Thursday 27th Mar 2014
They don’t call it the windy city for nothing. Legal Current blew into the ABA Techshow 2014 on Wednesday evening, but the festivities didn’t officially begin until this morning. To kick things off, I attended a session titled “Ethics of Social Media Marketing,” presented by Bob Ambrogi, Jennifer Ellis and Jeff Lantz. I thought this was ...
Thursday 27th Mar 2014
Firm Central launched just over a year ago and received an excellent acceptance rate as a productivity solution. But now that the dust has settled, additional features will be rolling out to make it an even more efficient tool for practitioners. In the video clip below, Laura Zastrow, senior product developer for Firm Central, talks to ...
Wednesday 26th Mar 2014
Karl Florida, managing director of the small law firm and customer segment at Thomson Reuters, welcomes Legal Current visitors to ABA Techshow in the video clip below. He also talks about the trends he is seeing as law firms are increasingly adopting the cloud to help manage their practice and manage their technology, as well ...
Wednesday 26th Mar 2014
Thomson Reuters has introduced Custom Pages on WestlawNext, enabling users to create searchable, personalized pages from specific content sets. Available at no cost for all WestlawNext subscribers, Custom Pages can be tailored to specific research needs while providing the convenient benefits and innovation WestlawNext offers, including WestSearch, Find a Citation, KeyCite a Citation, Folders and Favorites. ...
Monday 24th Mar 2014
In today’s legal market, clients are working with slimmer budgets and have a keener desire to allocate their limited funds prudently. That means messages about uniquely tailored service, cost efficiency and an informed, reasonable preparedness for the outcome of a given matter hold more appeal. In order to be the provider of legal services that ...
Thursday 20th Mar 2014
High-profile sports and labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler, also a Thomson Reuters key author, filed an antitrust lawsuit on behalf of college football and men’s basketball players in a New Jersey federal court Monday, naming the NCAA and the five richest power conferences — the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 — as defendants. ...
Thursday 6th Mar 2014
Transactional law often involves pulling together information from a wide variety of sources, including the SEC and public and private deal data. A new resource, Business Law Center on WestlawNext, provides access from one easy-to-use source to several key information sources, including up-to-date SEC and global filings and disclosures, EDGAR precedent agreements, Thomson Reuters proprietary deal ...
Tuesday 4th Mar 2014
Social media and technology have changed the very nature of bullying. As a result, parents and victims also have changed how they respond, increasingly taking their cases directly to law enforcement rather than notifying school officials first. In fact, a 2013 Thomson Reuters survey of American parents indicated more than one third of parents would ...
Thursday 27th Feb 2014
Thomson Reuters recently introduced Westlaw Analytics, a new service included in a WestlawNext subscription that allows law firms to monitor Westlaw usage by practitioner, client, practice area or time frame in order to become more efficient, flexible and responsive to client needs. Four components – analytics, billing investigation, alerts and integration – allow firms to uncover ...
Tuesday 11th Feb 2014
Last week, the Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions site launched a dedicated area to Practical Law. Practical Law helps attorneys practice smarter, operate more efficiently, keep up with legal developments and provide more value to their clients. The Practical Law boutique of the Legal Solutions site showcases: The Practical Law team Practice Notes Standard Documents and ...
Thursday 6th Feb 2014
This post was written by Laura Long, senior director of Marketing at Thomson Reuters Customers asked – and we delivered. When we first launched WestlawNext in 2010, we received strong feedback from customers that they wanted a more integrated public records experience. That’s why we are so excited to launch PeopleMap on WestlawNext this week ...
Thursday 6th Feb 2014
eBillingHub has launched an enhancement that delivers critical performance indicators to its administrator users. Free of charge for all eBillingHub customers, the benchmarking and analytics enhancement shows firms how their billing processes measure up to other firms, making it easy to identify where efficiencies and accuracies can be gained. Powered by Peer Monitor, the leading ...
Thursday 6th Feb 2014
This post was written by Patrick Hurley, vice president of Global Implementation at Thomson Reuters I’ve been coming to LegalTech New York (LTNY) for more years than I care to count, and every year there is some overriding theme that permeates the exhibition floor conversations. Often it’s the Super Bowl…well, unless you’re a Seahawks fan or a ...
