Beginning this month, Legal Current will highlight a Thomson Reuters key author of the month. For our first feature, we profile Professor Mary F. Radford, author of Georgia Trusts and Trustees, Georgia Guardianship and Conservatorship, and Redfearn Wills and Administration in Georgia. Professor Radford is also the Marjorie Fine Knowles Professor of Law at Georgia State University College …
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A few minutes with Ari Kaplan at LegalTech New York
Legal Current caught up with Ari Kaplan, professional services advisor and author (The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring your Legal Career and Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace), about his panel at LegalTech New York and the trends and issues he has uncovered in his annual survey of corporate counsel. Check …
- February 12, 2014
- Scott Augustin
Startups: $458 million in legal services R&D
Why don’t law firms do R&D? It’s a question that Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State’s Reinvent Law Laboratory has asked in a number of presentations, articles, and interviews, including one at Insight Labs: Recalulate the Future of Law. As Katz notes, that may be the wrong question, because the industry does have an R&D wing; …
- February 11, 2014
- David Curle
Practical Law now on Legal Solutions site
Last week, the Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions site launched a dedicated area to Practical Law. Practical Law helps attorneys practice smarter, operate more efficiently, keep up with legal developments and provide more value to their clients. The Practical Law boutique of the Legal Solutions site showcases: The Practical Law team Practice Notes Standard Documents and …
- February 11, 2014
- Susan Martin
LegalTech New York themes: Predictions and processes
After a couple of days at LegalTech a few themes emerged. First, there was the overall nature of the show; Inside Legal had a day-one summary that broke down the vendors in the exhibit hall as follows: eDiscovery vendors 38% Cloud vendors (only touting cloud solutions) 3% Big data (companies marketing big data-type solutions) 5% Information governance …
- February 11, 2014
- David Curle
Highlights from LegalTech New York
This post was written by Craig Larson, senior director of Product Development at Thomson Reuters As LegalTech 2014 wraps up I thought I would share some highlights (and weather-related lowlights). Things Have Changed The Thomson Reuters event featuring Robert S. Mueller III was one of the best sessions I have attended over the many years …
- February 7, 2014
- Susan Martin
Terms and Conditions: Privacy and Security in the Social Age
Wednesday night, I attended the LegalTech New York viewing of Terms and Conditions May Apply, and I was blown away. I try to be a smart consumer, and I am a protective parent. But after watching this film I wondered if my children and I had traded a little too much privacy for some of …
- February 7, 2014
- Gretchen DeSutter
PeopleMap: Changing the way customers do their public records research
This post was written by Laura Long, senior director of Marketing at Thomson Reuters Customers asked – and we delivered. When we first launched WestlawNext in 2010, we received strong feedback from customers that they wanted a more integrated public records experience. That’s why we are so excited to launch PeopleMap on WestlawNext this week …
- February 6, 2014
- Susan Martin
eBillingHub launches robust benchmarking and analytics tool to measure law firm performance
eBillingHub has launched an enhancement that delivers critical performance indicators to its administrator users. Free of charge for all eBillingHub customers, the benchmarking and analytics enhancement shows firms how their billing processes measure up to other firms, making it easy to identify where efficiencies and accuracies can be gained. Powered by Peer Monitor, the leading …
- February 6, 2014
- Susan Martin
The buzz at LegalTech New York
This post was written by Patrick Hurley, vice president of Global Implementation at Thomson Reuters I’ve been coming to LegalTech New York (LTNY) for more years than I care to count, and every year there is some overriding theme that permeates the exhibition floor conversations. Often it’s the Super Bowl…well, unless you’re a Seahawks fan or a …
- February 6, 2014
- Susan Martin
