We touched base with Anne Ellis, senior director of Librarian Relations for Thomson Reuters, Legal, first thing Sunday morning as the AALL exhibit hall opened. In this short video clip, she tells us what she’s hearing from law librarians and what she thinks they’ll be interested in at the Thomson Reuters booth:
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Guest post by Mike Dahn, vice president of WestlawNext Product Development
My Thomson Reuters colleagues and I are committed to delivering the most innovative information and workflow products in our space and that’s what we’re talking about at this year’s AALL Annual Meeting and Conference.
Librarians checking in at the Thomson Reuters booth
I’m proud of the market acceptance of WestlawNext – a complete reimagining of Westlaw five years in the making. It’s packed full of artificial intelligence technology that builds upon our long-standing innovations, like Key Numbers and West attorney-authored headnotes, in powerful new ways to deliver better search results and a better experience. After just five months, WestlawNext already has more than 160,000 users and has redefined legal research by making it faster and much more on point. WestlawNext delivers a new era in efficiency, confidence and productivity in legal research and that’s why it’s the fastest selling major product in our history.
WestlawNext is also the market leader in legal research solutions optimized for today’s mobile devices, including iPhone, Kindle, BlackBerry, Palm, Android and iPad. We’re sharing what we’re hearing from customers about trends in mobile use by legal professionals and what we’re doing to give law librarians access to WestlawNext wherever and whenever they need it – and on whatever mobile platform their using.
Thomson Reuters is a leader in workflow technology. We’re showcasing Westlaw Litigator Tools and how they integrate with the workflow of legal professionals and with the programs they are using today – and will be using tomorrow – like Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Westlaw and WestlawNext. If you’re in Denver, please stop by our Tech Center to see for yourself how Westlaw Litigator Tools can help increase productivity, efficiency and quality.
Checking out WestlawNext Mobile on an iPad
All that we are showing at AALL reflects our commitment to provide information and workflow products that effectively integrate with the librarians’ work environment. And, all of these powerful and innovative tools are available now. Please visit Thomson Reuters in booth # 831 in Denver, and read our news release about the innovative products that we’re showing.
Mike Dahn
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We’re heading to Denver! Legal Current will be at the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference July 10-13 i
n Denver, Colorado. We will be covering the events and talking to thought leaders about the trends shaping law librarianship and the legal marketplace.
If you’re at the show, we’d love to hear from you. Stop by and see us in the Thomson Reuters booth, number 831. If you’re unable to attend, please visit Legal Current often throughout the next few days as we bring some of the best of AALL to you.
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The latest development from Thomson Reuters brings WestlawNext to your mobile device. Well, it was there before, but now it’s even better.
The WestlawNext development team has released a mobile version of WestlawNext that’s optimized for viewing on any mobile device with browsing capabilities (it’s recommended that you enable JavaScript on your mobile browser).
According to James Jarvis, senior director of user experience for Westlaw, the mobile site helps provide “an entire ecosystem for customers to more easily interact with the law and with their work product.”
WestlawNext Mobile mirrors the clean, modern interface of WestlawNext, with a primary focus on helping legal professionals resume their research while on-the-go. Through the mobile site, you can quickly and easily access research folders and read documents or notes, as well as perform new searches.
Mike Dahn, vice president of WestlawNext Product Development added: “The legal profession is getting more and more mobile, and it’s exciting that we now have the tools to be more effective at our jobs from anywhere.”
WestlawNext automatically detects if you’re accessing it from a mobile device, and will bring you directly to the mobile logon screen.
Current users can access WestlawNext Mobile at http://m.next.westlaw.com, and an iPad version of WestlawNext is available at http://next.westlaw.com.
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Ever have one of those days? You know, the kind of day where you find yourself in need of the trusted legal advice of a lawyer?
FindLaw.com exists, in part, for that feeling. For when “life gets legal,” according to a commercial now airing in the Atlanta television market.
We’ve got the clip here for you, from FindLaw’s YouTube channel:
What do you think?
