of technology and the legal profession at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum in Toronto on Wednesday. Experts from leading law firms and corporations such as Air Canada and Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt LLP discussed topics including the current state of technologies available to legal practitioners, and ...
Thursday 25th Aug 2016
Thomson Reuters Elite announced that 3E® and Business Development Premier have been recognized as top solutions by two of the legal industry’s leading publications. 3E won in the Time & Billing Software category, and Business Development Premier was recognized in two categories, Law Firm Business Intelligence Solution and Integrated Law Firm Marketing Provider, by The National ...
Monday 22nd Aug 2016
Along with the rest of the country, we at Thomson Reuters are moved by the devastation and loss suffered by the communities in Louisiana affected by the flooding, and we’re committed to helping our affected customers restore their practices and businesses as soon as possible. To assist in the rebuilding effort, we’ve set up a ...
Thursday 17th Dec 2015
Innovation is found in many different places around the world, and Thomson Reuters is collaborating with one of the world’s largest innovation hubs, the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Thomson Reuters will sponsor MaRS Discovery District’s LegalX Cluster, which connects technology, high-growth ventures and the legal industry. The goal is to create bridges between the start-up community, ...
Friday 16th Oct 2015
As Boston braces for what the Association of Corporate Counsel calls “the world’s largest gathering of in-house counsel,” we are hoping to connect with familiar faces and meet some new friends. Thomson Reuters will be part of the festivities through panel participation, networking at multiple events and our booth (#311) which will feature trusted solutions to ...
Wednesday 14th Oct 2015
Numerical Analysis was the class I had in college where the connection between my passion for mathematics and the potential for computer science came together. Maybe it was because I understood, much like Annie Savoy in Bull Durham, non-linear thinking and how it could be applied to real world situations. But where Annie was concerned ...
Monday 21st Sep 2015
The perception of in-house legal departments as insular and obstructive can impede their ability to best serve the business. And while perceptions often don’t reflect reality, repositioning the legal department as a valued, equal and constructive part of the organization will have a dramatic effect on both the lawyers’ job satisfaction and overall efficiency in ...
Monday 14th Sep 2015
What will 2015 look like for some of Asia’s largest economies and their legal industries? Law firms from around the region offer some answers. In this article in the latest Forum Magazine, we look at what 2015 holds in terms of legal and regulatory developments in some of Asia’s largest economies, as well as how ...
Tuesday 8th Sep 2015
The pace of change in the legal profession has been accelerating over the past few years – a technology driven transformation of the legal system. Rarely a day goes by that we don’t read about new technology that promises to make lawyers more efficient than ever before, or replace them altogether. Compared to other service ...
Monday 31st Aug 2015
Super Lawyers talked with Steve Molo and Jeff Lamken, founders of the litigation boutique MoloLamken, about their decision to leave large law and form their own firm. Molo was a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and Lamken was a partner at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. before joining forces in October ...
Monday 24th Aug 2015
In November 2013, The American Lawyer® published a provocative article by its Chief European Correspondent Chris Johnson entitled “How the Magic Circle Lost the Battle for New York.” In it, Johnson argued that, despite 25 years of work and huge investments, the leading UK law firms had failed to gain any significant share of the ...
Thursday 20th Aug 2015
The Minnesota Asian Pacific American Bar Association (MNAPABA) is hosting the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s (NAPABA) Central Regional Conference from September 18-20, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN, and Thomson Reuters is one of the proud sponsors. NAPABA is the national association for Asian Pacific American legal professionals, representing the interests of over 40,000 attorneys ...
Monday 17th Aug 2015
Forum spoke with Gregory B. Jordan, general counsel of PNC Financial Services Group, and former global managing partner of Reed Smith LLP, about evolving client relationships, the exacting nature of determining client needs, and why both parties want the other to succeed. The evolution of the legal profession, especially the relationship between law firms and ...
Friday 14th Aug 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as my colleague in Corporate Affairs at Thomson Reuters, Alex Cook. This week, we discuss how the ...
Thursday 13th Aug 2015
Legal Solutions from Thomson Reuters are all about delivering legal content, technology and expertise. The site has thousands of products for sale, including numerous books from Thomson Reuters key authors. One of those authors is Dennis J. Wall, an experienced litigator, mediator, and expert witness in Florida and Federal Trial and Appellate Courts, and an elected member ...
Wednesday 12th Aug 2015
Thomson Reuters will host a group of top Minnesota CEOs presenting at Aspire to Lead, a one-day conference aimed at inspiring and coaching women to take more active leadership roles in their work and communities. The event will be held October 20, 2015, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Prom Center in Oakdale, ...
Tuesday 11th Aug 2015
Leaders of mid-size and small law firms are meeting or exceeding their profitability goals, and are confident in their ability to succeed in the current legal environment. Those are among the findings of a new report — Strategic Planning: Key to Smart Growth — conducted by Thomson Reuters and the Managing Partner Forum. The 2015 ...
Monday 10th Aug 2015
Forum spoke with Jami Wintz McKeon, chair of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, about what clients want, breaking the glass ceiling and keeping focused while moving ahead. After 34 years with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Jami Wintz McKeon now has a new perspective on the challenges facing today’s legal environment – from behind the chair’s desk. ...
Thursday 6th Aug 2015
While overall demand for legal services is increasing, the share of corporate legal department spend going to large law firms is declining. The recent Great Recession redefined the approach corporate counsel employ in allocating legal spend. Corporate legal departments got innovative by necessity—finding high value in specialty law firms, bringing more work in-house, and by ...
Wednesday 5th Aug 2015
The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) was unchanged for the second consecutive quarter, holding steady at 54 in Q2. Slightly higher demand was offset by weak rate growth and falling productivity. Demand for large law firm services rose 0.4% during the second quarter – while it was the sixth consecutive quarterly gain, it was also ...
Wednesday 5th Aug 2015
Canadian Lawyer has named the Top 25 Most Influential figures in the Canadian justice system and legal profession. The list, which is in its seventh year and is among the publications’ most-read features, honors select Canadians in one of five categories: Government/Associations/Non-Profit, Changemakers, Criminal and Human Rights Law, The World Stage and Corporate/Commercial Law. Honorees ...
Monday 3rd Aug 2015
Ten years ago, clients with a legal matter had essentially two options. Send it to a traditional law firm or handle it in-house. Today, clients have many more choices. Different providers are mushrooming – a trend only likely to grow – offering a huge range of legal-related services. In-house departments have grown and become more ...
Thursday 30th Jul 2015
In a series of blog posts, the Attorney Editors at Thomson Reuters Legal have compiled the latest legislation with their insight on the evolving nature of data security and privacy. Focusing on how technology drives legislation to balance convenience, identity protection, client confidentiality, and other interests, our Attorney Editors have outlined legal developments in four ...
Wednesday 29th Jul 2015
As the old saying goes, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” And while there are certainly no shortage of networking events out there to help with the latter, Thomson Reuters – through West LegalEdcenter and the Legal Executive Institute – continues to organize industry-leading events that cover a range of topics and ...
Tuesday 28th Jul 2015
Black’s Law Dictionary 10th edition app was recently featured on Discovery Channel’s NewsWatch program. NewsWatch produces segments on exciting new apps and app companies that are separating themselves from the pack. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. ...
Tuesday 28th Jul 2015
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal recently to announced the honorees for its 2015 Diversity in Business awards, and Thomson Reuters Chief Research and Academic Officer, Chang Wang, was among them. The Diversity in Business awards recognize some of the Twin Cities leading business leaders (owners and executives) from the GLBT and ethnic minority communities. Last ...
Friday 24th Jul 2015
This post was written by Lise Freking, director of ProView product line strategy and marketing The Thomson Reuters booth at the AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this past week was abuzz with action as the ProView marketing and strategy team announced two new eBook solutions for law libraries: A Library Management Solution (LMS), powered by EOS; and ...
Thursday 23rd Jul 2015
Mind Your Business returns, and in this installment, Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, is joined by Pat David, managing director and global head of Diversity for JP Morgan Chase. Among the topics they cover include diversity in the financial sector and how diversity and inclusion have evolved over ...
Wednesday 22nd Jul 2015
This post was written by Jessica Tam, editorial assistant. It was originally posted on Superlawyers.com In our 2007 Texas Super Lawyers Magazine, antitrust attorney Allan Van Fleet added his name to the list of lawyers who became lawyers because of the example of Atticus Finch. “I know it’s a cliché,” he said back then, “but I ...
Tuesday 21st Jul 2015
“Too much” data is now enough data. Kyla Moran from the IBM Watson Group shared that phrase midway through a session at the Annual Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting, titled “Doctor, Lawyer, Contestant, Chef – How Cognitive Technology Will Drive Transformation of Society As We Know It.” The term “big data” has been used ...
Monday 20th Jul 2015
Bob Ambrogi, lawyer, consultant and blogger at Law Sites, spoke at a well-attended session this morning at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting. Titled “Playing Well With Others: How Collaboration and Crowdsourcing are Changing Legal Research,” Ambrogi’s presentation began with a light-hearted scolding of lawyers and legal professionals who simply “aren’t very good ...
Monday 20th Jul 2015
Why become a reference attorney? There are many reasons, but past and present reference attorneys have told us that what keeps them working as a reference attorney is helping customers every day in their practice. When they go home to their families after their day, they feel great about telling them, “I helped someone today.” So, ...
Sunday 19th Jul 2015
In a session at AALL called “Hot Topic: Technological Innovation in the Practice of Law,” three panelists spoke about what innovation means to them and precautions people need to take when being innovative. Daniel Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Ravel Law started things off by talking about how innovation is not about replacing lawyers, like some ...
Sunday 19th Jul 2015
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting is in Philadelphia, PA this year, and this morning’s keynote speech was given by Terry Gross, host and executive producer of Fresh Air on NPR. Gross began her keynote by talking about the paradoxical profession she is in. She considers herself a very private person, yet she ...
Friday 17th Jul 2015
Jobs today aren’t always easy to define. Just ask your kids to explain what you do. In a recent survey of our past and present Thomson Reuters Reference Attorneys, we found that many chose to apply for this position as a unique way to use their legal background, and an opportunity to have more work-life ...
Friday 17th Jul 2015
The latest installment of Wait, What? has the guys taking the show into the realm of video. No, you didn’t read that wrong; Jason, Joe and Matt had their latest podcast recorded in an actual news studio in Washington, D.C. After the initial shock of being on camera wore off, the guys settle into a ...
Friday 17th Jul 2015
The Legaltech 2015 conference returned to San Francisco, CA after a 10 year break, and the conference ended with an awards ceremony held at The City Club of San Francisco on July 14, 2015. Tom Larranaga of Legaltech news announced the awards, which recognized 26 companies, law firms, and technology innovators for their contributions to the ...
Thursday 16th Jul 2015
This post was written by Andy Duggan, product operations lead at Thomson Reuters “The Power of Connection” is the theme for this year’s AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Most would agree that “connection” is meant in a personal sense – the conference is our chance to connect with our peers and colleagues in order to ...
Wednesday 15th Jul 2015
This post was written by Mark Absey, senior marketer at Thomson Reuters What if your library could provide library patrons with quick and thorough answers to complex questions and timely topics? Well, if you are in Philadelphia for AALL annual meeting next weekend, you’re in luck. Join us at the AALL Exhibitor Showcase on Sunday, ...
Tuesday 14th Jul 2015
This post was written by Ian de Heer, senior technical client manager at Thomson Reuters Given the consistency with which security tops the list of concerns of legal IT professionals, it should come as no surprise that the keynote panel discussion at LegalTech West 2015 centered on just that. Industry professionals including Ruby Zefo from Intel ...
Monday 13th Jul 2015
This post was written by Lise Freking, director of marketing at Thomson Reuters Now organizations can provide all users with the advantages of Thomson Reuters ProView eBooks. Announcing new IP Access and LMS eLibraries for eBooks. Enterprise-based eBook access couldn’t be easier! Thomson Reuters recently announced our partnership with EOS (SirsiDynix) to provide an integrated ...
Friday 10th Jul 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as my colleague in Corporate Affairs at Thomson Reuters, Gretchen DeSutter. This week, we discuss the reputation ...
Friday 10th Jul 2015
Thomson Reuters is sharing a field on its Eagan, MN campus with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) in celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary. The field will be the home of a planted version of the beloved van Gogh’s “Olive Trees” painting, created by renowned crop artist Stan Herd. Planting began this spring and ...
Thursday 9th Jul 2015
Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions and its lead solution, C-Track, has changed the way courts and their justice partners access the justice system, but how can this offering impact courts on a global scale? Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president, Government Affairs and Community Relations at Thomson Reuters, spoke with Mahesh Rengaswamy, senior director, Global Justice ...
Thursday 9th Jul 2015
The Legal business of Thomas Reuters launched a new twice-yearly magazine for legal professionals called Thomson Reuters Forum. The inaugural issue takes inspiration from the concept of multiple viewpoints – a new and completely fresh perspective, crowd-sourced through experiences and points of view from across the global legal market. “Thomson Reuters has a unique opportunity to ...
Wednesday 1st Jul 2015
ProView 2.2 has rolled out, adding new capabilities and new global markets to the leading eReader platform for professional use. Features in ProView now include search-within-search-results, enhanced library search, and PDF and note sharing with annotations and footnotes. ProView has also added new markets, including South Korea, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay. ProView is now in 17 countries across 5 ...
Tuesday 30th Jun 2015
As you may have heard, Thomson Reuters recently launched a community for its small law firm customers. The Legal Professional Online Community is an online environment where customers can connect directly with peers, as well as with Thomson Reuters and industry experts, and explore and discuss small law firm-specific subjects and topics. The Legal Community ...
Monday 29th Jun 2015
In the 11th edition of Wait, What? the guys talk about government surveillance programs, particularly as they have been executed in the United States. The show looks at the USA Patriot and USA Freedom Acts and discusses what responsibilities and rights any government has or should have when it comes to data collection on its ...
Friday 26th Jun 2015
China intellectual property rights have undergone significant reform in recent years. But is it enough? What more needs to be done? Elizabeth Chien-Hale, who has spent extensive time working with businesses in both the US and China, explores these issues in this blog post and accompanying podcast. Last year, the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress ...
Friday 26th Jun 2015
Litigation has traditionally been the largest practice for major firms. But in recent years, litigation practices have been slowly losing ground and transactional practices have risen to compensate. A new report from Peer Monitor finds that corporate, M&A, tax and real estate work has consistently outperformed litigation practices for the past two years. In fact, ...
Thursday 25th Jun 2015
The Reference Attorney department in the Legal business of Thomson Reuters is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. When it launched in 1985, Back to the Future and Rambo were top-grossing films. Wham!, Madonna, and Chaka Khan were on top of the Billboard charts. Much has changed since then. What hasn’t changed is the Reference ...
Thursday 25th Jun 2015
Thomson Reuters and the Airport Foundation MSP celebrate this week’s Magna Carta anniversary by creating Magna Carta to Minnesota: the Rule of Law, a unique art exhibit in Concourse C at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Minnesota’s deep roots in the law – and support for the rule of law – are celebrated in the ...
Wednesday 24th Jun 2015
This post was written by Patrick Dunn, marketer at Thomson Reuters Recognitions and honors are what the marketing world calls third-party validations, and they can be extremely valuable marketing tools for attorneys. They make them stand out in an increasingly competitive legal market. However, these benefits mean more when lawyers promote them in their overall ...
Tuesday 23rd Jun 2015
Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute has been created to serve as a comprehensive resource for legal leaders and industry professionals. The institute provides legal news, expert views, analytics, benchmark reports and industry-leading events to inform those who lead and manage the delivery of legal services. Mike Abbott, vice president of Client Management and Global Thought ...
Tuesday 23rd Jun 2015
Robert Schukai, Head of Advanced Product Innovation at Thomson Reuters, believes it’s time for us to think about mobility not just as workflow, but as 24/7 access that is more of a day-to-day flow than simply how to stream work at your desktop. In the summer issue of Elite Exchange Magazine, Schukai talks about this evolution and ...
Saturday 20th Jun 2015
This week at Thomson Reuters Elite’s VANTAGE Worldwide Conference in Las Vegas, the amazing Mike Staver, international speaker and coach, provided the keynote on “How to Stay Calm Under Pressure.” His rapid fire presentation style and amazing storytelling kept our attention from start to finish. Here are a few key take-aways for those who weren’t ...
Thursday 18th Jun 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as John Shaughnessy, vice president of Business Communications at Thomson Reuters. This week, we discuss the reputation ...
Thursday 18th Jun 2015
We talked to three Thomson Reuters Elite senior leaders at Elite’s VANTAGE Las Vegas conference to find out what they are hearing from customers at the event, and what exciting new developments are on the horizon for Elite. Here is what they had to say: Eric Ruud, managing director of Legal Enterprise Solutions at Thomson ...
Thursday 18th Jun 2015
The 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge began this week, and things are off to a great start so far! Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics – and hosted by InnoCentive, this competition is an open call for legal professionals, programmers, entrepreneurs, data scientists and any other interested ...
Thursday 18th Jun 2015
The “right to a fair trial” is still being regularly litigated over in the UK and across Europe 800 years after it was enshrined in Magna Carta. Research from the Legal business of Thomson Reuters shows that in the last decade, the European Court of Human Rights has made 19 rulings against the UK and ...
Wednesday 17th Jun 2015
As law firms continue to appreciate the significance of creating an understanding surrounding security and risks, this starts with a sharp focus on talent and culture. The first component that the panel discussed during the 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum: Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm, surrounded protection and prevention methods. Protection and Prevention ...
Tuesday 16th Jun 2015
Today, VANTAGE Las Vegas kicked off with a packed keynote session led by Bill Burch, vice president of Global Sales for Elite, who spoke to the Elite value commitment to support customers at an even higher level. Elisabet Hardy, vice president of Product Management at Elite, recapped a successful year with three new product launches, 13 new ...
Tuesday 16th Jun 2015
Are you a forward-thinking technologist or entrepreneur who is developing next-generation technology solutions that can advance the legal system? If so, then you need to join the 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge. Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics – and hosted by InnoCentive, this competition is an ...
Tuesday 16th Jun 2015
Internet dangers abound, but today’s parents are doing less to protect their children when they’re surfing the Web. A new survey from FindLaw says parents are worrying more than ever about their children’s safety when they are online. Two-thirds of parents say they take protective steps, such as monitoring the Web sites their children visit, restricting ...
Monday 15th Jun 2015
The scope of the threats to law firm data is global. In this panel discussion at the 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum: Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm, a country-by-country breakdown of dangers were discussed while the audience absorbed the magnitude of the panelists’ concerns. Eben Kaplan, senior consultant, Control Risks; Josh Goldfarb, ...
Friday 12th Jun 2015
In a very special episode of “Wait, What?!,” the guys travel to AwesomeCon in Washington, D.C. to take in all the sights and sounds. Additionally, the show wanted to get up close and personal with the comic book/science fiction industry to see what people think about the technology and culture associated with these genres. One of the takeaways from the hours spent at the convention was that ...
Thursday 11th Jun 2015
A new, first-of-its-kind undergraduate major at University of Wisconsin-Stout in digital marketing technology, which grew out of a strengthened relationship with Thomson Reuters, was approved Friday by the UW System Board of Regents. This unique public-private partnership has resulted in an innovative degree program that prepares students for employment in some of the fastest-growing technology fields and ...
Thursday 11th Jun 2015
In eerie silence, law firms could be easily breached like JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot and Sony by cyber criminals. The difference with law firms though is that few would know the sensitive data was absconded. While law firms do not have to report such penetrations, we learned at the 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum: Data Privacy, Security ...
Wednesday 10th Jun 2015
Increasingly, people are dropping their cable providers and opting instead for streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, as well as new standalone services like HBO Go. But even these services would see dwindling subscribers, as value-added taxes have taken effect based on location. Jason Roberts, attorney and legal analyst with the Tax & ...
Tuesday 9th Jun 2015
Should our firm hire someone to do that? How much more support staff does the firm need? These may be just a few questions firms are asking themselves. Peer Monitor’s 2015 Staffing Ratio Survey points out some key trends. -Overall staffing ratios per 100 lawyers significantly increased in 2014 by 14 percent compared to 2013. ...
Tuesday 9th Jun 2015
Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, hosted by Thomson Reuters and ...
Monday 8th Jun 2015
In the last year, Thomson Reuters has taken a unified view of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion with the belief that we have a fundamental responsibility to do business in a way that protects, respects and benefits our customers, employees, communities and the environment. At the core of this belief lies the notion that our business enables ...
Monday 8th Jun 2015
Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, hosted by Thomson Reuters and Stanford ...
Thursday 4th Jun 2015
For years, Thomson Reuters has been a thought leader on the state of global crime, particularly as it relates to digital currency and money laundering and the intersection of technology and human trafficking and exploitation of children. Now, Thomson Reuters Accelus takes a fresh look at this topic with its new white paper, International Anti-Corruption ...
Thursday 4th Jun 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as my colleague in social media, Joel Leeman. This week, we discuss the reputation management of the ...
Wednesday 3rd Jun 2015
Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, hosted by Thomson Reuters and Stanford ...
Wednesday 3rd Jun 2015
Thomson Reuters provides information so our customers can make informed decisions for their businesses and their clients; and the way our customers access that information is through our online products. Because of the vast amount of content we have available, we must both store all of that content and make it searchable for our customers. ...
Tuesday 2nd Jun 2015
An audience of senior lawyers from law firms, chambers, and inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the motion that ‘the European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy’ at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening. With human rights and the ECHR at the forefront of national attention in ...
Tuesday 2nd Jun 2015
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has launched the second annual TrustLaw Index of Pro Bono, an annual survey that captures and analyzes global pro bono trends across the legal industry, revealing fascinating insights into the scale and potential growth of the sector. This year’s Index showed that law firms are increasingly devoting extraordinary resources to support ...
Monday 1st Jun 2015
This post was written by William Scarbrough, chief operating officer of Bodman PLC This year’s Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum in New York City will focus on data privacy, security and the globalized law firm, certainly one of the biggest and most important management challenges facing law firm leaders today. Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute has assembled a particularly ...
Monday 1st Jun 2015
Employees from the Legal business of Thomson Reuters recently joined forces with more than 8,000 lawyers, including more than 100 judges and magistrates, to support the London Legal Walk, a 10km walk to raise money for the London Legal Support Trust (LLST), an independent charity that raises funds for free legal services in London and the ...
Friday 29th May 2015
Attorneys seeking a change of venue over concerns of biased jurors may figure it doesn’t hurt to ask. But it rarely helps. According to Westlaw data, change of venue is seldom granted. Recently, attorneys for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to have his trial moved, citing the tremendous amount of pre-trial publicity surrounding ...
Tuesday 26th May 2015
Just as technology has changed the practice of law, its impact has also altered the way that courts manage case loads and interact with justice partners and the public. That is where Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions – and its key product offering, C–Track – comes in. David Curle, director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence at Thomson ...
Friday 22nd May 2015
In this episode of “Wait, What?” the guys discuss the impact technology has on medicine and medical procedures. Jason starts off the talk by discussing his grandmother’s heart surgery, using a pig valve. This sparks a discussion about the advent of drones as a first responders and whether or not it is actually feasible. The guys then talk about their comfort level ...
Wednesday 20th May 2015
Thomson Reuters today released new research revealing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from 32 global energy companies, a key subset of the world’s largest publically traded businesses. The Global 500 Greenhouse Gas Report: The Fossil Fuel Energy Sector, written in collaboration with global sustainability consultancy BSD Consulting, is the second in a series of GHG reports ...
Tuesday 19th May 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact it. In this episode, I speak with our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, and Senior Communications Specialist Alex Cook, about the latest Deflate-gate drama, the recent Amtrak crash, and the public relations issues facing the ...
Tuesday 19th May 2015
Our nation relies heavily on Guard and Reserve service. Employer support enhances retention rates in the Armed Forces and in the end, strengthens our national security. Last week, the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) of Minnesota recognized the most outstanding examples of employer support at its Annual Employer Support Awards Banquet, and ...
Monday 18th May 2015
We’re headed into the home stretch of the 2014-15 Supreme Court term. A good time to check in with {Marshall}+ to see how his circuits are feeling about his prospects in FantasySCOTUS. Q: {Marshall}+, good to talk with you again. First, how are you holding up? It’s a long court term and we’re already about seven months in. ...
Friday 15th May 2015
This post was written by Patrick Dunn, marketer at Thomson Reuters In our latest magazine devoted to the stories of the 2014 Super Lawyers Pro Bono Award recipients, you will read about lawyers giving back and making a difference with their exceptional pro bono efforts. This is the fourth year that Super Lawyers has had ...
Thursday 14th May 2015
Ed Sohn, global director of Integrated Solutions at Pangea3, recently had an article featured on the Association of Corporate Counsel’s website. Sohn’s article is about the top 10 e-discovery U.S. trends in 2015 and has been reprinted with permission from the ACC, below. The overarching theme for 2015 in e-discovery will be continuity. It is ...
