Monday 18th Aug 2014
During his opening keynote at ILTA 2014, Peter Diamandis reflected on how Charles Lindberg’s flight across the Atlantic inspired him to create the X Prize for space exploration. Looking to the past as a path to the future was a common thread during a follow-up session titled, “Talk to Yourself and Be Crazy (Productive),” specifically ...
Monday 18th Aug 2014
To app or not to app? That was the question on Monday afternoon at an ILTA session in Nashville, TN. Representatives from three law firms were on hand to discuss how they got to the drawing board through the release and lessons they learned along the way. Marika DePron, Bracewell & Guilliani; Elyse Lazaruk, Latham ...
Monday 18th Aug 2014
This afternoon, I attended a session at ILTA titled “Here, Now & Beyond Law 2020,” presented by Jeffrey Brandt (PinHawk), David Stanton and Marty Metz (both with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman). They discussed factors effecting significant change for law firms today. The panel seemed to agree on the importance of information governance and how it ...
Monday 18th Aug 2014
ILTA 2014 kicked off with a bang on Monday morning in Nashville, TN, with a keynote by Peter Diamandis, author, innovator and co-founder/executive chairman of Singularity University, the leading institution for the study of exponentially growing technologies. The theme at this year’s ILTA conference is “Imagine,” and Diamandis capitalized on that theme by asking the ...
Thursday 14th Aug 2014
We caught up with Gail Cohen, editor in chief of Canadian Lawyer, last week in Boston during the ABA Annual Meeting, where she talked about the release of the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential list For more on the 2014 Top 25 Most Influential, including profiles of all of this year’s honorees, visit canadianlawyermag.com
Thursday 7th Aug 2014
It’s all about the definition we give something. Take “Big Data,” for instance. This term has so many definitions that it is difficult to say whether law firms are even dealing with it. Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, co-authored ...
Wednesday 6th Aug 2014
Building on a longstanding relationship with CWAG (Conference of Western Attorneys General), Thomson Reuters and CWAG announced an expansion of their partnership at the recent CWAG annual conference. As part of the expanded collaboration, CWAG and Thomson Reuters will publish the American Indian Law Deskbook addressing the dynamic and evolving field of Indian law and ...
Tuesday 5th Aug 2014
The market for law firm services hit a slight turbulent patch in the second quarter. The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI) dipped one point to 55. While demand for legal services was up 0.4 percent compared with a year ago, productivity fell 0.8 percent as firms added headcount in excess of demand. Transactional practices (corporate work, ...
Wednesday 23rd Jul 2014
Many people may not associate the law as being relevant to sustainability. On Thomson Reuters sustainability, we see it as fundamental. Abuse of basic human rights is at least as damaging to the long term stability and prosperity as almost any form of environmental damage. How well we take care of each other, and codify that care, is core ...
Tuesday 22nd Jul 2014
This article was written by James Boocock, general manager of Legal Solutions and future market trend specialist at Thomson Reuters in Australia. The article was originally published in the June edition of the Law Society Journal of New South Wales. For the legal practitioner, anticipating changes in the legal industry is crucial if you are to stay ...
Tuesday 22nd Jul 2014
In the fall of 2013, officers with the Pasadena Independent School District Police Department in Pasadena, Texas obtained a tip through a crisis hotline that an anonymous caller was threatening to stage a shooting at a local elementary school. With only a phone number and IP address from the hotline’s interaction with the suspect, officers ...
Tuesday 15th Jul 2014
Thomson Reuters understands the value of listening to our customers and gaining insight on how to better serve them. Brian Knudsen, vice president, Large Law for Thomson Reuters, shares some of what he heard from customers during the 107th annual American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference in San Antonio, as well as the trends ...
Monday 14th Jul 2014
This article was written by Heidi Bloedow, vice president, Customer Experience Operations At Thomson Reuters, the voice of the customer resonates through the business. As the leader of our Customer Experience organization, I feel that I’m entrusted with a powerful differentiator for our business and have enormous opportunity to shape our product features and content ...
