The Eagan campus of Thomson Reuters recently made headlines when it hosted local Dakota County educators and awarded a scholarship to a local student. The Star Tribune mentioned Thomson Reuters as one of the businesses that local superintendents and principals visited as part of a tour for educators. A panel of Thomson Reuters leaders and …
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Mockbusters: Hollywood’s knockoffs
Have you seen any of these movies? Puss in Boots – A Furry Tail? American Battleship? Chop Kick Panda? They’re not what you think they are. With plots and designs that depict an obvious resemblance to Hollywood’s major movie titles, smaller entertainment companies are playing off of big-name studios and attempting to deceive consumers into …
The E-Billing process simplified
As law firms seek every opportunity to reduce costs, many are finding that eBillingHub is a resource to help them increase their billing efficiency and shorten billing cycles. Additional advantages include: reduced write-offs and write-downs, improved invoice tracking, decreased billing costs, and enhanced client service and satisfaction. eBillingHub is delivered as a web-based SaaS application …
Super Lawyers 2012 Pro Bono Awards now open for nominations
Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is pleased to announce that its annual Super Lawyers Pro Bono Awards program is now open for nominations. The awards honor legal professionals, students and institutions that have exhibited excellence in offering no-cost legal services to the poor, exploited, vulnerable or disadvantaged. In 2011, Super Lawyers launched the inaugural …
Yamate named 2012 TIPS Liberty Achievement Award recipient
At the 2012 ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago recently, the Liberty Achievement Award was awarded to Sandra Yamate by the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was created in 2008 to honor lawyers and judges who promote diversity in the legal profession. Yamate, a strong advocate for promoting …
Clumsy burglars, Kevin Durant and LA street murals — Podcast: July 2012
We’ve got a great episode for you this month highlighting the legal aspects of some major news stories. To start, our “Chaos in the Courts” segment features an interesting story about an alleged burglar who was found stuck under the garage door of a Rent-A-Center store. Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we feature …
Los Angeles street murals: Protected art or urban eyesore?
Los Angeles, known for its abundance of talented street artists and their mural art, may not be known for those murals much longer. With murals being painted over by an existing ban on private murals within the city, the mural capital of the world is currently in jeopardy and city legislators are taking it upon …
All things mobile
A major objective of Thomson Reuters is helping customers improve their productivity and deliver better client service by allowing them to access their legal information and tools anytime, anywhere. Over the last several months, Thomson Reuters has introduced or updated numerous mobile products and apps to meet the increasingly mobile workflow of legal professionals. “Thomson Reuters …
Peer Monitor Index falls in second quarter
The Hildebrandt Institute Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, fell four points in the second quarter of 2012 to a reading of 51, its third decline in the last four quarters. PMI is a composite index of law firm market performance using real-time data drawn from major …
US and UK M&A activity up in Q2
Global M&A activity remained slow in the second quarter, with deal volume sitting at its lowest levels in three years, according to the latest M&A Trends & Insight for Lawyers report from Thomson Reuters Business Law Advisor – M&A. U.S. and UK M&A activity, however, bucked the global trend, with volume up 14 percent and …
