From time to time, we’ll provide some tips on how to use WestlawNext to research SCOTUS cases and thoroughly crush your opponents. Today’s tip involves Writs of Certiorari. There are three WestlawNext content sets that can be particularly helpful as you research SCOTUS cases. Today, we’ll look at “SCT-petition.” This is the content set that …
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Marketing Partner Forum: Using collaboration in marketing & business development efforts
This post was written by Gregg Wirth, content manager for the Legal Executive Institute, Thomson Reuters Law firms’ marketing and business development efforts are becoming more important in today’s competitive legal marketplace, according to several speakers at the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute’s 22nd Annual Law Firm Marketing Partner Forum. And this is especially true …
Fantasy SCOTUS team profile: Merlach
We will be profiling some of the teams participating in this term’s FantasySCOTUS. This week, we kick it off at the very top – the predictor who is wearing the belt (if we gave out WWE-style belts). TEAM: Merlach PREDICTOR: Jacob Berlove is a three-time consecutive FantasySCOTUS champion, which is some darn serious cred in the …
Thomson Reuters sponsors Hockey Day in Minnesota
In Minnesota, hockey’s a big deal, and this year the Minnesota Wild, Fox Sports North and other area businesses including Thomson Reuters hosted Hockey Day in Minnesota. The weekend of hockey included pee wee and high school games, as well as games with the Minnesota Gophers and Minnesota Wild hockey teams. Serving Our Troops organized …
Jason Thomas joins new Coin Center advisory board
Jason Thomas, manager of Innovation at Thomson Reuters, has joined the advisory board of Coin Center, a non-profit research and advocacy organization focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies. Based in Washington, D.C., the organization seeks to inform and act as a resource for policy makers and media outlets on digital currency technologies, …
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts selects Thomson Reuters Legal Research Solutions
Thomson Reuters has been awarded a new multi-year contract from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) to provide legal research solutions to the federal judiciary, building on a relationship that spans more than 30 years. “Thomson Reuters is honored to continue our longstanding relationship with the federal judiciary, providing the legal research tools …
Rick King featured in CIO Review magazine on NetApp
In recent years, Thomson Reuters has been busy transforming its infrastructure, creating a flexible private and public cloud foundation on which new products and technologies can be conceived and implemented. With 16 petabytes of information stored worldwide, the company’s requirement to sift through more information in less time and deliver better results was a tall …
Legal Feeds named top legal news blog in Canada
The 9th annual Clawbies were announced on Dec. 31, 2014, and Legal Feeds, the daily news blog of Canadian Lawyer and Law Times, was named the top legal news blog in Canada. Legal Feeds has either been a winner or runner up in the news category since it was launched in Dec. 2010. Gail Cohen, editor-in-chief of the …
Inside China’s Legal System: A new legal treatise on Chinese law
Thomson Reuters recently received international acknowledgement for a legal treatise on Chinese law authored by two employees. The 350-page volume — Inside China’s Legal System — is a comprehensive overview of the Chinese legal system. The book is co-authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer, and Nathan Madson, who previously worked for Findlaw …
Physician payment cuts to have legal impact
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA More cuts are taking place in some physician payments, and these changes will affect attorneys whose practices involve concerns with health care law. The procedures that are used to pay …
