Mobile technologies are definitely a hot topic at LegalTech NY, and there’s a lot of excitement in the Thomson Reuters booth with demonstrations of the Thomson Reuters ProView app for the iPad.
ProView launches shortly in Australia, following its successful introduction in the US, UK and Canada. ProView has features including full-text Boolean search, and updating of content as new editions while maintaining customer-created notes and annotations.
In addition, the upcoming update of ProView will add more exciting features.
Dan Bennett, vice president, New Product Development, discusses what’s new with Thomson Reuters ProView
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For transactional attorneys, drafting contracts, agreements and other legal forms can be a time-consuming process.
Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the first comprehensive set of automated tools and content to help attorneys prepare transactional documents with greater efficiency and accuracy.
Users can quickly and easily find a document or template to use as a starting point – whether an existing internal document or using the included database of sample documents, organized by practice area and jurisdiction. Powerful proofreading tools ensure accuracy across all content, including defined terms, numeration, punctuation, and referenced documents. Issues such as non-conforming phrases are flagged for easy review. An automatically generated document outline eases document navigation. Plus, direct integration with Westlaw enables users to find applicable forms and laws without leaving their word processor.
Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the latest addition to the comprehensive products and content Thomson Reuters Westlaw provides for transactional attorneys, including Westlaw Form Builder, Form Finder on WestlawNext, and Westlaw Model Documents. Stop by our booth at LegalTech NY and take a look.
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Nixon Peabody LLP announced today at LegalTech New York that Pangea3 is now their preferred vendor for legal process outsourcing. Pangea3 was selected by Nixon Peabody following an extensive review of LPO providers. As a preferred vendor, Pangea3 will be Nixon Peabody’s recommended LPO provider, where appropriate, to meet its clients’ needs. Through this relationship, all of Nixon Peabody’s clients will have the opportunity to benefit from preferred pricing.
Nixon Peabody said the move was in response to client demand to reduce the risks, burdens and costs of e-discovery review.
Pangea3 was recently voted “Best Legal Process Outsourcing Provider” in the 2011 New York Law Journal Reader Rankings.
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MatterSphere, an industry-leading matter management platform, is now available to law firms in the U.S. market as part of Elite’s suite of integrated management solutions.
MatterSphere integrates with Elite 3E, Elite Enterprise and many other financial management and document management platforms, and is embedded in the Microsoft Office environment to unite operations and promote collaboration across the enterprise and with a firm’s clients. It is also accessible from iPad or smartphone.
Patrick Hurley, senior director of Operations, Elite, talks about how MatterSphere benefits attorneys and firms.
Mark Craddock, Director of Sales for Elite, comments on today’s U.S. launch of MatterSphere.
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Recently Anne Ellis, senior director, Librarian Relations, spoke to a group of law librarians who are part of a pilot group testing the new Thomson Reuters ProView eReader. Her key take-aways on the evolution of technology in the law library, and library management, are highlighted in a recent Legal Rebels post at ABA.com.
Whether conducting a spot check of court rules with ProView, verifying a case on an iPhone, or consulting secondary source materials related to a case on an iPad, technology continues to offer research and management time savings. And these law librarians embrace new technology to enable education, research and efficiency for the students and the attorneys they support.
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By tracking published patent applications, examining real-world trademark and copyright infringement issues and comparing the government policies and long-term innovation strategies of China to other world leaders, new reports from Thomson Reuters suggest that although China leads the world in patent and trademark filings, its status as a global player still faces challenges.
“Intellectual property is the bridge that connects innovation with economic growth,” said David Brown, president of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. “We’ve taken on this research as a means of identifying the point where innovation and creativity meet marketability, thus setting the stage for sustained economic development. By closely examining a wide variety of metrics, we can see China is clearly on that path, but there are significant milestones yet to be attained.”
Among the key findings detailed in the free Thomson Reuters China reports on patent and trademark trends:
The research findings are available in two new reports from the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. Invented in China assesses total patent volumes and highlights growing areas of innovation activity in China. Special Report: Trademarks in China tracks trends in trademark activity in China over the last 20 years and analyzes trademark activities of the world’s leading brands.
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With the launch of the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global InnovatorSM program, Thomson Reuters has recognized the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation activity.
The 100 global innovator companies are geographically dispersed, with representation from the U.S., Asia, and Europe. The methodology for choosing the global innovators is based on four principle criteria: patent approval success rate, global reach of patent portfolio, patent influence in terms of citations and overall patent volume.
David Brown, president of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters defines innovation as “a means of growth and prosperity for companies and nations seeking to overcome sluggish economies and achieve competitive advantage.”
The launch of the program has received much deserved attention from various media sources around the country, including the Economist, The New York Times, and USA Today, to name just a few.
To learn more about the program, tune in to the podcast below where we speak with Bob Stembridge, Intellectual Property analyst at Thomson Reuters to learn more about the program.
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What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android.
Black’s is available as an Android App and also through the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
“The Apple App for The Black’s Law Dictionary 9th edition is in the top 10 highest grossing reference apps on iTunes, which means touch-of-the finger legal reference tools are essential,” said Chris Parton, vice president, Academic, Thomson Reuters. ”Android continues to be the largest mobile operating system, and expanding to the Android platform was a logical step for our mobile plan.”
Information on the Android App for The Black’s Law Dictionary is available at www.blackslawdictionary.com.
Note: Android is a trademark of Google Inc. and Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPod touch, iPad and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
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Legal Current chatted with Eric Laughlin, vice president, Corporate Legal Solutions, for a view of what attendees of the upcoming Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC) annual meeting will see from Thomson Reuters. According to Laughlin, this year’s gathering is already being touted as the largest in the association’s history.
Earlier this month, Laughlin hosted Former ACC President Fred Krebbs at the Thomson Reuters Eagan, Minnesota, campus for meetings and an employee town hall event. Krebbs also spoke to Legal Current in this short video interview.
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I recently read a great story about Hennelly & Grossfeld, and one of their clients, Fidelity National Title Group (FNTG), and how they are strategically leveraging technology to reduce costs, be more efficient and collaborate and remain competitive.
Hennelly & Grossfeld partners Susan Clary and Tom Case use WestlawNext as a cost savings tool, as well as a differentiator. And according to the findings of a 2011 Client Advisory law firms will need to differentiate themselves based on quality, efficiency, or cost in order to gain market share, keep their existing business, or win new business.
Fidelity National Title Group also uses WestlawNext and looks to partner with firms that do the same. Jennifer Nicolitz, law librarian with FNTG, uses it every day and recommends that outside counsel use it as well to control legal costs and drive results in this more challenging economic climate.
“We thought that [this research technology] would be a good fit for our legal department because we have a lot of cost-saving initiatives that are the focus of the company right now. And, given the current state of the economy, one of those [initiatives] is creating synergies and completing work faster so that our attorneys are more efficient. WestlawNext helped us do that.”
Read the article to learn more about how Hennelly & Grossfeld and FNTG partner to drive efficiencies and cost savings in the new economy through technology.
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What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android.
Black’s is available as an Android App and also [...]
Pangea3 CEO David Perla was a member on the panel for Legal Process Outsourcing 2.0 at the ACC Annual Conference in Denver recently.
With the rapid growth surrounding LPOs in the legal industry, the panel addressed numerous topics and issues ranging from: how each company addresses the relationship with the LPO differently to the best way [...]
We’ve got a great podcast this month to kick-off the New Year featuring an interview segment with attorney Yar Chaikovsky about monetizing patents and the forthcoming impacts of patent reform.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we learn about one blogger’s top five social media tips for businesses.
In our “Chaos in the Courts” segment, we [...]
