Monday 1st Dec 2014
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Well, you better not be doing it at work! Most employers frown on employees using company time and computers to let their fingers do the shopping. Yet, that’s exactly what many of us do. A new survey from FindLaw found that 35 percent of Americans shop online while at work. ...
Friday 21st Nov 2014
Recently, Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award winning legal affairs correspondent, was the keynote speaker at the Twin Cities Cardozo Society Annual Dinner celebrating the legal community. She stopped by the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus to give a packed house of employees an inside look into the Supreme Court. We sat down with Totenberg and asked about ...
Tuesday 18th Nov 2014
Thomson Reuters Insights recently conducted an interview with Australian expert lawyer and law firm marketer, Dan Toombs. In the interview, he discusses the four Ps all law firms, large or small, should be focusing on to ensure they have a strong online presence for ongoing business development. The interview was completed after Toombs’ recent discussion on ...
Tuesday 18th Nov 2014
The United States Supreme Court is one of the pinnacles of human wisdom and judgment. But when it comes to predicting the High Court’s decisions, can a machine do better than the wisdom of crowds? The interesting new participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS tournament is {Marshall}+ – a sophisticated predictive algorithm that will match “his” ...
Monday 17th Nov 2014
This post was written by Sirin Torpis, regional field manager at Thomson Reuters What do Amazon.com, Outlook, and the iPhone all have in common? They are all disruptive technologies. Amazon’s online shopping forum has changed the means through which consumers buy goods and read books – from brick-and-mortar shops and shopping malls and bookstores to ...
Friday 14th Nov 2014
The America Invents Act marked the most significant change in US patent law in the last 50 years. The historic provisions have impacted patent filings and patent litigation, as well as non-practicing entities or “patent trolls” as they are commonly known. Bernie Knight was general counsel for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when the ...
Thursday 13th Nov 2014
Throughout last week’s 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum hosted by Thomson Reuters, there was discussion about the evolving legal market and how lawyers and firms must adapt. As lawyers are being forced to think and perform in a new capacity than in previous decades, the way students are being educated and trained has to ...
Thursday 13th Nov 2014
We are on the cusp of a new era in computer technology. What could possibly connect rapid automated legal decisions, systematized stack ranked medical diagnosis, and never created scrumptious food recipes? At the IBM Cloud Innovation Forum last week in Dana Point, CA, Mike Rhodin, senior vice president of IBM Watson, connected the three with ...
Wednesday 12th Nov 2014
Thomson Reuters has stepped up its plans for the international expansion of Serengeti Tracker with the introduction of servers at its state-of-the-art data centre facility in the UK. The investment in the UK facility provides a comprehensive hosting service for Serengeti’s customers around the world and underscores the company’s commitment to the corporate legal sector. ...
Wednesday 12th Nov 2014
Large law firms, and the legal industry, have seen a significant impact on economic performance over recent years magnified by the Great Recession. As many firms and legal service providers continue to adapt, some have dissolved while others have thrived. At the 19th annual Law Firm Leaders Forum hosted by Thomson Reuters last week, a ...
Tuesday 11th Nov 2014
A new report released today by Legal Futures in association with Thomson Reuters, examines the changing face of law firms in the City of London. It demonstrates how far City law firms have moved in a relatively short period of time, mainly (but not exclusively) in response to the recession and the demands of their clients. ...
Tuesday 11th Nov 2014
Greg Jordan served as Global Managing Partner for Reed Smith for 12 years. In late 2013, Jordan moved in-house to PNC Financial Services Group as general counsel and head of regulatory and government affairs. Jordan participated in a panel titled, “The Present and Future Health of the Large Law Firm Model” at the 19th annual ...
Monday 10th Nov 2014
Today Thomson Reuters launched Practical Law Canada, providing legal know-how for Canadian law firms and corporate law departments on transactional law and practice in the areas of Corporate M&A, Capital Markets and Securities. “Since 1990, lawyers in the UK, and since 2009 lawyers in the US have been relying on Practical Law to provide them ...
