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Exclusive, Invitation-Only: Big Data Collides With Big Compliance
Compliance and Legal functions wrestle with an unprecedented level of issues ranging from data breaches to government investigations, to uncovering potential smoking guns within company e-mails. Yet these risk mitigation efforts are often under-funded, under-appreciated, and under-equipped to handle modern day challenges. And while compliance executives are trying to get their arms around the data …
Half of Americans Use the Internet for Personal Reasons While at Work, Says FindLaw.com Survey
If you’re reading this at work, that’s ok. Keeping up on legal news is probably part of your job. But after you’re done, you decide to update your Facebook page and shop for something online, that might not be so good. A new FindLaw survey says half of Americans say they use the Internet while …
2015 – The Golden Age of Naked Creativity
We have the privilege of living in the most amazing Golden Age. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic engineering have bolted from the R&D labs and been embraced in a multitude of fields, industries and services bringing both promise and peril to society, consumers and workers. Progressing at an exponential rate it is inevitable that AI …
Wait, What? Episode 14
Jason Thomas is on the Ashley Madison list! Wait, What? Oh, it turns out there are several Jason Thomases in Arlington, Virginia. And one of them may have been outed in the infamous Ashley Madison case. And it wasn’t this Jason Thomas, it turns out. But it begs the question, what are the ethics of Doxing — …
Super Lawyers awarded for anniversary coverage of Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Voting Rights Act
Super Lawyers was honored by the Minnesota Magazine & Publishing Association last week with a Silver Award in the Feature Story category at the group’s annual gala last week. The magazine was recognized for the feature article, “We’ve Come a Rather Remarkable Way,” which took an in-depth look at the African American attorneys – including …
Beginning a legal education and supporting diversity… in preschool
From the White House to the school house, the discussion around the importance of pre-kindergarten education and its long-term benefit for students has gained momentum in recent years. Earlier this year, the American Bar Association joined the conversation, with ABA President William Hubbard noting, “Education is an important issue for the bar because of our …
Susan Taylor Martin interviews Prof. Deborah Rhode
Thomson Reuters Legal President Susan Taylor Martin recently spoke with author and Stanford Professor Deborah Rhode. As director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford, Prof. Rhode is a widely published scholar on legal ethics and diversity in the law. Susan and Prof. …
CFO-COO Forum Session – The Watson Effect
Running a law firm in today’s business environment is challenging enough, but what happens in the future as machine learning systems – like IBM’s Watson – become part of the law firm? Panelist gathered during the CFO-CFO Forum to discuss that very issue in a session called “The Watson Effect: Delivering Client Value in Artificial …
CFO-COO Forum– Unprofitable Partner? Now What?
The last several years have altered the economic landscape for law firms – some for the better, but many have not been so fortunate. And some firms likely have had to face the difficult decision whether or not to part ways with a partner that is no longer profitable for the firm. A recent panel …
