In the video below, Dan Dabney, chief taxonomist at Thomson Reuters, describes how our attorney-editors continue to make alterations to the Key Number System, including reclassifying 300,000 headnotes for the revisions to the Election Key Number. This year, the editorial staff also combined the topics “schools” and “colleges and universities” into a new topic: “education.” This …
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The global challenges and opportunities of corporate responsibility
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! As a law librarian, you understand the responsibility inherent in your role as a steward of information. By the same token, corporate responsibility is deeply-rooted in the …
Justice Paul H. Anderson at the AALL Annual Meeting: On “Access to Justice”
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! “Law librarians do play an essential role by educating the people as to their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. The resources you provide are capable …
Thomson Reuters launches Company Investigator
Finding the right information on a company’s business structure and relationships can be like searching for a needle in haystack. Thomson Reuters Company Investigator helps users find information on companies to assist with business development, litigation, due diligence and a host of other applications. Company Investigator accesses more than 30 million company profiles, including 20 million hard-to-find …
Recognizing everyday heroes: As the world evolves
Recently, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, delivered a TEDTalk on the concept of everyday heroes, sharing stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary work. One of these heroes is a banker who discovered suspicious spending data at a nail salon, ultimately revealing an underground system of human trafficking. The importance of everyday heroes …
New study explores means to increased public sector efficiency for legal professionals
Many legal professionals have experienced in recent years the challenging combination of rising workloads and diminishing resources. This combination of conditions has presented major workflow challenges, especially to legal professionals in the public sector. In a recent study, Thomson Reuters explored these challenges and sought new and innovative ways help public law offices work more …
Optimizing your university legal department: New white paper available
Current economic circumstances have placed legal professionals in a variety of positions under extra pressure to prove their worth – and legal departments at universities are no different. However, these departments, whether they come from small or large universities, often find difficulty in managing spending, results, and risk. A new white paper from Thomson Reuters …
Anne Ellis on the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference
This post is the first in a series of messages from the 2013 AALL Annual Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! By Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations, Thomson Reuters I am proud to gather with fellow law librarians next week at the AALL annual …
Podcast: Jorge Goldstein on Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
In the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but synthetic complementary DNA (“cDNA”) is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. The distinction is …
Practitioner Insights makes current awareness information more relevant than ever before
Since it was introduced in March, Legal Current has followed Practitioner Insights closely, discussing its premier appearance at the ABA Techshow, the qualities that make it so unique and the team of experienced attorney editors who make it all work. Now, we’re pleased to provide some insight into the new practice pages on Practitioner Insights, …
