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
Many people like to have the latest piece of technology, that new shiny toy; some even spend a few days in lines to purchase the latest phone or tablet. At the 2015 ABA Techshow, one of the first questions asked at a panel discussing buying, implementing and replacing technology in a law practice was whether ...
Friday 17th Apr 2015
Nicholas Carr’s keynote at ABA Techshow was one part history refresh and one part warning how technology is making us stupid. He began his talk by spending some time putting the cloud into a broader context in order to set the stage and show the audience what might be coming in the future. He started by looking ...
Thursday 16th Apr 2015
My name is Susan Martin and I am a technology addict. So I decided to attend a session at ABA Techshow titled “How to Balance Tech and Re-establish Eye Contact.” Presented by Sharon D. Nelson, president of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., and Shawn Holahan, IT consultant, the session focused on our general overuse of technology – ...
Thursday 16th Apr 2015
ABA Techshow started out with a bang this morning at the heavily-attended session titled “Your Information is Digital and YOU Need to Know Digital Security.” Presented by Kenneth Lyons, senior manager of IT engineering and security at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and Matt Kesner, CIO of Fenwick & West, LLP, the session covered the security practices all ...
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
This post was written by Mohammed Karim, attorney at Bird & Bird international law firm Gordon Moore’s law that computer processor speeds would double every two years has historically held true. Ray Kurzweil’s modern theory of human development and the Law of Accelerating Returns proposes that the rate of human progress exponentially increases throughout time. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tuesday 31st Mar 2015
In light of the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton using her personal email while Secretary of State, John Martin, head of the Encompass E-Discovery Group with Nelson Mullins, took some time to discuss with us how common it is for private-sector employees to use personal email for work. Is this practice ever sanctioned, or used as a ...
