Banks continued to make up by the far the largest share of all UK High Court cases involving FTSE 100 companies in the year to June 2014, according to research by Thomson Reuters. Data from Thomson Reuters Lawtel service shows that of the 178 cases involving FTSE 100 companies that made it to the High …
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Know-How for Canadian law firms and corporations: Practical Law Canada announced
Today Thomson Reuters launched Practical Law Canada, providing legal know-how for Canadian law firms and corporate law departments on transactional law and practice in the areas of Corporate M&A, Capital Markets and Securities. “Since 1990, lawyers in the UK, and since 2009 lawyers in the US have been relying on Practical Law to provide them …
- November 10, 2014
- Gretchen DeSutter
Welcome to the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of market development at Thomson Reuters The great American author, Tennessee Williams, once proclaimed, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” This week, Thomson Reuters will be at the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting in …
- October 28, 2014
- Susan Martin
Legal market trends presented by Thomson Reuters at ILTA 2014
This morning, I attended a session at ILTA 2014 called “Legal Market Trends” presented by Eric Laughlin, managing director, Corporate Counsel segment at Thomson Reuters, and Tommy Williams, vice president, Large Law Firms at Thomson Reuters. Williams began the discussion by talking about what he is seeing in the large law firm space. “Growth for …
- August 19, 2014
- Susan Martin
Susan Feingold in MCC: How Legal Know-How Can Help Better Manage In-House Work And Outside Counsel
Susan Feingold, editorial head of Practical Law for Law Departments at Thomson Reuters, authored a column in this month’s Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Titled “How Legal Know-How Can Help Better Manage In-House Work And Outside Counsel,” she discusses how law departments across the board are facing an unprecedented volume of legal work. But with legal know-how …
- April 23, 2014
- Susan Martin
Practical Law available at U.S. law schools through WestlawNext
Students and faculty at U.S. law schools can now access Practical Law through WestlawNext. Practical Law’s know-how content takes students beyond primary law and traditional legal research, giving them first-hand experience at putting legal theory into practice. Law school students can quickly and easily incorporate know-how content into their research, and faculty can incorporate it into …
- April 1, 2014
- Leonard Lee
Practical Law continues to add new ways to access content
Practical Law is an integral part of many of the products and services that we’re discussing at ABA Techshow 2014, as Practical Law continues to add innovative new ways for practitioners to access its leading know-how content. In the U.S. and U.K., new Practical Law websites have been launched with additional practice areas. Practical Law China …
- March 28, 2014
- Leonard Lee
Latest enhancements to WestlawNext include Custom Pages and eLibraries
In the wake of ABA Techshow in Chicago this week, Brian Quinn, senior product developer for WestlawNext, sat down with Legal Current to talk about the latest enhancements to WestlawNext, including Custom Pages, eLibraries and the addition of PeopleMap. He also talked about what the WestlawNext team will be doing at ABA Techshow. “We will …
- March 28, 2014
- Susan Martin
FTSE 100 companies’ legal liabilities jump by 12 percent in 2013
Recent analysis by Thomson Reuters concludes that the legal liabilities reported by FTSE 100 companies climbed 12 percent in 2013 to £24.6bn ($42bn) up from £22.1bn ($37bn) in the previous year. This increase has been driven by a sharp jump in legal provisions in the banking industry, with legal costs for banks rising by 44 percent …
- February 14, 2014
- Paul Sandell
Practical Law now on Legal Solutions site
Last week, the Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions site launched a dedicated area to Practical Law. Practical Law helps attorneys practice smarter, operate more efficiently, keep up with legal developments and provide more value to their clients. The Practical Law boutique of the Legal Solutions site showcases: The Practical Law team Practice Notes Standard Documents and …
- February 11, 2014
- Susan Martin