Thomson Reuters has relaunched The Brief, a monthly magazine and website designed to provide legal professionals with the hard-hitting news and analysis they need to better understand the trends and business developments in the Middle East’s legal sector. The Brief, a 40-50 page English language magazine acquired by Thomson Reuters last year, will feature key interviews …
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Evolution of the chief ethics and compliance officer
During the 2012 Global Ethics Summit, Scott McCleskey, global head of financial services regulation, Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance, served as the moderator for a panel discussing the evolution of the chief ethics and compliance officer. The panel featured a group covering multiple industries and years of experience, including: Elliott Fisch, director-internal audit and chief …
- March 21, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
ABA Journal Legal Rebels blog post: “Time to Explore New Approaches for Law Firm Management?”
Program Director of Hildebrandt Institute’s Peer Monitor, Mark Medice, recently contributed a post to the ABA Journal blog, Legal Rebels, highlighting new approaches and trends seen in law firm management. Today, law firms are pressed to find ways to deliver legal services to their clients more efficiently in an effort to better position themselves in a challenging and volatile market …
- March 20, 2012
- Susan Martin
Setting the ethical tone from the top: Highlights from the Global Ethics Summit
Chrystia Freeland, editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, moderated a session at the recent Global Ethics Summit in New York. The panel, Tone from the Top, a Conversation with Chief Executive Officers, featured Jack Domme, chief executive officer, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), and Jules Kroll, chairman and chief executive officer, Kroll Bond Ratings, Inc. The conversation began …
- March 16, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
Accelus Compliance Manager launched
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance has launched Accelus Compliance Manager, a single platform for tracking, monitoring and understanding regulatory changes and connecting them to a business’ internal compliance process and workflow. Accelus Compliance Manager connects the five key stages of compliance: understand, evaluate and map regulatory risk; identify, monitor and track regulatory change; define and communicate controls; …
- March 15, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
High-profile media outlets cover Findlaw.com divorce study results: March is the new Divorce Month
Some of the more prominent coverage includes articles by MSN, San Francisco Chronicle, Buffalo Business First, KPLU and The Austin Lafferty Blog. January has long been perceived as “Divorce Month.” However, Findlaw.com recently released study results that showed searches for “divorce” and related phrases such as “family law” and “child custody” jumped 50 percent – from December 2010 to January 2011, and continued …
- March 14, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
The 2012 Global Ethics Summit hosted by Ethisphere and Thomson Reuters
by Tim Erblich, executive vice president, Ethisphere Institute Every year companies face new challenges in developing and adopting “best practices” in their ethics and compliance policies as new and important laws are enacted around the world, and as prosecutors enforce formerly dormant laws with increasing regularity From the recent attention the FCPA has received, a …
- March 14, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
WestlawNext and web access added to Thomson Reuters ProView eReader
Thomson Reuters ProView has now added Web browser access in addition to its iPad eReader app. ProView is the leading professional-grade eReader application with advanced features like full-text search and content updating. The latest version of ProView, now available for iPad on the Apple App Store, now allows users in the U.S. to view and verify citations through WestlawNext. eBooks …
- March 8, 2012
- Susan Martin
Thomson Reuters launches two new CLEAR products
Thomson Reuters has launched two new versions of CLEAR, its powerful public and proprietary records search product suite: CLEAR for Enhanced Due Diligence and CLEAR for Government Fraud. CLEAR for Enhanced Due Diligence is a comprehensive solution for customers in anti-money laundering enhanced due diligence and corporate security markets that brings together key information on …
- March 6, 2012
- Jeff McCoy
WestlawNext deemed “game-changing” app for law students
The WestlawNext iPad app gives lawyers and law students access to their legal research anytime, anywhere – even offline. The ability to take your research with you, wherever you go, is just one of the reasons why the WestlawNext app for the iPad made it on OnlineCollege.org’s list of the top 25 Game-Changing iPad apps. …
- February 23, 2012
- Susan Martin
