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 ...
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 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 ...
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
Pangea3’s Director of Legal Solutions Rebecca Thorkildsen was featured in this month’s CIO Review magazine, which had a special focus on legal technology. In her article, Thorkildsen discusses the three game-changing technologies that she believes are the next generation in contract management. Creating a standard can evolve from an activity often requiring months of effort ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