Wednesday 13th May 2015
Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer at Thomson Reuters, received the Asian Pacific Outstanding Contribution Award from the Minnesota State Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans, for “his outstanding contributions to education, legal service, and diversity in business.” The award was presented to him on May 8, during the 2015 Asian Pacific American Leadership Awards Dinner. ...
Tuesday 12th May 2015
What skills are necessary to create technology managers today? A recent ILTA Peer to Peer interview (PDF) with Bob Schukai, head of Advanced Product Innovation; Dan Bennett, vice president, Enterprise Data Services; and Kate Boeckman, product manager, Wearable & Emerging Product Technologies, all at Thomson Reuters, highlights what skills are necessary, as well as tips for developing those ...
Monday 11th May 2015
This post was written by Jin Bae, global business director at Thomson Reuters Out in Law, the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) initiative for senior leaders in the legal profession, held its second annual summit at New York Law School on April 20, 2015. New York Law School hosted the day-long event, along with ...
Friday 8th May 2015
Books for Africa held its annual gala this week, and representatives from Thomson Reuters were on hand to celebrate the annual event. Books For Africa is the largest shipper of books to the African continent. In fact, over the last 12 months alone, the organization has shipped more than 2.6 million books to countries throughout Africa, ...
Friday 8th May 2015
In the eighth episode of “Wait, What?”, the show delves into the unintended consequences of technology. Jason starts off with an example of the dual uses of an everyday hammer. The guys start talking about the misuse of things like the Tor – which are intended for good, but are used for nefarious things as well. Another unintended consequence of technological ...
Thursday 7th May 2015
The new Thomson Reuters Practical Law Deal Protections and Remedies Report is now available and was recently presented at a recent ABA Business Section Meeting. The report analyzes deal-protection measures binding target companies and, for the first time, also reviews the deal protections negotiated by buyers who require their own stockholder approval before closing. In the ...
Thursday 7th May 2015
When the song “Uptown Funk” came over the loudspeakers at the Minneapolis Convention Center this past Sunday, I couldn’t help but smile as a group of giggling girls pushed their way past me to hit the dance floor. Looking around the room, they weren’t alone. Groups of girls ranging in age from 10 to 19 ...
Wednesday 6th May 2015
The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, was unchanged at 54 in the first quarter. Despite slightly higher demand for law firm services, weak rate growth and falling productivity held back gains in the market Demand for large law firm services rose 0.6 percent during the quarter – ...
Tuesday 5th May 2015
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact it. In this episode, resident PR consultant Leonard Lee speaks with John Shaughnessy, vice president of Business Communications, and Jeff McCoy, manager of External Communications at Thomson Reuters, about the recent NFL draft, and activist and celebrity ...
Tuesday 5th May 2015
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 One of the major challenges facing health law attorneys today is how to best track the changes that are taking place in programs that effect clients. Over the past five ...
Monday 4th May 2015
Thomson Reuters has released the iOS app for Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. It also is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions. Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th ...
Monday 4th May 2015
This post was written by Marisa Harms, editorial director of editorial label Revista dos Tribunais, Thomson Reuters. The full article can be found in Portuguese below the English version. After six years pending in Congress, on March 16, 2015, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved a new Code of Civil Procedure (Código de Processo Civil, CPC), ...
Friday 1st May 2015
Today is Law Day in the US, so FindLaw wanted to look at Americans’ feelings on the basis for their legal rights: the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. FindLaw asked 1,000 Americans what constitutional right they consider to be most important. The results were somewhat surprising: Freedom of speech: 30% Due process rights: 20% ...
Friday 1st May 2015
David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, recently visited Georgetown Law in Washington DC for its semi-annual Iron Tech Lawyer competition. In the video below, he gives a summary of his time there. You can also read about it in this post from the LEI blog.
Thursday 30th Apr 2015
The theme is as old as history itself – technology is changing our world, but how can we catch-up? In the video clip below, Greg McPolin, COO, Legal Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, sits down with Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel, Drinker Biddle and contributor to the film The Decade of Discovery, to talk about how ...
Wednesday 29th Apr 2015
Legal Current is pleased to launch its latest podcast, Mind Your Business, a monthly review on the intersection between Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion and modern business. The podcast is hosted by Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, and is produced by the Thomson Reuters Legal Corporate Affairs team. The first ...
Tuesday 28th Apr 2015
Mitch Kowalski, innovative thinker, Canadian lawyer and author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century, was in Eagan, Minn. last week, speaking with Thomson Reuters employees. He spoke about what he calls the “Great Legal Reformation,” which is the early stages of the most disruptive period of time in the history of the ...
Tuesday 28th Apr 2015
The medical litigation practice area is clearly complex, can be difficult to navigate and for many, can be even harder to understand. Medical Litigator, now available on WestlawNext, is built to help legal professionals understand and learn medical terms, conditions, procedures, devices, and drugs, which in turn enables them to more confidently evaluate and litigate ...
Friday 24th Apr 2015
This episode starts out with the show’s reaction and discussion of the latest movie trailer for the Star Wars – The Force Awakens. For the non-nerds in our listening audience, you can fast forward a couple minutes to get to the meat of the podcast. The guys jump into a discussion about a non-government related collection of Personally Identifying Information (PII) ...
Thursday 23rd Apr 2015
Imagine this: A child is abducted by their own parent to another country. The left-behind parent is enraged, scared and confused. That parent contacts the local authorities to help retrieve the child. INTERPOL alerts are raised, news agencies pick up the story and the general public cries out for justice under the Hague Convention: the return ...
Thursday 23rd Apr 2015
Insurance is just that, an item that most people have and may not rely on often, but when the time comes and it is needed, they are glad they have insurance. Thomson Reuters recently announced the addition of a new practitioner-focused page covering the insurance industry on WestlawNext. Regulatory and legislative coverage for the insurance ...
Wednesday 22nd Apr 2015
You can now speed through store checkout lanes just by waving your smartphone. New mobile payment systems purport to be fast, convenient and secure. Well, maybe not that last part. In the podcast below, Bob Benjy, an attorney with Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, who works with financial institutions, says mobile payment systems such as Apple Pay, ...
Wednesday 22nd Apr 2015
Leading minds in the world of law gathered at Thomson Reuters offices in Canary Wharf on Thursday, April 16 to hear a lively debate on the highly contentious issue of corporate wrongdoing – and who should pay. The event, moderated by Axel Threlfall, editor at large for Reuters, was the second in the Thomson Reuters ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
When it comes to firm marketing, it can be easy to become fixated on metrics like website visits and search rankings, but do they tell the whole story? Mark Jacobsen, senior director of Strategic Development & Thought Leadership for FindLaw, sits down with Sean Sands, digital marketing expert, Web Content for FindLaw, about their new ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters, in partnership with global law firm Linklaters LLP, recently completed a pro bono project for Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), a not-for-profit organization with centers in the US, UK, and Kenya, that supports global justice sector capacity building through training, observation, technical support, and access to justice initiatives. LWOB fulfills its mission, in part, ...
Tuesday 21st Apr 2015
While marketing may not be the favorite pastime of many attorneys, most would agree that in today’s hyper-competitive environment, it has become an activity that law firms must understand and, increasingly, embrace. In light of this, the 2015 ABA Techshow lunch and learn session, “The Future of Advertising,” sponsored by FindLaw and presented by Eli ...
Monday 20th Apr 2015
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Examples of net neutrality violations include when the Internet service provider Comcast intentionally slowed peer-to-peer communications. On ...
Monday 20th Apr 2015
This post was written by Rachel Moseley, Corporate Responsibility program manager at Thomson Reuters I remember when I passed my driving test. I was thrilled, and so was my driving instructor (no more nail biting lessons), my parents (no more taxi-service), and my friends (a new taxi-service). Sharing the news with each of them was ...
Friday 17th Apr 2015
Welcome to a new edition of Ill Repute, a bi-weekly podcast on reputation and the forces in a 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it. This week, I am joined by my colleague in Corporate Affairs, Gretchen DeSutter, as well as out resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee. Listen as we discuss ramifications ...
Wednesday 15th Apr 2015
Stephanie Fox, director of customer marketing, and Laura Zastrow, manager of productivity solutions with Thomson Reuters, talk about what the product development team will be doing at ABA TECHSHOW this year and what’s new with Firm Central. Watch the short video below to learn more, or stop by the Thomson Reuters booth at ABA Techshow in Chicago ...
Wednesday 15th Apr 2015
This post was written by Ryan McClead, legal technology innovation architect, Norton Rose Fulbright contributor, 3 Geeks and a Law Blogger A few weeks ago I was in the midst of one of my typical breathless explanations of the latest technology that was going to revolutionize nearly everything about the firm. It was going to ...
Tuesday 14th Apr 2015
Four years ago, Thomson Reuters launched a new proprietary professional-grade platform for ebooks called ProView. Since the product launch, we have gone from 50 ebooks to over 700 available ebooks. ProView has allowed attorneys to go paperless, be mobile and still access legal resources and stay on top of new and important content releases. In the video clip ...
Monday 13th Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters will join with ABA Techshow in support of key sponsorships at this year’s conference, including the Arrival Reception, Appathon, and the keynote address featuring bestselling author Nicholas Carr. Carr’s conversation will center on technology, culture and the Internet, and their impact on the legal industry and legal professionals. Carr is author of “The ...
Monday 13th Apr 2015
With the Annual Bar Association’s (ABA) Techshow 2015 coming up next week, we talked with WestlawNext-sponsored keynote speaker Nicholas Carr to get a preview on what he will be discussing. In the podcast below, Carr also talks with us about the consequences surrounding our dependence on computers, how our relationship with technology has changed the ...
Friday 10th Apr 2015
This episode starts off with a question regarding whether or not any of the guys have any embarrassing photos on the internet. This quickly leads into a conversation about the “Right To Be Forgotten” and whether or not people have a fundamental right to have their mistakes removed (or at least suppressed) from the internet. ...
Friday 10th Apr 2015
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney advisor at Thomson Reuters I’m very excited to be attending the American Bar Association (ABA) Techshow next week in Chicago. The Techshow is a great time for me to receive feedback, discuss product ideas and updates to Westlaw, and other legal solutions. So often, it’s ...
Wednesday 8th Apr 2015
Do divorce courts favor men or women? Well, the answer depends on whom you ask. A new survey from FindLaw.com says men and women have sharply different views on whether divorce courts tend to favor men or women. The majority of American men (57 percent) believe that divorce courts generally favor women. However, a nearly equal majority ...
Tuesday 7th Apr 2015
Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, sat down for a discussion with Tim Nixon, director of Sustainability at Thomson Reuters, to talk about the value of a unified corporate responsibility and diversity inclusion function and its value to Thomson Reuters global enterprise. Watch the short video below.
Monday 6th Apr 2015
The second episode of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it, is now available. In this episode, I talk with Alex Cook, senior communications specialist, and Leonard Lee, our resident PR consultant. We discuss election year reputation management, Ted Cruz, issuing a public apology ...
Monday 6th Apr 2015
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 pace of change in health care continues at a high level. The Affordable Care Act is struggling to reach out to uninsured groups, and still trying to make corrections ...
Thursday 2nd Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters took top honors for key products and services across 13 categories in the fourth annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings. Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) was recognized as the top Legal Research Provider, including software as a service, digital and print products. WestlawNext, the industry-leading legal research solution, was ranked best Online Legal Research ...
Wednesday 1st Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters is partnering with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts again on a continuing legal education program on law and art called “Fakes and Forgeries: A Panel Discussion on Law and Art.” The event will be held on April 16, 2015 from 5-7 p.m. in the Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This is ...
Wednesday 1st Apr 2015
Thomson Reuters recently launched Westlaw Asia, a legal research platform delivering resources such as cases, legislation, law journals, and legal commentary to legal professionals. This is especially timely with the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) integration expected by the end of 2015. Businesses and legal practitioners in ASEAN will have a greater need to access laws, regulations, and judicial ...
Monday 30th Mar 2015
The Female Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) Board in the UK recently released its sixth edition of the “100 Women to Watch” list, naming Charlotte Rushton, managing director, U.S. Large Law Firms, and Jessica Turner, global head, Government & Academia, both at Thomson Reuters, as women to watch in 2015. The FTSE is ...
Friday 27th Mar 2015
In this installment of “Wait, What?” your hosts tackle the question of whether technology makes us lazy or not. They cover everything from grocery delivery services to texting at the dinner table. Jason, Rob and Matt spend quite a bit of time in this episode discussing whether people are productive when they work from home and the effects that “work” phones ...
Thursday 26th Mar 2015
Robert G. Eccles is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He is one of the world’s leading experts on a global movement for companies to include new, value-related information in their regular reporting to regulators, investors and stakeholders. Prof. Eccles has written two books on the subject, One Report: Integrated Reporting for ...
Wednesday 25th Mar 2015
The Legal business of Thomson Reuters had another very successful conference at VANTAGE Melbourne. This year’s conference, held March 3–4, was the largest Asia Pacific Regional Conference yet, with a record-breaking attendance of more than 150 attendees and 11 Global Strategic Alliances firms participating. The conference was held at The Langham Melbourne with panoramic city ...
Tuesday 24th Mar 2015
Minnesota’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Alan C. Page, stopped by Thomson Reuters Eagan campus last week to talk about his career in both in the NFL and legal professions, and about the Page Education Foundation. Justice Page was elected to the court in 1992. He was reelected in 1998, 2004, and 2010. Previously, he served as an ...
Monday 23rd Mar 2015
Understanding and evaluating a company’s sustainable business practices are at the core of how analysts, investors, risk management professionals and others assess opportunities and risks around the world. In the first issue of Exchange magazine in 2015, we bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss the topic of sustainability and its impact on financial ...
Friday 20th Mar 2015
On March 25, West LegalEdcenter will host the 2nd Annual West Coast Legal Executive Forum in San Francisco. Allison Chock, an investment manager with Bentham IMF, a litigation finance company that provides funding to plaintiffs for large legal disputes in the United States and abroad, will be among the experts at the event. We had ...
Friday 20th Mar 2015
In just one week, a team of FindLaw employees created and launched a new website for the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Global Rights for Women. The site was part of FindLaw’s Web Plunge Coding for Charity program. Global Rights for Women is dedicated to promoting human rights, with a focus on achieving legal reform to eliminate violence ...
Thursday 19th Mar 2015
The Corporate Affairs team for the Legal business of Thomson Reuters is excited to announce the inaugural edition of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it. Our first podcast features Susan Martin, managing editor of social media; John Shaughnessy, vice president of business communications; ...
Tuesday 17th Mar 2015
For the seventh consecutive year, Thomson Reuters has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Each year, the Ethisphere Institute, an independent center for research promoting best practices in corporate ethics and governance, lists companies for ethical and principled business practices that positively influence an organization’s performance ...
Thursday 12th Mar 2015
In the fourth installment of Wait, What? the guys discuss the Science Fact that has come from the Science Fiction of Star Trek, Star Wars, Total Recall, comics, and other media. The show starts with a comparison of the devices that were used in the Star Trek universe of television and movies, and how we’re ...
Wednesday 11th Mar 2015
Smile, you’re on radar speed trap camera! More communities across the country are adopting automated radar-activated cameras to catch speeding motorists in the act, and such cameras are opposed by a majority of Americans, says a new survey from FindLaw.com. The survey found that 52 percent of Americans oppose the use of radar speed cameras, while 48 ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
Among the breakout sessions at the Global Ethics Summit was a panel discussion on compliance and the anti-corruption landscape. As Donna Dabney, executive director, Governance Center of The Conference Board, noted, in the 80s and 90s there were incentives for corporations to not have a compliance function for fear that they would have to report ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
The seventh annual Global Ethics Summit kicked off this morning in New York with a keynote conversation involving a diverse set of CEOs. Tom Pfeifer, senior vice president of sales for Thomson Reuters, moderated a panel discussion with James Roberts, president and CEO of Granite Construction; Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe’; and Rodney Martin, ...
Tuesday 10th Mar 2015
To celebrate the ninth annual World’s Most Ethical Companies list, the Ethisphere Institute hosted the World’s Most Ethical Companies Gala in New York last night. More than 520 representatives from this year’s honorees — including Thomson Reuters — joined dignitaries at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan for this year’s event. Gala attendees also were treated to ...
Monday 9th Mar 2015
Continuing to solidify itself as the market leader, Serengeti Tracker closed 2014 with more than 800 client companies on its roster. This marked an increase in its client’s base of more than 240 percent over the last four years while maintaining a 99 percent retention rate. Serengeti Tracker is the legal profession’s most widely used and ...
Friday 6th Mar 2015
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 Over the past five years—since the initial passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—implementation of the health plan has been in turmoil. Between planning problems; implementation flaws; conflict between supporters ...
Thursday 5th Mar 2015
Would Elena Kagan and a plate of ribs make the ideal lunch date? Or sharing falafel with Stephen Breyer? SuperLawyers asked 99 top lawyers, “which U.S. Supreme Court Justice would you take to lunch, and where?” Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the top pick, followed by Antonin Scalia, whom one lawyer suggested meeting at Hussong’s Cantina ...
Wednesday 4th Mar 2015
On March 10-11, CEOs, board chairs, compliance and risk management leadership, and more will meet at the 7th Annual Global Ethics Summit, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and Ethisphere. Each year, the summit features compelling conversations on the ethical performance, behavior and reputation of organizations all over the world. Among the business leaders at this year’s ...
Tuesday 3rd Mar 2015
Silvia L. Coulter, principal, LawVision Group LLC, writes about her experience at the West LegalEdcenter 22nd Annual Marketing Partner Forum, including firm marketing trends that may emerge over the coming months: Each year Thomson Reuters Marketing Partner Forum presents a host of opportunities for attendees. My favorites for 2015 included: Visiting with various sponsors and ...
Monday 2nd Mar 2015
This post was written by Robert Mccorquodale, marketing executive in the Legal UKI business of Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the strategic partner to the Global Law Summit, held this week in London to mark 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta. The event celebrates the history of this important document and its impact ...
Monday 2nd Mar 2015
On Tuesday, March 3, West LegalEdcenter will host Transformative Leadership: Empowering Women by Improving Participation and Representation – an inaugural event designed to address the challenges affecting leadership opportunities for women in the world’s largest organizations. And with International Women’s Day on March 8, the event takes on a particularly timely tone. Patsy Doerr, global ...
Thursday 26th Feb 2015
We tend to see a lot of future-gazing around the changing role of the law firm, but relatively little on the future of the court system itself – the fundamental common law institution that for hundreds of years has served as a bedrock of legal process and justice across the globe. So, we set ourselves ...
Tuesday 24th Feb 2015
The Legal business of Thomson Reuters brought together some of the sharpest minds from the law, media and politics last week for its inaugural debate on “the right to be forgotten.” The debate, which took place on Feb. 17, 2015, was recorded in front of an audience of customers and partners, and was moderated by Reuters Axel ...
Thursday 19th Feb 2015
There has been exploding growth in the area we call the “Internet of Things,” particularly when it comes to wearable and automotive technologies. So what does this mean for Thomson Reuters? Well, according to Bob Schukai, head of advanced product innovation at Thomson Reuters, “if it has a screen, it’s fair game.” In the coming year, his ...
Thursday 12th Feb 2015
Here’s our next FantasySCOTUS team profile, that Swedish-mus musculis powerhouse “outsider.” TEAM: ABBAMOUSE PREDICTOR: “I’m a Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University – Central Texas with an interest but little real training in Constitutional Law. My main area of research is military interventions in civil wars (all of them since 1816); I’ll have a book ...
Wednesday 11th Feb 2015
Sustainability is an increasing priority for many companies, and incorporating more sustainable practices is encouraging collaboration across various industries to arrive at better, more cost-effective solutions. Tim Nixon, managing editor of sustainability at Thomson Reuters, talked with sustainability leaders at the world’s largest household and personal products company (Proctor & Gamble) and the nation’s second-largest car manufacturer ...
Thursday 5th Feb 2015
A broken engagement can result in many problems, not the least of which is the pesky question: who gets to keep the engagement ring? The question is surprisingly fraught with a number of legal questions: Is it a gift? Is it a conditional gift? Can keeping the ring be considered compensation for a broken engagement? A recent FindLaw ...
Wednesday 4th Feb 2015
Last April, Thomson Reuters launched Thomson Reuters Intelligence Center, a new business development tool that helps law firms find new business. It presents actionable, client-focused information to gain deeper insight into new business opportunities and strengthen current relationships, while staying abreast of industry news and legal activity of current and prospective clients. This week, to ...
Tuesday 3rd Feb 2015
LegalTech New York 2015 kicked off today with a panel on “Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection Legal Challenges in the Digital Age.” Erin Harrison, the incoming editor-in-chief of ALM’s Legaltech News, moderated a panel of privacy and security experts from some of the most visible companies out there: Eran Feigenbaum, director of security, Google Apps, Google ...
Monday 2nd Feb 2015
Apparently, not very many of us actually bother to read those long, boring “Terms & Conditions” on websites. A new survey from FindLaw says most of us either skim through or completely ignore all that legal mumbo-jumbo and just go ahead and click “Complete Purchase.” The problem is, the buyer is agreeing to the terms set ...
Monday 2nd Feb 2015
Canadian Lawyer InHouse has just published its third annual View feature for 2015 — an annual “look ahead” series of interviews in which they talk to leading Canadian corporate counsel about their current challenges and projects for the year. While two of this year’s in-house lawyers have increasingly global interests, the other two are squarely ...
Thursday 29th Jan 2015
The legal business of Thomson Reuters is excited to launch a new twice monthly podcast. Wait, What? takes an irreverent look at technology and its impact on our lives. The podcast is hosted by Matt Angelicola, government research analyst; Rob Russell, senior director in the Government segment; and Jason Thomas, manager of innovation also in the Government segment at Thomson ...
Thursday 29th Jan 2015
We’ve all seen it (and maybe even done it ourselves): talking on a cellphone while driving. A majority of Americans say using your cellphone while driving is ok, as long as it is being used in hands-free mode. That’s the finding of a new survey from FindLaw.com, the most popular free legal information website. Fourteen ...
Wednesday 28th Jan 2015
From time to time, we’ll provide some tips on how to use WestlawNext to research SCOTUS cases and thoroughly crush your opponents. Today’s tip involves Writs of Certiorari. There are three WestlawNext content sets that can be particularly helpful as you research SCOTUS cases. Today, we’ll look at “SCT-petition.” This is the content set that ...
Monday 26th Jan 2015
This post was written by Gregg Wirth, content manager for the Legal Executive Institute, Thomson Reuters Law firms’ marketing and business development efforts are becoming more important in today’s competitive legal marketplace, according to several speakers at the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute’s 22nd Annual Law Firm Marketing Partner Forum. And this is especially true ...
Friday 23rd Jan 2015
We will be profiling some of the teams participating in this term’s FantasySCOTUS. This week, we kick it off at the very top – the predictor who is wearing the belt (if we gave out WWE-style belts). TEAM: Merlach PREDICTOR: Jacob Berlove is a three-time consecutive FantasySCOTUS champion, which is some darn serious cred in the ...
Thursday 22nd Jan 2015
In Minnesota, hockey’s a big deal, and this year the Minnesota Wild, Fox Sports North and other area businesses including Thomson Reuters hosted Hockey Day in Minnesota. The weekend of hockey included pee wee and high school games, as well as games with the Minnesota Gophers and Minnesota Wild hockey teams. Serving Our Troops organized ...
Wednesday 14th Jan 2015
Jason Thomas, manager of Innovation at Thomson Reuters, has joined the advisory board of Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization seeks to inform and act as a resource for policy makers and media outlets on digital currency technologies, ...
Wednesday 14th Jan 2015
Thomson Reuters has been awarded a new multi-year contract from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) to provide legal research solutions to the federal judiciary, building on a relationship that spans more than 30 years. “Thomson Reuters is honored to continue our longstanding relationship with the federal judiciary, providing the legal research tools ...
Friday 9th Jan 2015
In recent years, Thomson Reuters has been busy transforming its infrastructure, creating a flexible private and public cloud foundation on which new products and technologies can be conceived and implemented. With 16 petabytes of information stored worldwide, the company’s requirement to sift through more information in less time and deliver better results was a tall ...
Thursday 8th Jan 2015
The 9th annual Clawbies were announced on Dec. 31, 2014, and Legal Feeds, the daily news blog of Canadian Lawyer and Law Times, was named the top legal news blog in Canada. Legal Feeds has either been a winner or runner up in the news category since it was launched in Dec. 2010. Gail Cohen, editor-in-chief of the ...
Wednesday 7th Jan 2015
Thomson Reuters recently received international acknowledgement for a legal treatise on Chinese law authored by two employees. The 350-page volume — Inside China’s Legal System — is a comprehensive overview of the Chinese legal system. The book is co-authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, and Nathan Madson, who previously worked for Findlaw ...
Tuesday 6th Jan 2015
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 More cuts are taking place in some physician payments, and these changes will affect attorneys whose practices involve concerns with health care law. The procedures that are used to pay ...
Monday 5th Jan 2015
Thomson Reuters Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion, and Dave Curran, global director of Risk & Compliance, were in Philadelphia a few weeks ago and stopped by WWDB AM 860 radio to record an interview for Sue Rocco’s Women to Watch show. Their interview is airing on WWDB AM 860 today, Monday, ...
