With an expected increase in demand in 2010 for expert witnesses in many areas of litigation, the search for credible and trained experts is critical to a case.
Today, Thomson Reuters announced it has acquired Round Table Group, a leading provider of expert witness consulting services to litigators.
Round Table Group provides expert witnesses on hundreds of subject matters, with a network of over 100,000 expert witnesses, including industry experts, corporate executives and academics, and a database of proprietary expert content reaching over 750,000 records. It serves Amlaw 200 and boutique law firms.
The acquisition also allows the expansion of Westlaw’s expert witness content, primarily expert resumes, articles, video content and trial documents, allowing litigators even greater access to case critical information in a fully linked and integrated environment.
The Round Table Group was founded in 1994 and employs approximately two dozen people in five locations: Chicago, Boston, Dallas, New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw:
Civil
Lohan v. E*Trade Securities LLC (N.Y. Sup.) – Celebrity Lindsay Lohan sues E*Trade Securities, claiming the reference to a “milkaholic” baby named Lindsay in one of its television advertisements is an unauthorized use of her name and likeness.
Criminal
U.S. v. LaRose (E.D. Pa.) – Grand jury indicts American woman known as “Jihad Jane” on terrorism-related charges.
The State of Texas v. Green (Tex. Dist.) – District Court judge rescinds order granting capital murder defendant’s motion to hold the death penalty in Texas unconstitutional.
Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States. The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. Login is required on Westlaw.com after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
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At a time when law firms are likely more focused than ever on client development, attendees at the 2010 Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Conference in Denver are getting insight for their work from some of the best practitioners from around the world.
That work also includes knowing how to work best with the leaders and key people within the walls of the firm.
Jonathan Fitzgarrald, director of marketing at Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP participated in a session titled “Developing Your Communication Skills to Gain Influence and Increase Your Effectiveness in your Role.”
In a post on Hubbard One’s blog titled “Gaining Influence and Increasing Effectiveness as a Legal Marketer,” Chelsie Givan shares a video interview with Fitzgarrald in which he outlines five best practices for marketers in sometimes difficult and political environments in professional services firms, including law firms.
You can watch the video and read Chelsie’s full post on The Hubbard Perspective blog.
And for more information on the 2010 LMA Annual Conference, click here.
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Over the past five weeks, Thomson Reuters, Legal hosted free breakfast events in 15 cities across the United States to provide an overview and demonstrations of WestlawNext to hundreds of legal professionals.
With each stop, West’s marketing team covered the events with video interviews capturing reaction to WestlawNext, our new legal research system developed with more powerful search functionality to make legal professionals significantly more efficient in the time they spend researching.
The preview events wrapped up this week, with the last stop in Minneapolis. The video of that event also includes some footage of the WestlawNext team here at the headquarters of Thomson Reuters, Legal, in Eagan, Minnesota:
Our YouTube channel has all the clips from the WestlawNext preview breakfasts, including this week’s two other stops in Boston and Chicago.
You also can find out more about all the preview breakfasts from the last five weeks, and information on free online training opportunities for WestlawNext, on the Westlaw Insider blog.
For more information, go to WestlawNext.com.
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The Legal Marketing Association (LMA) is holding its annual conference in Denver. Our colleagues at Hubbard One are covering some of the activity on The Hubbard Perspective blog.
In a post titled “Transitioning from Marketing to Business Development,” Jen Bullett recapped a panel discussion about the transition of a law firm marketer’s mindset, from marketing to business development. The panel featured José Cunningham, Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer, Crowell & Moring LLP, and Anne Malloy Tucker, Chief Marketing Officer, Goodwin Procter LLP.
Here are five of the points from the panel that Jen noted:
1. Understand your key partners’ top 5 clients
2. Know your firm’s top 100 clients and prospects
3. Be an agent for cross-selling
4. Focus on initiatives that get lawyers in front of clients
5. Identify and nurture those lawyers with untapped potential
You can read Jen’s full post on The Hubbard Perspective blog.
And for more information on the 2010 LMA Annual Conference, click here.
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With some prominent examples recently, law firms are finding themselves the targets of disqualification motions filed by former clients.
A post titled “Conflict Disqualification: Anti-Takeover Tactic… or Just a Cigar?’ from Erik Krusch, on Westlaw Business Currents, examines some high-profile disqualification suits.
