When the song “Uptown Funk” came over the loudspeakers at the Minneapolis Convention Center this past Sunday, I couldn’t help but smile as a group of giggling girls pushed their way past me to hit the dance floor. Looking around the room, they weren’t alone. Groups of girls ranging in age from 10 to 19 …
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FantasySCOTUS half-time report
The 2014-15 Supreme Court term is getting into high gear, with oral arguments last week in Obergefell v. Hodges, dealing with gay marriage bans. Decisions in Obergefell and several other high-profile cases have yet to be announced. FantasySCOTUS participants still have plenty of opportunity to get their selections in before the High Court issues many …
Peer Monitor Index flat in Q1
The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, was unchanged at 54 in the first quarter. Despite slightly higher demand for law firm services, weak rate growth and falling productivity held back gains in the market Demand for large law firm services rose 0.6 percent during the quarter – …
Ill Repute episode 4: NFL draft and the activist CEO
Welcome to Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that inpact it. In this episode, resident PR consultant Leonard Lee speaks with John Shaughnessy, vice president of Business Communications, and Jeff McCoy, manager of External Communications at Thomson Reuters, about the recent NFL draft, and activist and celebrity …
New “issue spotting” strategies for health lawyers
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 challenges facing health law attorneys today is how to best track the changes that are taking place in programs that effect clients. Over the past five …
Thomson Reuters Launches iOS app for 10th Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary
Thomson Reuters has released the iOS app for Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. It also is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions. Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th …
New Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure is approved by President Dilma Roussef
This post was written by Marisa Harms, editorial director of editorial label Revista dos Tribunais, Thomson Reuters. The full article can be found in Portuguese below the English version. After six years pending in Congress, on March 16, 2015, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved a new Code of Civil Procedure (Código de Processo Civil, CPC), …
FindLaw survey: Law Day and constitutional rights
Today is Law Day in the US, so FindLaw wanted to look at Americans’ feelings on the basis for their legal rights: the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. FindLaw asked 1,000 Americans what constitutional right they consider to be most important. The results were somewhat surprising: Freedom of speech: 30% Due process rights: 20% …
David Curle on Georgetown Law’s Iron Tech Lawyer competition
David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, recently visited Georgetown Law in Washington DC for its semi-annual Iron Tech Lawyer competition. In the video below, he gives a summary of his time there. You can also read about it in this post from the LEI blog.
New tool for attacking cyberpiracy
This post was written by Rod S. Berman, Esq. and Jessica Bromall Sparkman, Esq. Recent decisions in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (“AMPAS”) v. GoDaddy.com, Inc., CV 10-03738 (C.D. Cal.), lay the foundation for brand owners to skip the haggle with domain registrants, and take their issues with infringing domain names straight to …