Tuesday 30th Dec 2014
At a ceremony earlier this month, Thomson Reuters joined several Minneapolis-St. Paul area businesses to celebrate Prime Digital Academy, a school that will train entry-level software engineers in the Twin Cities area. Thomson Reuters is a supporter of the project, reinforcing the company’s commitment to educating tomorrow’s workforce for technology jobs in the future. Lisa ...
Tuesday 23rd Dec 2014
This post was written by Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion at Thomson Reuters During the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, there was a renewed urgency by nations to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide to reduce the impact of climate change. A new report – Global 500 ...
Tuesday 23rd Dec 2014
Successfully marketing your legal services is one of the most challenging aspects of managing a law firm. For your marketing efforts to be successful and sustainable over time, you need an understanding of some fundamental concepts. That is why FindLaw just released Legal Marketing 101: A Guide for Small Law Firms. This free eBook will introduce you ...
Monday 22nd Dec 2014
C-Track, Thomson Reuters case management and electronic filing solution, will be deployed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (USCAAF), it was announced today. The USCAAF, which is the first federal court install for C-Track, is the appellate court for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Courts of ...
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. ...
Tuesday 25th Nov 2014
As we mentioned last week, the most interesting participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS is a rookie – {Marshall}+. Legal Current scored an exclusive interview with the elusive and very private {Marshall]+ as he prepares to square off against some of the best Supreme Court predictors in the FantasySCOTUS tournament. The newest rookie to FantasySCOTUS gave off ...
Tuesday 25th Nov 2014
New Tales of the Twin Cities: The History, Law, and Culture of Minnesota, the first Chinese-language book about Minnesota, was just published by Thomson Reuters. The book was authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer at Thomson Reuters and an attorney. Wang is a native of Beijing, a graduate of the University of ...
Monday 24th Nov 2014
Patsy Doerr, global head of Diversity & Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, is featured in this month’s Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Doerr has more than 20 years of experience in talent, learning, organizational development, diversity and inclusion and employee recognition. In her column, Doerr talks about how Thomson Reuters supports the essential mechanisms that power our legal system, businesses ...
Friday 21st Nov 2014
Recently, Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award winning legal affairs correspondent, was the keynote speaker at the Twin Cities Cardozo Society Annual Dinner celebrating the legal community. She stopped by the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus to give a packed house of employees an inside look into the Supreme Court. We sat down with Totenberg and asked about ...
Thursday 20th Nov 2014
For the third consecutive year, Thomson Reuters has earned a perfect 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workplace equality. As a result, Thomson Reuters is also recognized among the ...
Tuesday 18th Nov 2014
Thomson Reuters Insights recently conducted an interview with Australian expert lawyer and law firm marketer, Dan Toombs. In the interview, he discusses the four Ps all law firms, large or small, should be focusing on to ensure they have a strong online presence for ongoing business development. The interview was completed after Toombs’ recent discussion on ...
Monday 17th Nov 2014
Sweet and Maxwell recently donated approximately 650 books to the Books for Africa charity, with which Thomson Reuters has held a longstanding partnership. The textbooks donated by Sweet and Maxwell include leading titles such as Archbold, McGregor on Damages, White Book and a number of Nutshells and City and Finance Practitioner’s Guide titles. The Books ...
Thursday 13th Nov 2014
Throughout last week’s 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum hosted by Thomson Reuters, there was discussion about the evolving legal market and how lawyers and firms must adapt. As lawyers are being forced to think and perform in a new capacity than in previous decades, the way students are being educated and trained has to ...
Thursday 13th Nov 2014
Think you know the Supreme Court? It’s not too late to sign up for FantasySCOTUS, sponsored by Thomson Reuters. Thousands of attorneys, law students, and other avid Supreme Court followers are preparing to make predictions about cases being heard before the Supreme Court this term. Participation is free and the best Supreme Court prognosticators can ...
Wednesday 12th Nov 2014
In October 2007, Staff Sergeant Sal Giunta and his team were navigating through harsh terrain in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan as part of the 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry Regiment, when they were ambushed by an insurgent force. While under heavy enemy fire, Giunta engaged the enemy and exposed himself to enemy fire, administering medical aid to his squad ...
Wednesday 12th Nov 2014
Thomson Reuters has stepped up its plans for the international expansion of Serengeti Tracker with the introduction of servers at its state-of-the-art data centre facility in the UK. The investment in the UK facility provides a comprehensive hosting service for Serengeti’s customers around the world and underscores the company’s commitment to the corporate legal sector. ...
Wednesday 12th Nov 2014
Large law firms, and the legal industry, have seen a significant impact on economic performance over recent years magnified by the Great Recession. As many firms and legal service providers continue to adapt, some have dissolved while others have thrived. At the 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum hosted by Thomson Reuters last week, a ...
Tuesday 11th Nov 2014
A new report released today by Legal Futures in association with Thomson Reuters, examines the changing face of law firms in the City of London. It demonstrates how far City law firms have moved in a relatively short period of time, mainly (but not exclusively) in response to the recession and the demands of their clients. ...
Tuesday 11th Nov 2014
Greg Jordan served as Global Managing Partner for Reed Smith for 12 years. In late 2013, Jordan moved in-house to PNC Financial Services Group as general counsel and head of regulatory and government affairs. Jordan participated in a panel titled, “The Present and Future Health of the Large Law Firm Model” at the 19th annual ...
Monday 10th Nov 2014
Today Thomson Reuters launched Practical Law Canada, providing legal know-how for Canadian law firms and corporate law departments on transactional law and practice in the areas of Corporate M&A, Capital Markets and Securities. “Since 1990, lawyers in the UK, and since 2009 lawyers in the US have been relying on Practical Law to provide them ...
Monday 10th Nov 2014
This post was written by Tom Leighton, vice president of Legal Editorial Operations at Thomson Reuters Washington DC was in the spotlight this past week as political, legal and academic leaders came together to kick off a year of Magna Carta celebrations. I was in the city with my colleagues John Shaughnessy and Gretchen DeSutter ...
Friday 7th Nov 2014
In the podcast linked below, Justice Randy Holland of the Delaware Supreme Court, and editor of Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor, discusses the significance of Magna Carta as it marks its 800th anniversary, and the new Muse and Mentor book available in print and in e-book form, from Thomson Reuters.
Thursday 6th Nov 2014
Today at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., “Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor” opened to a large gathering. The opening ceremony was hosted by David Mao, Law Librarian of Congress, with his most distinguished guests and speakers Her Highness The Princess Royal and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress. Remarks were also shared from the most ...
Thursday 6th Nov 2014
Today I had the privilege of looking at Magna Carta. It was amazing to be just inches of glass away from the seed of the rule of law globally. While I was excited, the gentleman to my right said he had driven 3,000 miles to see Magna Carta, and a 10-year-old boy standing to my ...
Friday 31st Oct 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: -Legal news: Apple, Facebook’s egg-freezing benefit: Three questions for employers. -Legal trends & insights: Dropbox wasn’t “hacked,” but should you worry anyway? -News from Thomson Reuters: FantasySCOTUS launches sixth season, sponsored by Thomson Reuters -On the legal blogs: “Aggressive mopper” arrested; made hotel worker cry You can ...
Friday 31st Oct 2014
This post was written by Patrick Johnson, senior marketer supporting Serengeti at Thomson Reuters The buzz around Big Data is everywhere, yet very few people have figured out how to control its use and scope. Legal departments often have to scramble to catch up and keep their companies in compliance with ever-changing laws around data ...
Friday 31st Oct 2014
This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president of marketing for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters I previously wrote about an early session during the first day of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting. But I also attended another popular session that day, titled Surviving the Jungle: Management Skills for the Chief ...
Thursday 30th Oct 2014
This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president of marketing for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters On the first day of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, one of the better attended early sessions was Exposing Legal Project Management Myths: The Truth Behind What Works and What Doesn’t. Some of the ...
Thursday 30th Oct 2014
One of the first sessions at the 2014 ACC annual meeting in New Orleans focused on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-related developments over the last 12 months that are applicable to corporate counsel. The panel featured: Marc Gold, senior vice president and associate general counsel, corporate & securities, Thomson Reuters; Atiba Adams, vice president, corporate ...
Wednesday 29th Oct 2014
The cost of legal services, and the industry’s shift from the “billable-hour” pricing model to a fixed fee pricing structure, is currently a hot topic of conversation in the legal industry. So, just in time, Thomson Reuters Insight has released its latest white paper on legal cost management. Written by Roger Quick, author of Quick on ...
Tuesday 28th Oct 2014
After a busy weekend in Orlando, the 2014 IACP Annual Conference began to wind down on Tuesday morning with an award ceremony to celebrate excellence in law enforcement. For its innovative, highly-coordinated approach to stem rural crime throughout the state, the Missouri State Highway Patrol Rural Crimes Investigative Unit (RCIU) was recognized with the 2014 ...
Tuesday 28th Oct 2014
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of market development at Thomson Reuters The great American author, Tennessee Williams, once proclaimed, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” This week, Thomson Reuters will be at the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting in ...
Friday 24th Oct 2014
Are you missing one-third of your potential clients? As people increasingly look for attorneys using mobile and local search, it’s more important than ever to make sure your firm’s website is optimized for those types of searches. A new white paper from FindLaw explains the importance of making sure that prospective clients can find you ...
Thursday 23rd Oct 2014
One-third (29 percent) of American adults say they have had their identity stolen, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com. Approximately ten percent of Americans report having their identity stolen more than once. According to the FindLaw.com survey, the commonly reported types of identity theft are: Credit card lost or stolen: 11% Stolen by online ...
Thursday 23rd Oct 2014
In the past few decades, Thomson Reuters has built a mutually beneficial and fruitful partnership with the University of Minnesota, both strategically and tactically. The University of Minnesota Law School is one of the best law schools in the nation and one of Thomson Reuters key customers of print and online Legal products. The Law ...
Wednesday 22nd Oct 2014
This post was written by Connie Quarnstrom, manager, Legal Editorial Operations at Thomson Reuters I recently attended the NALIT Professional Development Seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with my colleague Jeremy Crumb. NALIT is the National Association of Legislative Information Technology, a group under the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The members of ...
Tuesday 21st Oct 2014
This article was written by David Curran, global director of Risk and Compliance at Thomson Reuters, and was featured in this month’s issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to ...
Friday 17th Oct 2014
When I tell people where I work, they mostly associate the legal business of Thomson Reuters with West Publishing or Westlaw. But what most people don’t know about us is all the great work we do in advancing legal services within the community. For example, did you know that over the past six years, Thomson Reuters ...
Tuesday 14th Oct 2014
Sustainability is an increasingly important issue in today’s global supply chains. Supply chains have an enormous impact on employees, on the environment, and the communities where factories and suppliers are located. Thomson Reuters is hosting an event in New York bringing together business leaders, law firms and United Nations officials to examine best practices in corporate ...
Monday 13th Oct 2014
This post was written by Thomas Kim, chief compliance officer, Thomson Reuters I was delighted when the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers asked me to serve on a panel of general counsels at their joint conference in Toronto with the U.S.-based National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. However, I wondered whether I should accept the ...
Monday 13th Oct 2014
Congratulations to Judge Barbara Houser, recipient of the 2014 William L. Norton, Jr., Judicial Excellence Award. The award, which is named after the founding member of both the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and the American College of Bankruptcy, is given to a judge whose career embodies the same kind of continued dedication and outstanding contributions ...
Thursday 9th Oct 2014
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first group of Chinese students who enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1914. To celebrate the long and sustainable engagement between the University and China, they select and recognize 100 Chinese alumni from 1914 to 2014. Thomson Reuters Chief Research and Academic Officer Chang Wang will ...
Wednesday 8th Oct 2014
Hispanic Executive magazine recently published an article on Maria Diaz, senior vice president and associate general counsel at Thomson Reuters. Diaz supports the Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business including sales, commercial operations, strategic alliances, acquisitions, integrations and business compliance. Her story is an inspiring one. Diaz immigrated to the United States from Spain at the ...
Tuesday 7th Oct 2014
This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president, Market Development Group, Corporate Legal segment at Thomson Reuters The recent Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum in Surrey provided a look into the latest developments in the in-house profession, from the evolving role of the general counsel, to pressures on law departments to operate more efficiently, ...
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 ...
Tuesday 23rd Sep 2014
On Oct. 27, 2008, U.S. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was found guilty of allegedly failing to disclose gifts, which led him to lose re-election just eight days later. But in April 2009, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan vacated the verdict at the request of Attorney General Eric Holder after it was revealed that prosecutors had ...
Tuesday 23rd Sep 2014
The Legal business of Thomson Reuters and Obelisk Support, the multilingual legal business built around communities of highly-skilled lawyers, recently announced an innovative collaboration to help corporate legal departments deliver greater value to their stakeholders. The collaboration comes at a time when corporate legal departments, faced with an increasing workload and the need to manage costs ...
Monday 22nd Sep 2014
The third issue of Thomson Reuters Exchange Magazine was recently released, tackling the theme of Innovation. Highlights from the issue include Thomson Reuters IP & Science business President Basil Moftah on ten areas of innovation that will change our world by 2025; Mona Vernon of our Data Innovation Lab and F&R Chief Technology Officer Philip Brittan on how ...
Monday 22nd Sep 2014
Serengeti, a Thomson Reuters business, is hosting an evening with Richard Susskind on Tuesday, Sept. 30. This exclusive free event for in-house counsel is to celebrate the expansion of the Serengeti business in the UK, and presents an unmissable opportunity to hear one of the legal industries most highly regarded thought-leaders speak. The event will be ...
Wednesday 17th Sep 2014
As a result of privacy laws becoming more widespread, the number of reported privacy cases being fought in the UK courts has doubled in five years to 56 cases in the last year (year-end being May 31), up from 28 five years ago. Whilst the use of privacy law was once restricted to celebrities to prevent the ...
Tuesday 9th Sep 2014
China University of Political Science and Law Press, a leading legal publisher in China, just published a bilingual (English and Chinese) legal research textbook based on West’s Analysis of American Law/Key Number System and WestlawNext. This 700-page textbook is the first bilingual textbook of legal research in American law. The author, Chang Wang, is the Chief ...
Monday 8th Sep 2014
Last week, Thomson Reuters hosted the more than 650 technologists and employees for the Eagan Technology Unconference 2014. Much like last year’s event, and many others hosted at Thomson Reuters sites worldwide, the Unconference was aimed at fostering innovation among employees, who were encouraged to share their expertise on key technology, data and security ...
Monday 8th Sep 2014
Canadian Lawyer InHouse, a Thomson Reuters business, announced the winners of the first-annual Innovatio Awards, which recognizes the innovative work of legal departments among Canadian businesses and their legal service provider partners. This year’s honorees are: RBC – Law Department Management/Innovation of the Year TVO – Law Department Management Cisco Systems Inc. – Working with ...
Wednesday 3rd Sep 2014
Thomson Reuters will retire Westlaw Classic on Aug. 31, 2015, after years of faithful service to the U.S. legal market. For customers that still rely on the legacy Westlaw Classic platform for some of their research needs, we are committed to ensuring a smooth and managed transition to WestlawNext. Read the full announcement on the ...
Wednesday 3rd Sep 2014
History is rooted in the legal system. And many feel courts are not embracing technology to improve their process, performance and efficiency. Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions enables courts to update their systems and implement new workflow technology. The Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco recently chose Thomson Reuters to provide the ...
Thursday 28th Aug 2014
Last month, the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business of Thomson Reuters named the recipients of the 2013 Everyday Heroes awards, recognizing agencies and organizations that use Thomson Reuters public and proprietary records search products to make a difference in their communities. Second place winner, IMC/Memorial Healthcare System/Palmar Consulting Group of Hollywood, Fla., shares their story ...
Thursday 28th Aug 2014
With many students headed back to school, Thomson Reuters gave teachers a friendly reminder of what it means to educate tomorrow’s workforce. For the second year, Thomson Reuters and Independent School District 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan, Minn.) welcomed high school teachers to the Eagan campus to learn about the present and future workplace their students ...
Tuesday 19th Aug 2014
This morning, I attended a session at ILTA 2014 called “Legal Market Trends” presented by Eric Laughlin, managing director, Corporate Counsel segment at Thomson Reuters, and Tommy Williams, vice president, Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters. Williams began the discussion by talking about what he is seeing in the large law firm space. “Growth for ...
Thursday 14th Aug 2014
We caught up with Gail Cohen, editor in chief of Canadian Lawyer, last week in Boston during the ABA Annual Meeting, where she talked about the release of the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential list For more on the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential, including profiles of all of this year’s honorees, visit canadianlawyermag.com
Friday 8th Aug 2014
Fueled by her witness to and personal experience with discrimination, Dean Okianer Christian Dark channeled her sorrow and anger into action serving as lifelong role model of, and champion for, justice and equal rights in the public sector, private sector, and today as a teacher, mentor and dean at Howard University School of Law. This ...
Thursday 7th Aug 2014
It’s all about the definition we give something. Take “Big Data,” for instance. This term has so many definitions that it is difficult to say whether law firms are even dealing with it. Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, co-authored ...
Wednesday 6th Aug 2014
Building on a longstanding relationship with CWAG (Conference of Western Attorneys General), Thomson Reuters and CWAG announced an expansion of their partnership at the recent CWAG annual conference. As part of the expanded collaboration, CWAG and Thomson Reuters will publish the American Indian Law Deskbook addressing the dynamic and evolving field of Indian law and ...
Wednesday 6th Aug 2014
The U.S. National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon was held in New York City in July and one of our own – Lisa Passante, vice president and associate general counsel for Intellectual Property & Science – was appointed the organization’s 2014-15 president. NAWL is the leading American national bar association for women ...
Wednesday 6th Aug 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 Affordable Care Act (ACA) is preparing for the Year 2 enrollment cycle, to begin on Nov. 15, 2014. Fewer than four months remain for the Department of Health and Human ...
Tuesday 5th Aug 2014
The market for law firm services hit a slight turbulent patch in the second quarter. The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) dipped one point to 55. While demand for legal services was up 0.4 percent compared with a year ago, productivity fell 0.8 percent as firms added headcount in excess of demand. Transactional practices (corporate work, ...
Monday 4th Aug 2014
Canadian Lawyer, a Thomson Reuters business, has named the Top 25 Most Influential figures in the Canadian justice system and legal profession. The list, now in its sixth year, honors select Canadians in one of five categories: Changemakers, Government/Non-Profit/Associations, Criminal Law/Human Rights, Corporate/Commercial, and The World Stage. This year’s honorees are: Changemakers Top Vote Recipient ...
Monday 4th Aug 2014
Super Lawyers has launched its UK website, superlawyers.co.uk. Like its sister site in the US, Super Lawyers UK is an attorney, or rather solicitor-rating service that recognizes London-based solicitors who exhibit excellence in the practice of law. Super Lawyers began recognizing solicitors in 2013. London Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are named across more than ...
Thursday 31st Jul 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: -Legal news: The passive aggressive watermelon stabber -News from Thomson Reuters: Firm Central launches Deadline Assistant and enhances homepage -Legal trends & insights: Firm sues ex-client over Yelp review that claims firm will “take everything you’ve got” -On the legal blogs: Man eats his way through Lufthansa ...
Wednesday 30th Jul 2014
Reuters News Editor Alison Frankel recently sat down with Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. In this 30 minute interview, they discuss Garner’s process when it comes to editing the Dictionary, his love of words, and much more. Frankel updates her On the Case blog multiple times throughout the day on WestlawNext Practitioner Insights. ...
Tuesday 22nd Jul 2014
This article was written by James Boocock, general manager of Legal Solutions and future market trend specialist at Thomson Reuters in Australia. The article was originally published in the June edition of the Law Society Journal of New South Wales. For the legal practitioner, anticipating changes in the legal industry is crucial if you are to stay ...
Tuesday 22nd Jul 2014
In the fall of 2013, officers with the Pasadena Independent School District Police Department in Pasadena, Texas obtained a tip through a crisis hotline that an anonymous caller was threatening to stage a shooting at a local elementary school. With only a phone number and IP address from the hotline’s interaction with the suspect, officers ...
Tuesday 15th Jul 2014
Thomson Reuters understands the value of listening to our customers and gaining insight on how to better serve them. Brian Knudsen, vice president, Large Law for Thomson Reuters, shares some of what he heard from customers during the 107th annual American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference in San Antonio, as well as the trends ...
Tuesday 15th Jul 2014
As a large business with operations across the world, Thomson Reuters is committed to responsible and sustainable business practices as demonstrated through our daily decisions, our work in local communities and also through the products we offer. And at the annual AALL conference this week, we will be highlighting these business practices. Last year, Thomson Reuters ...
Monday 14th Jul 2014
Through product development, integration and ongoing investment, workflow solutions from Thomson Reuters continue to expand and improve efficiency. Throughout the last year, major content sets as well as new and enhanced features have been added to WestlawNext, our primary platform for legal research and the focus of extensive product development. At the annual AALL conference ...
Monday 14th Jul 2014
There are groups of people that enjoy “retro” items such as listening to music on vinyl albums and taking photos with film. Scott Nelson, head of print at Thomson Reuters, began a presentation on eBooks at the 107th annual American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference asking the audience if they used the phone book ...
Monday 14th Jul 2014
This article was written by Heidi Bloedow, vice president, Customer Experience Operations At Thomson Reuters, the voice of the customer resonates through the business. As the leader of our Customer Experience organization, I feel that I’m entrusted with a powerful differentiator for our business and have enormous opportunity to shape our product features and content ...
Monday 14th Jul 2014
James Kinzer once wrote, “When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.” With that in mind, things got off to an ‘interesting’ start on Sunday morning at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual conference in San Antonio, TX, with a keynote address by Andrew Keen, ...
Friday 11th Jul 2014
This article was written by Lori Hedstrom, national manager, Librarian Relations at Thomson Reuters I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio beginning this weekend. At the Thomson Reuters booth, we will be featuring products for law firm, academic, corporate and government librarians, including WestlawNext (with the new PeopleMap functionality), ...
Monday 7th Jul 2014
I was extremely fortunate to be selected by the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) to attend Google’s annual developer’s conference (“I/O”) this year, along with several others from the Mobile & Advanced Product Innovation group. It was my first time to I/O, and it was a fantastic experience, so I wanted to write about some of the things that I ...
Thursday 3rd Jul 2014
David Lat, founder and managing editor of Above the Law, recently interviewed Bryan Garner on the tenth edition of Black’s Law Dictionary, which Thomson Reuters released in May. The most widely cited legal book in the world, Black’s is a must-have for every lawyer and law student. During Garner’s recent visit to New York in ...
Wednesday 2nd Jul 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 practice of health care law is being reshaped rapidly, as change impacts how health organizations function and how people approach the need for health services. After decades of more-orderly evolution ...
Tuesday 1st Jul 2014
Patsy Doerr, global head of Diversity – Inclusion and Corporate Social Responsibility at Thomson Reuters, was recently featured in the Business Reporter, a publication from the UK’s Daily Telegraph. The article showcases gender dynamics at Thomson Reuters, and features Doerr as a female leader since her early days in high school. She now employs her ...
Tuesday 1st Jul 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: -Legal news: A courtroom brawl in Brevard County, Florida -Legal trends & insights: Can Eric Knudsen, the creator of the fictional character Slenderman, be held civilly liable for the recent violence suffered by the young victim of a stabbing attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin? -News from Thomson Reuters: ...
Monday 30th Jun 2014
It was standing room only in the “What’s New: ProLaw 2014.1“ session held during the Elite Vantage Workdwide Conference in New York City last week. Ken Bassham, senior director of Sales for Elite, and Carolyn Smallwood, CLM, chief financial officer of ProLaw client Ezra Brutzkus Gubner (EBG) LLP, highlighted the “latest and greatest” in the ...
Monday 30th Jun 2014
New York Times best-selling author Dan Clark spoke to attendees at the Vantage Worldwide Conference in New York City last week about the importance of service. Clark knows a thing or two about this subject area, having written over 20 books with his most recent titled, The Art Of Significance: Achieving the Level Beyond Success. Clark attended ...
Monday 30th Jun 2014
As the first day of the Vantage Worldwide Conference came to a close last Tuesday, Susan Taylor Martin, president of Legal at Thomson Reuters, met with a group of C-Level attendees during the one-day Executive Summit. In her remarks, Taylor Martin discussed the major trends shaping the large law firm space: increased competition; scrutiny of ...
Wednesday 25th Jun 2014
In the video clip below, Eric Sugden, chief technology officer at Thomson Reuters Elite, summarizes day one of the 2014 Vantage Worldwide Conference.
Tuesday 24th Jun 2014
The 3E Roadmap session at Vantage Elite 2014 mainly covered version 2.7.2, which was released last week. Product demonstrations underscored a renewed focus on high-value features for clients, including the addition of a new alert notification engine (Notify) and 16 standard alerts which are easily configurable, the ability to control multiple payors’ rates for insurance billing, ...
Tuesday 24th Jun 2014
Kicking things off on Tuesday morning were Bill Burch, Elisabet Hardy, and Eric Sugden, all executives with Thomson Reuters Elite, at the opening keynote. After welcoming guests, Burch turned things over to Hardy, who talked about the various Elite products that will be demoed throughout the week. A highlight was the Elite Conversion Engine, which ...
