This week, the WestlawNext team is hosting three more free preview breakfasts for the new legal research system. The next three stops on the tour are in Miami, today, followed by Atlanta, tomorrow and Thursday in Tampa.
There have been six of the previews so far, since the official launch of WestlawNext on Feb. 1, and each one has brought out some big crowds of lawyers, librarians and other legal professionals.
West’s marketing team also has been covering each event with video and interviews capturing some comments from people who have been eager to learn about the features of WestlawNext.
The latest video shows you how the breakfast went in Philadelphia as they talked to some of the attendees about why they are involved in the practice of law:
You also can see videos from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, New York City and Washington, D.C.
As of today, there are nine more preview events planned. You can register here for the following cities:
2/23 – Miami
2/24 – Atlanta
2/25 – Tampa
3/3 – Houston
3/4 – Denver
3/5 – Dallas
3/9 – Boston
3/10 – Chicago
3/11 – Minneapolis
If you can’t get to a preview breakfast be sure to go to WestlawNext.com for more information. Or, follow the video tour on LearnWestlaw.com and get information there on some upcoming webinars and other training information.
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We now have video available from the LegalTech New York keynote that featured Malcolm Gladwell, author and writer for The New Yorker magazine; Dr. Lisa Sanders, internist and columnist for The New York Times; and David Craig, chief strategy officer for Thomson Reuters.
The event, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, was titled “I3: The New Convergence of Intelligence, Intuition and Information.”
Click here to view the video. You also can read our recap of the event.
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Editor’s note: Click here for video of this event.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point and his newest book What the Dog Saw, headlined the closing LegalTech keynote on Wednesday. The session was titled “I3: The New Convergence of Intelligence, Intuition and Information,” and was sponsored by Thomson Reuters. Gladwell also has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1996.
Also speaking on the panel was Dr. Lisa Sanders, internist, columnist for The New York Times and author of Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, and medical advisor to the Fox television series House. Sanders also is an assistant clinical professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinician educator in Yale’s Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency program.
David Craig, chief strategy officer for Thomson Reuters, opened the discussion and moderated the event.
The ballroom at the New York Hilton was packed as Craig set the tone by describing the “tsunami of information” inundating professionals across the globe.
“Everyone here knows from personal experience how the amount of information has exploded in the last twenty years,” said Craig. “But not only are we creating more information, we are also storing and sharing it. Corporations and organizations are responsible for a third of this information – banking records, personal medical records, research reports, news. And the expectation is that there is an answer online for every question. Legal professionals ran two billion searches against the Westlaw databases in 2009. This was an increase of 45% percent from the year before.”
Gladwell reflected that it wasn’t the lack of information that left the United States unprepared for the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941 – the United States had broken the Japanese code; it was the U.S. military’s over-abundance of information that left it unable to “see the forest for the trees.”
As part of her comments, Sanders further defined the information explosion as she recreated how doctors bombard themselves with information to solve difficult problems. She described a real-life House experience as a medical team tried to diagnose a dying woman. Despite 20 pages of test results and information, the primary doctor still couldn’t determine why the patient was jaundiced and why her vital organs were shutting down. What saved the woman was a doctor who reviewed the results and stepped back from the information to look for the connections.
Gladwell remarked that intuition is rooted in the unconscious, “drawing from the reserves of knowledge,” he said. Unaided expert decision-making is fragile, easily infected by biases. Gladwell pointed to a Kasparov chess challenge in which both opponents used a computer throughout the match. Kasparov saw that the computer’s quick analysis of every possible move enabled these grandmasters to let their experience, creativity and knowledge come through.
Portions of the event will be available soon on video, here on Legal Current.
John Bringardner recaps the session here on Law.com and Jason Wilson offers up “Gladwell, Sanders & Craig: LTNY 2010 Last Keynote in Tweets” on his blog.
After the presentation, we asked Monica Bay, editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, for her impressions of the discussion in this video clip:
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So where does data leave off and intelligent information begin?
Rick King, chief technology officer for the Professional Division of Thomson Reuters, discussed just that at a gathering of chief information and chief technology officers at the CIO Forum, held in association with LegalTech New York.
