Here’s a quick look at some of the interesting content recently added to Westlaw. It’s all on the High Profile page:
Civil
Barker-Homek v. Abu Dhabi Nat’l Energy Co. (E.D. Mich.) – Former Taka CEO claims he was forced out of the energy company after trying to stop “kickbacks, bribery, accounting fraud and corruption”
Estate of Justin M. Newman v. Squire (Ill. Cir.) – Wife, husband’s estate to pay $6M to estate for murder, conspiracy
Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Inc. (W.D. Wash.) – Microsoft co-founder claims AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix and others infringed upon four of his company’s patents
Criminal
U.S. v. McCluskey (D. N.M.) – Escaped convicts charged after allegedly murdering a couple so they could steal a camper
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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Law enforcement officers and government investigators already know the importance of CLEAR, the powerful research platform from Thomson Reuters, Legal.
Now it’s time for the corporate world to see the benefit, too.
CLEAR is now available to the corporate market. So the same relied upon content, including access to live gateways, will now be available for corporate security and investigations professionals.
“The great thing about the last two years with Thomson Reuters is we have had the opportunity to really enhance the CLEAR product to meet any type of investigator’s needs,” said Steve Rubley, vice president and general manager, Risk, Fraud and Investigations for Thomson Reuters, Legal,
Customers agree, saying “CLEAR gave us a direct hit on the target,” and “one of our investigators was looking for an individual with a common name – he was able to locate a direct match thanks to CLEAR’s web analytics filter.”
Rubley also mentions the web analytics advantages of CLEAR over simple web searches in this audio clip.
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You can watch a demo about CLEAR and read more about it.
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The 2010 ILTA Conference once again allows Elite, part of Thomson Reuters, to spend some valuable time interacting with with customers and attendees, and business partners.
Legal Current caught up with newly-named president of Elite, Kim Massana, to talk about the importance of the ILTA conference and what he’s hearing many clients talk about.
“One trend that we’re seeing a lot from the industry and that everyone is talking about is about alternative fee arrangements,” says Massana. “So we’ve heard plenty of feedback on that from the marketplace.”
Massana explains more of the significance of the ILTA conference in this video interview:
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Here’s a quick look at some of the interesting content recently added to Westlaw. It’s all on the High Profile page:
Civil
Wiederhorn v. Merkin (N.Y. Sup.) – $1.5M arbitration award confirmed for investor in one of Bernie Madoff’s “feeder funds”
Martinez v. Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (Cal. Superior) – Law firm sued for deferring law school graduate’s start date, then rescinding the offer
Bryant v. Mattel, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) – Bratz-maker MGA accuses Barbie-maker Mattel of using false pretenses to get employees into MGA showrooms
Criminal
U.S. v. Clemens (D. D.C.) – Baseball great Roger Clemens indicted for allegedly lying to Congress about use of steroids
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.
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Our latest Legal Current podcast is a special edition from the 2010 ILTA Conference in Las Vegas. We edited clips from several interviews we did on Aug. 23 with ILTA members and speakers.
We have interviews with e-discovery consultant Craig Ball; V. Mary Abraham of Debevoise & Plimpton; David Hobbie of Goodwin Proctor; Patrick DiDomenico of Gibbons; Gary Berger of Ogletree Deakins; and ILTA’S 2010 keynote speaker Jason Jennings.
In addition, we talked with JoAnna Forshee and Jobst Elster of Inside Legal about the 2010 ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey, including its key findings and its history and significance to ILTA.
All our podcast guests offer interesting perspectives on a variety of topics being talked about this week at ILTA so we invite you to listen to the podcast and let us know if you have any comments to share:
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Also, send us a comment or suggestion for topics or interviews, that may end up in future episodes. Just leave a comment to this blog post or send an e-mail with your text or audio comment to contact@legalcurrent.com. You also can follow us on Twitter, we are @legalcurrent.
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Monday night at the 2010 ILTA Conference brought the opening of the exhibit hall and a special Vegas-style theme to the get-together for “Viva ILTA Vendors.”
It was our first chance to welcome conference attendees into the booths for our Thomson Reuters, Legal, businesses.
We’ve posted some more photos on our Flickr page.
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Finding the most legally relevant documents in a case is critical to case preparation. Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell LLP, a major law firm specializing in business law and corporate litigation, recently integrated West km with the firm’s intranet portal and document management system to create a unified information search system, providing better, faster, more thorough search.