Tuesday 24th Jun 2014
Elisabet Hardy, vice president of Product Management, and Eric Sugden, chief technology officer for Thomson Reuters Elite, welcome guests to the 2014 Vantage Worldwide Conference in the video clip below.
Tuesday 24th Jun 2014
This article was written by Scott Randall, CEO of Advanced Legal, Inc. The focus on Business Intelligence (BI) over the past couple of years has brought new insight to practice management and undoubtedly has contributed to more solid decision making in firms that have fully implemented it. But I would suggest it is time to ...
Monday 23rd Jun 2014
Thomson Reuters Elite Vantage 2014 Worldwide Conference is taking place this week in New York City, and you can read about all the sessions, keynotes and more, right here on Legal Current. Check back often for the latest on eBillingHub, ProLaw, MatterSphere, 3E Advanced Reporting and other engaging topics.
Monday 23rd Jun 2014
Sustainability.ThomsonReuters.com launched a blog this week, which will provide regular, nearly daily insights on emerging threads in the global field of Sustainability. Like the Thomson Reuters Sustainability website, the blog will be managed by Tim Nixon, who is returning to Eagan, Minn., after a four-year stint in Switzerland, and will now be focused exclusively on ...
Friday 20th Jun 2014
Over the past 10 years, the legal industry has seen tremendous electronic billing (e-billing) growth. eBillingHub, a SaaS solution that simplifies the e-billing process by acting as a central portal that integrates with a law firm’s time and billing software and multiple legal spend management vendors, has been helping law firms stay ahead of this trend ...
Thursday 19th Jun 2014
The world lost a gem this week with the passing of Casey Kasem, radio and TV icon and the voice of Norville “Shaggy” Rogers from Scooby Doo. His death also marked the end of a very public legal battle between family members over his end-of-life directive. After Kasem was told he had Parkinson’s Disease in ...
Thursday 19th Jun 2014
Social networks have changed the way we all interact with each other – and the way criminals operate. Now they use social networks to blab about crimes they are plotting, set up drug deals, brag about wrongdoing, and even upload incriminating videos. That means law enforcement agencies must evolve the way they anticipate and investigate crimes. And to meet the changing customer ...
Tuesday 17th Jun 2014
Summer travel season is now in high gear, but as travelers board their flights, they encounter dozens of fees for everything from checking their luggage to extra legroom. A new FindLaw.com survey finds a whopping 84 percent of Americans say they dislike airline fees and support the statement that “airlines are nickel-and-diming passengers.” Only thirteen ...
Friday 13th Jun 2014
If the reports we’re reading are true, 2014 will be a year where we continue to march toward mobility and “smarter” smart devices, the cloud will be everywhere in our professional and personal lives, and the PC will truly become passé. Of course, technologies rarely materialize out of nowhere, so most of the major trends ...
Thursday 12th Jun 2014
Workspace, a new Thomson Reuters Elite platform, is now available. The platform, announced this week, provides a single interface so users can access a range of Elite solutions and third-party products from both desktop and mobile devices and improve workplace efficiency. Workspace unifies operational systems with a common architecture, through which law firms can easily ...
Tuesday 10th Jun 2014
Taxes – they are a certainty of life. As tax laws become increasingly complex, legal and tax professionals need an online research platform that enables them to navigate and master this changing and challenging environment, all with efficiency, effectiveness and certainty. Checkpoint Catalyst, authored by tax experts, presents a new generation of tax research featuring ...
Monday 9th Jun 2014
Last Thursday started like any other day – I groggily stepped out of bed, got ready for the day, got the kids up and dressed, let the dog out. After spending the previous evening thinking about a future kitchen remodel, fretting about the time and cost, yet anxiously anticipating the day I would finally be rid ...
Thursday 5th Jun 2014
This post was written by Erica Brown, senior marketer of large law firm marketing at Thomson Reuters Any attorney will tell you that sound, thorough research is the bedrock of a solid legal case. That has been true for as long as law has been a profession. Just because the importance of research is every bit the ...
Wednesday 4th Jun 2014
The latest issue of Corporate Counsel Connect, a monthly newsletter highlighting legal articles with an in-house perspective, features an interesting story about the increased attention corporate social responsibility (CSR) is getting within major U.S. companies. CSR issues are coming into sharper focus in boardrooms as customers, employees and shareholders emphasize the importance of high standards ...
Monday 2nd Jun 2014
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business specializing in global legal outsourcing, was recently named a 2014 Association of Corporation Counsel Value Champion, thanks to its participation in Caterpillar, Inc’s “Re-engineering Legal Support” initiative. Like many of the other legal departments honored, Caterpillar made big strides in process improvement and smarter division of labor. The improvements first ...
Friday 30th May 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal news: It’s the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling to end segregation in public schools and we talked with Professor Ronna Greff Schneider get her viewpoint on the legal, cultural and historic significance of the ruling. Legal trends & insights: Social media and privacy – Snapchat ...
Thursday 29th May 2014
We’ve all committed a crime at some point in our lives, either knowingly or not and either petty or major. There was that time in high school when you and your friends thought it would be funny to steal that street sign. Or that time in college when you experimented with illegal drugs. Or that ...
Wednesday 21st May 2014
This post was written by Carlos Seoane, senior director of Operations for Thomson Reuters Elite With increasing pressure to streamline billing efficiencies and capture every single billable moment, law firms today must find any and all feasible ways to improve the workflow between lawyer and client. E-Bills need to be more efficiently generated to shorten ...
Wednesday 21st May 2014
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for Thomson Reuters Technology can be scary, especially to casebook-loving, yellow legal notepad-carrying, folder-filing attorneys. Fortunately, some technologies don’t strike fear into attorneys, like word processing, email, or the mobile (rotary?) phone. But what happens when these standard technologies are insufficient to effectively address ...
Tuesday 20th May 2014
On May 15, 2014 Super Lawyers hosted a reception which was attended by 300 attorneys selected to the 2014 Washington DC Super Lawyers lists. In advance of the reception there was a Q&A with Carter Phillips, the Chair of Sidley Austin’s Executive Committee and member of the Super Lawyers Advisory Board. Phillips has argued more cases in ...
Monday 19th May 2014
This post was guest written by Tim Radaich, senior director of Medium Law Firm marketing at Thomson Reuters We often think of large law firms as the ones that lead the industry, and in many ways, they do. However, it is arguably midsized law firms that have proved the most nimble and responsive as the ...
Monday 19th May 2014
This post was guest written by Scott Norby, regional sales manager for Thomson Reuters ProLaw Whether you work for a mid-sized or large law firm, you’re not immune to the changes that are occurring in the legal industry. Stiffer competition, demanding clients, and limited budgets continue to drive the need for improved reporting metrics. Measuring ...
Monday 19th May 2014
I am at the annual Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) conference this week. Perhaps most interesting, Thomson Reuters is participating in a special exhibit that makes a compelling and well-researched case for what the Law Office of the Future might look like: highly technical, perfectly collaborative and somehow cozy and roomy at the same time. We’re thrilled to ...
Thursday 15th May 2014
In conducting proper due diligence in an M&A deal, information is key. Business Law Center on WestlawNext recently expanded both its coverage and functionality to broaden users’ reach in monitoring or researching deal activity. Deal coverage in Business Law Center has been nearly doubled, now totaling more than 900,000 deals dating back to 1975. The expanded ...
Tuesday 13th May 2014
For centuries, many pieces of fine art and antiquities were considered the spoils of war or simply spirited away from their country of origin, only to land in museums, private collections or the auction block. But in the modern era where cultural preservation has taken center-stage, debates on museum ownership, artist’s rights and cultural preservation ...
Monday 12th May 2014
Thomson Reuters longstanding partnership with Books For Africa (BFA) was in the spotlight in early May on a day that celebrated both the productive past and the potential that lies ahead for both organizations. Books for Africa honored Thomson Reuters with its Kilimanjaro Society Award of Merit at its annual awards breakfast on Wednesday, May ...
Monday 12th May 2014
This post was written by Amy Goin, senior director of marketing in the Corporate segment at Thomson Reuters On behalf of Thomson Reuters, I am very excited to welcome our clients and partners to SuperConference 2014! This year’s conference features many opportunities to connect with colleagues and learn about processes and solutions to make your ...
Friday 9th May 2014
For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today, Thomson Reuters released the enhanced 10th Edition. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world’s leading legal lexicographer, the 10th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 50,000 terms, including ...
Tuesday 6th May 2014
Thomson Reuters announced this morning that its case management and electronic filing solution, C-Track, will be deployed across the jurisdictions within the Rolls building in London, England, part of the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ). Thomson Reuters won the contract to deliver a new system following an extensive procurement exercise by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals ...
Friday 2nd May 2014
Google Glass is all the rage these days, and a few Thomson Reuters employees have been sharing their thoughts on the product recently. One of those employees is Joe Raczynski, technology manager at Thomson Reuters, who consults on general technology trends in wearable media, security, privacy, and social media in his spare time. Joe created a five-part ...
Thursday 1st May 2014
As part of our ongoing series highlighting Thomson Reuters key authors, this month we highlight Joseph M. McLaughlin, partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. He has represented clients in hundreds of class action, shareholder derivative and other aggregated proceedings in trial and appellate courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court. McLaughlin is the ...
Tuesday 29th Apr 2014
This post was written by Chris Hendry, head of advanced media for the UK Legal business at Thomson Reuters The London Book Fair, now in its 43rd year, welcomes more than 25,000 visitors and exhibitors from 114 countries to Earls Court each year. It bills itself as a unique opportunity to explore, understand and capitalize ...
Monday 28th Apr 2014
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal news: Was Jewish Center shooting a hate crime? Legal trends & insights: The controversy over the National Security Agency’s surveillance program News from Thomson Reuters: Peer Monitor releases Mid-Size Law Firm Report On the legal blogs: Male strippers caused emotional distress to nursing home resident You can listen to ...
Thursday 24th Apr 2014
On the heels of today’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rules for electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, 46 states have already proposed or enacted legislation related to e-cigarettes, according to data found on WestlawNext, the leading online legal research service. Of those states, at least 20 have proposed or enacted legislation that includes ...
Thursday 24th Apr 2014
C-Track Appellate Case Management System (AppellateCMS) will serve as the official case management solution for the Illinois Supreme Court and the five Illinois appellate courts, Thomson Reuters announced today. The project also includes C-Track Document Management, E-Filing and Public Access — tools that will improve the courts’ ability to perform their duties as well as ...
Wednesday 23rd Apr 2014
Susan Feingold, editorial head of Practical Law for Law Departments at Thomson Reuters, authored a column in this month’s Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Titled “How Legal Know-How Can Help Better Manage In-House Work And Outside Counsel,” she discusses how law departments across the board are facing an unprecedented volume of legal work. But with legal know-how ...
Monday 21st Apr 2014
Thomson Reuters has launched a new business development tool that helps law firms find new business. Thomson Reuters Intelligence Center presents actionable, client-focused information to gain deeper insight into new business opportunities and strengthen current relationships, while staying abreast of industry news and legal activity of current and prospective clients. Thomson Reuters Intelligence Center, which ...
Friday 18th Apr 2014
Long gone are the days of flipping through the Yellow Pages to find an attorney. According to a new survey by FindLaw.com, consumers are most likely to turn to the Internet to find and research a lawyer before hiring them. Thirty-eight percent of people surveyed said they would use the Internet to help them find ...
Thursday 10th Apr 2014
Early this week, Thomson Reuters released the third edition of O. P. Malhotra’s “The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation” written by Indu Malhotra, senior advocate for the Supreme Court of India. The book launch was officiated by the Honorable Chief Justice of India, P. Sathasivam, in presence of the Honorable Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah, former Chief ...
Thursday 10th Apr 2014
Thomson Reuters and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have announced collaboration on Executive Perspectives on Sustainability – an award-winning website that hosts global conversations among world leaders and offers unique insights on sustainability-related issues. Pulling in key voices from politics, non-governmental organizations and corporations, Executive Perspectives explores issues and questions with significant environmental impact, ...
Wednesday 9th Apr 2014
This week, the United States Naval Academy hosts the 54th Annual Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference (NAFAC). The focus of this year’s event is “Human Security in the Information Age” – a topic ideally-suited for Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) to present findings of the Digital Economy Task ...
Wednesday 9th Apr 2014
As part of our ongoing series highlighting Thomson Reuters key authors, this month we highlight Stuart M. Saft, a partner in Holland & Knight’s New York City office. Saft is the chair of the firm’s New York Real Estate Practice Group, the co-chair of the Global Hospitality, Resort and Timeshare Group, and the co-chair of the ...
Tuesday 8th Apr 2014
Mid-size law firms face unique challenges and opportunities in the current law firm market. Peer Monitor has launched its first Mid-Size Law Firm Report, analyzing this segment of the market, which consists of firms outside of the Am Law 200. The report finds that mid-size firms struggled last year, compared with larger firms. But they also may find ...
Monday 7th Apr 2014
In this guest post, Patrick Hurley, vice president of Global Implementation at Thomson Reuters Elite, reflects on his recent presentation at the LawTech Futures 2014 conference in London, England. LawTech Futures grows bigger, more varied, more interesting and more inspirational every year I attend…and this year was no exception. Despite arriving in the UK that morning from ...
Monday 7th Apr 2014
Thomson Reuters Sustainability website has been named Best Publication by Ragan PR Daily’s 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. Sustainability was launched in September 2012 to be the voice of Thomson Reuters on topics ranging from climate, energy and health, to law and corporate governance. The site features key voices from politics, non-governmental organizations and corporations as ...
Thursday 3rd Apr 2014
How do the best digital marketers consistently achieve above average performance for their marketing programs? FindLaw addressed this question in a session at the recently concluded ABA Techshow. The answer lies in understanding the “Digital Marketing Game.” The rules of the game The first thing anyone engaged in digital marketing must understand is the highly ...
Tuesday 1st Apr 2014
Thomson Reuters took top honors for key products and services across nine categories in the third annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings. WestlawNext was ranked the top Online Legal Research Vendor, Solo Firm/Solo Practitioner Research Vendor, Legal Research Vendor (including SAAS, digital & print products) and Legal Research iPad® App. Westlaw Portfolio ...
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 ...
Thursday 20th Mar 2014
High-profile sports and labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler, also a Thomson Reuters key author, filed an antitrust lawsuit on behalf of college football and men’s basketball players in a New Jersey federal court Monday, naming the NCAA and the five richest power conferences — the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 — as defendants. ...
Thursday 13th Mar 2014
Next month, New York City will become the latest city to require mandatory sick leave for private employers. Ever since San Francisco became the first city to implement such an ordinance in 2007, several cities and states have adopted similar measures. A new FindLaw survey found that seventy-one percent of Americans say they support such measures, while ...
Thursday 13th Mar 2014
Most law firm websites are designed to fail. That’s a bold statement, and the theme of a new white paper from FindLaw. The white paper discusses how many law firms’ websites may be generating less business impact than they could. Why? Because they don’t focus enough on conversion – the process of getting visitors to ...
Wednesday 12th Mar 2014
On Friday, March 7, Thomson Reuters sponsored of a panel discussion on the global rule of law as part of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2014 “Law and Business Day.” Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Relations and Government Affairs at Thomson Reuters, moderated the panel. Participants on the panel were Professor Jothie Rajah, ...
Tuesday 11th Mar 2014
After the release of the Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) report, Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) took their next step recommendations on the future of the digital economy to representatives of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs last Wednesday. DETF co-chairs Steve Rubley, managing ...
Monday 10th Mar 2014
Beginning last month, Legal Current launched the first in a highlight series of Thomson Reuters key authors of the month. This month, we highlight professor Marilyn E. Phelan, Paul Whitfield Horn professor of Law, a professor of Museum Science at Texas Tech University School of Law, and the author of Nonprofit Organizations: Law and Taxation and Representing ...
Friday 7th Mar 2014
The youngest ever elected president of the Supreme Court of Chile, Sergio Manuel Muñoz Gajardo, recently braved the frigid Minnesota temperatures to visit the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus. The Honorable Judge Muñoz was on a U.S. tour, visiting a number of world-class organizations, and specifically requested a visit to Thomson Reuters. His motivation for visiting the U.S. ...
Tuesday 4th Mar 2014
A late winter storm may have shut down Washington, D.C. yesterday, but the National Press Club was abuzz this morning when Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) released a new report from the Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) outlining opportunities and risks around the emerging digital economy. DETF co-chairs ...
Tuesday 4th Mar 2014
Social media and technology have changed the very nature of bullying. As a result, parents and victims also have changed how they respond, increasingly taking their cases directly to law enforcement rather than notifying school officials first. In fact, a 2013 Thomson Reuters survey of American parents indicated more than one third of parents would ...
Monday 3rd Mar 2014
This article was written by Eric Laughlin, managing director of the Corporate Counsel segment at Thomson Reuters, and was featured on Metropolitan Corporate Counsel online. Everyone has the same 24-hour day, but the demands placed on that time are higher than ever before, especially for legal departments. To manage the pressure, legal departments now are implementing ...
Friday 28th Feb 2014
On Friday, March 7, Thomson Reuters will be the title sponsor of a panel discussion on the global rule of law as part of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2014 “Law and Business Day.” Global rule of law is foundational for economic and social development in emerging countries. It is crucial in building the integrity ...
Thursday 27th Feb 2014
In the February 2014 edition of the Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal news: Is Facebook a marriage killer? Legal trends & insights: Judge Thomas Jacobs on the nature of cyberbullying and what parents can do to protect their kids. News from Thomson Reuters: Jason Thomas keynote at LegalTech New York last month and the Digital Economy Task Force report coming soon. On ...
Wednesday 26th Feb 2014
Does this sound familiar? “Make sure my website content makes me sound important to potential clients.” How about this? “I want my site to look like this other firm’s site.” Or what about this? “People need to know that we’re a serious law firm.” Every day, attorneys across the country give these kinds of directions ...
Thursday 13th Feb 2014
Beginning this month, Legal Current will highlight a Thomson Reuters key author of the month. For our first feature, we profile Professor Mary F. Radford, author of Georgia Trusts and Trustees, Georgia Guardianship and Conservatorship, and Redfearn Wills and Administration in Georgia. Professor Radford is also the Marjorie Fine Knowles Professor of Law at Georgia State University College ...
Tuesday 11th Feb 2014
After a couple of days at LegalTech a few themes emerged. First, there was the overall nature of the show; Inside Legal had a day-one summary that broke down the vendors in the exhibit hall as follows: eDiscovery vendors 38% Cloud vendors (only touting cloud solutions) 3% Big data (companies marketing big data-type solutions) 5% Information governance ...
Friday 7th Feb 2014
This post was written by Craig Larson, senior director of Product Development at Thomson Reuters As LegalTech 2014 wraps up I thought I would share some highlights (and weather-related lowlights). Things Have Changed The Thomson Reuters event featuring Robert S. Mueller III was one of the best sessions I have attended over the many years ...
Thursday 6th Feb 2014
eBillingHub has launched an enhancement that delivers critical performance indicators to its administrator users. Free of charge for all eBillingHub customers, the benchmarking and analytics enhancement shows firms how their billing processes measure up to other firms, making it easy to identify where efficiencies and accuracies can be gained. Powered by Peer Monitor, the leading ...
Thursday 6th Feb 2014
This post was written by Patrick Hurley, vice president of Global Implementation at Thomson Reuters I’ve been coming to LegalTech New York (LTNY) for more years than I care to count, and every year there is some overriding theme that permeates the exhibition floor conversations. Often it’s the Super Bowl…well, unless you’re a Seahawks fan or a ...
Wednesday 5th Feb 2014
Jason Thomas’s keynote on the first day of LegalTech New York was the talk of the show at the end of day one on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Everyone was buzzing about technology and the direction technology is taking our society. The conclusions are all the same: We will continue to use technology for work and for pleasure, ...
Wednesday 5th Feb 2014
When Robert S. Mueller III began his tenure leading the Federal Bureau of Investigations in September 2001, he did not know that within that first week his world – and the entire world – would be forever changed. At a Thomson Reuters-hosted event at LegalTech New York last evening, the former director of the FBI described the ...
Wednesday 5th Feb 2014
PeopleMap, which enables legal researchers to search billions of legal documents and public records, is now on WestlawNext. Enhanced navigation tools and an intuitive graphical display offer improved research capabilities, highly targeted results and the ability to generate visually-enhanced, customized reports. PeopleMap on WestlawNext also offers seamless integration with Firm Central and Thomson Reuters Concourse, providing superior workflow ...
Wednesday 5th Feb 2014
New tools and integration capabilities from Firm Central are now available. The new enhancements enable attorneys to securely communicate and share documents with clients; synchronize time and billing, as well as accounting practices; and tap into the “know how” of Practical Law – all within the Firm Central dashboard. Moreover, Firm Central users will now be ...
Tuesday 4th Feb 2014
Thomson Reuters Concourse announced today its newly integrated components: Practical Law, Integrated Search using WestlawNext, and Bulk Contact Manager. The addition of Practical Law provides Thomson Reuters Concourse users with access to the full Practical Law library, including Practice Notes, Standard Documents and Clauses, Checklists and more, all created by attorney editors who are experts ...
Tuesday 4th Feb 2014
Tomorrow marks the start of LegalTech New York, one of the largest and most important legal technology events of the year. In this short video clip, Susan Taylor Martin, president of the Legal business of Thomson Reuters, gives a warm welcome to those attending. Check back often this week for coverage of the event!
Monday 3rd Feb 2014
Improved annotation, PDF and library functions are just part of the latest version of Thomson Reuters ProView eReader platform. Version 1.8 of ProView adds labeling and searching of annotations; the ability to create, print and email PDFs of eBook sections; and the ability to sort libraries by topic. ProView is available for iPad and Android ...
Wednesday 29th Jan 2014
On January 23, the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Super Lawyers sat down with legal legends Ted Olson and David Boies for a candid conversation at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City. Olson and Boies were the lawyers in the Prop 8 case in California and have again teamed up in favor of marriage ...
Tuesday 28th Jan 2014
With the growing demand for digital (or crypto) currencies since its inception in 2009 with Bitcoin and the recent takedown by government authorities of the illicit online site, SilkRoad, a group of esteemed experts will discuss this intriguing topic at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC on February 11, 2014. One of the presenters ...
Friday 17th Jan 2014
Thomson Reuters Concourse continues to integrate tools and resources into its workflow solution for corporate and government law departments. Recently added to Concourse were Drafting Assistant, Westlaw Doc & Form Builder, and WestlawNext Practitioner Insights, with further announcements expected in the coming weeks. “By connecting these solutions with Concourse, users can save time and energy ...
Friday 17th Jan 2014
Innovation is alive and well across Thomson Reuters. Whether a concept for a new product, an improved process or technology platform, or a more effective sales approach, we tap into the intelligence of our 60,000 global employee network every day. In 2014, leaders at Thomson Reuters are looking into ways to more quickly and easily surface ...
Monday 6th Jan 2014
The new Peer Monitor website is here. The new site, which launched today, provides enhanced flexible and easy-to-use analytics that help law firms track industry trends, identify profit opportunities and support strategic decision-making. Peer Monitor provides live benchmarking using real-time economic data that allows firms to compare themselves against chosen peer groups of firms. It combines powerful ...
Thursday 2nd Jan 2014
As chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board, Judge John Tunheim has held one of the bullets that fatally wounded President Kennedy. He has examined the president’s coat and peered through the scope of the rifle alleged to have been used by Lee Harvey Oswald — three key pieces of evidence in the assassination ...
Thursday 2nd Jan 2014
Bob Schukai, global head of Mobile Technology at Thomson Reuters, was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for outstanding community service in the Queen’s New Year Honours 2014 list. The award is part of the annual honours list which recognizes distinguished service to the arts and sciences, public services outside ...
Tuesday 24th Dec 2013
Serengeti Law was positioned the furthest for “Ability to Execute” among eight software vendors in a recent report from Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Legal Management.” Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) is a category of software that helps corporate legal departments streamline legal processes, analyze legal risk and reduce their overall legal spend. According to Jim ...
Monday 23rd Dec 2013
Thomson Reuters announced last week that C-Track Case Management System (CMS) will serve as the official case management solution for the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. C-Track CMS, designed specifically for courts to capture, track, process and report their cases, enhances the courts capability to manage information, improving performance tracking and maximizing efficiency. ...
Friday 20th Dec 2013
Many workers are not reporting injuries because of fear of retaliation from their employer. A new survey from FindLaw found that nine percent of American adults say they suffered an on-the-job injury but did not report it to their supervisor because they were afraid they would be fired, reprimanded, harassed or suffer some other consequence. ...
Thursday 5th Dec 2013
Allison Guidette’s path to managing director for Thomson Reuters’ Large Law Firm segment “went up, went sideways, but finally, got me where I wanted to be,” she said with a laugh. One thing that has remained consistent for Guidette, though, is the value she places on having a solid network. Not “networking” in the sense ...
