Tuesday 3rd Sep 2013
Public sector legal departments are facing greater challenges managing their critical tasks as their environment has become more complex and demanding, according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters. The survey identified specific bottlenecks and opportunities to leverage technology to improve workflows. Certain critical tasks highlighted in the survey by legal departments, such as legal ...
Tuesday 27th Aug 2013
The Legal Current podcast emerges for the second time since its renewal with more unique insights into the Legal market. In the August 2013 edition of the Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal trends & insights: The Peer Monitor Index (PMI) provides some hope in the second quarter as the law firm market improves Legal news: In a settlement over ...
Wednesday 21st Aug 2013
This post was written by Andrew McLennan-Murray, technology services manager at Thomson Reuters At ILTA 2013, a panel consisting of Eyal Iffergan, Hyperion Global Partners; Chris Emerson, Bryan Cave, LLP; Donald Knight, PNC Bank Legal Department; and An Trotter, Viacom Inc. shared their experiences with alternative billing. The panel opened the discussion by introducing some interesting numbers. They stated ...
Wednesday 21st Aug 2013
This post was written by Andrew McLennan-Murray. ILTA 2013 – Amidst a sea of sessions geared toward niche legal technology topics, one title stood out to me on the ILTA agenda. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Dux Raymond Sy, the presenter slated for an hour and a half session: 5 Steps to Delivering ...
Wednesday 21st Aug 2013
Day three at ILTA 2013 was filled with informative sessions and productive meetings. Bill Burch, vice president of Global Sales for Thomson Reuters Elite, gave a presentation about the state of Elite, specifically talking about the company direction, product direction and 3E momentum. Burch started the session by talking about emerging market trends that he ...
Tuesday 20th Aug 2013
This post was written by Joe Raczynski, technology manager of Professional & Consulting Services, Thomson Reuters. Law firm security bears one of the softest underbellies within the world of professional services. This alarm was sounded during an ILTA panel discussion surrounding security with Michael Russell of Liberty Mutual, Brian Donato of Vorys Sater, and Natalie ...
Monday 19th Aug 2013
ILTA 2013 – The Catalyst kicked off this morning in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada, with a dynamic keynote speech by Scott Klososky, founder of technology consulting firm Future Point of Work. Klososky’s keynote, titled “Technology, Trends and the Catalytic Impacts on Law Firms,” was centered around what he believes is really going to impact law ...
Friday 16th Aug 2013
The Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor Economic Index rose 3 points to 53 in the second quarter, following a poor start to the year. Demand for the quarter was flat. Worked rates were up 3.2%. Litigation fell for the fourth consecutive quarter, dropping 1.5%, although the decline was less than the first quarter. Corporate work, IP ...
Friday 16th Aug 2013
It’s that time of year again – summer is dwindling, there is a chill in the air, kids are getting ready to head back to school…and legal industry professionals are flocking to Las Vegas for the annual International Legal Technology Association conference (ILTA)! ILTA 2013: The Catalyst is a four-day educational conference with over 200 ...
Thursday 15th Aug 2013
This blog post was written by Brice Duffy, manager of Information Systems at Mackall Crounse & Moore, PLC; Minneapolis city representative and Emerging Technologies Steering Committee member for ILTA In preparation for the upcoming International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference, Minnesota-based ILTA members met in Minneapolis last week to share some insights and pointers for those ...
Monday 12th Aug 2013
Women attorneys of America – unite! Women attorneys were celebrated on Aug. 9, 2013 at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. “The Day of the Woman,” which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Commission on Women in the Profession, marked the progress women lawyers have made and the work still to be ...
Monday 5th Aug 2013
The National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) recently concluded its annual meeting in New York. Among the topics discussed at the meeting was skills, strategies and stumbling blocks for women lawyers in their career path. Last year, NAWL released its National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms and remarkably little has changed for women at ...
Wednesday 31st Jul 2013
The amount of electronically stored information (ESI) is growing, and government agencies are becoming increasingly concerned about the necessity to preserve ESI and the negative consequences that may result if preservation doesn’t happen. Failure to protect ESI for potential audits, investigations, administrative proceedings, or anticipated litigation can put an agency at a higher risk of being ...
