Monday 30th Mar 2015
This post was written by Ronald Rotunda, author of Rotunda and Nowak’s Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure, 5th and Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, 2014-2015 ed. (ABA). On March 3, the New York Times announced, “Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests.” By then, we learned that former ...
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 ...
Thursday 26th Mar 2015
Kevin O’Keefe, CEO and publisher of LexBlog, Inc., paid a visit to the Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN campus last week and talked with Legal Current about the biggest disruptor in the legal technology space, skills people should have when navigating this fast-changing world of legal technology, and what keeps him up at night. Watch the ...
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 ...
Tuesday 24th Mar 2015
At Legaltech New York this year, we caught up with Pauline Reich, JD, and professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, where she teaches cybercrime, cybersecurity, data privacy and data protection, and Internet-based legal research. In this capacity and also as the director of the Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Research ...
Monday 23rd Mar 2015
March Madness, as always, is filed with upsets, great finishes and…trademark infringements? Roger Boehle, partner at Foley, Bezek, Boehle & Curtis LLP, discusses the potential pitfalls that await those who dare to try cashing in on March Madness in the podcast below.
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 ...
Tuesday 17th Mar 2015
3D printing is an exciting technology that is revolutionizing new ways of doing business and bringing products to the market, but it is catching the eyes of lawyers and regulators as IP issues arise. 3D printing is any of various techniques used to make a three-dimensional object, which can be of almost any shape or ...
Wednesday 11th Mar 2015
With the Global Ethics Summit winding down in New York, one of the event’s final sessions focused on board diversity. “There’s become a compelling case for board diversity,” Veta Richardson, president and CEO, Association of Corporate Counsel, noted. “Particularly as research has showed that more diverse boards outperform their global peers.” She then noted the ...
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 ...
Thursday 5th Mar 2015
We wrote about drones (or, if you prefer, unmanned aircraft systems or UAS) a few weeks ago. And in line with this week’s Wait, What? Podcast, which focuses on sports technology, we decided to delve deeper into the subject matter by looking at how drones are used in sports. In professional sports, drones have been ...
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 ...