Tuesday 3rd Dec 2013
The holidays are upon us, and so is the season of giving. It’s in this spirit that Thomson Reuters recently honored several of its employees with the 2013 Community Champion Award for their commitment to offering time and talent to non-profit organizations and causes in their area. Marilyn Jentzen, co-founder and president of Atlanta-based non-profit ...
Monday 25th Nov 2013
Fifteen years is an extraordinary run in any job. But 15 years with a front-row seat in service to the librarian community, at a time of unprecedented change in the legal market, makes the time Anne Ellis has led the Librarian Relations program for Thomson Reuters even more extraordinary. It is thus with a mixture ...
Tuesday 19th Nov 2013
Craig Yolitz, vice president of Customer Operations at FindLaw, began his career with Thomson Reuters in 1985, the day after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. It all began with an internship with manufacturing and print operations, and as he continued to explore his interests in printing and move through his career, he eventually discovered that he ...
Monday 18th Nov 2013
While this should certainly come as no shock, a new FindLaw.com survey found that Americans overwhelmingly oppose allowing their bosses to obtain their social media passwords. According to the survey, eighty-three percent of American adults say that employers should not be allowed to obtain passwords to personal social media accounts, such as Facebook and YouTube. Only ...
Thursday 14th Nov 2013
This post was written by Jean Maess, vice president of Legal Editorial Operations – Analytical Editorial at Thomson Reuters Last week, I was fortunate to be able to attend an offsite meeting with executives and other leaders in the legal business of Thomson Reuters. We spent most of the meeting discussing how people make a ...
Wednesday 13th Nov 2013
Super Lawyers is perhaps most well-known for its lists, rating attorneys in each state using a patented selection process. But an important part of Super Lawyers is the editorial team, whose hard work regularly produces top-notch features on selected attorneys, which are included in each issue of Super Lawyers Magazine. Recently, Super Lawyers received two journalism awards. Click here ...
Tuesday 12th Nov 2013
In today’s competitive business world, skilled general counsel is invaluable. It’s with that in mind the Super Lawyers turns an eye toward the business world for the 2013 Super Lawyers Business Edition. The 2013 Super Lawyers Business Edition includes exceptional attorneys from more than 8,500 firms who have mastered their skills in five different business-related ...
Wednesday 6th Nov 2013
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters A famous song proclaims that “it never rains in Southern California,” which was definitely not the case last week as crowds of corporate counsel converged onto the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 2013 Association of Corporate ...
Wednesday 6th Nov 2013
The scope of Practical Law, the leading provider of online know-how to lawyers worldwide, just expanded. Practical Law China, the first legal know-how service to provide transactional support to lawyers doing business in, or with parties based in, mainland China launched yesterday. From the fundamentals of establishing a business in China, to localizing boilerplate agreements, ...
Monday 4th Nov 2013
You rely on Westlaw and other editorial products from Thomson Reuters for every case – but have you ever wondered about the experts who work on an opinion before it gets to you? We followed a very important case for 2013 – Arizona v. the Intertribal Council of Arizona – through the editorial process at ...
Monday 28th Oct 2013
Thomson Reuters Executive Vice President and General Counsel Deirdre Stanley was a featured panelist at the recent 2013 Law Firm Leaders Forum in New York. The panel addressed topics pertaining to the future of lawyers such as who will be hiring lawyers, who will train lawyers, and the varying career opportunities within the legal profession ...
Friday 25th Oct 2013
There’s little doubt that cyberbullying is a rising problem in the U.S., but where do parents turn when their children encounter cyberbullies? A survey of 642 American parents has found 36 percent of parents would turn to law enforcement to address the issue. The survey was conducted by the Fraud Prevention and Investigations (FP&I) business ...
Thursday 24th Oct 2013
Vice President of Community Relations and Government Affairs and former Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton was honored on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at a dedication ceremony for the newly redesigned 3rd Avenue bridge, which crosses over Interstate 94. The Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired bridge was dedicated as the “Sharon Sayles Belton Bridge.” Also, on the plaza at the ...
Wednesday 23rd Oct 2013
At an award breakfast during the 120th annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference (IACP) in Philadelphia, PA the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business of Thomson Reuters honored three police departments from across the U.S. for their innovative use of technology to confront crime in their communities.The Juvenile Justice Division of the New York Police ...
Wednesday 16th Oct 2013
The American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) held their annual Fall Leadership Meeting in Minneapolis last week, and Thomson Reuters leadership was on hand to support and participate in the meeting. It took place over five days and provided networking opportunities, CLE sessions, public service events and even a 5K fun ...
Tuesday 15th Oct 2013
Millions of Americans count on their monthly Social Security check. But will Social Security still be around when currently working Americans reach retirement age? A new survey from FindLaw says there’s widespread concern. Only 30 percent of American adults said they expect to receive Social Security when they retire. Most Americans said that they either don’t expect ...
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 ...
Wednesday 4th Sep 2013
Minnesota is home to the Thomson Reuters Legal business, but did you know it has also recently been a hub for female students interested in technology fields? The Anita Borg Institute, for example, hosts the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference each year, welcoming attendees from around the world. This year, with help ...
Tuesday 3rd Sep 2013
Public sector legal departments are facing greater challenges managing their critical tasks as their environment has become more complex and demanding, according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters. The survey identified specific bottlenecks and opportunities to leverage technology to improve workflows. Certain critical tasks highlighted in the survey by legal departments, such as legal ...
Friday 23rd Aug 2013
Few doubted that Army Major Nidal Hasan would be found guilty in his military trial, which resumed last week, especially given his self-identification as the shooter who killed 13 and injured 31 in Fort Hood, Texas in 2009. Beyond issues of guilt and innocence, however, are controversies surrounding his charges and his plea, two major factors ...
Wednesday 21st Aug 2013
Allison Guidette sat down with Legal Current to welcome clients and partners to ITLA 2013 and to discuss a major release from Elite. “As data becomes more voluminous, it becomes even harder for law firms to really get their arms around all of the firm’s relationships,” notes Guidette, “And we’re very committed at Elite to ...
Tuesday 20th Aug 2013
We caught up with Kris Nimsger, managing director & general manager, Practice Technology & Services to talk about what’s new as ILTA Conference 2013 kicks off. 1) Case Logistix 6.0 just launched. What’s new with this version? Case Logistix 6.0 has several major new features, including a brand new, customizable user interface, a new advanced ...
Tuesday 20th Aug 2013
If you are in Las Vegas for the annual ILTA conference this week, make sure to check out our Thomson Reuters sessions: ERM + CRM Success: It Starts with the Right Technology Justin Farmer, director of Product Management for Thomson Reuters Elite, and Ted Kempf, director of Service Industries for Microsoft, will be speaking about ...
Tuesday 13th Aug 2013
On Friday, August 9, 2013, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Relations and Government Affairs at Thomson Reuters, presented the American Bar Association’s annual TIPs Liberty Achievement Award to Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The award ceremony and reception, held at the law offices of Sedgwick LLP in ...
Thursday 8th Aug 2013
Thomson Reuters is celebrating 50,000 legal organizations that rely on WestlawNext for legal research. As part of this celebration, WestlawNext is donating $1 for each vote, up to $5,000, to one of three law-related non-profit organizations. Individuals can simply cast a vote and Thomson Reuters will write the check to the winner. Start learning more ...
Tuesday 6th Aug 2013
Just in time for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco later this week, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Affairs at Thomson Reuters, chatted with this year’s ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPs) Liberty Award recipient, Steven Shapiro. The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, will be presented to ...
Tuesday 30th Jul 2013
The Thomson Reuters Legal headquarters in Eagan, Minn. enjoyed visits last week from famed criminal defense attorney F. Lee Bailey and Thomson Reuters senior strategic analyst Jason Thomas. The two made the trek to Minnesota on separate visits, but both addressed the office’s 7,000 employees, and both were the focus of extensive interviews by Minneapolis ...
Monday 29th Jul 2013
Two heads are better than one. This aphorism has been displayed by two legal entities recently announcing their collaboration to provide legal professionals with important programs and educational resources. Thomson Reuters announced that they will partner with the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) to broaden content offerings for Certified Legal Manager (CLM)sm and continuing legal ...
Wednesday 24th Jul 2013
Predictive coding can provide major benefits when dealing with high volumes of electronically-stored information (ESI). But at the same time, it is far from a “silver bullet” in handling ESI. There are four essential concepts that emerge when examining matters that have successfully and unsuccessfully utilized predictive coding. Ed Sohn, assistant vice president for professional ...
Tuesday 23rd Jul 2013
Thomson Reuters has introduced a new service for end-to-end content production and delivery solutions to publishers: Core Publishing Solutions. Emphasizing the importance of helping publishers provide their customers with content in the most efficient manner possible, the business explores new production options to create flexibility and scalability. “Thomson Reuters is uniquely positioned in the U.S. ...
Thursday 18th Jul 2013
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys have always had a strong affinity with law librarians. Our jobs are similar. We respond to a maddeningly diverse set of research requests and, as the legal market changes, so do our responsibilities. Now, we find ourselves taking on more responsibilities ...
Wednesday 17th Jul 2013
In the video below, Dan Dabney, chief taxonomist at Thomson Reuters, describes how our attorney-editors continue to make alterations to the Key Number System, including reclassifying 300,000 headnotes for the revisions to the Election Key Number. This year, the editorial staff also combined the topics “schools” and “colleges and universities” into a new topic: “education.” This ...
Wednesday 17th Jul 2013
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! As a law librarian, you understand the responsibility inherent in your role as a steward of information. By the same token, corporate responsibility is deeply-rooted in the ...
Monday 15th Jul 2013
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! Although we have not departed radically from what we have been doing for 140 years, Thomson Reuters has helped its solutions to evolve naturally with legal business ...
Monday 15th Jul 2013
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys are among the folks participating in this year’s American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference. At the end of the first day on Sunday, we chatted about some trends we noticed working the trade show floor. One clear trend was the ...
Friday 12th Jul 2013
Recently, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, delivered a TEDTalk on the concept of everyday heroes, sharing stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary work. One of these heroes is a banker who discovered suspicious spending data at a nail salon, ultimately revealing an underground system of human trafficking. The importance of everyday heroes ...
Friday 12th Jul 2013
Yesterday, the law’s smartest and most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders were recognized in the Fastcase 50. We were thrilled to see Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations at Thomson Reuters, on that list. According to her bio on the Fastcase site, “great service is all about relationships, and nobody has better relationships.” This describes Anne’s approach ...
Wednesday 3rd Jul 2013
It was a perfect summer day in Minneapolis this past Sunday when Thomson Reuters sponsored the 10th annual Armed Forces Appreciation Day with the Minnesota Twins. Veterans and active service members from all five branches of the U.S. military were honored during a pre-game ceremony and throughout the afternoon during the Twins’ tilt with the ...
Wednesday 3rd Jul 2013
While reaching out to Business Law Research customers, product operations lead Andy Duggan found an overwhelming consensus: customers want more personal service and they want access to specialists in business law. With this in mind, the new Experts On-Call program was developed and launched. The program provides 24/7 customer service from Thomson Reuters research attorneys ...
Monday 1st Jul 2013
Here on Legal Current we often talk about how proud we are to offer solutions that serve our many subscribing legal organizations in the U.S., but just as important are our customers in the UK and Ireland. In fact, the case management and business process management solution FloSuite was proud to announce recently the addition ...
Wednesday 26th Jun 2013
In the video clip below, Elisabet Hardy, vice president, Product Management for Elite, talks to Legal Current from Vantage Elite in Miami, FL, about upcoming Elite product releases, such as Workspace and Enterprise 3.10. She also discusses enhancements on matter management tools like MatterSphere, and has an exciting announcement about the eBilling Hub.
Wednesday 26th Jun 2013
In the video clip below, Eric Sugden, chief technology officer, Elite, provides an overview of new technology at Vantage Elite in Miami, FL, including new mobile apps that Elite will be launching and applications that will be moving into the cloud. “We believe the world is taking a mobile-first approach, so those are the kinds of apps we are building,” ...
Wednesday 26th Jun 2013
In the video clip below, Cary Burch, president, Thomson Reuters Elite, gives a warm welcome to those Legal Current followers who couldn’t attend the Vantage Elite conference in person.
Tuesday 25th Jun 2013
The Vantage 2013 Worldwide Conference in Miami is underway, with hundreds of law firm leaders attending to gain insights, share knowledge, and discuss law firm business management practices. The conference keynote set the tone today as Cary Burch, president, Thomson Reuters Elite, provided insights; Eric Sugden, Elite chief technology officer, provided an overview of technology ...
Tuesday 25th Jun 2013
With major Supreme Court cases like the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) coming down this month, the attorney editors at Thomson Reuters have been busy. Legal Current sat down with David Spencer, vice president of Legal Editorial Operations – Judicial Editorial at Thomson Reuters, to talk about the steps that attorney editors take to be ...
Friday 14th Jun 2013
Today we mourn the passing of a giant in the law and publishing, and celebrate a life well-lived. Dwight D. Opperman, former CEO of West Publishing Company, passed away the morning of June 13. He was a brilliant, thoughtful leader who valued the legal profession as his career choice, and also harbored a life-long commitment ...
Thursday 13th Jun 2013
Heroes are often described as people who perform selfless acts to help individuals in need. On Thursday, June 6, nine people who fit that description were honored at the 2013 Red Cross Heroes Breakfast in Minneapolis, MN, which Thomson Reuters proudly sponsored. The recipients were nominated by community members and selected by the 2013 Heroes ...
Wednesday 12th Jun 2013
Thomson Reuters, in partnership with the American Health Association, sponsored the “Lawyers Have Heart” 5k and 10k run this week in Washington DC. A Thomson Reuters team, led by Steve Rubley, managing director of the Government segment, competed in the 5K. “Thomson Reuters has been a long-time supporter of the legal community in the Washington ...
Tuesday 11th Jun 2013
If you’ve visited thomsonreuters.com over the past week, you may have noticed something different. The site was redesigned to make improvements in not only the overall look, but in the structure and navigation as well. The goal of the redesign is to give users more visibility to the depth and breadth of Thomson Reuters solutions as well as the ability ...
Tuesday 4th Jun 2013
Thomson Reuters is hosting a special customer networking event on June 13 from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington D.C. Listen to Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day, provide narratives of how leaders across business and government deal with risk. Venkatesh’ editorial writings have appeared in The New ...
Thursday 30th May 2013
The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters recently published a new study called Building BRICKS, in which the global research impact of what are known as the BRICK nations is explored. Over a ten year period, global research publications and R&D spending were studied in relation to the patent activity of Brazil, Russia, ...
Tuesday 28th May 2013
Books for Africa is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and Thomson Reuters has the distinct honor of being its top level sponsor for all 2013 events. The spring luncheon to kick off the 25th anniversary took place on Wednesday, May 15, followed by a celebration on Thursday, May 16 at the Thomson Reuters Eagan, ...
Tuesday 28th May 2013
Biking is not only a quintessential activity of childhood, but can also help children form good habits of healthy activity that will last them their lifetime. To help children in Eagan, MN, 300 Thomson Reuters employees volunteered in partnership with the local YMCA to assemble 100 bikes. These bikes will go through volunteers at the ...
Monday 20th May 2013
Almost a quarter of jurors (23 percent) in England and Wales currently misunderstand the contempt rule in relation to internet use during a trial, according to preliminary research published in Criminal Law Review, a Thomson Reuters journal. Among jurors who misunderstand the rule on internet use, 16 percent believe they cannot use the internet at all, ...
Thursday 16th May 2013
With National Police Week being celebrated in Washington, D.C, Daniel DeSimone, former FBI agent and senior director of Investigative Resources at Thomson Reuters, reflects on the importance of honoring the heroes of law enforcement on Investigative Insights. Check out the Knowledge Effect blog to read more.
Wednesday 15th May 2013
Thomson Reuters Elite has been recognized as a 2013 American Business Awards/Stevie Awards finalist in the Marketing Campaign of the Year category for the You VS marketing campaign. The Stevie Awards annually recognize outstanding work in the marketplace. There was a record number of Stevie Award nominations this year, with more than 3,200 submissions from ...
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. ...
Wednesday 3rd Apr 2013
Being named to the Super Lawyers list in their respective state is a highly coveted goal for many attorneys. The rigorous, multi-phased selection process combines peer evaluations with third-party research, and each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Now that process receives a distinction that further demonstrates Super Lawyers ...
Tuesday 2nd Apr 2013
This guest blog post was written by Ben Vickers, director of product marketing for Small Law Firms at Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters will be demonstrating Firm Central, a new hosted practice management solution for solo and small law firms, at ABA Techshow in Chicago from April 4-6. Come see how Firm Central not only helps ...
Tuesday 2nd Apr 2013
This guest blog post was written by Lise Freking, director of Product Line Strategy for Thomson Reuters Attendees at the upcoming ABA Techshow in Chicago can attend a free Lunch & Learn session on Thomson Reuters ProView eBooks. ProView is a professional grade platform that allows you to interact with your eBooks in entirely new ways and ...
Monday 1st Apr 2013
During the 2013 Global Ethics Summit held earlier this year, Thomson Reuters was recognized by the Ethisphere Institute, the leading business ethics think-tank, as one of the 2013 World’s Most Ethical Companies (WME). This marked the sixth occasion, and the fifth year in a row, that the company has been honored for promoting the highest ...
Monday 1st Apr 2013
The Legal Current will be at the American Bar Association Techshow from April 3-6, 2013, live tweeting and blogging. It promises to be an exciting and informative show, and we hope to catch up with many of our readers! For those of you who will be attending, make sure to stop by the various Thomson ...
Monday 1st Apr 2013
The second annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings was released last week and Thomson Reuters products and services took top honors in seven categories. WestlawNext was recognized as the Best Legal Research Vendor (including offline) for the second consecutive year. WestlawNext also earned top accolades for Best Legal Research iPad® App and ...
Thursday 28th Mar 2013
Thomson Reuters today announced that it has received formal clearance from the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) for its completed acquisition of Practical Law Company. The acquisition brings together the world class legal information and tools of Thomson Reuters with Practical Law Company’s expert authored know-how resources. Regulatory clearance in the UK means the “hold ...
Wednesday 27th Mar 2013
Mid-size firms are growing in today’s economy and many of them are trying to figure out how to continue to compete against their Big Law counterparts. However, they face some challenges. Whereas large law firms have complex organizations in which decisions are broadly managed, the majority of decisions in mid-size firms lay with the managing partner. ...
Friday 22nd Mar 2013
The new Reuters iPhone and iPad news apps are currently ranked number one for free news apps in the iTunes App store. The apps were designed to deliver the speed, breadth and insight of Reuters journalism and financial information. Since news moves quickly, these apps were designed to respond instantly with notifications when important updates ...
Wednesday 13th Mar 2013
How does Elite fit into the legal solutions vision? What makes the Elite culture so unique? What key things happened in 2012 that made Elite the success it is today? Listen to Cary Burch, managing director of Elite, discuss these topics, along with the best part of his job, and what he thinks the law ...
Tuesday 12th Mar 2013
Heroes come in all forms and the Everyday Heroes being honored by Thomson Reuters are no different. Each year, the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business of Thomson Reuters chooses recipients for the Everyday Heroes award based on compelling success stories through the use of one of its public records search products: CLEAR, Westlaw People Map ...
Friday 8th Mar 2013
Are you interested in incorporating social media into your law firm’s marketing strategy? Then mark your calendar for a FindLaw webcast titled “How to Make Social Media Work for Your Law Firm” on Wednesday, March 13 at 2 p.m. EST. In this half-hour webcast, Mark Jacobsen, senior director of Strategic Development at FindLaw, and Brian ...
Wednesday 6th Mar 2013
How do emerging technologies drive innovation? In a series of webcasts, Bob Evans, senior vice president of Oracle, talks to global business leaders to find out how technology helps them innovate. The latest features Rick King, COO, Technology at Thomson Reuters, along with Riva Richmond, editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit. In the second half ...
Tuesday 5th Mar 2013
I am very excited to announce the launch of Practitioner Insights, a new platform that brings together current awareness offerings into one spot on WestlawNext. Legal professionals will now have exclusive news and analysis from industry experts at the tip of their fingers, so they can stay up to speed and lead in their practice ...
Thursday 28th Feb 2013
Next week, Thomson Reuters will host the fifth annual Global Ethics Summit in conjunction with the Ethisphere Institute. The conference, taking place March 5-6, 2013 in New York, will address the challenges of compliance and government regulation in today’s global business environment, as well as the vital role that values and ethics play in successful ...
Friday 22nd Feb 2013
Founded in 2004 and welcomed into Thomson Reuters in 2010, Pangea3 has grown to become a global leader in legal process outsourcing (LPO). In situations where large numbers of documents need to be reviewed and produced in short time periods, Pangea3’s consultative, process-driven approach ensures that clients receive the cost-saving benefits of intelligent culling techniques ...
Thursday 21st Feb 2013
The legal liabilities reported by UK-based companies listed on the FTSE 100 index jumped by 22% in 2012 to £22.1 billion, up from £18.2 billion in the previous year, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters Sweet & Maxwell business. The increase in legal liabilities has been driven by businesses facing far more aggressive fines ...
Tuesday 19th Feb 2013
Charles Christian recently posted a video he shot of Bob Schukai, global head of Technology at Thomson Reuters, discussing the importance of designing for mobile. Check out the full video on Legal Technology Insider.
Wednesday 13th Feb 2013
Two years ago, an innovative customer service strategy began to emerge at Thomson Reuters that would eventually evolve into the company’s Customer Experience Operations’ use of Twitter to find and respond to customer complaints. The project began in 2010 with the Reference Attorney Summer Associate Blog, which was targeted toward summer associates at law firms. ...
Tuesday 12th Feb 2013
Thomson Reuters Elite has been around for over 60 years, and has evolved dramatically in that time into the premier law firm financial and operations management technology company. In the video clip below, Allison Guidette, managing director of Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, talks about Elite acquisitions and the company’s evolution over the years, ...
Friday 8th Feb 2013
In spite of the political conflict and unrest underway in Mali, a Books for Africa container of 22,000 books, including a Thomson Reuters law/human rights library, arrived safely in Bamako, Mali. The shipment was unfortunately delayed for several months until it was confirmed safe to transport them to the capitol city. The books are currently ...
Friday 8th Feb 2013
The Third Avenue bridge in Minneapolis will soon be renamed after one of our own: The Sharon Sayles-Belton Bridge. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak announced Thursday that the city will renovate the landmark, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired bridge that runs over Interstate 94 to honor the former mayor who broke down barriers and helped build the city ...
Wednesday 6th Feb 2013
This post was written by Joel Leeman. Thomson Reuters Expert Witness Services has joined forces with the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the leading international organization of lawyers involved in the defense of civil litigation, expanding the wealth of resources available to DRI members. Thomson Reuters Expert Witness Services is the leading authority in expert witness ...
Tuesday 5th Feb 2013
Last week, Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of books on Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger and Steve Jobs, spoke on innovation and leadership to an invitation-only gathering of legal professionals at the Thomson Reuters headquarters at 3 Times Square. This event was part of the legal solutions launch at LegalTech, ...
Tuesday 5th Feb 2013
Increasingly, lawyers and other legal professionals are migrating to mobile as a way to do business, and Thomson Reuters is reacting. In the video clip below, Bob Schukai, global head of Mobile Technology at Thomson Reuters, talks about how mobile is important to Thomson Reuters Legal’s transformation into a solutions business, as well as trends ...
Tuesday 5th Feb 2013
Thomson Reuters recently acquired Practical Law Company. In the video clip below, Allison Guidette, managing director of Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, discusses the importance of this acquisition and what it means for the company. “Practical Law Company offers valuable know-how, practical tools and check lists – the types of resources lawyers need in ...
Monday 4th Feb 2013
We have several new additions to the Thomson Reuters social media team. The first is our new Managing Editor of Social Media Susan Martin. Susan joined our team after four years with our Strategic Marketing Services organization, where she led campaigns and managed creative projects for clients across the business. Susan brings a host of ...
Friday 1st Feb 2013
This week marks the launch of Firm Central, the only online practice management solution for solo and small firms that connects legal research, drafting, matters, contacts, calendar, and more. Firm Central was designed to be tightly targeted to what customers are saying they need. In the video clip below, Karl Florida, managing director of Small ...
Thursday 31st Jan 2013
This week marks an important milestone for the legal business of Thomson Reuters as we evolve from a content business to a true solutions organization. We are integrating our core legal information with software and solutions in a way that has a positive, and productive, effect on our customers’ workflow. In the video clip below, ...
Thursday 31st Jan 2013
In the video clip below, Jill Roisum, senior director of product development, discusses Thomson Reuters’ new current awareness offering, WestlawNext Practitioner Insights, and why it is important to attorneys. Legal current awareness is important to attorneys for three main reasons, according to Roisum. Attorneys need to be well-informed in order to track what’s going on ...
Wednesday 30th Jan 2013
Yesterday, Thomson Reuters officially launched Concourse, a suite of software solutions built specifically for general counsel customers. Concourse connects what matters: people, tools and data. In the video clip below, Eric Laughlin, managing director of Corporate Counsel, talks about what this launch means for our corporate counsel customers, how Concourse is different than anything we’ve ...
