Statistics, analytics and metrics – or whatever you’re calling them this month – are the catalyst to understanding where you have been, what adjustments may be needed and where you need to go. Everyone has seen a professional athlete grab a tablet or photos the moment they come off the field to review the last …
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“Force”-Ful Research
While the holidays are top of mind for most people right now, arguably the latest installment of the Star Wars saga – Star Wars: The Force Awakens – is a close second. Whether you have seen the film one, two or ten times, as our colleagues in Thomson Reuters IP & Science found, some of …
FindLaw Playbook – Legal Marketing 103
For most small law firms, the conventional wisdom is that a website with a great design and optimized content will be sufficient to attract potential clients. Get the basics right, and in theory, your phone will ring. But with today’s modern web user, a website is just a thread in a detailed web of online …
Zero-sum Game: Hourly Billing, Productivity and Profitability
Law departments and law firms are not locked in a zero-sum game. Law departments can get higher quality work at lower cost while law firms increase profitability. In a flat-fee environment, the dynamic is obvious—cost reductions via productivity gains from investment in process and technology outpace price reductions. But even under the reign of the …
Fitbits, Wearable Fitness Monitors & Data Privacy
Are you sporting a new Fitbit or an Apple Watch with a fitness monitor app? If it’s part of your employer’s wellness program, who owns and has access to your data? Tyler Newby , litigation partner at Fenwick & West looks at the wearable fitness monitor craze and some of the data privacy implications they …
Thomson Reuters Collaborates With Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District Innovation Hub
Innovation is found in many different places around the world, and Thomson Reuters is collaborating with one of the world’s largest innovation hubs, the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Thomson Reuters will sponsor MaRS Discovery District’s LegalX Cluster, which connects technology, high-growth ventures and the legal industry. The goal is to create bridges between the start-up community, …
Supreme Court Patent Law Cases
Michael Hawes of Baker Botts discusses patent law cases coming up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum Sessions – “Let’s Talk”
“Do more with less” may be a common refrain in today’s business environment. But for corporate legal departments, it may be “Do a lot more with less” – and many are rising to meet the challenge. At the inaugural Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum in New York earlier this month, leaders from global businesses met to …
2015 Legal Tech Open Challenge Winners Announced
The Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge saw legal professionals, technologists, data scientists and entrepreneurs from around the globe compete to create unique technology applications that provide high-value analytics to legal practitioners. Participants were given access to editorially-enhanced federal court dockets content, outside data, and the Thomson Reuters open-source company-identification system, PermID, to develop the new applications. …
Whatever Happened to Political Campaign Theme Songs?
It wasn’t long ago that every Presidential campaign had its own theme song. Even George Washington had one. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. All the way through to Jimmy Carter. But in recent decades, the music stopped. Or at least went Top 40. Presidential campaigns switched from original campaign themes to using hit pop songs, which …
