Wednesday 24th Aug 2016
Does innovation tend to come from big firms or smaller firms? From top-down leadership or bottom-up mavericks? In an article in the current issue of Forum magazine, Jan-Coos Geesink, managing director, Thomson Reuters, Legal, UK & Ireland, spoke with Reena Sengupta, owner of RSG Consulting and founder of FT Innovative Lawyers, about the drivers of innovation in ...
Thursday 18th Aug 2016
The modern general counsel is more than a business attorney. He or she is a lawyer-statesperson who is an outstanding technical expert, a wise counselor and effective leader and who has a major role assisting the corporation achieve the fundamental goal of global capitalism: the fusion of high performance with high integrity and sound risk ...
Monday 1st Aug 2016
The large law firm market was hit by a one-two-three combination punch of slumping demand, rising expenses and falling productivity in the second quarter. The Peer Monitor Index report saw demand for law firm services fall for the first time since 2013. While rate growth accelerated slightly, it was not nearly enough to make up ...
Wednesday 6th Jul 2016
Deal Monitor, part of the Monitor Suite collection of products, now contains four new and expanded content sets leveraging the power of Thomson Reuters deal information. These data sets allow users to gain a better understanding of the financial transactions of companies and what law firms and other parties are involved in the transactions. The additions ...
Thursday 26th May 2016
The 2016 Elite VANTAGE Worldwide User Conference saw record attendance, with 1100 users, 300 sessions and numerous customer panels, demos, sharing best practices, and talking about industry trends. Eric Ruud, Managing Director for Legal Enterprise Solutions, discusses this year’s VANTAGE conference, and how users can continue to keep up with developments at Elite throughout the ...
Thursday 17th Mar 2016
Technology has altered the very nature of the client-professional relationship. From online banking to keeping track of medical records, our interactions with professional service providers are becoming few and far between. But in a relationship-driven industry, lawyers have been slow to change, and consumers are taking notice. At the “Empower Your Client Through Technology” session ...
Wednesday 17th Feb 2016
After a string of seven consecutive quarters of rising demand, the Peer Monitor Economic Index saw flat demand for large law firm services in the fourth quarter of 2015. The new report showed that the PMI fell two points because of weak demand and rates. But much of the decline in overall demand was accounted ...
Monday 21st Sep 2015
The perception of in-house legal departments as insular and obstructive can impede their ability to best serve the business. And while perceptions often don’t reflect reality, repositioning the legal department as a valued, equal and constructive part of the organization will have a dramatic effect on both the lawyers’ job satisfaction and overall efficiency in ...
Monday 14th Sep 2015
What will 2015 look like for some of Asia’s largest economies and their legal industries? Law firms from around the region offer some answers. In this article in the latest Forum Magazine, we look at what 2015 holds in terms of legal and regulatory developments in some of Asia’s largest economies, as well as how ...
Tuesday 8th Sep 2015
The pace of change in the legal profession has been accelerating over the past few years – a technology driven transformation of the legal system. Rarely a day goes by that we don’t read about new technology that promises to make lawyers more efficient than ever before, or replace them altogether. Compared to other service ...
Monday 31st Aug 2015
Super Lawyers talked with Steve Molo and Jeff Lamken, founders of the litigation boutique MoloLamken, about their decision to leave large law and form their own firm. Molo was a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and Lamken was a partner at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. before joining forces in October ...
Tuesday 25th Aug 2015
Barrister Sinead King of 36 Bedford Row talks to Chrissie Lightfoot about the skills required to operate as a barrister in today’s fast-moving business environment. It’s time for barristers to de-robe and get with the program, The Naked Lawyer author Chrissie Lightfoot maintains. But what does barrister Sinead King make of this new world and ...
Monday 24th Aug 2015
In November 2013, The American Lawyer® published a provocative article by its Chief European Correspondent Chris Johnson entitled “How the Magic Circle Lost the Battle for New York.” In it, Johnson argued that, despite 25 years of work and huge investments, the leading UK law firms had failed to gain any significant share of the ...