Tuesday 29th Jan 2013
Thomson Reuters has unveiled its new eBusiness site. The former Westlaw Store is now legal solutions from Thomson Reuters. The new site will have more focus on productivity solutions in order to align with the overall direction of the legal business of Thomson Reuters. The company is evolving from a content business to a true ...
Monday 28th Jan 2013
Thomson Reuters has unveiled its new product strategy for the legal market that builds upon the company’s legacy of authoritative content, innovative technologies and customer insight and sets the stage for a new generation of powerful, matter-centric workflow tools. The company will showcase this strategy, along with a portfolio of innovative new workflow solutions, at ...
Monday 28th Jan 2013
Starting earlier this month, small law customers have been encouraged to check out FirmCentral.com, a Thomson Reuters website that provides clues about one of Legal’s newest offerings – Firm Central. The product will officially launch next week at LegalTech New York. Firm Central is a new product designed exclusively for solo and small firms that ...
Monday 28th Jan 2013
Thomson Reuters Concourse is a hosted suite of matter-based software solutions designed to help Corporate Counsel and Government customers manage both daily legal and business operations and to unite our products into one user experience. An exciting feature is the data connectivity in each product, which enables the systems to work together either from an ...
Monday 28th Jan 2013
In the past few years, a lot has changed in the way we all work. The economy set some things in motion, but so did apps, the ubiquity of wireless, our expectations of technology and a shift in the dynamics between firms and corporate counsel. Add to this a fast-changing competitive landscape, with disruptors of ...
Wednesday 23rd Jan 2013
The American Lawyer’s 16th Annual Survey gathered responses from 82 law firms and revealed that 65 percent of them use hosted technology/cloud computing. Of those firms using the cloud, 77 percent described it as a positive experience. Thomson Reuters legal solutions business has been trusted by customers for decades to provide efficient, reliable e-discovery and ...
Thursday 17th Jan 2013
Professor J. Thomas McCarthy’s premier treatise on trademark and unfair competition law has been cited once again by the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent ruling in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., — S.Ct. —, 2013 WL 85300, *10 (2013). This case started when Nike filed suit, alleging that two of Already’s athletic shoes violated ...
Tuesday 8th Jan 2013
Through the end of 2012 and into early 2013, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – a short answer to the following question: What do you see as a significant trend for the legal marketplace in 2013? Next up is Robert Schukai, global head of mobile technology: ...
Friday 4th Jan 2013
This post was written by Allison Guidette, managing director of Large Law Firms I’m pleased to announce that Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Practical Law Company, the London-based provider of practical legal know-how and workflow tools to law firms and corporate law departments. Practical Law Company’s strength is its focus upon ...
Monday 24th Dec 2012
Through the end of 2012, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – a short answer to the following question: What do you see as a significant trend for the legal marketplace in 2013? Next up is Mark Medice, senior director of Peer Monitor: “Growth and differentiation is ...
Thursday 20th Dec 2012
With the holidays approaching, we look forward to the start of a new year. Once again, anything is possible. It’s a time to think big thoughts. What will this New Year hold? Through the end of 2012, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – an answer to ...
Friday 14th Dec 2012
Fraud in companies is reportedly more likely to be discovered by insider tips than any other detection method, and with various whistleblower programs including the new SEC Whistleblower Program, whistleblowers from various walks of life and businesses are more comfortable coming forward and reporting wide variations of violations to regulators and law enforcement. Recently, West ...
Thursday 13th Dec 2012
Conducting proper due diligence in today’s business environment is critical to avoiding potential disaster. Even a single bad deal or business relationship can lead to losses; expose the business to legal and regulatory action, including lawsuits; and distract management from more important matters. And rising regulatory requirements are increasing the responsibilities facing businesses as well ...
Thursday 6th Dec 2012
From October 28, 2012 to January 20, 2013, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will host an unprecedented exhibition featuring rare archaeological artifacts from the Qin Dynasty (221-207, BC) of China, including the spectacular Terracotta Warriors, one of the “Eight Wonders of the World.” In support of this amazing exhibit, Thomson Reuters recently hosted a panel ...
Thursday 6th Dec 2012
The following is a guest post written by Tom Pfeifer, Global Head of Customer Sales & Experience, Thomson Reuters. What would your life be like without books? According to Lane Ayres, director of the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative at Books For Africa, most of us here can’t imagine going even a day without ...
Wednesday 5th Dec 2012
It may be hard to believe, but it has been over a month since Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, devastating many communities in its wake and causing billions of dollars in damage. Many residents along the Eastern Seaboard are still cleaning up and repairing their damaged neighborhoods. In addition, many businesses were impacted by ...
Tuesday 4th Dec 2012
The New York City Bar Association and Thomson Reuters will co-host the Institute for Corporate Counsel: Navigating the Boardroom, the Courtroom and the Space Between on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street in Manhattan. In-house counsel are increasingly responsible for guiding executive leadership through such corporate ...
Thursday 29th Nov 2012
This story was written by Megan Gustafson. Super Lawyers Top Lists are now available online. The attorneys named to these Top Lists, which correspond with each region’s Super Lawyers list, have risen to the peak of an already competitive group of accomplished professionals, above and beyond the prestigious honor of selection to a Super Lawyers ...
Wednesday 28th Nov 2012
Judge Frederic Block offers a behind-the-scenes look into the trials of a federal court judge in DISROBED: An Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial Judge, providing readers a view into his personal life and his experiences with controversial legal topics throughout his career. A sitting judge on one of the ...
Wednesday 21st Nov 2012
The following is a guest post written by Steve Rubley, managing director, Government, Thomson Reuters. When you consider how quickly social media and mobile technology have been adopted throughout the world – according to a McKinsey report, it took Facebook just a year to sign up 50 million users and Twitter only 9 months, compared ...
Friday 9th Nov 2012
This post was written by Megan Gustafson Thomson Reuters Fraud Prevention and Investigations (FP&I) business, which brings to the marketplace the industry-leading investigative product suite CLEAR, is joining with organizations across the globe to observe International Fraud Awareness Week from November 11 to 17. Sponsored by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), International Fraud ...
Thursday 8th Nov 2012
Thomson Reuters announced it will host the 17th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum, taking place Nov. 15-16, 2012, in San Francisco. Following one of the most anticipated United States general elections in recent history, keynote speaker Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe and a former four-term Congressman, will share his thoughts on the results ...
Thursday 8th Nov 2012
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s extreme devastation, projected to total more than $20 billion in damages, catastrophic insurance experts and Thomson Reuters authors Dennis Wall and John DiMungo will provide a FREE West LegalEdcenter session, Friday, November 9 at 12:00 pm EST for the legal community. The one-hour live session will cover catastrophic claims ...
Tuesday 6th Nov 2012
This post was written by Megan Gustafson Thomson Reuters has launched the mobile application of WestlawNext’s powerful reporting tool, Case Evaluator. The new format will allow users to quickly research valuable information about similar cases from wherever they are – in court, in negotiations, while commuting or waiting for a flight. Case Evaluator arms users ...
Tuesday 30th Oct 2012
Let us know that you’re safe. We understand that the full extent of the damage will not be fully understood for days, but we want you to know we are here to help. The legal businesses of Thomson Reuters are committed to helping customers affected by Hurricane Sandy restore their practices and businesses as soon ...
Friday 26th Oct 2012
This post was written by Joel Leeman. Thomson Reuters must continuously innovate – developing new technologies and products to meet our customers’ needs. That’s why building a technology workforce that is talented, creative and most of all, innovative, is integral to our success. Not surprisingly, we’re an in-demand workplace for technology talent, and we’re filling ...
Friday 26th Oct 2012
Thomson Reuters and BlumbergExcelsior, Inc., a leading supplier of online law forms, have signed a strategic licensing agreement which will add more than 230 Blumberg forms to current content on Westlaw Form Builder. The list of forms covers several practice areas including litigation, real estate, landlord/tenant and powers of attorney. The Blumberg forms will be ...
Friday 19th Oct 2012
FindLaw has introduced Mobile Essential, a mobile solution for attorneys that uses responsive design technology to optimize law firm websites so that visitors and potential clients have an optimal user experience whether viewing the page from a smartphone, tablet or desktop. Unlike websites that have a separate mobile Web address for mobile device viewing, websites ...
Friday 12th Oct 2012
This post was written by Dori Buckethal, marketing manager for Risk, Fraud and Investigations. International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is my favorite conference each year. Thousands of law enforcement professionals attend the conference for educational seminars and networking events. The Fraud Prevention & Investigations group at Thomson Reuters has attended this event for ...
Thursday 11th Oct 2012
The new solution, Global Business Law, is a native iPad® app that will connect practitioners to the law in 160 countries and in 46 different practice areas. Its creation was inspired by the needs of lawyers working in commercial law, or in international corporations, who spend time on transactions with a cross-border element for which ...
Tuesday 9th Oct 2012
Was it the lure of a magical kingdom situated on 30,000 acres of developed swamp land in central Florida? Or perhaps the child-like glee to be experienced upon seeing those famous mouse ears? For more than 1,600 in-house counsel from around the globe, the main attraction was the Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting held ...
Friday 5th Oct 2012
Susan Hackett, CEO and CLO of Legal Executive Leadership, and former general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel for more than 20 years, spoke with Legal Current about what she was seeing at the 2012 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. She shares her insight around the valuable CLE opportunities, the excitement from the show ...
Thursday 4th Oct 2012
A story in Minnesota Business featured Thomson Reuters as an example of how some businesses are working with higher education in interesting new ways. The Business of Education focuses on why it’s important for companies to build relationships with educators and universities in order to prepare students for success in the workplace. This type of ...
Tuesday 2nd Oct 2012
CLEAR, the industry-leading public records search product, recently rolled out some great new features, including a photo line-up feature and real-time incarceration data. Andy Russell, vice president of the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business, talks about the latest add-ons to the CLEAR search product, as well as some of the events and happenings he is ...
Monday 1st Oct 2012
The annual meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police is in full swing in sunny San Diego, California. Inside the sprawling exhibit hall in the San Diego Convention Center, the booth for Thomson Reuters CLEAR was bustling on the first day of the show. As show-goers filtered by, Thomson Reuters booth staff demonstrated ...
Wednesday 19th Sep 2012
Serengeti Law has updated Serengeti Tracker with a new user interface. As the legal profession’s most widely used and highest rated e-billing and matter management platform, Tracker’s new interface was designed to improve the user’s workflow and navigation, while making the service more readable and visually appealing. “With this enhancement to the user interface, we ...
Monday 17th Sep 2012
This post was written by Rachel Billman. It was on this day in 1787 that delegates to the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution, the supreme law of the United States of America. Celebrate Constitution Day 2012 with a live webcast, featuring Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief, Reuters News, interviewing Justice Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, Supreme ...
Thursday 13th Sep 2012
This post was written by Rachel Billman. The 2012 issue of the Super Lawyers Business Edition is now available. This special version of the highly regarded attorney rating service features exceptional attorneys with business-centered practices. The 2012 edition includes lawyers from more than 8,500 firms across the country whose careers focus on business and transactional ...
Wednesday 12th Sep 2012
Westlaw, WestlawNext and Pangea3 recently won top honors in the 2012 New York Law Journal Reader Rankings. Westlaw was named the Best Online Legal Research Vendor for the third consecutive year. The Best Solo/Small Firm Research Vendor for the third consecutive year was WestlawNext. WestlawNext also was named the Best Legal Research App, a new ...
Monday 10th Sep 2012
This post was written by Rachel Billman. Two Thomson Reuters products, GRM Insight, a solution offered through Tax & Accounting’s Government segment that helps to identify property tax fraud, and CLEAR’s public records investigative platform offered through Legal’s Government segment, recently collaborated to expose millions of dollars in property tax fraud. With the integration of ...
Thursday 6th Sep 2012
Let us know that you’re safe. We understand that the full extent of the damage will not be fully understood for days, but we want you to know we are here to help. Thomson Reuters is committed to helping customers affected by Hurricane Isaac. We’ve set up a dedicated hotline. If you have been displaced ...
Thursday 6th Sep 2012
This post was written by Rick King, COO, Technology at Thomson Reuters. Ah, the Great Minnesota Get Together (AKA, the Minnesota State Fair). When asked, most people say they go to the fair for the food (deep-fried, sugar-soaked and delicious). For me, going to the fair this year was a little different. On Aug. 28, ...
Wednesday 5th Sep 2012
Employees Pat McDonald, Mirna Rowe, Terry Pieper and Joe Munger stood up at Target Field’s home plate before the Aug. 27 Twins game against Seattle to represent Thomson Reuters ongoing support of veterans and their families, and its status as a Yellow Ribbon company. McDonald, Rowe, Pieper and Munger are all veterans or reserve service members ...
Thursday 30th Aug 2012
Here at ILTA 2012, we’re demonstrating the newest mobile app for litigators. Westlaw Case Notebook Portable E-Transcript allows users to access, view, highlight, and annotate e-transcripts, anywhere, anytime. Westlaw Case Notebook Portable E-Transcript is more than just a mobile e-transcript viewer. Users can make highlights and notes while on the go. While the app is ...
Thursday 30th Aug 2012
We’ve got a terrific episode for you this month highlighting the legal aspects of some major news stories. To start, our “Chaos in the Courts” segment highlights an unusual way a woman tried to ditch law enforcement which included being “slightly pregnant and slightly in labor”. Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we feature ...
Tuesday 28th Aug 2012
The 2012 ILTA Conference is now well underway! We’re looking forward to talking with attendees about what’s new in legal technology as well as sharing what we see and hear via this blog. Later this week, Allison Guidette, general manager, large law segment, will be speaking at ILTA 2012 to provide an update on Thomson ...
Tuesday 28th Aug 2012
Monica Bay, editor, Law Technology News, provides a recap of the first day of ILTA 2012, including the keynote session highlights, what attendees are talking about, and a preview of her upcoming session “Reassess Your Calling to ReDesign Your Career” where she will moderate a discussion with seven technologists who have experienced or sought career ...
Tuesday 28th Aug 2012
In the Elite Demo Room, Elizabet Hardy, vice president of Elite Product Management, has been listening to the stories, concerns and ideas technologists and clients have shared with her during the first day of ILTA. Legal Current caught up with Elizabet and she shared some of the topics she discussed with attendees. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHUsCz7Zvr4]
Monday 27th Aug 2012
The Thomson Reuters campus was recently pictured in the profile of the city of Eagan, Minn. in Money Magazine’s Best Places to Live 2012. Ranked No. 14 on the list of 100 cities, the write-up about Eagan, a 20-minute commute from Minneapolis and St. Paul, listed Thomson Reuters as one of the major employers in ...
Friday 24th Aug 2012
By Brice Duffy, manager of information systems at Mackall Crounse & Moore, PLC and Minneapolis City Rep for ILTA ILTA rookie? Not sure what to expect? In preparation for our upcoming national conference, Minnesota-based ILTA members met to share some insights and pointers for those attending ILTA 2012: ac2dc, whether going for the first time ...
Thursday 23rd Aug 2012
Serengeti Law, part of Thomson Reuters and provider of Serengeti TrackerTM – the legal profession’s most widely used and highest rated e-billing and matter management platform – announced it has signed its 500th Serengeti Tracker client, Energizer Holdings, Inc. Having legal operations in more than 60 countries, Energizer works with more than 250 law firms ...
Wednesday 22nd Aug 2012
Super Lawyers has launched the Online Attorney Video feature, which allows Super Lawyers-designated attorneys the opportunity to establish a strong online video presence to connect with potential clients beyond traditional print and online advertising. Filmed by a professional videographer in the comfort of the attorney’s office, the brief video will tell each attorney’s unique story, ...
Wednesday 22nd Aug 2012
The Eagan campus of Thomson Reuters recently made headlines when it hosted local Dakota County educators and awarded a scholarship to a local student. The Star Tribune mentioned Thomson Reuters as one of the businesses that local superintendents and principals visited as part of a tour for educators. A panel of Thomson Reuters leaders and ...
Tuesday 14th Aug 2012
Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is pleased to announce that its annual Super Lawyers Pro Bono Awards program is now open for nominations. The awards honor legal professionals, students and institutions that have exhibited excellence in offering no-cost legal services to the poor, exploited, vulnerable or disadvantaged. In 2011, Super Lawyers launched the inaugural ...
Monday 13th Aug 2012
At the 2012 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago recently, the Liberty Achievement Award was awarded to Sandra Yamate by the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was created in 2008 to honor lawyers and judges who promote diversity in the legal profession. Yamate, a strong advocate for promoting ...
Monday 30th Jul 2012
A major objective of Thomson Reuters is helping customers improve their productivity and deliver better client service by allowing them to access their legal information and tools anytime, anywhere. Over the last several months, Thomson Reuters has introduced or updated numerous mobile products and apps to meet the increasingly mobile workflow of legal professionals. “Thomson Reuters ...
Wednesday 25th Jul 2012
As part of our mission to help the legal system perform better everyday worldwide, Thomson Reuters is honored to support the continued success of Books For Africa’s Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative. During its recent fiscal year of 2011-12, Books For Africa continues to make significant strides to further the rule of law. “The ...
Tuesday 24th Jul 2012
The 2012 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference kicked off with an inspired and energized view of the future of the legal profession, courtesy of keynote speaker Professor Richard Susskind. Prof. Susskind, speaking to an estimated 1,500 law librarians gathered for the opening general session and keynote, explored the forces that have driven change ...
Sunday 22nd Jul 2012
Thomson Reuters ProView, the professional-grade eReader platform, continues to expand its offering. New functionality for the iPad includes an enhanced user interface and better management of eBook libraries. Android, Windows and Mac versions are now available. Current ProView eBook content includes court rules for selected states, and ProView continues to add new titles. Other ProView ...
Friday 20th Jul 2012
Thomson Reuters provides easy and intuitive access to the best content and features of WestlawNext for those who are frequently on the go. Multiple mobile offerings include the award-winning iPad® app, Android® app and a mobile website, enabling customers to be efficient and productive whenever and wherever they go, and allowing them to respond to a client’s needs in ...
Thursday 19th Jul 2012
After 21 years of escaping justice, a fugitive convicted sex offender was finally caught and put behind bars after investigators pinpointed his location via CLEAR, the powerful Thomson Reuters investigative platform. The “ah-ha” moment that investigator must have had when the missing piece of information was found is the focus of the 2012 Everyday Heroes ...
Wednesday 18th Jul 2012
Managing litigation quickly and efficiently requires effective managing of information. Cases involve many different types of information that need to be organized, analyzed and shared with other team members. The latest version of the Westlaw CaseLogistix eDiscovery platform provides enhanced integration with Westlaw Case Notebook. Previous versions allowed key e-discovery documents to be sent into West Case Notebook. Now, documents ...
Tuesday 10th Jul 2012
People use all sorts of mobile devices these days, so Thomson Reuters ProView has added new versions that expand its reach. The first eReader platform specifically built from the ground up for professional use now has public beta versions available for Android tablets, as well as Windows and Mac desktops and laptops. Meanwhile, iPad users get an updated ...
Thursday 5th Jul 2012
Thomson Reuters Elite President Kim Massana shares his appreciation to all the attendees of the 2012 Elite and ProLaw User Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. This year’s conference set a new attendance record, and clients and Elite leaders and product developers were able to interact closely, to the benefit of the products and their users.
Tuesday 3rd Jul 2012
Justin Farmer, director of product management for Thomson Reuters Elite, laid out the roadmap for 3E in the coming months. 3E 2.7 is the next release, and it will be put in beta in September. It will include numerous new features, including a new interface and user experience. Also, the new 3E mobile app is currently ...
Monday 2nd Jul 2012
Thomson Reuters has introduced the WestlawNext AndroidTM and PlayBookTM app. The mobile app will work on both Android tablets and smartphones, extending the capabilities of legal professionals and giving them mobile access to the preferred legal research service to enhance their productivity and efficiency. “The release of the WestlawNext Android app is the latest in our effort to ...
Thursday 28th Jun 2012
The general session at the 2012 Elite User Conference focused on the power of the customer’s voice. Bill Burch, senior vice president of Sales, opened the session discussing how the product and integration strategy of Elite has been defined by changing conditions in the law firm space with the focus on risk, client, financial, matter and risk management, or ...
Thursday 28th Jun 2012
The Fraud Prevention & Investigation unit of Thomson Reuters has released a white paper that explores the growing presence of organized crime groups in healthcare fraud. The white paper offers an overview of the growing problem of healthcare fraud in the United States, the cost of which is estimated by Thomson Reuters to be $150 ...
Wednesday 27th Jun 2012
This week Thomson Reuters Elite announced a new training resource, the Elite Educational Services Hub. This new site provides Elite customers with in-depth courses, certification programs, and a new training format to help Elite customers establish their own training strategy. Training opportunities include live lecture, demo webinars, online simulated classroom training and self-paced eLearning. Details ...
Wednesday 27th Jun 2012
The ProLaw User Conference is underway. The event is specifically geared to ProLaw clients and provides information on best practices, product training and networking opportunities. Ninety-four percent client satisfaction and 95 percent client retention are two numbers that Brian Colbeck, vice president Mid-Market, and his ProLaw team are proud of. But as they assured conference attendees, they ...
Tuesday 26th Jun 2012
The 2012 Elite and ProLaw User Conferences began with executive leaders from Thomson Reuters Elite highlighting news of recently products and services, and discussing what’s to come. Kim Massana, president, kicked things off by setting the rallying cry for this year’s conference: Extend Your Advantage. Thomson Reuters Elite is focused on helping customers build and extend an advantage in the marketplace ...
Tuesday 26th Jun 2012
Enterprise offers comprehensive functionality that organizations need to compete in the marketplace, and enables national and multi-national firms the ability to efficiently and profitably operate across offices, countries, languages and currencies. As an industry-leader, Joselynn Curtis, project manager for Thomson Reuters Elite, spent some time during the Elite User Conference highlighting her top 10 settings of Enterprise, ...
Tuesday 26th Jun 2012
With the Supreme Court expected to issue its decision on the controversial Affordable Care Act this week, FindLaw stands ready, via its numerous legal professional and consumer-focused blogs, to deliver news and analysis about the decision and how it could impact everyday life. Additionally, FindLaw will provide an overview of some of the other notable ...
Tuesday 26th Jun 2012
In May we celebrated the continued work of Books for Africa, with a focus on two receptions that honor supporters and special friends of this extraordinary organization dedicated to ending the book famine in Africa. On the evening of Tuesday, May 8, we gathered at the University Club in St. Paul to meet and hear three ...
Monday 25th Jun 2012
As many are descending on Las Vegas this week for the 2012 Elite User Conference, We’re Listening will be there as well. This year, Elite User Conference attendees, as well as attendees of the ProLaw User Conference, will have the opportunity to provide feedback on our business, products and services. The We’re Listening program inspires conversation with ...
Monday 18th Jun 2012
Thomson Reuters Westlaw is launching Corporate Counsel Connect, a free bi-monthly e-newsletter premiering June 21. Corporate Counsel Connect will provide informative and insightful content for the corporate legal community, including engaging perspectives and best practices. Each issue will feature a range of topics tailored to the needs of corporate counsel, including: – Best practices from ...
Friday 15th Jun 2012
With more than 140 years since a book of this nature has been published, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner have released their influential book on deriving the meaning of authoritative texts: Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, published by Thomson Reuters. Scalia and Garner provide readers a challenge to think differently about ...
Thursday 14th Jun 2012
Building on the successful 2011 launch of its Business Edition, Super Lawyers is set to release the 2012 special edition issue of the highly popular attorney rating service aimed at attorneys with business-centered practices. The 2012 Super Lawyers Business Edition will feature a national listing of top U.S. attorneys who practice business-related law. Additionally, it will include profiles of leading ...
Monday 11th Jun 2012
At Westlaw Small Law, we know that customers are at the heart of everything we do. So at this year’s State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting on June 13-15 in Houston, we are making an extra effort to listen to you. WE’RE LISTENING @ WestlawSmallLaw is our program to host this conversation. We want to hear what you like about ...
Tuesday 5th Jun 2012
Thomson Reuters offers a compendium of information and insights in its newly published Thomson Reuters 2012 Fact Book. The 2012 Fact Book provides a broad-based information set to investors, as well as a detailed reference guide for shareholders and those interested in learning more about the company. The resource also provides an introduction to Thomson Reuters, from our ...
Friday 1st Jun 2012
WestlawNext, Westlaw, Elite and Thomson Reuters News & Insight recently were awarded top honors in the 2012 Best of The National Law Journal in its inaugural Reader Rankings. WestlawNext finished first in three categories, including: Best Online Legal Research Vendor; Best Legal Research iPad® App; and Best Solo Firm/Solo Practitioner Research Vendor. Westlaw was also ...
Thursday 31st May 2012
FindLaw has introduced Contact Advisor, an innovative contact management dashboard that features advanced analytic capabilities and tools to simplify the client-screening process for law firms and attorneys. Contact Advisor enables law firms to easily and efficiently evaluate, manage and communicate with potential clients. The patent-pending solution is a core component of FindLaw’s Conversion Solutions suite, ...
