With day two of ILTA 2014 underway, technologist Rod Beckstrom offered a rousing keynote to start the day. In contrast to yesterday’s address by Peter Diamandis, Beckstrom leveraged his experience as former president and CEO of ICANN, founding director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center, and co-author of the best-selling book The Starfish and the …
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Canadian Lawyer names Top 25 Most Influential figures in justice and legal profession
Canadian Lawyer, a Thomson Reuters business, has named the Top 25 Most Influential figures in the Canadian justice system and legal profession. The list, now in its sixth year, honors select Canadians in one of five categories: Changemakers, Government/Non-Profit/Associations, Criminal Law/Human Rights, Corporate/Commercial, and The World Stage. This year’s honorees are: Changemakers Top Vote Recipient …
Super Lawyers launches UK website
Super Lawyers has launched its UK website, superlawyers.co.uk. Like its sister site in the US, Super Lawyers UK is an attorney, or rather solicitor-rating service that recognizes London-based solicitors who exhibit excellence in the practice of law. Super Lawyers began recognizing solicitors in 2013. London Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are named across more than …
Alison Frankel interviews Bryan Garner on Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th edition
Reuters News Editor Alison Frankel recently sat down with Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition. In this 30 minute interview, they discuss Garner’s process when it comes to editing the Dictionary, his love of words, and much more. Frankel updates her On the Case blog multiple times throughout the day on WestlawNext Practitioner Insights. …
Future-proofing your law firm
This article was written by James Boocock, general manager of Legal Solutions and future market trend specialist at Thomson Reuters in Australia. The article was originally published in the June edition of the Law Society Journal of New South Wales. For the legal practitioner, anticipating changes in the legal industry is crucial if you are to stay …
Sustainability at Thomson Reuters – highlighted at AALL
As a large business with operations across the world, Thomson Reuters is committed to responsible and sustainable business practices as demonstrated through our daily decisions, our work in local communities and also through the products we offer. And at the annual AALL conference this week, we will be highlighting these business practices. Last year, Thomson Reuters …
Patsy Doerr in the Business Reporter: Building a diverse, inclusive workplace where female talent can thrive
Patsy Doerr, global head of Diversity – Inclusion and Corporate Social Responsibility at Thomson Reuters, was recently featured in the Business Reporter, a publication from the UK’s Daily Telegraph. The article showcases gender dynamics at Thomson Reuters, and features Doerr as a female leader since her early days in high school. She now employs her …
Thomson Reuters offers daily insights on new Sustainability blog
Sustainability.ThomsonReuters.com launched a blog this week, which will provide regular, nearly daily insights on emerging threads in the global field of Sustainability. Like the Thomson Reuters Sustainability website, the blog will be managed by Tim Nixon, who is returning to Eagan, Minn., after a four-year stint in Switzerland, and will now be focused exclusively on …
Survey says…Technology trends in 2014 and beyond
If the reports we’re reading are true, 2014 will be a year where we continue to march toward mobility and “smarter” smart devices, the cloud will be everywhere in our professional and personal lives, and the PC will truly become passé. Of course, technologies rarely materialize out of nowhere, so most of the major trends …
Spotlight shines on Thomson Reuters-Books For Africa partnership
Thomson Reuters longstanding partnership with Books For Africa (BFA) was in the spotlight in early May on a day that celebrated both the productive past and the potential that lies ahead for both organizations. Books for Africa honored Thomson Reuters with its Kilimanjaro Society Award of Merit at its annual awards breakfast on Wednesday, May …
