The release of the United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) plan to improve the speed of the nation’s broadband network (Read the story on Reuters.com) shows that there is a shared interest is making sure the technology continues to progress with the information demands of citizens and businesses.
The FCC’s plan – “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan” - sets a goal for 100 million American households to have Internet speeds of 100 megabits per second by 2020. According to Reuters, the current household average speed is about 4 Mbps. Even homes with cable or fiber Internet access only achieve speeds averaging 5 Mbps to 6 Mbps. Dakota County, where our Eagan office is located, averages 9 Mbps. (more…)
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Last week, a group Thomson Reuters employees in Eagan, Minn. – including myself – got together to make the campus of the Legal headquarters a place to call home for bluebirds, chimney swifts and wood ducks.
Two dozen wooden bird houses were constructed by employee volunteers as part of the company’s Green Team effort to promote sustainable practices.
The Eagan campus already has 20 bluebird houses along its walking trail. When installed later this month, these houses will more than double the housing options available for these migrating birds.
Other Green Team efforts at the campus this year include restoring a 10-acre prairie and planting a community garden.
You can read more about the effort in a feature reported today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Financial donations poured in for disaster relief efforts after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti in January.
Law students across the United States were able to take part in a unique program that saw their WestlawRewards points transformed into cash for the American Red Cross.
WestlawRewards is a program that allows law school students to accumulate points by using Westlaw and participating in legal research training courses and contests. Much like miles in a frequent flyer program, the points can be redeemed for a wide range of items, including small kitchen appliances to discounts on bar review courses.
For every 250 points a student donated, Thomson Reuters, Westlaw’s parent company, contributed $5 to the American Red Cross.
Law students generously donated more than seven million points, translating into more than $140,000 for disaster relief. The average donation was about $22; the largest donation was $645.
Learn more about WestlawRewards online.
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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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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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How do law enforcement officers know what to do when it’s been reported that a child is the victim of a predatory crime? A new partnership between The National Law Center for Children and Families (NLC) and Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting) services hopes to answer that question.
Created for law enforcement officers and government prosecutors, NLC PROTECTS is a seminar series that features experts on topics such as child pornography and online enticement investigations, human trafficking, the Adam Walsh Child Protection & Safety Act of 2006, and other child sexual exploitation issues.
Training will incorporate Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR service, which provides public record information and analytics geared to the unique needs of law enforcement and government investigators.
“It’s rewarding to know our partnership with the NLC will help keep children safe from Internet predators,” said Steve Rubley, vice president and general manager of Risk, Fraud & Investigations for Thomson Reuters, Legal.
Since June 2006, the National Law Center has trained nearly 1,800 law enforcement professionals and prosecutors on child sexual exploitation case law and investigation procedures in seminars from coast to coast.
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In conversations with customers since the launch of WestlawNext, we’ve been energized by their reaction to the new service. In many cases, it’s a shared pride – more than 3,000 legal professionals touched the new service or the research around it at some point during the development process.
We set out with the mission of making the law more transparent and accessible – something that I know we share with law librarians. So it’s especially important to me to acknowledge the ways the librarian community helped in developing WestlawNext: (more…)
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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 West eLearning Center has set up four live, free, 30-minute webinar training sessions to present information about WestlawNext, the new legal research system from Thomson Reuters, Legal.
I listened in on a session of the webinar titled “Transitioning from Westlaw to WestlawNext.” It highlights the features of WestlawNext and compares them to what you’re familiar with in Westlaw.
The next opportunity to participate in it live is Thursday, March 4 at 10 a.m. Central.
Mike Schneckloth, an inside account manager for West, led the session I listened to and said, “The biggest shift when searching on WestlawNext is being confident that you don’t have to ask yourself if you chose the right database.”
Schneckloth walked participants through the features including search queries, result filters and key document searches. (more…)
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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 Feb. 24, 2010: (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.”
