Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility and Inclusion at Thomson Reuters, sat down for a discussion with Tim Nixon, director of Sustainability at Thomson Reuters, to talk about the value of a unified corporate responsibility and diversity inclusion function and its value to Thomson Reuters global enterprise. Watch the short video below.
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Podcast: Ill Repute episode 2
The second episode of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it, is now available. In this episode, I talk with Alex Cook, senior communications specialist, and Leonard Lee, our resident PR consultant. We discuss election year reputation management, Ted Cruz, issuing a public apology …
Adapting to rapid change in health care
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 The pace of change in health care continues at a high level. The Affordable Care Act is struggling to reach out to uninsured groups, and still trying to make corrections …
Thomson Reuters earns 13 top honors in 2015 National Law Journal Readers Rankings
Thomson Reuters took top honors for key products and services across 13 categories in the fourth annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings. Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) was recognized as the top Legal Research Provider, including software as a service, digital and print products. WestlawNext, the industry-leading legal research solution, was ranked best Online Legal Research …
Thomson Reuters partners with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to host the second Law and Art program
Thomson Reuters is partnering with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts again on a continuing legal education program on law and art called “Fakes and Forgeries: A Panel Discussion on Law and Art.” The event will be held on April 16, 2015 from 5-7 p.m. in the Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This is …
Thomson Reuters launches Westlaw Asia
Thomson Reuters recently launched Westlaw Asia, a legal research platform delivering resources such as cases, legislation, law journals, and legal commentary to legal professionals. This is especially timely with the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) integration expected by the end of 2015. Businesses and legal practitioners in ASEAN will have a greater need to access laws, regulations, and judicial …
Podcast: The legal implications of private-sector employees using personal email for work
In light of the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton using her personal email while Secretary of State, John Martin, head of the Encompass E-Discovery Group with Nelson Mullins, took some time to discuss with us how common it is for private-sector employees to use personal email for work. Is this practice ever sanctioned, or used as a …
Hillary Clinton email scandal: Obstruction of justice?
This post was written by Ronald Rotunda, author of Rotunda and Nowak’s Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure, 5th and Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, 2014-2015 ed. (ABA). On March 3, the New York Times announced, “Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests.” By then, we learned that former …
Charlotte Rushton and Jessica Turner land on “100 Women to Watch” list
The Female Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) Board in the UK recently released its sixth edition of the “100 Women to Watch” list, naming Charlotte Rushton, managing director, U.S. Large Law Firms, and Jessica Turner, global head, Government & Academia, both at Thomson Reuters, as women to watch in 2015. The FTSE is …
Wait, What? Episode 5: I was going to go out, but I got lazy
In this installment of “Wait, What?” your hosts tackle the question of whether technology makes us lazy or not. They cover everything from grocery delivery services to texting at the dinner table. Jason, Rob and Matt spend quite a bit of time in this episode discussing whether people are productive when they work from home and the effects that “work” phones …
