An article in City Pages traces the history of West and the value and expertise that West and Thomson Reuters provide through their professional legal research and reference products.
Erin Carlyle conducted interviews with several leaders within the legal businesses of Thomson Reuters, including President & CEO Peter Warwick.
City Pages is a weekly newspaper in Minneapolis/St. Paul, covering news and entertainment in the Twin Cities and Minnesota.
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | In the News |
No Comments |
Sometimes innovation starts with a trip to a bar.
Literally.
While winding down at the end of a day of recruiting new talent for West at Michigan State University last October, Dan Bennett and Jay Peyer started talking about the kinds of iPhone and iPod touch applications they could create.
Little did they know that conversation would put them on a path to develop the first Thomson Reuters app for the popular Apple mobile devices.
Today their creation, a Black’s Law Dictionary app, is officially for sale on iTunes.
The app features the 8th edition of the relied-upon and respected dictionary, edited by Bryan A. Garner. Black’s is considered by many attorneys, legal professionals and law students to be the most citable and credible legal dictionary. And a mobile version just made sense, to provide easy access to its legal terms and phrases and embedded audio of that information which does not require an Internet connection.
The process to create the Black’s Law Dictionary app allowed Bennett, a senior director in New Product Technology at West, and Peyer, a senior software engineer in Application Technology, to break new ground.
In this video interview, they explain how they made it happen:
The Black’s Law Dictionary app from Thomson Reuters is available for purchase on the App Store in Apple’s iTunes for $49.99.
Even Garner, himself very much a fan of books, is excited to see Black’s Law on the iPhone.
“The idea that you can have a very full, elaborate, complex and richly textured book like Black’s available at your fingertips is fantastic,” Garner says. “I myself am stubbornly in favor of print sources, but I like to watch my daughters use their iPhones. And I know that there’s another generation of people who really prefer the electronic medium at their fingertips.”
While Black’s Law Dictionary is the first iPhone application from Thomson Reuters, there’s more in the queue. We’ll keep you posted as more apps are launched.
More coverage:
ABAJournal.com
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | Products | Video |
Comments (4) |
The practice of law in the People’s Republic of China can be a challenge for any attorney working on behalf of companies doing business with the Chinese.
China, now the world’s third-largest economy and the recipient of more foreign investment each year than any other country, can be a bit intimidating. Its business laws and the practice of deal-making have long been a source of confusion or mystery.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
I recently talked with Owen D. Nee Jr., of counsel with Jones Day, for a Westcast podcast (Listen to the audio).
Nee told me the failure of many joint ventures is linked to basic misunderstandings of the deal-making process, which too often occur because the investor or its counsel fail to study the applicable legal ground rules.
Nee wrote the new Shareholder Agreements and Joint Ventures in China from West, and co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions in China with Jingzhou Tao, partner at Jones Day.
Posted by admin in:
Audio | In Practice |
No Comments |
Today we’re marking the anniversary of Thomson’s acquisition of Reuters, and the launch of the Thomson Reuters brand across the company.
In this video, Peter Warwick, president and CEO, Thomson Reuters, Legal and members of his executive team talk about what we’ve achieved in the business in the last year, and what opportunities lie ahead:
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | Video |
No Comments |
We want to point you again to the Hubbard One Blog for some great insight we gathered at last week’s Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Conference through some video interviews:
Jonathan Fitzgarrald, chief marketing officer at Greenberg Glusker, talks about how the tough economic times can be beneficial for legal marketers.
Maureen Leuenberger, senior director, Consulting & Services for Hubbard One, discusses the benefits of the company’s client support services to help firms be more efficient and effective in their marketing efforts.
Adam Severson, director of business development, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, told us how his firm gains greater insight into its relationships with clients and people within the firm.
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | Events |
No Comments |
How do legal marketers take advantage of a down economy? Jim Durham says nothing’s changed. “Do what you should have been doing,” he says. And, if you know the threats to your business, says Durham, you should be finding out what the opportunities are.
We did a video interview with Durham at the LMA Conference. He is the chief marketing and business development officer at McGuire Woods LLP:
Posted by admin in:
In Business | Law firm business | Video |
No Comments |
You can see more of the videos we shot at the LMA Conference by checking them out through the Hubbard One Blog, or below. Here are three of them:
Jason Parkman, vice president and general manager, Hubbard One, talks about his session at LMA titled “Knowing Your Clients: A New Era of Client Service”.
Preston McKenzie, vice president and general manager, Client Development, Thomson Reuters, discusses his session titled “The Right Information at the Right Time: Tools for Today’s Rainmakers”.
Patrick Fuller, senior business development consultant, Hubbard One, previewed a session he will be a panelist on, on Friday, titled “Mission: Possible 2″.
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | Events | Video |
No Comments |
We’ve moved on to the ABA Techshow at the Chicago Hilton. And it’s clear that the client development businesses of Thomson Reuters are showcasing their technology and tools at Techshow.
Preston McKenzie, vice president and general manager of Client Development for Thomson Reuters, explains in this video interview why it’s a good time to learn more about the benefits of these businesses:
Posted by admin in:
Company Current | Events | Video |
No Comments |
Jayne Navarre knows a lot about social media and its impact on law firms.
As the owner of her own consulting firm, LawGravity, a blogger at the Virtual Marketing Officer and The Legal Watercooler, and a user of Twitter (@jaynenavarre), she lives on the Web, stressing the online aspects of marketing communications to legal professionals.
At the LMA Conference, Navarre presented a session about social computing titled “We’re Connected. Now What?” that discusses social media for lawyers and how it can impact their success, and the success of their clients.
In a video interview for WestBlog, Navarre explores why some law firms tend to have concerns about their lawyers being bloggers and using social networking sites, instead of focusing on how they can use the sites to share their expertise:
Posted by admin in:
Client development | In Business |
No Comments |
Jay Berkowitz has built his business in Boca Raton, Florida helping businesses of all kinds navigate the ins and outs of getting attention on the Web. His company is Ten Golden Rules, and he is the author of a book based on that name, The Ten Golden Rules of Online Marketing.
At the LMA Conference this morning, Berkowitz gave a presentation about some of his favorite Web 2.0 tools and tactics, but with a legal industry bent.
We asked him how legal professionals stack up to his clients in other industries:
Berkovitz is on Twitter as @jayberkowitz.
Posted by admin in:
Client development | In Business | Video |
No Comments |
The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored [...]
Earlier this week, we released our 2011 Annual Report in an interactive format available online at thomsonreuters.com. Along with information on the company’s financial performance as well as business unit overviews, this year’s annual report contains a variety of dynamic content including interviews with our new business leaders as well as stories of how we [...]
We’ve got a great episode for you this month, kicking off with our “Chaos in the Courts” segment that, believe it or not, is yet another story about the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. Since our March podcast, another person has fallen victim to the establishment’s trademark bypass burger.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” [...]
