This article was written by David Curran, global director of Risk and Compliance at Thomson Reuters, and was featured in this month’s issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to …
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Thomson Reuters Maria Diaz featured in Hispanic Executive magazine
Hispanic Executive magazine recently published an article on Maria Diaz, senior vice president and associate general counsel at Thomson Reuters. Diaz supports the Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business including sales, commercial operations, strategic alliances, acquisitions, integrations and business compliance. Her story is an inspiring one. Diaz immigrated to the United States from Spain at the …
Rob Thomas on his recent presentation at the UK Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum
This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president, Market Development Group, Corporate Legal segment at Thomson Reuters The recent Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum in Surrey provided a look into the latest developments in the in-house profession, from the evolving role of the general counsel, to pressures on law departments to operate more efficiently, …
Mid-size firms market may be stabilizing
Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor has issued its Mid-Size Law Firm Report for the second quarter of 2014, and the findings indicate that the market for mid-size law firm services may be showing some signs of stability and tentative improvement. Overall demand for legal services from mid-size firms declined by 0.6 percent for the first seven months …
Australasian Lawyer: Firms failing to review client satisfaction
This article was originally published in the Sept. 19, 2014 issue of Australasian Lawyer Thomson Reuters research has revealed some emerging concerns in the Australian legal market, including that 30 percent of the participants had never reviewed client satisfaction. The study questioned 132 senior fee-earning legal practitioners among medium to large firms across the country …
David Curle interviews business model designer Joshua Kubicki
Recently, Joshua Kubicki, who designs new business models and innovation strategies for law firms and corporations of all sizes and is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University College of Law, visited Thomson Reuters for an employee event. While he was here, David Curle, director of strategic competitive intelligence at Thomson Reuters, sat down with Kubicki …
Learnings from a veteran user of Serengeti Tracker
Serengeti Tracker has been helping legal departments improve their operations for more than a decade. Assistant General Counsel Jim Sullivan of FMC Technologies, one of the first Serengeti customers, shared his insights at the 2014 Serengeti Summit and how his law department leverages Serengeti Tracker. Sullivan noted that Serengeti Tracker may be best known as …
Ten years later, Southeastern M&A and Private Equity Forum continues to lead
On October 2, 2014, the Southeastern M&A/Private Equity Forum will be held at the TWELVE Hotel Atlantic Station in Atlanta, GA, celebrating a decade of insight into M&A trends, networking and education. Attendees typically include corporate counsel, strategic sellers, investment bankers, M&A lawyers and business entrepreneurs. Topics this year include a look at the state of …
Vantage EMEA: Taking law firms beyond efficiency, and revealing why Elite is ‘EPIC’
At this year’s VANTAGE conference in London, Law firms from across the EMEA region were treated to an unmissable opportunity to connect and network with their peers in person and to learn how Elite is working to help them take their business forward. Kicking off the conference was the keynote speech delivered by Bill Burch, …
The Integrity Zone
Egil “Bud” Krogh might be more famous as a “plumber” than a lawyer. Krogh opened the 2014 Serengeti Summit with a keynote speech focusing on integrity, discussing the lessons he learned from his time serving as an official in the Richard Nixon administration. Krogh began by highlighting the importance of the code of ethics for …
