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2016 State of the Law Firm Market
James W. Jones, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, discusses the “2016 State of the Legal Market” report by the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor
- January 11, 2016
- Leonard Lee
Fitbits, Wearable Fitness Monitors & Data Privacy
Are you sporting a new Fitbit or an Apple Watch with a fitness monitor app? If it’s part of your employer’s wellness program, who owns and has access to your data? Tyler Newby , litigation partner at Fenwick & West looks at the wearable fitness monitor craze and some of the data privacy implications they …
- December 22, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Supreme Court Patent Law Cases
Michael Hawes of Baker Botts discusses patent law cases coming up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
- December 17, 2015
Whatever Happened to Political Campaign Theme Songs?
It wasn’t long ago that every Presidential campaign had its own theme song. Even George Washington had one. Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln. All the way through to Jimmy Carter. But in recent decades, the music stopped. Or at least went Top 40. Presidential campaigns switched from original campaign themes to using hit pop songs, which …
- December 11, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Handbook, 2016 edition
The 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2015. Some of the amendments apply even to cases that were filed prior to that date. The authors of the Federal Civil Rules Handbook, 2016 edition, William M. Janssen and Steven Baicker-McKee discuss the treatise and the new 2015 amendments. …
- December 10, 2015
- Leonard Lee
United Airlines, Gawker Media & Rio 2016 – Ill Repute for November 2015
A monthly look at reputation management in the era of social media & the 24 hour news cycle – United Airlines: Should you disclose when your CEO suffers a heart attack? – Blame it on Paris. Will the tragedy in Paris affect the Rio Olympics? – Gawker Media & “#SlackLayoffBingo” To listen, click on the …
- November 24, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Mind Your Business – November 2015
Patsy Doerr interviews Deirdre Stanley, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary, Thomson Reuters on diversity inclusion, its role in corporate strategy and managing your career. To listen, click on the built-in player below, or to download right-click here
- November 23, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Wait, What? Episode 14
Jason Thomas is on the Ashley Madison list! Wait, What? Oh, it turns out there are several Jason Thomases in Arlington, Virginia. And one of them may have been outed in the infamous Ashley Madison case. And it wasn’t this Jason Thomas, it turns out. But it begs the question, what are the ethics of Doxing — …
- November 18, 2015
- Leonard Lee
Wait, What? Unplugged Edition
They’re back! After a rather extended summer break, Wait, What? Returns. Jason, Joe, Rob and Matt are back at, this time taking a break from the world of legal technology to discuss alien superstructures, the demise of a publishing icon, and, of course, the new Star Wars movie. Does intelligent life exist on other worlds …
- November 3, 2015
- Leonard Lee