Practical Law The Journal is the award-winning magazine companion to Practical Law, covering a wide range of transactional, regulatory, and litigation topics. It publishes monthly in a digital-only format hosted on Reuters.com. Legal Current reached out to the Practical Law The Journal team to discuss what readers can look forward to in the July issue. …
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Thomson Reuters Case Center: Helping Courts Modernize and Improve Access to Justice
The pandemic accelerated efforts to modernize the U.S. court system. Yet ongoing delays, backlogs, and workforce shortages indicate that courts should continue investing in technology to run more efficiently. “But it’s going to take more than Zoom hearings and emailed PDFs to make that so,” Judge Samuel A. Thumma, who serves on the Arizona Court …
Happy Law Day from Thomson Reuters
Happy Law Day! Legal Current asked leaders across the Thomson Reuters Legal Professionals business to share what Law Day means to them. Established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958, Law Day celebrates the rule of law on May 1. In the United States, it’s an opportunity for legal professionals as well as students to …
2023 State of the Courts Report: How Thomson Reuters Case Center Is Reducing Delays and Backlogs
U.S. courts were forced to modernize during the pandemic, but the 2023 State of the Courts Report found that continued investment in digitalization is needed to prevent that progress from eroding. The Thomson Reuters report revealed how the U.S. court system is plagued by delays, backlogs, and workforce shortages – underscoring how further modernization is urgently …
2023 State of the Courts Report: Top 10 Takeaways
Delays, backlogs, and workforce shortages demonstrate the need for a digital transformation to modernize the U.S. court system, according to the 2023 State of the Courts Report from the Thomson Reuters Institute. The report found that many courts were propelled into modernizing by the pandemic, but without continued investment in digital transformation, they risk falling …
Thomson Reuters Awards Grants to Organizations Rebuilding Minneapolis and St. Paul Communities
This week, CityPages featured an in-depth look at the Lake Street neighborhood in Minneapolis, among the areas hardest hit by the civil unrest following the tragic death of George Floyd. CityPages reporter Susan Du explored the history of the diverse neighborhood – with its reputation as “an incubator of immigrant dreams” – as well as …
Improving Access to Justice in Africa – For Public Consumption podcast
The ongoing commitment of Thomson Reuters to access to justice and the global rule of law manifests through its long-standing support of programs like Books for Africa – a non-profit organization that sends millions of books, computers, e-books and other educational materials to countries throughout Africa. But the work to strengthen and improve the legal …
AALL 2017 – Bryan Stevenson on Inequality and Injustice
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) states on its website (LINK) that it is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenge racial and economic injustice, and to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. Bryan Stevenson has led the charge on these efforts since …
Jim Sandman on Access to Justice and Technology
Jim Sandman, president of Legal Services Corporation, recently visited the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus to share his thoughts on how the legal industry has been slow to initiate and adopt new technologies, change their traditional service-delivery patters or simplify processes for improved accessibility. Following the presentation, David Curle, Director of Market Intelligence for the Legal …
Susan Taylor Martin interviews Prof. Deborah Rhode
Thomson Reuters Legal President Susan Taylor Martin recently spoke with author and Stanford Professor Deborah Rhode. As director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford, Prof. Rhode is a widely published scholar on legal ethics and diversity in the law. Susan and Prof. …
