Thomson Reuters will join with ABA Techshow in support of key sponsorships at this year’s conference, including the Arrival Reception, Appathon, and the keynote address featuring bestselling author Nicholas Carr. Carr’s conversation will center on technology, culture and the Internet, and their impact on the legal industry and legal professionals. Carr is author of “The …
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Podcast: Interview with ABA Techshow keynote speaker Nicholas Carr
With the Annual Bar Association’s (ABA) Techshow 2015 coming up next week, we talked with WestlawNext-sponsored keynote speaker Nicholas Carr to get a preview on what he will be discussing. In the podcast below, Carr also talks with us about the consequences surrounding our dependence on computers, how our relationship with technology has changed the …
Adapting to rapid change in health care
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 The pace of change in health care continues at a high level. The Affordable Care Act is struggling to reach out to uninsured groups, and still trying to make corrections …
Thomson Reuters earns 13 top honors in 2015 National Law Journal Readers Rankings
Thomson Reuters took top honors for key products and services across 13 categories in the fourth annual Best of The National Law Journal Readers Rankings. Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) was recognized as the top Legal Research Provider, including software as a service, digital and print products. WestlawNext, the industry-leading legal research solution, was ranked best Online Legal Research …
Thomson Reuters partners with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to host the second Law and Art program
Thomson Reuters is partnering with the Minneapolis Institute of Arts again on a continuing legal education program on law and art called “Fakes and Forgeries: A Panel Discussion on Law and Art.” The event will be held on April 16, 2015 from 5-7 p.m. in the Pillsbury Auditorium at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This is …
Podcast: The legal implications of private-sector employees using personal email for work
In light of the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton using her personal email while Secretary of State, John Martin, head of the Encompass E-Discovery Group with Nelson Mullins, took some time to discuss with us how common it is for private-sector employees to use personal email for work. Is this practice ever sanctioned, or used as a …
Hillary Clinton email scandal: Obstruction of justice?
This post was written by Ronald Rotunda, author of Rotunda and Nowak’s Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure, 5th and Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, 2014-2015 ed. (ABA). On March 3, the New York Times announced, “Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests.” By then, we learned that former …
Charlotte Rushton and Jessica Turner land on “100 Women to Watch” list
The Female Financial Times and London Stock Exchange (FTSE) Board in the UK recently released its sixth edition of the “100 Women to Watch” list, naming Charlotte Rushton, managing director, U.S. Large Law Firms, and Jessica Turner, global head, Government & Academia, both at Thomson Reuters, as women to watch in 2015. The FTSE is …
Kevin O’Keefe talks legal disruptors and navigating legal technology
Kevin O’Keefe, CEO and publisher of LexBlog, Inc., paid a visit to the Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN campus last week and talked with Legal Current about the biggest disruptor in the legal technology space, skills people should have when navigating this fast-changing world of legal technology, and what keeps him up at night. Watch the …
Alan C. Page visits Thomson Reuters to talk about his NFL and legal careers
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 …
