Security concerns and economic pressures have displaced competition for talent as the biggest threats to law firm profitability, according to the 2022 Law Firm Business Leaders Report from Thomson Reuters and the Georgetown Law Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, and True Value Partnering Institute. The report explored the top risks to law firm …
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Cybersecurity Concerns Rising Among Corporate Legal Departments
Corporate legal departments are increasingly ranking cybersecurity as one of their top concerns. And for many good reasons. The percentage of in-house counsel who report their organization has experienced a security breach has more the doubled in only the last year. Chris Maguire, managing director of the Corporate Legal team at Thomson Reuters discusses the …
Report: Cybersecurity, Regulations Stretching Legal Departments
Legal departments are maximizing plateauing headcount and driving efficiencies, even while demands on their time increase, according to the 2018 Thomson Reuters Corporate Legal Department Efficiency Report: Doing More With Less and Increasing Productivity in Corporate Legal Settings. The 2018 report — the third in a series of Thomson Reuters efficiency reports — surveyed 462 …
Data Security vs. Employee Rights
Balancing employee rights with employer’s data security needs and data privacy requirements can be tricky. Anna Suh with Fenwick & West discusses how employers can manage this balance.
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 …
Three Best Ways to Hack a Law Firm – CFO-COO Forum Session
“There are many different ways bad people can get to your data. You should be concerned about it and you should do something about it.” That’s the assessment of Nicholas Barone, Director, Consulting Services Group, Eisner Amper LLP, speaking on a cybersecurity panel at the 15th annual Law Firm COO & CFO Forum in …
Continuous Innovation: Forum Magazine
The disruptive role of technology and how it can help firms thrive in a rapidly changing environment is one of several technology-related themes explored in the new issue of Forum magazine focused on Continuous Innovation. The issue examines large law’s growing use of cloud computing technology, and how security concerns are both a driver and …
Midsize Law Firm Managing Partner Roundtable Brings New Relationships & Insights
In late March, Tommy Williams, vice president Large & Medium Law Firms, and I had the opportunity to host a customer roundtable with Jim Smith, president and CEO Thomson Reuters, and Deirdre Stanley, executive vice president, General Counsel. Several managing partners from midsize law firms joined us at our Times Square office in New York …
Top 10 e-discovery U.S. trends in 2015
Ed Sohn, global director of Integrated Solutions at Pangea3, recently had an article featured on the Association of Corporate Counsel’s website. Sohn’s article is about the top 10 e-discovery U.S. trends in 2015 and has been reprinted with permission from the ACC, below. The overarching theme for 2015 in e-discovery will be continuity. It is …
Podcast: Global tracking cybersecurity with Pauline Reich
At Legaltech New York this year, we caught up with Pauline Reich, JD, and professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, where she teaches cybercrime, cybersecurity, data privacy and data protection, and Internet-based legal research. In this capacity and also as the director of the Asia-Pacific Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Security Research …