Tuesday 28th Oct 2014
After a busy weekend in Orlando, the 2014 IACP Annual Conference began to wind down on Tuesday morning with an award ceremony to celebrate excellence in law enforcement. For its innovative, highly-coordinated approach to stem rural crime throughout the state, the Missouri State Highway Patrol Rural Crimes Investigative Unit (RCIU) was recognized with the 2014 ...
Tuesday 28th Oct 2014
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of market development at Thomson Reuters The great American author, Tennessee Williams, once proclaimed, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” This week, Thomson Reuters will be at the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting in ...
Monday 27th Oct 2014
It took a fatal car accident to bring Sergeant Tim Burrows, Traffic Services Communications Office, Toronto Police Services, into the world of social media. He saw the case – a multiple car crash with three fatalities where alcohol was involved – as an opportunity to build an audience and a community around traffic safety. So when ...
Friday 24th Oct 2014
Are you missing one-third of your potential clients? As people increasingly look for attorneys using mobile and local search, it’s more important than ever to make sure your firm’s website is optimized for those types of searches. A new white paper from FindLaw explains the importance of making sure that prospective clients can find you ...
Thursday 23rd Oct 2014
One-third (29 percent) of American adults say they have had their identity stolen, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com. Approximately ten percent of Americans report having their identity stolen more than once. According to the FindLaw.com survey, the commonly reported types of identity theft are: Credit card lost or stolen: 11% Stolen by online ...
Wednesday 22nd Oct 2014
This post was written by Connie Quarnstrom, manager, Legal Editorial Operations at Thomson Reuters I recently attended the NALIT Professional Development Seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with my colleague Jeremy Crumb. NALIT is the National Association of Legislative Information Technology, a group under the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The members of ...
Tuesday 21st Oct 2014
This article was written by David Curran, global director of Risk and Compliance at Thomson Reuters, and was featured in this month’s issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to ...
Wednesday 8th Oct 2014
Hispanic Executive magazine recently published an article on Maria Diaz, senior vice president and associate general counsel at Thomson Reuters. Diaz supports the Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business including sales, commercial operations, strategic alliances, acquisitions, integrations and business compliance. Her story is an inspiring one. Diaz immigrated to the United States from Spain at the ...
Tuesday 7th Oct 2014
This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president, Market Development Group, Corporate Legal segment at Thomson Reuters The recent Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum in Surrey provided a look into the latest developments in the in-house profession, from the evolving role of the general counsel, to pressures on law departments to operate more efficiently, ...
Monday 6th Oct 2014
Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor has issued its Mid-Size Law Firm Report for the second quarter of 2014, and the findings indicate that the market for mid-size law firm services may be showing some signs of stability and tentative improvement. Overall demand for legal services from mid-size firms declined by 0.6 percent for the first seven months ...
Thursday 2nd Oct 2014
This article was originally published in the Sept. 19, 2014 issue of Australasian Lawyer Thomson Reuters research has revealed some emerging concerns in the Australian legal market, including that 30 percent of the participants had never reviewed client satisfaction. The study questioned 132 senior fee-earning legal practitioners among medium to large firms across the country ...
Wednesday 1st Oct 2014
Recently, Joshua Kubicki, who designs new business models and innovation strategies for law firms and corporations of all sizes and is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University College of Law, visited Thomson Reuters for an employee event. While he was here, David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, sat down with Kubicki ...
Wednesday 1st Oct 2014
Serengeti Tracker has been helping legal departments improve their operations for more than a decade. Assistant General Counsel Jim Sullivan of FMC Technologies, one of the first Serengeti customers, shared his insights at the 2014 Serengeti Summit and how his law department leverages Serengeti Tracker. Sullivan noted that Serengeti Tracker may be best known as ...
