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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
ABA Techshow: Day two
Day two at ABA Techshow is turning out to be even more informative and exciting than day one. Thomson Reuters hosted six Lunch & Learns, plus we checked out sessions on predictive coding for productive practitioners and mobile collaboration. David Pogue gave a dynamic keynote presentation, where he talked about disruptive technologies and augmented reality …
What makes Practitioner Insights so unique?
Ask John Ohle, manager of New Product Development for Thomson Reuters, what makes Practitioner Insights so unique and he will say that it’s because other available Thomson Reuters resources are leveraged. But he thinks Practitioner Insights is fantastic all-around, which would make sense since he was one of the people who developed it. Current awareness …
ABA Techshow: Day one
It’s a beautiful day in Chicago, and ABA Techshow is the place to be. From cloud and collaboration topics to e-discovery strategies and social media, ABA Techshow offers something for everyone. In between product demonstrations, we attended a session on leveraging social media to build relevance, and another on trends and ethics in cloud security. …
How customer innovation is driving ProView
When ProView launched a little over a year ago, Dan Bennett, head of Mobile Services for the Americas at Thomson Reuters, never would have predicted that customer demand to print from their devices would be so high. While skeptical about the use case of printing from an eBook, customers were making rational use cases, especially …
How customer feedback shaped the development of Concourse
James Jarvis, senior director of Product Development for Thomson Reuters, lives and breathes by customer feedback. “Everything we do is based on customer interaction, whether we are talking about a concept or a final design, “ he says. In creating Concourse, a matter-based suite of solutions for corporate law departments and government organizations, Jarvis and …
