Minnesota’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, Alan C. Page, stopped by Thomson Reuters Eagan campus last week to talk about his career in both in the NFL and legal professions, and about the Page Education Foundation. Justice Page was elected to the court in 1992. He was reelected in 1998, 2004, and 2010. Previously, he served as an …
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Thomson Reuters Exchange Magazine: Sustainable Business issue now available
Understanding and evaluating a company’s sustainable business practices are at the core of how analysts, investors, risk management professionals and others assess opportunities and risks around the world. In the first issue of Exchange magazine in 2015, we bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss the topic of sustainability and its impact on financial …
Podcast: Allison Chock of Bentham IMF on the 2nd Annual West Coast Legal Executive Forum
On March 25, West LegalEdcenter will host the 2nd Annual West Coast Legal Executive Forum in San Francisco. Allison Chock, an investment manager with Bentham IMF, a litigation finance company that provides funding to plaintiffs for large legal disputes in the United States and abroad, will be among the experts at the event. We had …
FindLaw builds website for Global Women’s Rights Organization
In just one week, a team of FindLaw employees created and launched a new website for the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Global Rights for Women. The site was part of FindLaw’s Web Plunge Coding for Charity program. Global Rights for Women is dedicated to promoting human rights, with a focus on achieving legal reform to eliminate violence …
Introducing Ill Repute: A new podcast about reputation and the forces in the media that impact it
The Corporate Affairs team for the Legal business of Thomson Reuters is excited to announce the inaugural edition of Ill Repute, a podcast about reputation and the forces in the 24 hour news cycle and social media that impact it. Our first podcast features Susan Martin, managing editor of social media; John Shaughnessy, vice president of business communications; …
Thomson Reuters named one of Ethisphere’s 2015 “World’s Most Ethical Companies”
For the seventh consecutive year, Thomson Reuters has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2015 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Each year, the Ethisphere Institute, an independent center for research promoting best practices in corporate ethics and governance, lists companies for ethical and principled business practices that positively influence an organization’s performance …
Wait, What? Episode 4: Hey! I think I saw that in a movie…
In the fourth installment of Wait, What? the guys discuss the Science Fact that has come from the Science Fiction of Star Trek, Star Wars, Total Recall, comics, and other media. The show starts with a comparison of the devices that were used in the Star Trek universe of television and movies, and how we’re …
FindLaw.com survey: Americans oppose “speed trap” radar cameras
Smile, you’re on radar speed trap camera! More communities across the country are adopting automated radar-activated cameras to catch speeding motorists in the act, and such cameras are opposed by a majority of Americans, says a new survey from FindLaw.com. The survey found that 52 percent of Americans oppose the use of radar speed cameras, while 48 …
Global Ethics Summit day one session: The anti-corruption landscape
Among the breakout sessions at the Global Ethics Summit was a panel discussion on compliance and the anti-corruption landscape. As Donna Dabney, executive director, Governance Center of The Conference Board, noted, in the 80s and 90s there were incentives for corporations to not have a compliance function for fear that they would have to report …
Global Ethics Summit day one keynote: The CEO conversation
The seventh annual Global Ethics Summit kicked off this morning in New York with a keynote conversation involving a diverse set of CEOs. Tom Pfeifer, senior vice president of sales for Thomson Reuters, moderated a panel discussion with James Roberts, president and CEO of Granite Construction; Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffe’; and Rodney Martin, …
