Litigation has traditionally been the largest practice for major firms. But in recent years, litigation practices have been slowly losing ground and transactional practices have risen to compensate. A new report from Peer Monitor finds that corporate, M&A, tax and real estate work has consistently outperformed litigation practices for the past two years. In fact, …
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30 years of service: Reference Attorneys celebrate years of helping customers
The Reference Attorney department in the Legal business of Thomson Reuters is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. When it launched in 1985, Back to the Future and Rambo were top-grossing films. Wham!, Madonna, and Chaka Khan were on top of the Billboard charts. Much has changed since then. What hasn’t changed is the Reference …
Magna Carta 800th anniversary commemorated with art exhibit at MSP airport
Thomson Reuters and the Airport Foundation MSP celebrate this week’s Magna Carta anniversary by creating Magna Carta to Minnesota: the Rule of Law, a unique art exhibit in Concourse C at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Minnesota’s deep roots in the law – and support for the rule of law – are celebrated in the …
Super Lawyers Presents Leveraging Your Legal Accolades Playbook
This post was written by Patrick Dunn, marketer at Thomson Reuters Recognitions and honors are what the marketing world calls third-party validations, and they can be extremely valuable marketing tools for attorneys. They make them stand out in an increasingly competitive legal market. However, these benefits mean more when lawyers promote them in their overall …
Legal Executive Institute to serve as industry resource hub
Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute has been created to serve as a comprehensive resource for legal leaders and industry professionals. The institute provides legal news, expert views, analytics, benchmark reports and industry-leading events to inform those who lead and manage the delivery of legal services. Mike Abbott, vice president of Client Management and Global Thought …
The Mobile (R)evolution
Robert Schukai, Head of Advanced Product Innovation at Thomson Reuters, believes it’s time for us to think about mobility not just as workflow, but as 24/7 access that is more of a day-to-day flow than simply how to stream work at your desktop. In the summer issue of Elite Exchange Magazine, Schukai talks about this evolution and …
VANTAGE Keynote speaker Mike Staver: Recap
This week at Thomson Reuters Elite’s VANTAGE Worldwide Conference in Las Vegas, the amazing Mike Staver, international speaker and coach, provided the keynote on “How to Stay Calm Under Pressure.” His rapid fire presentation style and amazing storytelling kept our attention from start to finish. Here are a few key take-aways for those who weren’t …
Ill Repute: Episode 7 – Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and LeBron James
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact them. In this edition, I am joined by our resident PR consultant, Leonard Lee, as well as John Shaughnessy, vice president of Business Communications at Thomson Reuters. This week, we discuss the reputation …
Elite’s VANTAGE Las Vegas: Exciting new developments and what we heard from customers
We talked to three Thomson Reuters Elite senior leaders at Elite’s VANTAGE Las Vegas conference to find out what they are hearing from customers at the event, and what exciting new developments are on the horizon for Elite. Here is what they had to say: Eric Ruud, managing director of Legal Enterprise Solutions at Thomson …
Karl Florida on the Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge
The 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge began this week, and things are off to a great start so far! Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics – and hosted by InnoCentive, this competition is an open call for legal professionals, programmers, entrepreneurs, data scientists and any other interested …
