Following a recent spike in state-sponsored cyber-attacks of more than 50 attendees of a prestigious cyber-security conference, the admins at Twitter set out to begin informing their users when accounts are targeted by known state-sponsored attackers via their social network. The event was the 2015 32C3 Conference hosted in Hamburg, Germany.[1] What’s 32C3 you ask? …
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LegalTech NY 2016: Is the Legal Industry Getting the Most from its Technology?
Last week’s LegalTech New York 2016 saw a heavy emphasis on the potentials and pitfalls of current legal technology – especially ediscovery – as well as a questioning of whether technology itself is best being applied and utilized to the benefit of law firms and their clients. LegalTech New York 2016 also saw the formal launch …
- February 8, 2016
- Alex Cook
David Curle Talks Trends from LegalTech New York
While e-discovery may be a perennial topic at LegalTech New York, other key trends had attendees talking on the show floor. We caught up with David Curle, director of Strategic Competitive Intelligence with Thomson Reuters, at LegalTech this week to get his take on the latest trends. You can hear what he had to say …
- February 5, 2016
- Alex Cook
The Making of Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Point from LegalTech
LegalTech New York 2016 may be wrapping up, but for eDiscovery Point, things are just getting started. Announced last week, eDiscovery Point made a good showing among LegalTech attendees. As a faster and easier-to-use platform, eDiscovery Point gives legal professionals unprecedented control from processing through production, in part, because the platform was designed, tested and refined based on …
- February 4, 2016
- Alex Cook
Legal Current Goes to LegalTech New York
Next week, Legal Current will be on the ground at LegalTech New York. Can’t be at the show? Watch for coverage, including more on Practice Point and eDiscovery Point, from the show on our blog and on Twitter. See you in New York.
- January 30, 2016
- Alex Cook
Firm Central Adds New Features
If you haven’t had a chance to take a look at Firm Central lately, you may have missed out on some interesting new features. The most recent is the addition of an integrated time & billing module that works within the Firm Central dashboard and also intregates with QuickBooks Online. But there’s also been quite …
- January 29, 2016
- Leonard Lee
Thomson Reuters Launches eDiscovery Point
Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Point™ is set to transform the market with a faster and easier-to-use platform. eDiscovery Point gives legal professionals unprecedented control from processing through production. The new platform combines Thomson Reuters robust power, security and service excellence with cutting-edge technology. eDiscovery Point enables clients to upload and process documents in minutes. Users can …
- January 28, 2016
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters Introduces Practice Point
Thomson Reuters today unveiled Practice Point – an innovative solution that delivers the most relevant content and tools for a given task or legal issue. It leverages key content, expertise and technology from Practical Law and Westlaw in an entirely new manner through task-based organization and editor-selected content. Practice Point was developed with the help …
- January 28, 2016
- Alex Cook
Catching Fire: New Legal Business around Medical Marijuana – 23rd Annual Marketing Partner Forum
As the list of states with medical marijuana legislation grows, so too does the number of organizations leading the way in research, intellectual property, development and distribution of medical marijuana. But as panelists from the “Catching Fire: New Legal Business around Medical Marijuana” session at the recent 23rd Annual Marketing Partner Forum in Orlando would …
- January 28, 2016
- Alex Cook
Who Watches the Watchmen?
What do Roman satirist Juvenal, Alan Moore and Jason Thomas, chief of Innovation for Thomson Reuters, have in common? All have asked the question (in one way or another), “who watches the watchmen?” It is a fundamental question of our age when seemingly endless amounts of data are accessible through countless technological gateways. And while …
- January 26, 2016
- Alex Cook