In Practice
Wednesday 18th Jul 2012
Managing litigation quickly and efficiently requires effective managing of information. Cases involve many different types of information that need to be organized, analyzed and shared with other team members. The latest version of the Westlaw CaseLogistix eDiscovery platform provides enhanced integration with Westlaw Case Notebook. Previous versions allowed key e-discovery documents to be sent into West Case Notebook. Now, documents ...
Thursday 28th Jun 2012
In a recent survey of ProLaw customers, the most popular request focused on reports-related enhancements. Users wanted to be able to edit reports with more ease and without complex calculations, and efficiently create ad hoc reports. This functionality would help them quickly create a variety of reports to meet the different needs of users in ...
Wednesday 27th Jun 2012
Ken Bassham, director of sales for ProLaw, walked through some of the new capabilities offered in ProLaw XII and why users should look to upgrade at this year’s ProLaw User Conference. The three main features discussed were: comprehensive reporting functionality, enhanced Outlook integration and how the system was built entirely on the .NET platform. Through the ...
Tuesday 26th Jun 2012
Enterprise offers comprehensive functionality that organizations need to compete in the marketplace, and enables national and multi-national firms the ability to efficiently and profitably operate across offices, countries, languages and currencies. As an industry-leader, Joselynn Curtis, project manager for Thomson Reuters Elite, spent some time during the Elite User Conference highlighting her top 10 settings of Enterprise, ...
Thursday 17th May 2012
Data is available everywhere in today’s business world, but understanding and using that data to your advantage has proven to be difficult. In-house legal departments and law firms should be able to evaluate and use their own data, which can be obtained from various items such as invoices, budgets and matter profiles, to help manage ...
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
Emerging trends, such as mobile computing, are enabling attorneys to improve time management and deliver better service to their clients, ultimately making them more competitive in today’s economy. Houston-based attorney Tim Johnson, a technology enthusiast, uses mobile solutions to improve his work efficiency while on the go and, his clients are seeing the results. Johnson, ...
Wednesday 18th Apr 2012
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored by Thomson Reuters in ...
Monday 16th Apr 2012
Organizing and analyzing vital case information can now be done more efficiently than ever. Westlaw Case Notebook 3.0 provides greater integration with legal research and e-dsicovery. The new version more efficiently builds strong cases by pulling essential case information together in one place, including e-discovery documents, briefs, transcripts, pleadings, key facts, legal research and more. Westlaw Case ...
Thursday 5th Apr 2012
Law firms are being increasingly challenged to adapt and innovate to meet their clients’ expectations. Being able to succeed in this changing environment, firms must offer more value to their clients. An area that can increase a firm’s value, lower their legal costs and improve their competitive advantage to clients is through legal research. A ...
Tuesday 3rd Apr 2012
The trends towards industry consolidation continues. The Hildebrandt Institute’s MergerWatch Report showed 20 completed law firm mergers that involved U.S. firms in the first quarter of 2012. That represents a 43 percent increase over the first quarter of 2011, which saw only 14 completed mergers and is in stark contrast to the four completed mergers in the ...
Wednesday 14th Mar 2012
Some of the more prominent coverage includes articles by MSN, San Francisco Chronicle, Buffalo Business First, KPLU and The Austin Lafferty Blog. January has long been perceived as “Divorce Month.” However, Findlaw.com recently released study results that showed searches for “divorce” and related phrases such as “family law” and “child custody” jumped 50 percent – from December 2010 to January 2011, and continued ...
Tuesday 7th Feb 2012
As usual, LegalTech New York was a hive of activity ranging from networking to meetings to presentations to the all-important show floor. The Thomson Reuters booth was no different with visitors checking out the latest products and enhancements. One area that drew a lot of attention was the WestlawNext area, which highlighted the advantages offered through the legal ...
Wednesday 1st Feb 2012
Mobile technologies are definitely a hot topic at LegalTech NY, and there’s a lot of excitement in the Thomson Reuters booth with demonstrations of the Thomson ReutersProView app for the iPad. ProView launches shortly in Australia, following its successful introduction in the US, UK and Canada. ProView has features including full-text Boolean search, and updating of content as new editions ...