He outlines the legal issues in cases involving Air Products & Chemicals, Airgas and Cravath; and matters between Dow Chemical and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Rohm & Haas, among others.
You can read the full post on Westlaw Business Currents.
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Lawyers and legal professionals who enjoy listening to the podcasts from the Legal Talk Network can now earn continuing legal education (CLE) credit for their time spent with many of the network’s programs.
West LegalEdcenter is collaborating with the Legal Talk Network to offer some of its podcasts for CLE credit, for purchase as on-demand programs on westlegaledcenter.com.
Legal Talk Network’s fifteen legal programs – including its flagship podcast Lawyer2Lawyer with Robert J. Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams – focus on hot topics in the legal industry. Hosts and expert guests discuss issues ranging from U.S. Supreme Court rulings to legal ethics, intellectual property law, entertainment law, labor law and consumer protection law. The programs are produced and published regularly on the network, in iTunes and via RSS for legal professionals globally.
On the new episode of Lawyer2Lawyer, Ambrogi and Williams talked with West LegalEdCenter’s Lee Ann Enquist about the changing landscape of legal education.
“I think many lawyers think of continuing legal education as something they have to do, not something that they always want to do,” Enquist said. “But over the course of the last couple of years what we’ve tried to do – and I think the industry is moving toward this – is to recognize that being educated in your topic is critical to not only gaining clients but keeping clients and providing the best service possible…. So where our content has evolved, we really see ourselves now as a hot topic content provider, where we’re providing cutting-edge programming.”
Listen to the interview with Enquist here, while the full podcast episode is available here.
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Each week, our colleagues at Westlaw feature interesting materials, documents and videos from high profile cases in the United States.
The summaries of that content are available for viewing by clicking High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. Login is required after clicking on the links provided in the summary of each case.
Here’s a look at some of the newest High Profile content now featured on Westlaw, as of today, March 8, 2010:
Civil
Saylor v. Toyota Motor Corp. (Cal. Superior) – Family of a man killed in one of the first suspected Toyota acceleration defect accidents sues the Japanese automaker.
Sarver v. The Hurt Locker, LLC (D. N.J.) – Army sergeant sues the makers of the Oscar-nominated film The Hurt Locker, alleging the movie was based on events in his life.
New York State Commission on Public Integrity’s Notice of Reasonable Cause for Governor David Paterson – NY Public integrity commission says Governor Paterson violated state ethics laws when he accepted World Series tickets from the Yankees.
Apple v. High Tech Computer Corp. – Apple sues HTC for patent infringement, targets Google’s Android operating system.
Nigro v. City of Philadelphia (Pa. Com. Pl.) – Former Pennsylvania supreme court justice sues Philadelphia and municipal authority, alleging they improperly applied assessments for public maintenance services to condominium owners.
Once again, to see what new High Profile content is available on Westlaw, without having to login, you can go to westlaw.com and click High Profile Cases, Courtroom Videos & Trial Docs. However, login is required after clicking on any links.
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The law, and dispute resolution, has changed quite a bit globally over the last decade. We wanted to get some thoughts on this topic from Dr. Paul Vout, who practices equity and commercial law in Australia. He’s also a contributor to the ALR International series recently published by West and a member of the editorial advisory board for the series.
Vout said one of the biggest changes has been the capacity for disputes to arise quickly across a wide range of jurisdictions. (more…)
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Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and the Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank just released their 2010 Client Advisory for the legal industry. It describes the economic and related impacts of the past year on law firms across the U.S. market and offers some projections.
So what is their crystal ball telling them?
2010 will be a year of gradual growth, with revenues remaining at or slightly above 2009 levels. Dan DiPietro, advisory head of Citi’s Law Firm Group, says he believes the worst of the impact of the economic downturn is over. (more…)
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, President & CEO Peter Warwick offered his perspective on the company’s approach to the current economic reality in a panel discussion, “Adapting and Thriving in a Challenging Economy”, at the Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference.
The launch of WestlawNext brings a significant advancement in the way professional legal research is done.
Andrew F. Popper, a professor at American University, Washington College of Law, talks about his award-winning novel “Rediscovering Lone Pine.”
