Wednesday 15th Apr 2015
Stephanie Fox, director of customer marketing, and Laura Zastrow, manager of productivity solutions with Thomson Reuters, talk about what the product development team will be doing at ABA TECHSHOW this year and what’s new with Firm Central. Watch the short video below to learn more, or stop by the Thomson Reuters booth at ABA Techshow in Chicago ...
Tuesday 14th Apr 2015
Four years ago, Thomson Reuters launched a new proprietary professional-grade platform for ebooks called ProView. Since the product launch, we have gone from 50 ebooks to over 700 available ebooks. ProView has allowed attorneys to go paperless, be mobile and still access legal resources and stay on top of new and important content releases. In the video clip ...
Friday 10th Apr 2015
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney advisor at Thomson Reuters I’m very excited to be attending the American Bar Association (ABA) Techshow next week in Chicago. The Techshow is a great time for me to receive feedback, discuss product ideas and updates to Westlaw, and other legal solutions. So often, it’s ...
Friday 6th Mar 2015
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA Over the past five years—since the initial passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—implementation of the health plan has been in turmoil. Between planning problems; implementation flaws; conflict between supporters ...
Tuesday 3rd Mar 2015
Moving to the Cloud can be a big step for a small firm or solo practitioner. But it can also mean big benefits. Some attorneys who have successfully transitioned their practices to the Cloud were part of a panel discussion at LegalTech New York last month on “Practice Management and Other Legal Cloud Services Specifically for ...
Wednesday 28th Jan 2015
From time to time, we’ll provide some tips on how to use WestlawNext to research SCOTUS cases and thoroughly crush your opponents. Today’s tip involves Writs of Certiorari. There are three WestlawNext content sets that can be particularly helpful as you research SCOTUS cases. Today, we’ll look at “SCT-petition.” This is the content set that ...
Friday 23rd Jan 2015
We will be profiling some of the teams participating in this term’s FantasySCOTUS. This week, we kick it off at the very top – the predictor who is wearing the belt (if we gave out WWE-style belts). TEAM: Merlach PREDICTOR: Jacob Berlove is a three-time consecutive FantasySCOTUS champion, which is some darn serious cred in the ...
Wednesday 7th Jan 2015
Thomson Reuters recently received international acknowledgement for a legal treatise on Chinese law authored by two employees. The 350-page volume — Inside China’s Legal System — is a comprehensive overview of the Chinese legal system. The book is co-authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, and Nathan Madson, who previously worked for Findlaw ...
Monday 8th Dec 2014
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA One of the major problems facing health care attorneys today is how to deal with the turmoil of a constantly-changing health care system. This turmoil extends to every level of ...
Tuesday 14th Oct 2014
This post was written by Chris Coppin, legal director for the Conference of Western Attorneys General Canadian Lawyer recently named Jason Madden to its list of Top 25 Influential Figures in Canadian Law for his work on behalf of the Métis (May-Tee) people. The Métis are a distinct cultural group of native peoples who are ...
Tuesday 30th Sep 2014
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA The Professional Development (PD) Group of Thomson Reuters continues to prepare new resource materials related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As implementation of the ACA continues to reshape the ...
Wednesday 24th Sep 2014
News from our friends in Australia this week: Victoria Police has adopted Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw AU and ProView services – delivered via tablet and desktop computer – to help its prosecuting officers better conduct legal research and determine strategies for effective presentation of cases. Noting the demands placed on prosecutors as a result of an ...
Tuesday 23rd Sep 2014
The New York Law Journal Reader Rankings were recently announced, and the survey of 8,000 readers gave top honors for quality and ease-of-use to WestlawNext, the WestlawNext iPad App, the Westlaw Portfolio App, Concourse, and Pangea3. For the fifth year, WestlawNext was selected as the Best Online Research provider and the Westlaw Portfolio iPad App was ...
