As we mentioned last week, the most interesting participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS is a rookie – {Marshall}+. Legal Current scored an exclusive interview with the elusive and very private {Marshall]+ as he prepares to square off against some of the best Supreme Court predictors in the FantasySCOTUS tournament. The newest rookie to FantasySCOTUS gave off …
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Nina Totenberg: From the fallopian jungle to the Supreme Court Press Corps
Recently, Nina Totenberg, NPR’s award winning legal affairs correspondent, was the keynote speaker at the Twin Cities Cardozo Society Annual Dinner celebrating the legal community. She stopped by the Thomson Reuters Eagan campus to give a packed house of employees an inside look into the Supreme Court. We sat down with Totenberg and asked about …
FantasySCOTUS – Rise of the Machines? Introducing {Marshall}+
The United States Supreme Court is one of the pinnacles of human wisdom and judgment. But when it comes to predicting the High Court’s decisions, can a machine do better than the wisdom of crowds? The interesting new participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS tournament is {Marshall}+ – a sophisticated predictive algorithm that will match “his” …
Registrations still open for FantasySCOTUS
Think you know the Supreme Court? It’s not too late to sign up for FantasySCOTUS, sponsored by Thomson Reuters. Thousands of attorneys, law students, and other avid Supreme Court followers are preparing to make predictions about cases being heard before the Supreme Court this term. Participation is free and the best Supreme Court prognosticators can …
Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions expands in the US, UK
History is rooted in the legal system. And many feel courts are not embracing technology to improve their process, performance and efficiency. Thomson Reuters Court Management Solutions enables courts to update their systems and implement new workflow technology. The Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco recently chose Thomson Reuters to provide the …
Podcast: Jorge Goldstein on Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
In the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but synthetic complementary DNA (“cDNA”) is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. The distinction is …
Alison Frankel from Aspen: Justice Kagan calls surveillance cases ‘growth industry’
This post was written by Allison Frankel, editor, On The Case Speaking late Saturday afternoon at the Aspen Ideas Festival, U.S Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was every bit as diplomatic as you would expect a woman who has survived the Senate confirmation process to be. Chief Justice John Roberts? “A great chief justice,” who …
Alison Frankel on America’s opportunity gap – and why it’s bad for lawyers
This post was written by Allison Frankel, editor, On The Case Near the end of a delightful interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival, CBS journalist Rita Braver asked Williams & Connolly superlawyer Robert Barnett – who also happens to be her husband of many decades – what advice he would offer to young attorneys. Could …
David Spencer and the importance of attorney editors in Supreme Court decisions
With major Supreme Court cases like the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) coming down this month, the attorney editors at Thomson Reuters have been busy. Legal Current sat down with David Spencer, vice president of Legal Editorial Operations – Judicial Editorial at Thomson Reuters, to talk about the steps that attorney editors take to be …
Legal News Brief – May 24, 2013
Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. States pressured to match their false claims acts to federal law Ten states are at risk of losing a 10 percent federal bonus from settlements of Medicaid fraud lawsuits if they don’t make a deadline to …