Tuesday 29th May 2012
Attendees were visibly moved as stories were told of the individuals who were being honored for their extraordinary work in the service of others at the annual Northern Minnesota Region Red Cross Heroes Breakfast, held last Thursday at Target Field in downtown Minneapolis. (L-R) Savage police officers Todd Weinzierl and Frank Mackall with Craig Yolitz, vice president ...
Thursday 24th May 2012
Eagan second-shift employees gathered one evening last week to learn about Hmong culture and history at an event that included presentations by employee Charles Xiong, who works in Manufacturing Client Services, and his niece Alexandria Xiong, a former Thomson Reuters reference attorney who is now a solo practitioner. Part of the broader group of May ...
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Serengeti hosted the 2012 Serengeti Summit May 9-11, in an unseasonably warm and sunny Seattle. Eddie Pasatiempo, senior director of client services for Thomson Reuters, shared the shocking statistic that Seattle isn’t in the top 10 rainiest cities in the United States, based on total rainfall. (The city owns the top spot for the most number ...
Monday 14th May 2012
Here at Westlaw, we know that customers are at the heart of everything we do, which is why at this year’s New Jersey State Bar Annual Meeting on May 16-18 in Atlantic City we are making an extra effort to listen to you. We’re Listening @ WestlawSmallLaw is our program to inspire this conversation. We want ...
Tuesday 8th May 2012
One of the most important tasks when launching a brand, be it an entire company or a product line within, is to make sure that someone else hasn’t beat you to the punch on one of the most basic elements – the name. That’s where Thomson CompuMark comes in. You’ve always been able to count ...
Monday 7th May 2012
Recently, the Girl Scouts of U.S.A. celebrated their 100th anniversary. This organization was designed to help girls reach their full potential. At the event, Sharon Sayles Belton, Vice President of Community Relations and Government Affairs for Thomson Reuters, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and former Girl Scout was honored with the Trailblazer award. Sharon is the first African American and the ...
Monday 7th May 2012
Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw NZ, the latest development in online research for legal professionals in New Zealand. Westlaw NZ offers unrivaled content from case law and journals, legislation and commentary to precedents and news, as well as tax information. The technology behind the intuitive search capability within Westlaw NZ helps direct users to precise points ...
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
How well prepared are courts and the judicial system for natural and manmade disasters? Thomson Reuters and West LegalEdcenter support the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s Initiative on Disaster Preparedness and Response. As part of the initiative, in a podcast on Judicial Disaster Preparedness, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Government Affairs and Community Relations, interviewed ...
Monday 30th Apr 2012
Walk into any Thomson Reuters office, world-wide, and you will see concerted efforts and initiatives to thoughtfully incorporate environmental sustainability in the way we operate and conduct our business. Last week, employees from the Thomson Reuters Global Resources office in Baar, Switzerland, spent a day creating a new habitat for wildlife in their community by planting more than ...
Wednesday 25th Apr 2012
Thomson Reuters has announced the introduction of a new professional skills training program for lawyers in India. The Legal Advancement Program, the first of its kind in India, is specifically designed to prepare newly qualified lawyers for Day One of their professional career. With approximately 60,000 students graduating in law every year in India, it’s ...
Thursday 19th Apr 2012
Having learned the principles of lean manufacturing through his job at Thomson Reuters Eagan manufacturing, distribution and engineering (MD&E) plant, employee Scott Tierney applied the concepts to how he mows his 3-acre lawn, reducing the time it takes to complete the job from three hours to roughly two hours. And Tierney, who works in the ...
Wednesday 18th Apr 2012
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored by Thomson Reuters in ...
Wednesday 18th Apr 2012
FindLaw.com has retained its position as the top destination for consumers looking for legal information or an attorney via the web, according to recent data from comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, which found that nearly 40 percent more people used FindLaw.com than its closest competitor when searching for legal information or a ...
Wednesday 11th Apr 2012
Hubbard One, a leading provider of marketing and business development solutions and a Thomson Reuters business, just announced that international law firm Salans has chosen its OneView Connect solution as a new intranet platform. As firms grow internationally it becomes more and more important that they have quality intranet that can meet their clients’ needs. ...
Tuesday 10th Apr 2012
It can be difficult and time-consuming trying to keep up with the latest from the Supreme Court on important issues, such as the healthcare bill. To make it easier, Reuters recently launched its Case by Case site featuring an interactive graphic that offers insight into each case the Supreme Court tackles. Case by Case provides summaries of ...
Monday 9th Apr 2012
Earlier this week, we released our 2011 Annual Report in an interactive format available online at thomsonreuters.com. Along with information on the company’s financial performance as well as business unit overviews, this year’s annual report contains a variety of dynamic content including interviews with our new business leaders as well as stories of how we are building the ...
Sunday 1st Apr 2012
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored by Thomson Reuters in ...
Sunday 1st Apr 2012
Thomson Reuters Elite Director of Product Management Justin Farmer introduced the attendees of the 2012 Elite User Conference to 3E Mobile. The new mobile system was created as a native iOS app for the iPad®, as well as a mobile website allowing the ability to access 3E via any web-enabled mobile device. Legal Current caught ...
Friday 30th Mar 2012
Innovation is often viewed as the key to global economic prosperity. In all corners of the earth, executives, policy makers, government officials, politicians, teachers and entrepreneurs are talking about their hope for “innovation.” The topic is of equal interest to Thomson Reuters, and after tracking corporate and industry-specific innovation activity for several years we recently ...
Friday 30th Mar 2012
We’re having a lot of discussions with litigators here at ABA TECHSHOW about how automated tools can help streamline their workflow and improve productivity. The Westlaw Litigator team is showing their array of solutions, including Westlaw Case Notebook, Westlaw Drafting Assistant, Westlaw CaseLogistix, West Case Timelineand more, which provide a comprehensive suite of litigation tools. Some exciting announcements are on the way in ...
Friday 30th Mar 2012
One of the most interesting (and coolest!) products we’re showing at ABA TECHSHOW is our new eReader app – Thomson Reuters ProView. Since launching last year, we’ve added a Web browser version in addition to the original iPad app. ProView now has links to WestlawNext to check citations, and new tools to help organize your ProView library. ProView is the ...
Thursday 29th Mar 2012
Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced the addition of West km capabilities to the latest version of the WestlawNext iPad appTM. The app extends the power of WestlawNext, the award-winning legal research system, for customers in small law firms, government agencies, corporate law departments and large law ...
Thursday 29th Mar 2012
To celebrate the second anniversary of the WestlawNext launch and enhance the support of the more than 35,000 legal organizations using our next-generation legal research service, we have just introduced a new customer website for information and resources: WestlawNext.com. At this site, customers may access a variety of learning and support tools including user guides, training videos, ...
Tuesday 27th Mar 2012
IP & Science announced this week findings that the quality of dementia research in the UK is second in the world only to the US, despite the low number of scientists working in the field, and that finding a cure can be accelerated by increasing the number of researchers and investment, according to analysis done using ...
Monday 26th Mar 2012
Scott McCleskey, global head of financial services regulation, Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance, served as the moderator for a panel at the 2012 Global Ethics Summit, held March 15-16 in New York, discussing heavily regulated industries. The panel featured Mitchell Avnet, senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer, Lincoln Financial Group, and Tom ...
Thursday 22nd Mar 2012
thisphere Institute, a leading business ethics think-tank, announced their sixth annual World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies list, and Thomson Reuters was recognized as one of the 2012 WMEs for the fourth consecutive year. The WME honorees were honored at an awards dinner on March 15 in New York where former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine ...
Thursday 22nd Mar 2012
Thomson Reuters has relaunched The Brief, a monthly magazine and website designed to provide legal professionals with the hard-hitting news and analysis they need to better understand the trends and business developments in the Middle East’s legal sector. The Brief, a 40-50 page English language magazine acquired by Thomson Reuters last year, will feature key interviews ...
Wednesday 21st Mar 2012
During the 2012 Global Ethics Summit, Scott McCleskey, global head of financial services regulation, Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance, served as the moderator for a panel discussing the evolution of the chief ethics and compliance officer. The panel featured a group covering multiple industries and years of experience, including: Elliott Fisch, director-internal audit and chief ...
Tuesday 20th Mar 2012
Program Director of Hildebrandt Institute’s Peer Monitor, Mark Medice, recently contributed a post to the ABA Journal blog, Legal Rebels, highlighting new approaches and trends seen in law firm management. Today, law firms are pressed to find ways to deliver legal services to their clients more efficiently in an effort to better position themselves in a challenging and volatile market ...
Friday 16th Mar 2012
Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, moderated a session at the recent Global Ethics Summit in New York. The panel, Tone from the Top, a Conversation with Chief Executive Officers, featured Jack Domme, chief executive officer, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), and Jules Kroll, chairman and chief executive officer, Kroll Bond Ratings, Inc. The conversation began ...
Thursday 15th Mar 2012
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance has launched Accelus Compliance Manager, a single platform for tracking, monitoring and understanding regulatory changes and connecting them to a business’ internal compliance process and workflow. Accelus Compliance Manager connects the five key stages of compliance: understand, evaluate and map regulatory risk; identify, monitor and track regulatory change; define and communicate controls; ...
Wednesday 14th Mar 2012
Some of the more prominent coverage includes articles by MSN, San Francisco Chronicle, Buffalo Business First, KPLU and The Austin Lafferty Blog. January has long been perceived as “Divorce Month.” However, Findlaw.com recently released study results that showed searches for “divorce” and related phrases such as “family law” and “child custody” jumped 50 percent – from December 2010 to January 2011, and continued ...
Wednesday 14th Mar 2012
by Tim Erblich, executive vice president, Ethisphere Institute Every year companies face new challenges in developing and adopting “best practices” in their ethics and compliance policies as new and important laws are enacted around the world, and as prosecutors enforce formerly dormant laws with increasing regularity From the recent attention the FCPA has received, a ...
Thursday 8th Mar 2012
Thomson Reuters ProView has now added Web browser access in addition to its iPad eReader app. ProView is the leading professional-grade eReader application with advanced features like full-text search and content updating. The latest version of ProView, now available for iPad on the Apple App Store, now allows users in the U.S. to view and verify citations through WestlawNext. eBooks ...
Tuesday 6th Mar 2012
Thomson Reuters has launched two new versions of CLEAR, its powerful public and proprietary records search product suite: CLEAR for Enhanced Due Diligence and CLEAR for Government Fraud. CLEAR for Enhanced Due Diligence is a comprehensive solution for customers in anti-money laundering enhanced due diligence and corporate security markets that brings together key information on ...
Thursday 23rd Feb 2012
The WestlawNext iPad app gives lawyers and law students access to their legal research anytime, anywhere – even offline. The ability to take your research with you, wherever you go, is just one of the reasons why the WestlawNext app for the iPad made it on OnlineCollege.org’s list of the top 25 Game-Changing iPad apps. ...
Friday 17th Feb 2012
The passing of Bill Rutter, founder of The Rutter Group and BAR/BRI Bar Review and highly respected member of the California legal community, has prompted an outpouring of memorials from literally hundreds of leading practitioners and jurists. Bill was a luminary in legal writing and education, and his Rutter Group Practice Guides have provided essential ...
Wednesday 15th Feb 2012
It is with great sadness that we report our former colleague, Bill Rutter, passed away peacefully on Feb. 2, 2012. Bill was the founder of The Rutter Group, a Thomson Reuters business based in California, specializing in state and federal Rutter Group Practice Guides. In 1979, Bill founded The Rutter Group, where he devoted his ...
Monday 30th Jan 2012
LegalTech New York 2012 has kicked off! We’re looking forward to an exciting three days learning about the latest in legal technology. Andy Martens, senior vice president of New Product Development, talks about some of what’s in store for LegalTech this year. If you’re at the conference, please stop by the Thomson Reuters booth. For ...
Wednesday 25th Jan 2012
Super Lawyers is announcing eight recipients of its newly created Pro Bono Award. The award honors legal professionals, students and institutions that exemplify excellence in the practice of law through offering volunteer legal services to the poor, disadvantaged or exploited. From providing free legal counsel to Hawaii’s most vulnerable citizens, to combating human trafficking, to aiding ...
Wednesday 25th Jan 2012
Attendees were offered numerous sessions that included such topics as mobile web versus mobile apps, the cloud, collaboration, Android versus iOS development, and more. During the internal conference, James Powell, chief technology officer for Thomson Reuters, gave the keynote address about the central role of technology at Thomson Reuters. At the external conference, attendees received ...
Tuesday 24th Jan 2012
CLE content from NACDL (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) is now on West LegalEdCenter. NACDL’s CLE offerings, which feature nationally-recognized speakers addressing the most current and relative issues in the criminal defense community, is available to NACDL members and other attorneys.
Monday 23rd Jan 2012
Thomson Reuters announced today it has joined the elite roster of the Minnesota Twins, serving as the title sponsor for the Champions Club. The Thomson Reuters Champions Club is an exclusive, premium club and seating area that offers numerous benefits and amenities to its guests. As part of the multi-year partnership, Thomson Reuters will receive signage throughout the ...
Thursday 19th Jan 2012
Sign up for the WestlawNext Tip of the Week and you’ll receive a weekly research tip delivered directly to your email inbox. Check out this week’s tip to start you off. Also, visit WestlawNext.com/tipoftheweek to: – Subscribe to our free weekly email – Browse the archives for past tips either by date or topic – Submit suggestions for product changes or ...
Tuesday 17th Jan 2012
Carter Phillips, managing partner of Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Super Lawyers Advisory Board, has argued more cases before the U.S. Supreme Court than any other attorney currently in private practice. And just this week, he was at it again, this time representing Fox Television in a case involving the limitations of ...
Wednesday 4th Jan 2012
Recently Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations, spoke to a group of law librarians who are part of a pilot group testing the new Thomson Reuters ProView eReader. Her key take-aways on the evolution of technology in the law library, and library management, are highlighted in a recent Legal Rebels post at ABA.com. Whether conducting a spot check of court rules with ProView, ...
Friday 30th Dec 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, we take a quick look back on some of the most popular posts, videos and podcasts of the year. So here it goes, our Top 11 of 2011: 1. “The Game” stuns attendees at legal marketing awards program 2. AALL Gets First Look at New eReader Application: Thomson Reuters ProView 3. Thomson ...
Thursday 29th Dec 2011
An exceptional student at the top of his law class, Amar Jain is on the right track for a successful legal career in his home country of India. It’s not just his academic achievements that make Amar out of the ordinary though. The 4th year student stands out from his peers at Mumbai’s Government Law College because ...
Wednesday 28th Dec 2011
As we count down the final days of 2011, we recall some of the momentous happenings in the courts during the past year. It’s clear that 2011 was a big year for criminal trials and proceedings. As reported on the FindLaw Blotter blog, Lindsay Lohan was in and out of court (and rehab). Barry Bonds finally stood trial. Rod Blagojevich was convicted again. And ...
Monday 19th Dec 2011
The Thomson Reuters Eagan campus was recently honored as a Yellow Ribbon Company. Maj. Gen. David J. Elicerio, commander of the 34th Infantry “Red Bull” Division of the Minnesota Army National Guard, presented the award in a ceremony Friday, Dec. 16. Rick King, chief operating officer, Technology, Thomson Reuters, accepted the award on behalf of the company. ...
Tuesday 13th Dec 2011
Thomson Reuters announced today it has launched a dynamic interactive online tool offering comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011-12 term. Case by Case: The U.S. Supreme Court, accessed at www.reuters.com/supreme-court/2011-2012, combines original reporting from Thomson Reuters News & Insights (www.newsandinsight.com) with links to an extensive collection of analysis and legal materials, including motions, briefs and opinions, all ...
Monday 12th Dec 2011
With the launch of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global InnovatorSM program, Thomson Reuters has recognized the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation activity. The 100 global innovator companies are geographically dispersed, with representation from the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The methodology for choosing the global innovators is based on four principle criteria: patent ...
Monday 12th Dec 2011
eReaders are all the rage these days, but until now, there hasn’t been an eReader app that was built from the ground up for professional use. Thomson Reuters ProView eReader app for the iPad is now available at the Westlaw Store. ProView has professional-grade features including: – Full-text search using the same Boolean search technology that powers Westlaw and WestlawNext ...
Friday 9th Dec 2011
The causes of Parkinson’s disease are still largely a mystery. Thomson Reuters has received a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to create and publish the world’s most comprehensive source of biological maps for Parkinson’s disease. The project aims to identify possible causes of Parkinson’s disease by mapping biological mutations of the Leucine-rich repeat kinase ...
Thursday 8th Dec 2011
What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android. Black’s is available as an Android App and ...
Tuesday 6th Dec 2011
It’s been quite a year for WestlawNext and the WestlawNext iPad app, both of which continue to add new functionality, as well as gather industry awards and acclaim. The latest enhancements to the iPad app help the user while working offline — an important consideration given the tremendous mobility & portability that the tablet format provides. The app lets users save ...
Tuesday 6th Dec 2011
Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the winners of the first annual TrustLaw Awards. These are held in recognition of the best TrustLaw pro bono projects undertaken jointly by the legal profession, NGOs or social entrepreneurs in three categories; impact, innovation ...
Tuesday 6th Dec 2011
Personal QR Codes and SearchMe Buttons for Google are some of the new tools that attorneys and firms can use to manage their online identities while conveying a new tech-savvy image. Hubbard One today announced that through the integration of Vizibility software on Hubbard One websites, legal professionals can easily control, organize and share their online identities, from verified Google results to hand-picked ...
Friday 2nd Dec 2011
The National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) announced the 2011 Thomson Reuters Scholarship winners at their annual convention, held recently in Minneapolis. Mary K. Hanson from Sacramento, CA, who is a paralegal student at Heald College, received highest honors and the $3000 scholarship. Her scholarship described her path to the paralegal program from the foreclosure ...
Thursday 1st Dec 2011
FindLaw.com is introducing FindLaw Legal Pulse, a new content area that offers continuously updated legal headlines from around the world, along with news, photo feeds and analysis from such sources as Reuters, the Associated Press, New York Times and Washington Post. The content covers a broad range of law-related topics—everything from Supreme Court decisions to legislative ...
Wednesday 23rd Nov 2011
Westlaw AU, a new online legal research service for legal professionals in Australia has just launched. Westlaw AU offers content from case law and journals, legislation and commentary to precedents, encyclopaedia and news, as well as legal and tax information. Built upon Westlaw technology, Westlaw AU is developed specifically for Australian customers and is modeled after ...
Wednesday 23rd Nov 2011
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts and the region’s leading legal research experts, Thomson Reuters Westlaw Gulf, held the first “Women in the Law & Judiciary” panel discussion in the region this week. “Attracting and retaining women in the legal profession is a key challenge. This event offers an invaluable platform for some of the ...
Tuesday 22nd Nov 2011
Hundreds of tweets…204 written comments…10 executive listening sessions… dozens of video interviews….and 1,500 pairs of orange sunglasses. Those were the stats from the “We’re Listening @ ONESOURCE” booth, where attendees at Tax & Accounting’s ONESOURCE user conference were able to provide feedback to Thomson Reuters about our products, services and anything else on their mind. “We’re Listening” ...
Friday 18th Nov 2011
Our firm has been in existence for more than 25 years, helping local and national businesses and other organizations. Many of our attorneys came from larger, inner-city firms. We’ve developed into a firm where many of our clients aren’t large enough to have their own in-house counsel, and as a result, we often act not ...
Friday 18th Nov 2011
Thomson Reuters partnered with the United Nations and Freedom Now recently to create the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Search database, introduced in a ceremony in Paris earlier this week. This publicly available database contains more than 650 opinions from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and will serve as a valuable resource supporting ...
Thursday 17th Nov 2011
The WestlawNext iPad app has been very successful in recent months, with 264% user growth since June! The WestlawNext iPad app even won the National Law Journal Best of Legal Times survey as the best legal research iPad app. Based on user feedback, version 2.2.0 was released in September, and version 2.3 launched November 9. The new version includes: – The ...
Friday 11th Nov 2011
He was a burly man, easily standing more than six feet tall, a military veteran who’d been hardened by life on the streets. Yet, there he stood, with tears streaming down his face, as he heard the voice of the twin sister he hadn’t spoken to in nearly 20 years. This vignette is just one ...
Monday 7th Nov 2011
Three customers from Thomson Reuters Risk, Fraud and Investigations business were selected as winners of the first-ever Hero Award for their submissions of compelling success stories brought about through the use of one of Thomson Reuters public records search products: CLEAR, Westlaw PeopleMap or Batch Services. The Hero Award recognizes how these products promote societal ...
Sunday 6th Nov 2011
Today marks the launch of the Small Law Lifestyle website. Over the past several months, a team from Thomson Reuters has been talking with customers and found that many small law attorneys bring a certain passion to everything they do – whether it is in the office, the courtroom, or interests outside of work. The more we listened, ...
Friday 4th Nov 2011
As if guided by the unofficial U.S. Postal Service mantra, neither rain or shine, nor snow and sleet could stop the 2000-plus general and corporate counsel attendees from the Denver Conference Center for the ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel) Annual Meeting held Oct. 23-26. During the conference, attendees truly weathered the elements: a sun-filled record high ...
Friday 4th Nov 2011
This coming January (4-8), the 29th annual National CLE & Ski Conference will be held in Snowmass, Colo. This conference offers topical CLE courses from expert speakers and easy access to world class skiing. Along with a WestlawNext Workshop, during which an expert consultant will assist you in conducting your own research, we also offer a complimentary CLE course providing an overview ...
Monday 31st Oct 2011
You may remember that earlier this year we kicked off the “We’re Listening” program at the Elite User Conference in Washington D.C. This program was designed to give customers a way to communicate feedback on our products and services directly to our business leaders. This week we are turning up the heat on this initiative as we ...
Friday 28th Oct 2011
Thomson Reuters ProViewTM, the new professional eReader application for the iPadTM is now available from Carswell. Practitioner’s Income Tax Act 2011, 40th Editionand La Loi du Praticien – Loi de l’impôt sur le revenue, 24e édition, Canada’s most comprehensive tax reference guides, are the first titles available on Thomson Reuters ProView. ProView is the first professional-grade eReader application on the ...
Wednesday 26th Oct 2011
The Eagan, Minn., campus of Thomson Reuters was honored as a “highly protected risk” (HPR) on Tuesday, Oct. 25, a worldwide insurance industry-recognized classification for best-in-class facilities. The HPR award, presented by the company’s property insurance firm FM Global , indicates a facility where personnel apply best practices in loss prevention and facility protection against ...
Wednesday 26th Oct 2011
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that just only 11.6 percent of attorneys in the U.S. are from a population of color. The picture is even less encouraging when you couple that with the recent National Association for Law Placement data that shows that 87 percent of racially or ethnically diverse law firm associates leave ...
Monday 24th Oct 2011
I’m really looking forward to this year’s ACC meeting in Denver. It’s always a great place to re-connect with in-house counsel we’ve worked with during the year and to meet GCs who are eager to share best practices. This year we can also expect to see the beginning of new approaches from the new team ...
Friday 21st Oct 2011
A new business intelligence and analytics tool has been added to WestlawNext™ – the next-generation legal research service from Thomson Reuters. Matter Benchmark Reports, powered by Serengeti Intelligence, is a unique and dynamic benchmarking system giving law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies the ability to make data driven decisions based on actual, timely information For ...
Friday 14th Oct 2011
Serengeti Law, a Thomson Reuters business and provider of Serengeti TrackerTM – the legal profession’s most widely used and highest rated e-billing and matter management platform – announced the launch of a powerful new business intelligence tool for legal departments and outside counsel: Serengeti Intelligence™. Easily accessed from within Serengeti Tracker’s existing workflows, Serengeti Intelligence is the ...
Tuesday 4th Oct 2011
One of our most distinguished authors passed away recently. Harold S. “Hal” Bloomenthal, scholar, practitioner, and author, was considered a dean of West’s Securities Law Library. Having practiced in the areas of corporate and securities law since 1955, Hal’s titles included: Securities Law Handbook, Emerging Trends in Securities Law, Securities and Federal Corporate Law 2d, International Capital Markets and Securities ...
Monday 3rd Oct 2011
Elite, a Thomson Reuters business, has acquired FWBS, the leading provider of matter-management solutions for law firms in the United Kingdom. The acquisition will enable Elite to extend its financial management applications with a robust core matter management capability as well as strengthen the company’s growing presence in the APAC and EMEA regions. Check out ...
Thursday 22nd Sep 2011
The Dodd-Frank act has resulted in a heightened level of scrutiny that corporations must adapt to. However many executives and their counsel are still unsure about deadlines, due dates and disclosures. For this reason, on Monday, Sept. 26 from noon to 1 p.m. EDT West LegalEdCenter will present a live webcast on corporate governance issues arising from ...
Wednesday 21st Sep 2011
Want to be the WestlawNext expert at your firm? Need a few pointers on how to conduct Boolean searches? Look no further than the WestlawNext Tip of the Week – a weekly email that provides quick, practical research tips on using WestlawNext. Each tip contains valuable knowledge to help maximize efficiency and gain a competitive ...
