Thomson Reuters is commemorating 150 years of customer partnership and innovation to honor the 1872 founding of John B. West Publisher and Book Seller. West’s innovative spirit lives on in Westlaw – a product that still carries his name – and in the AI-driven products and legal research technology tools used by legal professionals worldwide. Our Legal Current series features voices across …
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2019 Highlights: The $10B Alternative Legal Service Providers Market
As 2019 winds down, Legal Current is revisiting milestones and key accomplishments from the Legal business of Thomson Reuters this year. Today we look at the “Alternative Legal Service Providers 2019: Fast Growth, Expanding Use and Increasing Opportunity” report – more commonly known as the ALSP Report. Released in January, the report highlights how the …
Thomson Reuters to Provide US DOJ, FBI with Legal and Investigative Tools
Thomson Reuters announced it has been awarded a long-term contract to provide its leading legal research and investigative technology tools to the Department of Justice (DOJ) professionals. In all, more than 25,000 users will have access to Thomson Reuters products under this agreement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. U.S. Attorneys and other legal …
Insights From the Edge, Episode 5; The Importance of Early Adoption
Insights from the Edge This podcast series brings you the latest legal trends and topics as Insight Attorneys sit down with industry experts to discuss hot legal topics. Explore our latest topics to stay informed. Episode 5: Early Adoption It is easy to talk about adopting technology early, but it can be very difficult to …
Alice-in-Wonderland’s Adventures in Case Law
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (“Alice in Wonderland”) by Lewis Carroll, aka Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, was first published in 1865 with illustrations from Sir John Tenniel. The publication recounted an enchanted tale of mad rabbits and hatters and gardeners playing cards, first told three years earlier by Carroll to Alice Liddell and her two sisters …
AALL session recap: How Collaboration and Crowdsourcing are Changing Legal Research
Bob Ambrogi, lawyer, consultant and blogger at Law Sites, spoke at a well-attended session this morning at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting. Titled “Playing Well With Others: How Collaboration and Crowdsourcing are Changing Legal Research,” Ambrogi’s presentation began with a light-hearted scolding of lawyers and legal professionals who simply “aren’t very good …
Anne Ellis on the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference
This post is the first in a series of messages from the 2013 AALL Annual Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! By Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations, Thomson Reuters I am proud to gather with fellow law librarians next week at the AALL annual …
Success through legal research technology
Law firms are being increasingly challenged to adapt and innovate to meet their clients’ expectations. Being able to succeed in this changing environment, firms must offer more value to their clients. An area that can increase a firm’s value, lower their legal costs and improve their competitive advantage to clients is through legal research. A …
The impact of legal research technology on the value and delivery of legal services
When asked if technology brings value to her clients and the cost of legal services, Jaye Lapachet, Manager of Library Services at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in San Francisco, explains “better efficiency means that attorneys can spend more time face to face with clients rather than online searching. The more attorneys can be focused on …
The power of the pen, squared
A recent story on Thomson Reuters News & Insight Legal showed the powerful impact that can result from combining world-class reporting with the top-notch legal research content available in Westlaw. The story, Special Report: A little house of secrets on the Great Plains, ran in news outlets far and wide, including Yahoo! News, The Chicago Tribune and The West Australian. Additionally, the story …
