Women of Color Attorneys in Sports & Sports Law By Da’Lacie McGrew While women lawyers and lawyers of color have made many advances in the legal profession, there are still some areas that are particularly challenging. Sports and sports law are among those. In this episode of “For Public Consumption” presented by Legal Current, Sharon …
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Competition Growing in UK Legal Market: New Entrants and US Firms Pursue Market Share
The UK legal market has a good track record of growth, with revenues up again in 2018-19. Yet the market faces rising competition from U.S. law firms and alternative legal service providers, including the Big 4 consulting firms. These are among the conclusions of a new 2020 State of the Legal Market in the UK …
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2020 WILLIAM L. NORTON, JR. JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD NOW OPEN
Created by Thomson Reuters and the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), the William L. Norton, Jr. Judicial Excellence Award recognizes distinguished bankruptcy judges for their service of the insolvency community. This award was created to honor a bankruptcy judge who represents the highest commitment to scholarship and service to the insolvency community, as embodied by the …
Top 10 Canadian Law Firm Brands
Blakes is ranked as the top Canadian law firm brand for a fifth consecutive year, according to the 2020 Canadian Law Firm Brand Index from Acritas, now part of Thomson Reuters. McCarthy Tétrault, the runner-up, has steadily held that position over the same period of time, and this year managed to close the gap slightly …
Focusing Product Development Around Customers’ Needs
At Thomson Reuters, product development is driven by working closely with customers to meet their evolving needs through the application of innovative technology. The 2020 launches of Legal Data APIs, Legislative Insights on Westlaw Edge and Practical Law Global underscore our commitment to helping our customers better serve their clients. The introduction of Thomson Reuters …
Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Financial Crimes
Amid an explosion of global financial data, combatting financial crimes and managing highly regulated transactions has become increasingly complicated. Earlier this month, a panel at LegalWeek 2020 focused on these complexities, exploring anti-money laundering (AML) trends as well as the state of legal artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in AML compliance and screening. Joseph Raczynski, a …
Practical Law Global: Navigating Expansion Opportunities and Challenges
As businesses of all sizes expand their global footprint, they discover opportunities for growth in new markets as well as the challenges of cross-border legal issues. To help legal professionals effectively manage global practice and procedure, Thomson Reuters has introduced Practical Law Global. Practical Law Global puts all Practical Law content globally into a single …
Introducing Legislative Insights on Westlaw Edge
Today Thomson Reuters introduced Legislative Insights, a tool on Westlaw Edge that provides actionable data relating to proposed federal legislation. Westlaw Edge users can take advantage of the comprehensive legislative content from Thomson Reuters and technology from Skopos Labs to present a complete picture and provide counsel relating to proposed legislative changes that may affect a client, company, agency …
Second Straight Year of Growth for Large Law Firms
The large law firm market notched a second straight year of growth in 2019, according to the latest Peer Monitor report. Firms wrapped up what is arguably their best two-year period since the end of the recession, 2019 marked the first two year stretch in more than a decade where demand for law firm services …
Looking Ahead to Legalweek NY 2020
The first week of February will see thousands of legal professionals taking over Midtown for Legalweek New York. The conference is an annual opportunity for attendees to take a deep dive on legal technologies and business strategy. Professionals from law firms and corporate legal departments, as well as industry influencers, will explore business and regulatory …