The VANTAGE 2019 Worldwide Conference is being held in San Diego next week. More than 1,000 Thomson Reuters Elite customers are expected to attend and Legal Current will be there, too. Throughout the week, conference attendees have the choice to participate in more than 300 information and client best-practices sessions, thought leadership discussions, product demonstrations and …
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Moving Matters Forward in a Meaningful Way
When I visit law firms and talk with lawyers, I hear a lot about how they are struggling with transformation – on pricing, collaborating with clients, budgeting and managing work. Often, the client collaboration piece is especially tough. A seemingly straightforward question from a client, “Where are we on this matter?” can derail an attorney’s …
- June 7, 2019
- Jeff McCoy
Small Law Firms Struggle to Generate Billable Hours
Small and solo law firms said that only 60 percent of their day is spent practicing law, according to findings of the 2019 State of U.S. Small Law Firms Report. The remainder of their time is devoted to managing their practice. With more than one-third of their time consumed by challenges such as acquiring new …
- June 6, 2019
- Carrie Brooker
A New Edition for a New Court: Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy, Third Edition
What is needed to argue a case to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court (and other appellate courts) has changed along with the changing jurists and the laws they interpret. Author David C. Frederick saw a need for addressing those changes, and the third edition of Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy was created. David …
- June 6, 2019
- Jeff McCoy
New Edition: Black’s Law Dictionary
Thomson Reuters has just released the 11th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. Setting the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of the law for nearly 130 years, Black’s Law Dictionary is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions. With new material throughout, Black’s Law Dictionary is …
- June 4, 2019
- Kara Pederson
California Dreamin’ & “GDPR Lite”
Last week, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) celebrated its first birthday. And now it’s about to get a baby sister. Or maybe an American cousin might be a more appropriate way to put it. As discussed here last week about the survey “GDPR +1 Year: Businesses Struggles With Data Privacy Regulations Increasing,” companies around …
- June 4, 2019
- Leonard Lee
Thomson Reuters Employees Team with Law Enforcement to Build Bikes for Children In-Need in Minnesota and D.C.
In what has become an unofficial kick-off to summer for some at Thomson Reuters, employees at the Minneapolis-St. Paul campus hosted the seventh annual “Build-a-Bike” event last week. Teams gathered to assemble 100 bikes, which will be given to Minnesota children, ages 6-12 years old, that don’t have a bike for the summer. Law enforcement will …
- May 30, 2019
- Alex Cook
KSTP-TV’s Twin Cities Live Visits Minneapolis-St. Paul Campus
Thomson Reuters was honored to recently be featured on the “Good Company” segment of KSTP-TV’s Twin Cities Live. Reporter Kelli Hanson stopped by for a tour of our Minneapolis-St. Paul campus to learn more about the business, the amenities available to employees as well as the history of the company. She spoke with Tonya Custis, …
- May 29, 2019
- Carrie Brooker
GDPR +1 Year: Business Struggles with Data Privacy Regulations Increasing
A new survey finds that businesses around the world are having increasing difficulty complying with data privacy regulations, even one year after GDPR took effect. A whopping 79 percent of global businesses surveyed say that they are either failing to meet GDPR and other data privacy-related regulations, or are having trouble keeping up to date, …
- May 22, 2019
- Leonard Lee
New White Paper: For Legal Employers — 16 Ways to Expedite the Advancement of Lawyers of Color
Several lawyers of color are sharing their experiences and wisdom in a new white paper, For Legal Employers: 16 Ways to Expedite the Advancement of Lawyers of Color. The white paper is based on 23 interviews of attorneys of color across generations, ethnicities, geographic locations, and segments of the industry, to gain their insights into …
- May 17, 2019
- Leonard Lee