Wednesday 14th Sep 2011
The New York Law Journal released their 2011 Reader Rankings and four Thomson Reuters businesses were named as the top vendor in their respective categories. In the technology area, Serengeti Law took top honors for the best matter management system. Pangea3 took the best legal process outsourcing title in the consulting and outsourcing division. In the research arena, WestlawNext was named the best ...
Monday 12th Sep 2011
Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, has launched its inaugural issue of Business Edition, bringing its well-known, proprietary attorney rating service and award-winning editorial content into the offices and boardrooms of the corporate world. The Business Edition issue will reach 40,000 decision-makers working for in-house legal departments at Fortune 1000 companies across the nation, as well as employees ...
Wednesday 7th Sep 2011
The ABA Journal recently announced the 2011 Legal Rebels and chose 10 individuals from the legal profession that have, in many ways, changed the rules. One in particular, David Perla, CEO of Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business and the global leader in legal outsourcing, was selected to the list. You can learn more about Perla by ...
Friday 26th Aug 2011
Senator Al Franken talks with Rick King, CTO of the Professional Division On Friday, Aug. 19, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president, Government Affairs and Corporate Responsibility for Thomson Reuters Professional division welcomed Minnesota’s junior senator, Al Franken, to the Eagan campus to meet with the Government Affairs staff and discuss his legislative priorities with employees. ...
Friday 26th Aug 2011
The ILTA 2011 Conference finished with the annual ILTA Awards Dinner at the Gaylord Opryland. While we were sorry to see the conference come to an end, the evening and conference were capped off with Hubbard One receiving the “Vendor Implementation of the Year” award. The award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by a vendor organization ...
Thursday 18th Aug 2011
With the Disaster Preparedness and Response CLE (continuing legal education) series kicking off in less than a month, the American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), in partnership with Thomson Reuters, is announcing a unique way for students to get involved. A special Law Student Writing Competition will coincide with the ...
Wednesday 17th Aug 2011
As a broad and varied business, Thomson Reuters has a lot to contribute, both at an individual level – volunteering for causes and charities in our neighborhoods – and as a business – supporting emerging democracies around the world. But ultimately, it is the employees that make a company, and the 2010 Corporate Responsibility report ...
Monday 8th Aug 2011
We’ve got a great episode this month! Our interview segment features Owen Nee, the first person to open a Western law firm in China. Owen describes the legal landscape in China and how it compares to that in the US. He also tells us about his career, which is made up of many “firsts.” In ...
Thursday 4th Aug 2011
The Twin Cities chapter of the American Red Cross was formed in 1915 and provides relief to local victims of fires, floods, tornadoes and other disaster situations. They help anyone affected by an unexpected crisis, assisting with emergency housing, food, clothing, emergency medical supplies, essential household furnishing and supplies, professional mental health counseling, and other ...
Tuesday 2nd Aug 2011
The underlying goal of all operations at Thomson Reuters is to put the right information into the right hands to produce amazing results, and we achieved this goal with the creation of WestlawNext. However, this revolutionary product required a dynamic and efficient storage foundation to deliver the search capabilities and customer experience we strive for. ...
Monday 25th Jul 2011
Hot times in Philly! With temperatures and humidity in the unbearable range outside, things are heating up in the AALL convention as well. The new Saturday night opening reception was a big hit with attendees. While I think it was due to the great products at the Thomson Reuters booth… it might also have had ...
Sunday 24th Jul 2011
Taking center stage at the Thomson Reuters booth at AALL this year are ProView, the new eReader software application designed specifically to meet the needs of legal professionals, and WestlawNext Patron Access, a version of WestlawNext developed for the public-library setting. Thomson Reuters ProView will allow users to access ProView digital eBooks anywhere, anytime with ...
Sunday 24th Jul 2011
In March, The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) announced that it had named WestlawNext as its New Product of the Year for 2011. And last night AALL Annual Meeting & Conference attendees formally recognized WestlawNext during the association’s awards program held during a reception in the Exhibit Hall. Mike Dahn, sr. vp, WestlawNext Marketing ...
Sunday 24th Jul 2011
On Saturday night, right after the exhibit hall ribbon cutting kicked off this year’s AALL conference, we had a kickoff of our own, as Dan Bennett, senior director, Mobile Technology Strategy, showed the new Thomson Reuters ProView eReader application. As attendees looked on, Bennett ran the new app through its paces, showing how it allows ...
Tuesday 19th Jul 2011
In an era of Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley and a seemingly endless list of other regulatory requirements, businesses have to sort through an almost equally long list of potential solutions. Gartner’s new 2011 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Platforms report sorts through many of the available enterprise solutions, including Thomson Reuters Accelus, which was positioned in the ...
Tuesday 12th Jul 2011
In response to the global catastrophic events of the past decade – including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear meltdown and cyber-terrorism – The American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), in partnership with Thomson Reuters, announced the launch of a year-long (2011-2012) ...
Friday 1st Jul 2011
It’s been a few weeks since Elite hosted its annual User Conference in Washington, DC at the Gaylord National Hotel. There was an energetic vibe this year as firms loaded up on educational sessions, viewed new products, and participated in the “We’re Listening @ Elite” activities including a live Twitter feed (see all the updates ...
Thursday 30th Jun 2011
A recent story on Thomson Reuters News & Insight Legal showed the powerful impact that can result from combining world-class reporting with the top-notch legal research content available in Westlaw. The story, Special Report: A little house of secrets on the Great Plains, ran in news outlets far and wide, including Yahoo! News, The Chicago Tribune and The West Australian. Additionally, the story ...
Tuesday 21st Jun 2011
The Elite User Conference wrapped up three fantastic days of speakers, sessions and networking with a 70s style soirée featuring music from KC and the Sunshine Band. With the full-blown rock concert setup, neon spandex covered seats and groovy mood lighting it was hard to believe that the “far out” disco was the same ballroom ...
Tuesday 21st Jun 2011
Announced in today’s news release, more than 1,200 donated legal texts have arrived in Lusaka, Zambia, showcasing the tangible benefits of the partnership between Thomson Reuters and the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Books For Africa. These legal texts will be the cornerstone of law libraries serving the nation’s law schools and governing institutions. This donation is ...
Thursday 16th Jun 2011
On Wednesday morning we were lucky enough to host Ari Kaplan, a West author and professional networking guru, who took time out of his current book tour to stop at Thomson Reuters. Ari spoke about creating and building a network, the skills it takes to work the career ladder, and his new book – Reinventing Professional Services: ...
Wednesday 15th Jun 2011
Learning about your Nation’s Capitol can be fun – especially when you’re being led by a witty guide. Last night, 2011 Elite User Conference attendees went on a three hour Monuments by Moonlight tour packed with spectacular monuments and memorials. The various groups were guided through sites such as the White House, the Capitol, Lincoln ...
Wednesday 15th Jun 2011
Any profession has their own set of challenges, and for many lawyers, tracking and accounting for their time ranks at the top of the list. The task of tracking all that lawyers do, who they do the work for and how long it takes can be very time- consuming and distract them from their legal ...
Tuesday 14th Jun 2011
“The most important part of this conference is for our team to talk with as many of you as possible,” said Kim Massana, president of Elite, to conference attendees at the opening session of day two of the Elite User Conference. “We want to know what is working well and more importantly what we could ...
Monday 13th Jun 2011
Today kicks off the 2011 Elite User Conference and this year we hope that you will Be Inspiredby some new ways to communicate. As always, we have an exciting agenda which will allow you to connect with others in the industry, learn more about the ways our Elite products and services are evolving to support you, and provide ...
Monday 13th Jun 2011
Self-proclaimed sports nut and best-selling author Ross Bernstein kicked-off the Elite User Conference today with a high-energy address about how the unwritten rules, or codes, in sports relate to the business world. “The business game has changed,” said Bernstein. “Enron and Bernie Madoff show us that a decimal point can make a big difference.” He said that ...
Monday 13th Jun 2011
Well, that session was well attended! Standing room only for the overview of 3E for Enterprise users. I explained the format was to be a highlight of some of the major differences that exist within 3E, as compared to Enterprise and Webview. We had two projectors running, one with Enterprise and the other with 3E ...
Monday 13th Jun 2011
Alternative fee arrangements, cutting costs and keeping “the right” talent were at the top of the list for more than two dozen clients who attended the Executive Level Briefing earlier today at the 2011 Elite User Conference. Mark Medice, program head for Peer Monitor from Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, started off the session with an intriguing ...
Wednesday 8th Jun 2011
Have you ever reached a research roadblock at 2 a.m.? If you have, you’re not alone. That’s why we have West Reference Attorneys to the rescue 24/7 to help you with any legal research need. In addition to our 1-800 number (which is 1-800-REF-ATTY for those of you who don’t yet have us on speed-dial), ...
Monday 6th Jun 2011
On June 2, Senator Amy Klobuchar made a stop at the Thomson Reuters campus in Eagan, Minn. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Senator Klobuchar for many years, beginning during my tenure as Mayor of Minneapolis – Senator Klobuchar was serving as the Hennepin County District Attorney at the same time. Senator Klobuchar met ...
Friday 3rd Jun 2011
Pangea3, the global leader in legal process outsourcing, is opening a new office in suburban Dallas, Texas. This move is part of a broader strategy by Thomson Reuters to expand its footprint in the growing legal process outsourcing market with new pan-global, cost-effective services that meet the changing needs of the legal marketplace, and of ...
Thursday 19th May 2011
What would you do if someone knocked on your door and handed you a giant check for US$100,000? Scream? Cry? Jump up and down? For one lucky employee, all she could do was stare in disbelief. “I was just stunned,” says Andrea O’Shea, a senior publishing specialist from Legal Editorial Operations in the US Law ...
Friday 13th May 2011
Announced in today’s news release, Thomson Reuters has launched a website and mobile app for New York-based legal practitioners that bring together cutting-edge news from Reuters, the global news leader, with unmatched legal analysis and materials from Westlaw, the leader in legal research. This new offering, launched under the broader Thomson Reuters News & Insight suite, covers everything from the ...
Tuesday 10th May 2011
Waiting on hold is admittedly no one’s favorite part of interacting with a business. But, with the implementation of a new service called Virtual Hold in our call centers that support many of our legal businesses, our customers will now have the option to bypass waiting on the line. Virtual Hold is designed to enhance the customers’ ...
Thursday 28th Apr 2011
Last Friday, a Twin Cities-based Reuters journalist, David Bailey, sat down with a television reporter from southern Brazil, Mayra Pereira Chagas, who was touring our Eagan facility as part of the 2011 Rotary International Group Study Exchange, hosted by the Eagan Rotary. Over quiche, salad and flourless chocolate torte, the two discussed their profession, and ...
Wednesday 27th Apr 2011
The Financial Times asked to interview our CEO Tom Glocer to mark the third anniversary of Thomson Reuters. The newspaper has followed our progress since the day we became Thomson Reuters on April 17, 2008. Watch this video interview with Tom on FT.com. You can also read an interview that Tom gave The Financial Times newspaper (Please note: ...
Friday 22nd Apr 2011
Our Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business has launched the company’s newest signature brand, Thomson Reuters Accelus. A comprehensive suite of solutions that address the GRC challenges of audit, compliance, legal, and risk management professionals, Thomson Reuters Accelus offers numerous solution areas and a diverse array of products. Watch a video with David Craig, president, Governance, Risk and Compliance, ...
Thursday 21st Apr 2011
Year after year, FindLaw.com remains the preferred website consumers go to when they need legal information or an attorney, and 2010 was no exception. According to the latest data from comScore, the leading provider of digital media intelligence, FindLaw.com again came out well ahead of its competitors last year. For more information, check out the news release.
Thursday 21st Apr 2011
When Greg Groenjes, a manager in Manufacturing, Distribution & Engineering in Eagan, Minn., went out to see a movie with his wife one chilly evening in February, he anticipated that the only action scenes playing out would be on the screen. But by the night’s end, Greg was a real-life crime fighting hero. After viewing a movie ...
Thursday 14th Apr 2011
Women are 14 percent more likely than men to select environmentally friendly packaging over non-“green,” more-convenient alternatives, according to a recent study of more than 1,000 adults commissioned by our IP Solutions business. This finding is part of an intellectual property report released by Thomson Reuters, World IP Today: Convenience vs. Conscience – Food Packaging in ...
Tuesday 12th Apr 2011
A story that all too often ends in tragedy instead ended in triumph when a little girl, abducted from her home in a small Texas town, was safely reunited with her family. This happy ending is due in part to Thomson Reuters’ powerful investigative platform CLEAR – a search tool encompassing a vast collection of public and ...
Thursday 7th Apr 2011
Most Americans are opposed to the notion of homeowners simply walking away from their mortgage, says a new FindLaw survey. Also called a “strategic default,” some homeowners are choosing to voluntarily stop making their monthly mortgage payments, often because they cannot make the required monthly payments because of unemployment or other circumstances, or because the ...
Thursday 7th Apr 2011
Today, Thomson Reuters announced the launch of Revista dos Tribunais Online – Brazil’s first online legal research service. It is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind product that gives legal professionals a full view of Brazilian legal information and promises to dramatically increase productivity for legal professionals across the country, which is second only to the United States ...
Tuesday 5th Apr 2011
After months of surveys, focus groups and detailed user testing, all aimed at improving the intuitiveness of west.thomson.com, West Store is open for business. West Store is easy to use and a bit easier to look at, too. The simplified home page allows for easier navigation, and users will be able to search for products and services ...
Friday 1st Apr 2011
The following is a guest post from Super Lawyers contributor and freelance journalist Martin Kuz, detailing his experience as a fellow at the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution. Last month I had the good fortune to attend the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, a three-day fellowship program devoted to examining that hoary document’s sustained ...
Thursday 31st Mar 2011
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) announced that it has named WestlawNext™ as its New Product of the Year for 2011. As you can imagine, we’re delighted. In the news release announcing the award, Mike Dahn, chief marketing and product development officer, Westlaw U.S. (and a former law librarian, himself), said: “The WestlawNext team is honored to be ...
Monday 28th Mar 2011
Here at Legal Current we definitely value great writing, which is why we are pleased to applaud the five Thomson Reuters winners of the American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Best in Business awards for 2010. Check out our corporate blog, The Knowledge Effect, to learn more.
Thursday 24th Mar 2011
Don’t worry if you missed the live streaming video from last week’s social media and the law panel discussion that took part on our Eagan, Minn. campus because there’s still time to join the discussion. Once again we are teaming up with the Minneapolis/St. Paul Social Media Breakfast folks to host our first Twitter chat today, Thursday, ...
Thursday 24th Mar 2011
Thank you to everyone who participated in our inaugural Twitter chat today on social media and the law. If you missed out, don’t worry, the entire transcript can be found here. Legal Current hosted the event in partnership with the Minneapolis/St. Paul Social Media Breakfast and I think everyone in attendance would agree that it was a ...
Monday 21st Mar 2011
Social media, the law and bacon all came together last Friday morning as Thomson Reuters played host to more than 120 social media aficionados and members of Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis/St. Paul (SMBMSP). This forum of bloggers from private and public sectors gather monthly to dish on topics over breakfast (always including bacon), and then ...
Thursday 17th Mar 2011
Day one of the Ethisphere Institute’s Global Ethics Summit, co-hosted by Thomson Reuters, wrapped up with a panel discussion on the challenges of compliance in highly regulated industries. I had the privilege of moderating this panel, which included Douglas Lankler, chief compliance and risk officer at Pfizer; Alan Yuspeh, chief ethics and compliance officer at HCA Group; and ...
Wednesday 16th Mar 2011
All eyes have been focused on Japan these past few days as the country deals with the damage and aftermath of one of the most devastating natural disasters that the world has ever seen. Our corporate blog, The Knowledge Effect, has been covering this event all week. Check out the news round-up, featuring some of the most ...
Monday 14th Mar 2011
In today’s global economy, issues of business ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability take on global dimensions as well. Thomson Reuters is teaming up with the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think tank, to host the third annual Global Ethics Summit. Leaders from more than 40 global companies will be speaking on this year’s theme of effective ...
Tuesday 8th Mar 2011
As part of the celebration of Black History Month, Justice Pam Alexander, who served as a Hennepin (Minn.) County District Court Judge for 25 years and is now president of the Council on Crime and Justice, visited our Eagan, Minnesota campus to speak to employees on the impact that race continues to have on the criminal ...
Monday 7th Mar 2011
It’s been said there’s a big difference between information and insight. These days, there’s no shortage of online “news”. To help busy professionals in the legal, tax and accounting and science markets cut through all the clutter and find the information they really need, Thomson Reuters is launching a new professional news initiative that combines the world-class ...
Monday 7th Mar 2011
I don’t know about you, but I know that my Google Reader account gets pretty full by the end of the week, and it can sometimes be overwhelming to stay up-to-date with the plethora of news and information. To make it easier to keep up, we are introducing a new weekly blog series featuring some ...
Thursday 3rd Mar 2011
Whether we’re aware of it or not, the U.S. Constitution has a profound influence on every single moment of our lives, says Martin Kuz, a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to the Thomson Reuters-owned publications, Super Lawyers. This weekend, Kuz will spend three days examining the 223-year-old document and the impact that it has on the practice ...
Thursday 24th Feb 2011
Our Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business is contributing to TrustLaw – our Foundation’s hub for free legal assistance, news and information on pro bono, anti-corruption and women’s rights – with member screening. GRC’s approach to screening is unique and trusted across the industry. Check out why it was a natural fit with the TrustLaw service. Thomson ...
Wednesday 23rd Feb 2011
Truly inspiring stories are everywhere; you just need to look for them. But for Paul Rosario, a project manager in our Governance, Risk & Compliance group, sharing his inspirational life story with strangers on a fairly regular basis is a way for him to give back to the organization that changed his life – the Make-A-Wish ...
Thursday 17th Feb 2011
Westlaw’s fingerprints will soon be found on Kosovo’s fledging legal system, thanks to Thomson Reuters’ decision to grant a local judge’s request for free access to the legal research service, according to a story reported in the Star Tribune yesterday. The well-respected and recently retired Dakota County district court judge Robert Carolan, who has offered his expertise to the ...
Thursday 17th Feb 2011
One can argue that personal anonymity is a thing of the past now that nearly everything can be found online. Sites like Google Earth show you pictures of your street, Four Square can tell you whether you’re home or at work and from Twitter you can even find out what someone had for lunch last ...
Wednesday 16th Feb 2011
The Dodd-Frank Reform Act, recently signed into law, is ushering in some of the most pervasive changes in securities laws potentially since the 30s, says Gerald Lins, general counsel of ING Investment Management Americas in New York, and co-author of the 2011 edition of Regulation of Investment Advisers. Watch the brief video below to hear Lins ...
Monday 14th Feb 2011
Two recent newspaper articles highlight Thomson Reuters’ continuing commitment to communities both far: The rule of law will be an essential ingredient for building the democracy that the people of Egypt long for, and local groups such as Books for Africa and its Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative can have a powerful impact, wrote ...
Friday 4th Feb 2011
Every year beginning in 2009, a prestigious award has been bestowed upon a member of the Thomson Reuters, Legal Sales and Account Management organization in honor of Stu Wolfer, a sales representative serving firms in Idaho and Montana who was also in the United States Army Reserve. Wolfer was a motivated and highly successful sales ...
Thursday 3rd Feb 2011
LegalTech is typically about the quick demo. You have five minutes to razzle, and maybe another minute to dazzle. Back in the suite you might add 30 percent to these times, but the concept is the same: limited time for maximum impact to a broad audience. To some degree, this held true this year as ...
Thursday 3rd Feb 2011
LegalTech New York ended yesterday addressing key issues such as legal project management, e-discovery, creating efficiencies and excellence for clients, and the technologies that are shaping the legal industry. One of the last sessions of the day included Steve Fletcher, chief information officer, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, and Meredith Williams, director of knowledge ...
Thursday 3rd Feb 2011
The CIO Forum at LegalTech 2011 featured a shared focus on both the technical aspects of data management and security at law firms, as well as the competitive edge that law firms need to develop to attract clients who are demanding increasing levels of confidence about the security of their data. Though law firms are ...
Thursday 3rd Feb 2011
I have one word to describe LegalTech 2011 and that’s wow! Being that this was my first Legal Tech experience, I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d heard from some of my colleagues who are long-time LegalTech attendees how great the panel discussions are, how the tradeshow floor is always a buzz and how there’s ...
Tuesday 1st Feb 2011
Every year at LegalTech there seems to be something that’s the “buzz” of the show. Generally this is a new product, or new product release, or it’s a new generation of technology that has the promise of ‘revolutionizing’ some element of discovery. This year, while there are several new product releases and technological advancements, the ...
Tuesday 1st Feb 2011
This guest post was written by Kendra Mancusi, marketing manager – Litigation. As I reviewed my notes from the first day of LegalTech, I realized how much time was spent in sessions predicting what the law firm of the future will look like. Several common predictions rose to the top throughout the day: firms offering ...
Tuesday 1st Feb 2011
One trend that we’re seeing at LegalTech is a focus on greater firm efficiency – and products and services that can help. Thomson Reuters Engage from the Business of Law unit of Thomson Reuters, Legal helps firms do just that – manage how they engage with clients. Engage is the first Engagement Planning and Management (EPM) ...
Tuesday 1st Feb 2011
One year ago, the opening day general session at New York LegalTech featured Thomson Reuters, Legal CEO Peter Warwick and Mohammed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency. This session was a centerpiece of the WestlawNext launch, and their discussion explored the rule of law in ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
My first LegalTech experience has started off well. Arrived at the Hilton with plenty of time to get lost in the sea of vendor booths (never, of course, being able to find the one I wanted). Yep, that was me looking lost, confused, and trying desperately to hide my fear behind my Blackberry. I stopped ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
A year after a big launch at LegalTech New York 2010, the WestlawNext team is talking to LegalTech attendees about the innovations that have become part of the service this past year – from a WestlawNext mobile site designed to work well on all smartphones, to an iPad app and research-sharing capabilities that enable firms ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
With the enormous changes in the global economy, businesses have had to adapt to become more efficient and better able to tap global marketplaces. Likewise, law firms are responding to the new normal and the myriad pressures that the changing competitive landscape is asserting. Successful firms that are tracking with these changes are evolving their ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
Drafting case documents is one of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks for litigators. Westlaw Litigator has now added Westlaw Drafting Assistant, which combines research, analysis, templates, drafting tools and more to help attorneys create high-quality legal case documents more efficiently. Westlaw Drafting Assistant provides seamless drafting, research, and analysis, so locating information, authority, and ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
Our booths are hard to miss – first ones you see when you walk into the exhibit hall – and staffed by some Thomson Reuters experts. One of those experts is Bob Azman, senior vice president, Customer Experience and Education. Hear what he has to say about the show in this quick video: Be sure to ...
Monday 31st Jan 2011
If we are honest with ourselves, the give-away items at conferences – or as Michael Scott from NBC’s The Office likes to call it, S.W.A.G (stuff we all get) – are among the perks of attending a tradeshow. And this year at LegalTech the tchotckes are in abundance. In fact, Monica Bay, editor-in-chief for Law Technology News recently wrote ...
Friday 28th Jan 2011
I’m delighted to introduce our new managing editor of social media, Jessica Leibrock. Jessica is taking over the role formerly held by Kevin Hunt, who left to take a position with General Mills last December. Jessica is no stranger to Thomson Reuters, Legal and joins us from the employee communications side where she supported a variety ...
Thursday 27th Jan 2011
Yesterday, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president, Government Affairs and Community Relations for Thomson Reuters, Legal, was a guest on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show speaking about Minnesota’s high levels of civic engagement. Filmed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, yesterday’s program was part of a larger campaign, “Steel on Wheels,” which aims to identify and discuss ...
Friday 21st Jan 2011
One year later, devastating images, videos and testimonies continue to pour out of Haiti from last year’s earthquake. Many organizations have stepped up to help and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, our company’s charitable arm, is no exception. Earlier this week the Foundation launched the “Haiti in Focus” campaign which will put our free legal, humanitarian ...
Wednesday 19th Jan 2011
This post was written by Rick King. Last spring, I was asked to join the Minnesota Science & Technology Advisory Commission – a collaborative group of leaders from industry, the investment community and higher education working with the Minnesota Science & Technology Authority to advance the growth and competitiveness of the state’s high-value science and ...
Monday 10th Jan 2011
So you’re fresh out of law school and have just landed your first job. Now what? How do you go from entry-level associate to partner? While there are many approaches, participating in Beyond the Bar workshops is one sure way to get you on the right path. Launched in September 2010, Beyond the Bar is a program ...
Monday 10th Jan 2011
If you’ve ever visited our Thomson Reuters, Legal headquarters in Eagan, Minn. you know that we have a pretty large campus hiding out in the Twin Cities suburbs. But what you may not realize is that it’s also home to one of the largest printing, warehousing and fulfillment facilities in the United States. Our Manufacturing, ...
Tuesday 4th Jan 2011
The new BoardLink iPad app has been well received by the media and marketplace, with coverage in major trade publications, including Corporate Secretary magazine. The BoardLink app, from the Governance, Risk and Compliance business of Thomson Reuters, helps boards of directors and corporate secretaries increase productivity while improving their ability to make informed decisions while out of ...
