Tuesday 10th Jun 2014
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Friday 6th Jun 2014
Viji Krishnan, general manager and global head of Thomson CompuMark, authored a column in this month’s Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. In the article, titled “Protect Your Brand In China — How To Navigate The World’s Most Challenging Intellectual Property Landscape,” Krishnan talks about China’s 45 different trademark classes, each of which has several sub-classes. If companies aren’t careful, ...
Wednesday 4th Jun 2014
The latest issue of Corporate Counsel Connect, a monthly newsletter highlighting legal articles with an in-house perspective, features an interesting story about the increased attention corporate social responsibility (CSR) is getting within major U.S. companies. CSR issues are coming into sharper focus in boardrooms as customers, employees and shareholders emphasize the importance of high standards ...
Tuesday 3rd Jun 2014
The class-action lawsuit including former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon against the NCAA begins in District Court in Los Angeles next week. In addition, the NCAA is appealing a recent regional NLRB ruling that Northwestern University football players have the right to unionize. Marta Fernandez of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell has dealt with NLRB issues ...
Monday 2nd Jun 2014
Thomson Reuters Elite has been recognized as a 2014 American Business Awards finalist in the Marketing Campaign of the Year – Software category for the Elite Business Development Premier marketing campaign. The American Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards, annually recognize outstanding work in the marketplace. The Elite campaign, featuring the theme “Get ...
Monday 2nd Jun 2014
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business specializing in global legal outsourcing, was recently named a 2014 Association of Corporation Counsel Value Champion, thanks to its participation in Caterpillar, Inc’s “Re-engineering Legal Support” initiative. Like many of the other legal departments honored, Caterpillar made big strides in process improvement and smarter division of labor. The improvements first ...
Wednesday 21st May 2014
At this year’s Association for Legal Administrators annual conference in Toronto, the focus lies heavily on our ever-changing profession. And today, Commander Mark E. Kelly opened the keynote presentation by talking about his own evolving career: from a marine engineering student to Naval aviator to NASA shuttle pilot and now to author and supporter of ...
Wednesday 21st May 2014
This post was written by Carlos Seoane, senior director of Operations for Thomson Reuters Elite With increasing pressure to streamline billing efficiencies and capture every single billable moment, law firms today must find any and all feasible ways to improve the workflow between lawyer and client. E-Bills need to be more efficiently generated to shorten ...
Wednesday 21st May 2014
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for Thomson Reuters Technology can be scary, especially to casebook-loving, yellow legal notepad-carrying, folder-filing attorneys. Fortunately, some technologies don’t strike fear into attorneys, like word processing, email, or the mobile (rotary?) phone. But what happens when these standard technologies are insufficient to effectively address ...
Tuesday 20th May 2014
This post was written by Kathleen Miner, senior director of Large Law Firm Marketing at Thomson Reuters For the past 18 months I’ve attended various legal business development conferences where I’ve listened to general counsel say what’s important to them in choosing a law firm. It all boils down to one key component: know me, know my ...
Tuesday 20th May 2014
On May 15, 2014 Super Lawyers hosted a reception which was attended by 300 attorneys selected to the 2014 Washington DC Super Lawyers lists. In advance of the reception there was a Q&A with Carter Phillips, the Chair of Sidley Austin’s Executive Committee and member of the Super Lawyers Advisory Board. Phillips has argued more cases in ...
Monday 19th May 2014
At Inside Counsel’s SuperConference last week, a packed room engaged with a panel to discuss the multitude of options available for law departments to help maximize resources, be more cost-efficient, implement effective technologies, and leverage alternative service providers. The session was moderated by Jay Felton, a partner at Lathrop & Gage LLP. His fellow panelists ...
Monday 19th May 2014
I am at the annual Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) conference this week. Perhaps most interesting, Thomson Reuters is participating in a special exhibit that makes a compelling and well-researched case for what the Law Office of the Future might look like: highly technical, perfectly collaborative and somehow cozy and roomy at the same time. We’re thrilled to ...
