In the second part of our four-part series with Allison Guidette, managing director of Large Law firms for Thomson Reuters, and Ian Nelson, senior director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Practical Law Company, Guidette discusses the legal solutions marketing campaign and how PLC fits into the legal solutions picture. “It’s the first time …
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Engaging the next generation with Youth Perspectives
This article originally ran on the Thomson Reuters blog, the Knowledge Effect. Today, more than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day. We recognize the importance of not only becoming more aware of what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint, but of how we can engage the next generation in …
- April 22, 2013
- Susan Martin
Firm Central: Spotlight on security
A few weeks ago, we launched the first in a series of blog posts about Firm Central, the hosted practice management solution designed for small law firms. In addition to providing firms with traditional practice management features like the ability to store documents and contacts in a secure online environment, Firm Central has some truly …
- April 22, 2013
- Susan Martin
Allison Guidette and Ian Nelson on the PLC acquisition
In this four part video series, Allison Guidette, managing director of Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, and Ian Nelson, senior director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Practical Law Company, discuss the recent acquisition of PLC, how the PLC team is embracing the change, and what’s next. First in the series, Guidette and …
- April 17, 2013
- Susan Martin
Carswell’s A Tax Guide for American Citizens in Canada
The more than 1 million United States citizens residing in Canada were pulling out legal pads, sharpening pencils and firing up their Wi-Fi to complete their U.S. filing by today’s deadline, in addition to their Canadian tax return. Greater U.S. interest to hold citizens to this tax filing requirement has led to increased compliance tracking. So …
- April 15, 2013
- Gretchen DeSutter
Legal News Brief – April 12, 2013
TGIF! Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. In gene case, Supreme Court to again address patent eligibility The underlying issue in an upcoming case is one the justices have confronted relatively often in the last few years: What constitutes an invention that …
- April 12, 2013
- Susan Martin
David Pogue talks disruptive technologies and favorite apps
While we bid adieu to ABA Techshow for another year, we won’t soon forget the dynamic keynote presentation given by David Pogue, columnist for the New York Times and Scientific American, as well as an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the current host of NOVA ScienceNow. Pogue sat down with us before …
- April 12, 2013
- Susan Martin
March remains the peak month for divorce
March is known for St. Patrick’s Day, the Spring Equinox and March Madness, but as recent data suggest, the month also carries a more dubious claim as the most active month for divorce filings in the U.S. Westlaw, the nation’s leading legal research database, found that while divorce filings increased nearly 13 percent between December …
- April 10, 2013
- Alex Cook
Lawyering 2.0: Shifting to a “customer”-focused model
Law firms are beginning to borrow from the corporate world to incorporate aspects of their clients’ business models. Fenwick & West has created a new Product Manager role that borrows from the consumer products world and is modeled on a structure commonly seen in their clients’ businesses. Managing Partner Kate Fritz discusses Fenwick’s innovative efforts …
- April 9, 2013
- Leonard Lee
The world is going mobile. So what?
This guest post was written by Bob Schukai, global head of Mobile at Thomson Reuters. So what you say? So what? Are you kidding me? In all seriousness, we are living through one of the most amazing times humankind has known. It may not seem overly obvious to anyone, but in 2007, the world changed …
- April 8, 2013
- Susan Martin