Wednesday 31st Jul 2013
While the old adage, “Always assume positive intent” may cover all manner of sins, when it comes to people’s use of social media, sometimes you’ve got to wonder. And if a new survey is any indicator, social media users also have thought twice. According to a new survey from FindLaw.com, more than 29 percent of ...
Monday 29th Jul 2013
Law enforcement agencies are finding that they lack staff and technology to effectively combat rising rates of cybercrime, according to a new survey conducted by the Fraud Prevention & Investigations business of Thomson Reuters and PoliceOne.com. The survey of 325 law enforcement professionals also found that 66% of law enforcement agencies have observed an increase ...
Friday 19th Jul 2013
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here. After a week of productive discussions on topics like ebooks, legal research training, and legal education, we asked Anne Ellis, senior director of Librarian Relations at Thomson Reuters, to reflect on the 2013 ...
Thursday 18th Jul 2013
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys have always had a strong affinity with law librarians. Our jobs are similar. We respond to a maddeningly diverse set of research requests and, as the legal market changes, so do our responsibilities. Now, we find ourselves taking on more responsibilities ...
Wednesday 17th Jul 2013
In the video below, Dan Dabney, chief taxonomist at Thomson Reuters, describes how our attorney-editors continue to make alterations to the Key Number System, including reclassifying 300,000 headnotes for the revisions to the Election Key Number. This year, the editorial staff also combined the topics “schools” and “colleges and universities” into a new topic: “education.” This ...
Wednesday 17th Jul 2013
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! As a law librarian, you understand the responsibility inherent in your role as a steward of information. By the same token, corporate responsibility is deeply-rooted in the ...
Tuesday 16th Jul 2013
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! “Law librarians do play an essential role by educating the people as to their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. The resources you provide are capable ...
Monday 15th Jul 2013
Finding the right information on a company’s business structure and relationships can be like searching for a needle in haystack. Thomson Reuters Company Investigator helps users find information on companies to assist with business development, litigation, due diligence and a host of other applications. Company Investigator accesses more than 30 million company profiles, including 20 million hard-to-find ...
Friday 12th Jul 2013
Recently, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, delivered a TEDTalk on the concept of everyday heroes, sharing stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary work. One of these heroes is a banker who discovered suspicious spending data at a nail salon, ultimately revealing an underground system of human trafficking. The importance of everyday heroes ...
Friday 12th Jul 2013
Many legal professionals have experienced in recent years the challenging combination of rising workloads and diminishing resources. This combination of conditions has presented major workflow challenges, especially to legal professionals in the public sector. In a recent study, Thomson Reuters explored these challenges and sought new and innovative ways help public law offices work more ...
Thursday 11th Jul 2013
Current economic circumstances have placed legal professionals in a variety of positions under extra pressure to prove their worth – and legal departments at universities are no different. However, these departments, whether they come from small or large universities, often find difficulty in managing spending, results, and risk. A new white paper from Thomson Reuters ...
Thursday 11th Jul 2013
This post is the first in a series of messages from the 2013 AALL Annual Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! By Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations, Thomson Reuters I am proud to gather with fellow law librarians next week at the AALL annual ...
Tuesday 2nd Jul 2013
In the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but synthetic complementary DNA (“cDNA”) is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. The distinction is ...
