The term “Big Data” is rather overused these days. Maybe they really should call it “Humongous Data” or something. According to IBM’s Jeopardy-winning Watson, an astounding 2.5 billion gigabytes of data are generated every day. Joseph Raczynski, a legal technologist futurist says we’ve reached the point where no one person can possibly absorb the vast …
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AALL session recap: How cognitive technology will drive transformation of society as we know it
“Too much” data is now enough data. Kyla Moran from the IBM Watson Group shared that phrase midway through a session at the Annual Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting, titled “Doctor, Lawyer, Contestant, Chef – How Cognitive Technology Will Drive Transformation of Society As We Know It.” The term “big data” has been used …
- July 21, 2015
- Jeff McCoy
LegalTech West 2015 keynote recap
This post was written by Ian de Heer, senior technical client manager at Thomson Reuters Given the consistency with which security tops the list of concerns of legal IT professionals, it should come as no surprise that the keynote panel discussion at LegalTech West 2015 centered on just that. Industry professionals including Ruby Zefo from Intel …
- July 14, 2015
- Susan Martin
Big Data, e-discovery and the future of the legal system
The theme is as old as history itself – technology is changing our world, but how can we catch-up? In the video clip below, Greg McPolin, COO, Legal Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, sits down with Jason R. Baron, Of Counsel, Drinker Biddle and contributor to the film The Decade of Discovery, to talk about how …
- April 30, 2015
- Alex Cook
Thomson Reuters Exchange Magazine: Sustainable Business issue now available
Understanding and evaluating a company’s sustainable business practices are at the core of how analysts, investors, risk management professionals and others assess opportunities and risks around the world. In the first issue of Exchange magazine in 2015, we bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss the topic of sustainability and its impact on financial …
- March 23, 2015
- Susan Martin
ACC Annual Meeting – Taming the flood: Getting data analytics to work for you
This post was written by Pasquale Mignano, director of marketing for the Corporate Counsel segment of Thomson Reuters While attending the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, I had the opportunity to attend a collaborative panel session around leveraging data analytics within the corporate legal department. The panel used a lively sports debate show format …
- November 4, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
ACC Annual Meeting – Top five takeaways from Big Data session
This post was written by Patrick Johnson, senior marketer supporting Serengeti at Thomson Reuters The buzz around Big Data is everywhere, yet very few people have figured out how to control its use and scope. Legal departments often have to scramble to catch up and keep their companies in compliance with ever-changing laws around data …
- October 31, 2014
- Jeff McCoy
Google “right to be forgotten” pushes privacy law into the mainstream
As a result of privacy laws becoming more widespread, the number of reported privacy cases being fought in the UK courts has doubled in five years to 56 cases in the last year (year-end being May 31), up from 28 five years ago. Whilst the use of privacy law was once restricted to celebrities to prevent the …
- September 17, 2014
- Paul Sandell
Podcast: Big Data in law firms – opportunities and risks
Harnessing Big Data could be a key for firms seeking to gain competitive advantages and boost their business development efforts. In the podcast below, Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, discuss their recently published white paper, produced by ILTA, that …
- August 19, 2014
- Leonard Lee
Should firms be mining for gold in Big Data?
It’s all about the definition we give something. Take “Big Data,” for instance. This term has so many definitions that it is difficult to say whether law firms are even dealing with it. Catherine Monte, chief knowledge officer of Fox Rothschild, and Kimberly Stein, national manager for Enterprise Content Management Solutions at Thomson Reuters, co-authored …
- August 7, 2014
- Leonard Lee