For the first time, Clifford Chance topped the UK Law Firm Brand Index. Compiled annually by Thomson Reuters, the 2022 index saw considerable reshuffling among the top 10 brands. Clifford Chance rose from the ninth spot in last year’s index to clinch the top spot. Eversheds Sutherland kept its second-place position, the only firm in …
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Will Artificial Intelligence Have a Radical Impact on the Legal Profession?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot phrase for lawyers, both in-house and in private practice, for some years. But will it fundamentally transform the day-to-day work that lawyers do? As part of Thomson Reuters ongoing Legal Debate Series in the UK, domain experts from around the Legal industry set out to test the hype …
- July 27, 2016
- Alex Cook
Legal Debate Series on European Court of Human Rights
An audience of senior lawyers from law firms, chambers, and inhouse legal departments voted definitively against the motion that ‘the European Court of Human Rights is Undermining Democracy’ at the third debate in the Thomson Reuters Legal Debate Series last Thursday evening. With human rights and the ECHR at the forefront of national attention in …
- June 2, 2015
- Susan Martin
Charlotte Rushton and Jessica Turner land on “100 Women to Watch” list
The Female Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) Board in the UK recently released its sixth edition of the “100 Women to Watch” list, naming Charlotte Rushton, managing director, U.S. Large Law Firms, and Jessica Turner, global head, Government & Academia, both at Thomson Reuters, as women to watch in 2015. The FTSE is …
- March 30, 2015
- Susan Martin
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
Super Lawyers launches UK website
Super Lawyers has launched its UK website, superlawyers.co.uk. Like its sister site in the US, Super Lawyers UK is an attorney, or rather solicitor-rating service that recognizes London-based solicitors who exhibit excellence in the practice of law. Super Lawyers began recognizing solicitors in 2013. London Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are named across more than …
- August 4, 2014
- Paul Sandell
Thomson Reuters legal business at the London Book Fair
This post was written by Chris Hendry, head of advanced media for the UK Legal business at Thomson Reuters The London Book Fair, now in its 43rd year, welcomes more than 25,000 visitors and exhibitors from 114 countries to Earls Court each year. It bills itself as a unique opportunity to explore, understand and capitalize …
- April 29, 2014
- Paul Sandell
Threats to profitability and opportunities for growth: A survey amongst the UK’s top 100 law firms
What do finance directors view as the most significant threats to commercial law firms’ profitability in the year ahead, and conversely, what are the key areas of growth? Thomson Reuters recently posed these questions, among others, to finance directors at some of the top 100 law firms in the UK in an annual survey. The …
- April 24, 2014
- Paul Sandell
FloSuite: Proudly serving the UK legal community
Here on Legal Current we often talk about how proud we are to offer solutions that serve our many subscribing legal organizations in the U.S., but just as important are our customers in the UK and Ireland. In fact, the case management and business process management solution FloSuite was proud to announce recently the addition …
- July 1, 2013
- Kelsey Engbrecht