The following post comes from Patrick Dunn of Super Lawyers marketing and communications team. It seems like everywhere you turn someone has an opinion on law school: is it worth the investment? What type of law should you study? Where should you go? To help prospective law students find answers from a trusted source, Super Lawyers has …
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Open for Business: Latest issue of Thomson Reuters Exchange Magazine available
Launched the beginning of 2014, our customer magazine Thomson Reuters Exchange is completing its first year. Our fourth quarter issue is “Open for Business” and launched last week. An important topic across the financial industry, open is a concept that touches every aspect of our business, whether it is open data, open platforms or open …
Podcast: The Equality Effect & justice for young girls in Africa
The Equality Effect is a non-profit charity that uses international human rights law as a crowbar to pry open justice for women and girls around the world. Drawing on a team of feisty international lawyers, the equality effect supports its regional legal partners by initiating creative legal advocacy projects to achieve systemic change. In Kenya, …
Big banks make up a third of all FTSE 100 litigation in the UK
Banks continued to make up by the far the largest share of all UK High Court cases involving FTSE 100 companies in the year to June 2014, according to research by Thomson Reuters. Data from Thomson Reuters Lawtel service shows that of the 178 cases involving FTSE 100 companies that made it to the High …
Criminal Law Review 60th Anniversary celebrations
This post was written by Joe Mosby, publishing editor, UK&I Legal, Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters celebrated the 60th anniversary of Criminal Law Review with a drinks reception at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Tuesday. The event followed the Criminal Law Review conference, which was hosted by the editor, Professor David Ormerod QC. The …
Joe Borstein from Pangea3 on the rise of alternative legal solutions
Joe Borstein, global director of Pangea3, was recently interviewed by Ari Kaplan, author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011), on the rise of alternative legal solutions. In the interview, Borstein highlighted examples of the “not-so-new normal” trends that have transformed the legal industry, including collaborative content creation, dynamic legal …
Is doing more with less keeping you up at night?
The legal landscape continues to be filled with challenges impacting corporate counsels’ role as legal advisor as much as their responsibility to best manage limited resources. In addition to practicing law, corporate legal departments must manage a budget, staff, use of technology, outside counsel spend and non-law firm legal services, such as legal process outsourcing …
Cybershopping at work becoming a popular way to shop
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Well, you better not be doing it at work! Most employers frown on employees using company time and computers to let their fingers do the shopping. Yet, that’s exactly what many of us do. A new survey from FindLaw found that 35 percent of Americans shop online while at work. …
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with {Marshall}+, the first computer algorithm for predicting Supreme Court cases
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 …
First Chinese-language book about Minnesota published by Thomson Reuters
New Tales of the Twin Cities: The History, Law, and Culture of Minnesota, the first Chinese-language book about Minnesota, was just published by Thomson Reuters. The book was authored by Chang Wang, chief research and academic officer at Thomson Reuters and an attorney. Wang is a native of Beijing, a graduate of the University of …