Wade Goldt, director of information technology for Morris Nichols explains:
“The key is providing people with information in the same manner in which they’re accustomed to seeing it. Integrating West km search with our document management system provides several advantages. It pulls West km information into their existing workflow through an interface with which our attorneys and staff are already accustomed and comfortable using. This makes it easier for users to find the most legally relevant documents.”
“It’s been a huge timesaver in finding information,” Goldt says. “For example, if an attorney is working on a case and wants to see if the firm has any documents from similar cases, they can set up filters by author, file type, document type, practice group, client or other attributes. This way, they can pre-filter their results, rather than starting with a broad search that may produce thousands of documents that aren’t relevant. By applying only the criteria needed, it filters the search down from four million documents to perhaps two dozen highly relevant documents in a matter of minutes.”
More information and demos of West km are available at the West booth at the 2010 ILTA conference, under way this week in Las Vegas.
Next week, we’ll provide a link to a detailed case study on how Morris Nichols integrated West km search with their document management system through Microsoft SharePoint.
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The International Legal Technology Association’s 2010 Conference is underway in Las Vegas. Legal Current is part of the Thomson Reuters team here at the Aria Resort & Casino on the Vegas strip.
The theme of ILTA’S 33rd annual conference is “Strategic Unity.” It’s a concept that ILTA says “resonates the need for law firms and law departments to unite their technology with the practice of law. These disciplines must come together as never before in order to survive and thrive in the future.”
Conference Co-Chair Maureen Babcock says ILTA is an organization that reaches around the world, not just the United States, and the content at the 2010 conference is tailored to meet the global legal technology needs of its members – and also is planned by its members.
“That’s the value of a volunteer organization like ILTA,” Babcock says. “We review trends out in the industry, what the hot topics are… …and then we sit down and start brainstorming… …we come up with this enormous pile of ideas.”
We did a podcast with Babcock on Aug. 9 (Her interview is at the 13:15 mark of the show).
Over the next few days here in Vegas, we’ve got a lot planned here on the blog, including a special edition of our Legal Current podcast that I’ll be posting tonight, featuring interviews with several attendees at the conference, highlighting some of the great content and industry insight that ILTA is known for.
We also will have several recaps of the speakers and sessions here on Legal Current and we’ll catch up with several of our Thomson Reuters attendees as well.
You also can follow our updates on Twitter (We’re @legalcurrent) and the hashtag #ilta10.
In addition to the video interviews we’ll be posting here on Legal Current, we also will put some photos up on our Flickr page.
So, be watching the blog for our updates from ILTA!
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It seems like the ideal job; roll out of bed around noon, write about your day, sleep, repeat. But there is more to being a professional blogger than sharing anecdotes in your pajamas.
First, let’s get past the stereotype that bloggers and p.j.’s go hand-in-hand.
Professional blogging is a career, whether it’s done at home or in an office.
Heather Armstrong, author of dooce.com, understands the amount of work that is necessary for making a blog a business. She has become one of the most well-known professional bloggers, with more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter (@dooce) and her blog, and she’s been named as one of the 30 most influential women in the media by Forbes magazine. She and her husband work full-time on the blog, as well as raise two children.
At the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, we caught up with Armstrong before her presentation at the WestlawNext-sponsored CLE, “Legal Issues Resulting from the Social Media Explosion,” which you can read more about here. She told us about why she became a professional blogger and the obstacles that come with living under public scrutiny as a blogger in the first clip, and what a “typical” day in her life is actually like in the second clip below.
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An interesting and insightful CLE session sponsored by WestlawNext at the ABA Annual Meeting explored the legal issues associated with social media and the blogosphere.
Heather Armstrong, one of the most well-known professional bloggers, presented at the CLE, and discussed her experiences dealing with unauthorized use of blog material, defamation, cyber stalking and loss of employment for blog content. (We had a chance to talk with the “mommy blogger” after the session, which you can read more about here.)
From the counsel perspective, Marylee Abrams from Abrams and Schmidt LLC., and Kenneth Kunkle from Kunkle Law PLC, two social media experts, demonstrated how to efficiently obtain legal and factual information necessary for advising clients on issues such as employment law, social media policies, intellectual property and the FTC policy on blog disclosure.
Abrams, a lawyer who represents employers with labor relations and employment law issues, talked with us about the necessity of social media policies in this video clip:
We also talked with Kunkle, a lawyer who advises creative-based clients on matters of copyright, trademark and other general business issues, who told us in this short video clip about the importance of understanding social media.
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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.
A discussion about online privacy and “The End of Forgetting,” with law professor Jeffrey Rosen.
