While the words “project management” may make many of us cringe, legal project management is becoming an increasing buzzword in legal circles. With many firms still struggling to gain momentum amidst sluggish demand and client pricing pressures, firms are exploring many new avenues to re-examine, and if need be, re-invent some of their processes. Firms …
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Hubbard’s OneView Connect solution picked up by Salans
Hubbard One, a leading provider of marketing and business development solutions and a Thomson Reuters business, just announced that international law firm Salans has chosen its OneView Connect solution as a new intranet platform. As firms grow internationally it becomes more and more important that they have quality intranet that can meet their clients’ needs. …
- April 11, 2012
- Susan Martin
Keep up with the Healthcare bill using Reuters Case by Case interactive site
It can be difficult and time-consuming trying to keep up with the latest from the Supreme Court on important issues, such as the healthcare bill. To make it easier, Reuters recently launched its Case by Case site featuring an interactive graphic that offers insight into each case the Supreme Court tackles. Case by Case provides summaries of …
- April 10, 2012
- Susan Martin
Highlights from the 2011 Annual Report
Earlier this week, we released our 2011 Annual Report in an interactive format available online at thomsonreuters.com. Along with information on the company’s financial performance as well as business unit overviews, this year’s annual report contains a variety of dynamic content including interviews with our new business leaders as well as stories of how we are building the …
- April 9, 2012
- Susan Martin
ERISA litigator James Baker joins Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie announced in recently that highly regarded ERISA litigator, James Baker joined its North American Compensation & Employment Law Practice as a partner in the San Francisco/Palo Alto office. Baker’s practice focuses on ERISA litigation and the counseling of employers on ERISA, employee benefit and executive compensation issues. Among Baker’s most notable cases, he was the …
- April 6, 2012
- Susan Martin
Success through legal research technology
Law firms are being increasingly challenged to adapt and innovate to meet their clients’ expectations. Being able to succeed in this changing environment, firms must offer more value to their clients. An area that can increase a firm’s value, lower their legal costs and improve their competitive advantage to clients is through legal research. A …
- April 5, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Law firms mergers up in Q1
The trends towards industry consolidation continues. The Hildebrandt Institute’s MergerWatch Report showed 20 completed law firm mergers that involved U.S. firms in the first quarter of 2012. That represents a 43 percent increase over the first quarter of 2011, which saw only 14 completed mergers and is in stark contrast to the four completed mergers in the …
- April 3, 2012
- Scott Augustin
The rule of law, the US Constitution and Thomson Reuters
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored by Thomson Reuters in …
- April 1, 2012
- Gretchen DeSutter
The exciting world of Elite mobile
Thomson Reuters Elite Director of Product Management Justin Farmer introduced the attendees of the 2012 Elite User Conference to 3E Mobile. The new mobile system was created as a native iOS app for the iPad®, as well as a mobile website allowing the ability to access 3E via any web-enabled mobile device. Legal Current caught …
- April 1, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Patent & trademark trends: Thomson Reuters evaluates the state of global IP
Innovation is often viewed as the key to global economic prosperity. In all corners of the earth, executives, policy makers, government officials, politicians, teachers and entrepreneurs are talking about their hope for “innovation.” The topic is of equal interest to Thomson Reuters, and after tracking corporate and industry-specific innovation activity for several years we recently …
- March 30, 2012
- Gretchen DeSutter
