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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 ...
