This is Part 13 in an ongoing series regarding changes in health care that may take place—and actual changes that do take place—with the Trump administration. The likely implementation issues to be encountered for both potential and actual changes are described, based on detailed methods of analysis. The emphasis is on what these shifts mean …
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Super Lawyers Magazine Honored by Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
Last week, the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists held their annual Page One Awards to recognize “the best in Minnesota journalism.” Super Lawyers took top honors by winning First Place awards in two categories: Best Profile Story and Best Cover. For the first award, Jim Walsh was honored for his profile “The Counter-Balancing Force,” which …
Fake News & Short Sellers vs. the SEC
“Fake news” is nothing new, especially to corporations dealing with short sellers – investors who bet on falling stock prices, who have long been accused of deliberately spreading false information in order to drive bigger gains. But the Securities & Exchange Commission has been surprisingly powerless in dealing with short sellers. Mike Dicke of Fenwick …
Key Takeaways from the “What is Next for Legal Operations” session at VANTAGE
As many of you are aware, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) has identified 12 Core Competencies for the Legal Operations Function. What you may not know is that HBR has further distilled these Core Competencies into three groups by level of organizational maturity: Foundational, Advanced, and Mature, and performed survey work across the Legal Operations …
The Starbucks Effect: Losing Profitability Six Minutes at a Time
At VANTAGE 2017 Orlando, Cory Branden with Peer Monitor presented about trends and the true cost of lost productivity: Productivity. It’s a subject that we seem to be talking about all the time over the last few years. Firms want to find a way to utilize the lever and spur greater profitability, while corporate legal departments …
The State of Cybersecurity and the Law Firm
Legal Current caught up with Tim Murphy, president, Thomson Reuters Special Services, LLC and former deputy director, Federal Bureau of Investigations, following his panel session at the 7th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum, held last week in New York. Tim’s panel, A Rumor of War: Regulation, Revelations & the State of Cybersecurity in 2017, focused …
“This Land Is Your Land…”: A Recap from Thomson Reuters Second CLE Discussion on the Bill of Rights
Earlier this spring, Thomson Reuters launched an ongoing CLE series focused on the Bill of Rights and the impact of the amendments on today’s political and social landscape. The first session – which featured Judge Wilhelmina Wright, US District Court judge; Representative Paul Thissen, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives; and Kevin …
CFO/CIO/COO Forum: As Cybersecurity Risks Increase, Law Firms Need to Step Up Protection
The growing and constant threat of cybersecurity breaches is something law firms need to address urgently and forcefully; but increasingly, they are falling behind on investment and commitment to create and maintain adequate privacy and data protection, according to several legal and cybersecurity experts. The comments came as part of a panel on cybersecurity entitled, …
Thomson Reuters to Host Second Annual Government Conference
On Wednesday, June 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thomson Reuters will host the second annual Government Conference at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C. The focus of this year’s conference is the impact of technology and other disruptions to government’s ability to meet mission objectives. This is the second Government Conference where …
eSports, Video Games & the Law
Soaring athlete contracts, growing TV revenues and cheating and doping scandals. Nope. Not the NFL, NBA or World Cup Soccer. It’s the burgeoning world of e-Sports or spectator video games. Video game live televised tournaments and leagues are fast becoming big business. And with it comes legal issues that are all too familiar for those who …
