The medical litigation practice area is clearly complex, can be difficult to navigate and for many, can be even harder to understand. Medical Litigator, now available on WestlawNext, is built to help legal professionals understand and learn medical terms, conditions, procedures, devices, and drugs, which in turn enables them to more confidently evaluate and litigate …
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Wait, What? Episode 7: I love watching train-wrecks
This episode starts out with the show’s reaction and discussion of the latest movie trailer for the Star Wars – The Force Awakens. For the non-nerds in our listening audience, you can fast forward a couple minutes to get to the meat of the podcast. The guys jump into a discussion about a non-government related collection of Personally Identifying Information (PII) …
Hague Domestic Violence Project supported by Thomson Reuters
Imagine this: A child is abducted by their own parent to another country. The left-behind parent is enraged, scared and confused. That parent contacts the local authorities to help retrieve the child. INTERPOL alerts are raised, news agencies pick up the story and the general public cries out for justice under the Hague Convention: the return …
Thomson Reuters adds CQ Roll Call coverage of the insurance industry to WestlawNext
Insurance is just that, an item that most people have and may not rely on often, but when the time comes and it is needed, they are glad they have insurance. Thomson Reuters recently announced the addition of a new practitioner-focused page covering the insurance industry on WestlawNext. Regulatory and legislative coverage for the insurance …
Podcast: How secure is using your smartphone?
You can now speed through store checkout lanes just by waving your smartphone. New mobile payment systems purport to be fast, convenient and secure. Well, maybe not that last part. In the podcast below, Bob Benjy, an attorney with Frandzel Robins Bloom & Csato, who works with financial institutions, says mobile payment systems such as Apple Pay, …
Legal Debate Series: Corporate death penalty would stop companies from breaking the law
Leading minds in the world of law gathered at Thomson Reuters offices in Canary Wharf on Thursday, April 16 to hear a lively debate on the highly contentious issue of corporate wrongdoing – and who should pay. The event, moderated by Axel Threlfall, editor at large for Reuters, was the second in the Thomson Reuters …
How lawyers can find out if their traffic report is lying to them
When it comes to firm marketing, it can be easy to become fixated on metrics like website visits and search rankings, but do they tell the whole story? Mark Jacobsen, senior director of Strategic Development & Thought Leadership for FindLaw, sits down with Sean Sands, digital marketing expert, Web Content for FindLaw, about their new …
Pro bono work from Linklaters and Thomson Reuters ushers in new era in Liberian law
Thomson Reuters, in partnership with global law firm Linklaters LLP, recently completed a pro bono project for Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), a not-for-profit organization with centers in the US, UK, and Kenya, that supports global justice sector capacity building through training, observation, technical support, and access to justice initiatives. LWOB fulfills its mission, in part, …
ABA Techshow session recap: The Future of Advertising
While marketing may not be the favorite pastime of many attorneys, most would agree that in today’s hyper-competitive environment, it has become an activity that law firms must understand and, increasingly, embrace. In light of this, the 2015 ABA Techshow lunch and learn session, “The Future of Advertising,” sponsored by FindLaw and presented by Eli …
Podcast: Judge Daniel Brenner on Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. Examples of net neutrality violations include when the Internet service provider Comcast intentionally slowed peer-to-peer communications. On …
