Wednesday 23rd Jan 2013
The American Lawyer’s 16th Annual Survey gathered responses from 82 law firms and revealed that 65 percent of them use hosted technology/cloud computing. Of those firms using the cloud, 77 percent described it as a positive experience. Thomson Reuters legal solutions business has been trusted by customers for decades to provide efficient, reliable e-discovery and ...
Thursday 17th Jan 2013
Professor J. Thomas McCarthy’s premier treatise on trademark and unfair competition law has been cited once again by the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent ruling in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., — S.Ct. —, 2013 WL 85300, *10 (2013). This case started when Nike filed suit, alleging that two of Already’s athletic shoes violated ...
Tuesday 15th Jan 2013
How can we better understand our customers and their needs? That’s a question a research team from the Thomson Reuters legal businesses has been working to answer through ethnography, a research method that focuses on observation rather than inquiry. Ethnographic research is a branch of anthropology that uses observational methods to gather empirical data to ...
Tuesday 8th Jan 2013
Through the end of 2012 and into early 2013, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – a short answer to the following question: What do you see as a significant trend for the legal marketplace in 2013? Next up is Robert Schukai, global head of mobile technology: ...
Monday 24th Dec 2012
Through the end of 2012, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – a short answer to the following question: What do you see as a significant trend for the legal marketplace in 2013? Next up is Mark Medice, senior director of Peer Monitor: “Growth and differentiation is ...
Friday 21st Dec 2012
In today’s economy, departments in corporations across the globe are being forced to do more with less, while under increasing pressure to deliver greater value to their organizations. Legal departments are no exception. But what if there were significant opportunities for corporate counsel to increase the efficiency of their departments and better meet the legal ...
Thursday 20th Dec 2012
With the holidays approaching, we look forward to the start of a new year. Once again, anything is possible. It’s a time to think big thoughts. What will this New Year hold? Through the end of 2012, Legal Current will feature predictions from leaders across the legal business of Thomson Reuters – an answer to ...
Friday 14th Dec 2012
Fraud in companies is reportedly more likely to be discovered by insider tips than any other detection method, and with various whistleblower programs including the new SEC Whistleblower Program, whistleblowers from various walks of life and businesses are more comfortable coming forward and reporting wide variations of violations to regulators and law enforcement. Recently, West ...
Tuesday 13th Nov 2012
Patent Office Litigation, a new two-volume set, focuses on the new contested proceedings under the America Invents Act (AIA). The book – published by Thomson Reuters Westlaw – examines how the proceedings interact with other aspects of patent procurement and enforcement, while delivering practical analysis and advice on all aspects of new contested proceedings. “When ...
Thursday 1st Nov 2012
This post was written by Casey Hall. Recently Westlaw Insider completed a series on the Westlaw editorial process for case law. We thought this series from our Editorial Operations team has been interesting and insightful. While we take great pride in the technologies that enable WestlawNext and all of our legal solutions, the context and ...
Thursday 4th Oct 2012
The presentation I moderated at the ACC Annual Meeting drew a capacity crowd because of our great panel that included thought leaders from a large law department, Molly Dodge from Capital One, and a small law department, Jim Sullivan from FMC Technologies, as well as the general counsel of the ACC, Jim Merklinger. The topic ...
Thursday 30th Aug 2012
ILTA sessions launched into high gear on Monday with the keynote by Frans Johansson entitled The Medici Effect, like his new best-selling book. Johansson captured the attention of the standing-room only crowd when he flashed photos of a giant termite hill, a bikini-clad sunbather, an icy landscape and a disco dance scene. Then he challenged ...
Tuesday 24th Jul 2012
In today’s competitive legal environment, it is necessary for legal researchers to stay current on daily news and breaking legal developments. In order to manage that, legal professionals need the right tools to do their jobs effective and efficiently, while serving the best interests of their clients. Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business ...
