Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. D.C. law firm Patton Boggs lays off lawyers, sources say The firm, which has more than 550 attorneys in nine offices worldwide, is known best for its lobbying and public policy work in Washington. Appeals court …
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Podcast: Legal aspects of celebrity scandals
Celebrity scandals always seem to capture the public’s attention, as evidenced by recent headlines involving Lance Armstrong, Manti Te’o, Lindsay Lohan, and any number of celebrities that you see populating the checkout line magazine rack. But after the headlines fade, what are the consequences of these scandals? Why do some scandal-scarred celebrities rebound while others …
James Jarvis featured in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel magazine
James Jarvis, senior director, New Product Development at Thomson Reuters, recently published an article in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel magazine. In the article, titled “Are you enabling technology or is it enabling you?” Jarvis discusses how law firms want to increase efficiency and effectiveness, and there are growing pressures to adopt technology to achieve those efficiencies …
Podcast: How law firms can help clients prevent cyber-espionage
Recent news reports have called attention to the risks of American businesses and government agencies being hacked by Chinese agents. And a new classified National Intelligence Estimate reportedly lists several other nations, including France and Israel, as sources of cyber-espionage against US targets. Peter Toren, Intellectual Property and Computer Crimes expert with Weisbrod Matteis & Copley …
Case study: How Pangea3 helped its client keep pace with mushrooming litigation and save $1 million
Founded in 2004 and welcomed into Thomson Reuters in 2010, Pangea3 has grown to become a global leader in legal process outsourcing (LPO). In situations where large numbers of documents need to be reviewed and produced in short time periods, Pangea3’s consultative, process-driven approach ensures that clients receive the cost-saving benefits of intelligent culling techniques …
Legal News Brief – February 22, 2013
Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. In Etan Patz case, a confession is just the start Pedro Hernandez’s lawyer has cited a rarely invoked New York law to argue that a confession alone is not legally sufficient to support the charges. Top …
Legal liabilities soar 22% for UK’s leading companies
The legal liabilities reported by UK-based companies listed on the FTSE 100 index jumped by 22% in 2012 to £22.1 billion, up from £18.2 billion in the previous year, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters Sweet & Maxwell business. The increase in legal liabilities has been driven by businesses facing far more aggressive fines …
Thomson Reuters key author prepares expert report on China’s patent system
This past year, Thomas T. Moga, author of Patent Practice and Policy in the Pacific Rim, prepared an expert report for the United States Chamber of Commerce entitled “China’s Utility Model Patent System: Innovation Driver or Deterrent.” The completed report was unveiled at the USCOC conference on “China’s Evolving Patent Environment: What It Means for …
Legal News Brief – February 15, 2013
After a brief hiatus, the Legal News Brief is back! Before you head out for the weekend, check out your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News and Insight. Preview: U.S. agriculture wary as Monsanto heads to Supreme Court The patent battle over an herbicide-resistant genetic trait could have ramifications for the biotechnology industry and the …
Thomson Reuters uses social media to engage in customer support initiatives
Two years ago, an innovative customer service strategy began to emerge at Thomson Reuters that would eventually evolve into the company’s Customer Experience Operations’ use of Twitter to find and respond to customer complaints. The project began in 2010 with the Reference Attorney Summer Associate Blog, which was targeted toward summer associates at law firms. …