It’s the first TV commercial FindLaw has produced. Writing on The Official FindLaw Blog, Michelle Croteau says:
Hopefully, you will never have quite the legal day that our friend in the commercial does, but if you do, there is somewhere to go. Property questions, identity theft, and one cute, but badly behaved dog; our first commercial outing on TV will show a few of the everyday examples of the kind of problems that can get to any of us, anytime.
You can read more about the commercial on The Official FindLaw Blog here and here.
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While the world is waiting for the economic situation to ease, the legal profession is still litigating. Not without challenges, though. This summer, Legal Current talked to many legal professionals and industry experts at various annual legal industry tradeshows. One theme was constant throughout all of these conversations – how can attorneys do more with the resources they have?
West’s litigation productivity team does not take this challenge lightly. They too have been talking with customers, working with attorneys and litigators to help them overcome obstacles by being more productive and efficient in their day-to-day work.
A recent case study with Bill Leader, partner at Leader Bulso, Nolan & Burnstein, PLC, illustrates how the firm is making the most of West’s productivity tools – like West Case Notebook and LiveNote – to gain competitive advantage and greater productivity and effectiveness.
“Case Notebook is on our server, it’s on our laptops,” says Leader. “It’s all under one license…and gives ten times the bang for the buck.”
Leader joins Taylor Sutherland, an associate at the firm, along with fellow law firm leaders Carl Solomon, partner at Gergel, Nickles & Solomon; and Jan L. Warner, partner at Warner Payne & Black LLP, in this video about how firms are using technology tools to gain productivity and effectiveness in managing litigation workflow:
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“They” always say that money is the No. 1 cause of conflict in a relationship. A recent survey conducted by FindLaw.com confirms “their” theory, but also reveals some interesting insights into relationships both old and young – like the fact that today’s younger married women tend to be more money-savvy than their spouses.
According to the survey, married women between the ages of 18 and 34 are the most likely to know about and manage a couple’s finances, and less likely to squabble with their spouses about money.
Some interesting points from the survey:
-Younger women are the most likely to manage the household finances by themselves, rather than letting their spouses handle it or managing the money together.
-While overall “Money” is still the No. 1 issue most married couples fight about, younger women are more likely to fight about their partner’s bad habits, or relatives and in-laws, than money.
-Younger women know more details about their spouse’s finances, such as income, net worth, retirement savings, etc., before getting married.
Read the news release for more information.
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Guidette being interviewed live at ILTA
“Productivity” is the buzz word in the legal industry this year. Allison Guidette, vice president and general manager of Litigation for West, thinks this has a lot to do with the current state of the economy. “There is a lot of pressure on costs, and all law firms are trying to figure out how they can do more with less,” Guidette said in an interview with Shy Alter from ii3 Inc. filmed at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual meeting in August.
Guidette commented on how productivity can affect the top and bottom line for firms. “Productivity is about delivering client value,” she said. “Attorneys can impact the bottom line by helping to deliver more for less cost. And if you can deliver a better product to the client and drive further business, you drive up the top line.”
According to Guidette, one of the ways firms can get the most return is by managing the flow of information with tools that integrate with each other – like West Case Notebook and West LiveNote. These tools allow firms to integrate case analysis with legal research – making the flow of information easy to manage, and allowing for greater efficiency.
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Ask any law firm director of knowledge management to list the things that make their work challenging and you’re likely to hear first about the demands of getting information out to the firm, fast.
We met up with Gail Bergmiller at ILTA 09, she is a director of KM and library services for a large law firm. She told us, in this video, that speed is one of the keys to doing the job that she has. Along with some other challenges:
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Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, cited a Chinese proverb – “crisis is danger and opportunity” – to open a panel discussion addressing technology in turbulent times at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual meeting Monday.
Panelists included George Rudoy, director of Global Practice Technology & Information Services for Shearman & Sterling; John Roman, director of Litigation Technology Services for Nixon Peabody; and James McKenna, senior manager of Infrastructure for Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Many themes came out of the panel session – the group discussed travel, expenses, training and management, among other topics. One thing that stood out across all examples was the notion of going against convention. We caught up with Monica and the panelists after the session and captured some of their thoughts in this video:
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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” [...]
