This post was written by Erica Brown, senior marketer of large law firm marketing at Thomson Reuters Any attorney will tell you that sound, thorough research is the bedrock of a solid legal case. That has been true for as long as law has been a profession. Just because the importance of research is every bit the …
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Corporate Counsel Connect: Corporate Social Responsibility gets increased attention
The latest issue of Corporate Counsel Connect, a monthly newsletter highlighting legal articles with an in-house perspective, features an interesting story about the increased attention corporate social responsibility (CSR) is getting within major U.S. companies. CSR issues are coming into sharper focus in boardrooms as customers, employees and shareholders emphasize the importance of high standards …
- June 4, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
Podcast: NCAA class-action ready to tip-off
The class-action lawsuit including former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon against the NCAA begins in District Court in Los Angeles next week. In addition, the NCAA is appealing a recent regional NLRB ruling that Northwestern University football players have the right to unionize. Marta Fernandez of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell has dealt with NLRB issues …
- June 3, 2014
- Leonard Lee
Thomson Reuters Elite recognized as 2014 American Business Awards finalist
Thomson Reuters Elite has been recognized as a 2014 American Business Awards finalist in the Marketing Campaign of the Year – Software category for the Elite Business Development Premier marketing campaign. The American Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards, annually recognize outstanding work in the marketplace. The Elite campaign, featuring the theme “Get …
- June 2, 2014
- Susan Martin
Pangea3 named a 2014 ACC Value Champion
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business specializing in global legal outsourcing, was recently named a 2014 Association of Corporation Counsel Value Champion, thanks to its participation in Caterpillar, Inc’s “Re-engineering Legal Support” initiative. Like many of the other legal departments honored, Caterpillar made big strides in process improvement and smarter division of labor. The improvements first …
- June 2, 2014
- Susan Martin
May podcast: Black’s Law Dictionary, Brown v. Board of Education and Satanic prayer
In this month’s Legal Current podcast, we cover: Legal news: It’s the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling to end segregation in public schools and we talked with Professor Ronna Greff Schneider get her viewpoint on the legal, cultural and historic significance of the ruling. Legal trends & insights: Social media and privacy – Snapchat …
- May 30, 2014
- Susan Martin
We Are All Criminals exhibit comes to Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN campus
We’ve all committed a crime at some point in our lives, either knowingly or not and either petty or major. There was that time in high school when you and your friends thought it would be funny to steal that street sign. Or that time in college when you experimented with illegal drugs. Or that …
- May 29, 2014
- Susan Martin
Moving keynote at annual Association of Legal Administrators conference
At this year’s Association for Legal Administrators annual conference in Toronto, the focus lies heavily on our ever-changing profession. And today, Commander Mark E. Kelly opened the keynote presentation by talking about his own evolving career: from a marine engineering student to Naval aviator to NASA shuttle pilot and now to author and supporter of …
- May 21, 2014
- Gretchen DeSutter
eBillingHub and special ALA member pricing
This post was written by Carlos Seoane, senior director of Operations for Thomson Reuters Elite With increasing pressure to streamline billing efficiencies and capture every single billable moment, law firms today must find any and all feasible ways to improve the workflow between lawyer and client. E-Bills need to be more efficiently generated to shorten …
- May 21, 2014
- Susan Martin
When technology strikes fear into the hearts of the legal department
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for Thomson Reuters Technology can be scary, especially to casebook-loving, yellow legal notepad-carrying, folder-filing attorneys. Fortunately, some technologies don’t strike fear into attorneys, like word processing, email, or the mobile (rotary?) phone. But what happens when these standard technologies are insufficient to effectively address …
- May 21, 2014
- Jeff McCoy