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, ...