“The core competency of Thomson Reuters Professional Division is integrating content and technology better than anyone, providing customers with Intelligent Information to create knowledge to act,” King told the group. “For example, we painstakingly extract data from opinions, briefs and other documents to create our authority files in Westlaw. This is important to bringing intelligence to our information, relating the previously unrelated, adding detail and lighting up pieces that were before in the dark.”
He went on to say that “Intelligent information begins with a deep understanding of how your customers work and how they use information. Then, the secret sauce is using the technology to really dissect the content – to mine all the data in your content sets, know what it is, map it to other data to deepen its context, and serve it up exactly when its needed.”
King talks about the role of technologists and the influence they can have in law firms and organizations in this video clip from the event:
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Steve Buege, president and CEO of Elite, is once again among the team of colleagues representing his business at LegalTech New York. And he’s spending much of his time talking to Elite customers, including law firms who have chosen or implemented 3E, Elite’s financial and practice management system.
He senses optimism, in general among the LegalTech attendees, but also for what Elite offers law firms.
“There’s a lot of interest in our platforms,” Buege said. “It just feels like a lot more momentum and a lot more enthusiasm for the new year coming off of a challenging 2009. We’ve got a lot of good news to share.”
Buege said 3E is hitting its stride and Elite is bringing about two clients live on the system every month. “The client experience is better than ever with new modules and new feature functionality. We feel like with a new release of 3E – alongside a new release coming for Enterprise – we’ve got a better opportunity than ever for our clients as we improve the client experience.”
Before joining Elite, Buege served as a senior vice president in several roles within West. So, because of his ties to West, we asked him for his impressions of WestlawNext, launched this week at LegalTech. In this video interview, Buege says the innovation that went into WestlawNext reminds him of the development and impact of 3E:
Steve Buege and Elite will hold the company’s annual User Conference this June in Miami. You can watch a preview video and register for the conference on the Elite Web site.
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Attendees at LegalTech New York this week who are interested in learning more about WestlawNext have a couple of ways to do that.
First, as you see in the photo above, they can talk to the WestlawNext product experts in the Thomson Reuters, Legal booth in the exhibit hall. Not only can attendees be among the first to test drive WestlawNext after its official launch, they also can get questions answered from some of the key people responsible for designing the interface and building the search technology.
Another way to get an overview is to visit WestlawNext: The Experience, a multimedia look at some of the features of the system, complete with a live musical performance. The Experience room is in the Clinton Suite in the New York Hilton on the second floor. The shows last a few minutes, and run every 20 minutes or so.
The launch of WestlawNext at LegalTech continues through the end of the show on Wednesday afternoon.
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I hope you can join us here at LegalTech New York today through Wednesday at the New York Hilton. If you’re in the city, please stop by our booth to hear about WestlawNext, our groundbreaking new legal research system that sets a new standard for search power and ease of use. Members of the media also are invited to a special briefing this morning at 9 a.m.
We’ve put together a great schedule of seminars and keynotes at LegalTech: I am honored to share the stage today with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and director general emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei for a general session titled “The Rule of Law and the Role of Information in Verifying Compliance in Developing Nations.” This session will be today, from 12:45 to 2 p.m.
Thomson Reuters, Professional Division CTO Rick King will speak during lunch at the CIO Forum on Tuesday; and Thomson Reuters Chief Strategy Officer David Craig, futurist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell and New York Times medical columnist Dr. Lisa Sanders will present the keynote on Wednesday. Their topic will be “The New Convergence of Intelligence, Intuition and Information.”
If you are unable to attend LegalTech, please follow the show here on Legal Current.
Thank you. I hope to see you here at LegalTech.
Peter Warwick
President and CEO
Thomson Reuters, Legal
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West LegalEdcenter has put together a free continuing legal education (CLE) program for Monday, Jan. 25 to address some of the legal issues surrounding the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti.
“Haiti Crisis Update: Current and Emerging Legal Issues” will be live at 3 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 25 and available as an on demand audio program afterward.
It is produced in partnership with the National Bar Association. The panel of speakers will detail the policies and procedures put in place by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State that will impact Haitian nationals currently in the U.S., U.S. permanent residents stranded in Haiti, and Haitian orphans who are in the process of being adopted by U.S. citizens.
The goal of the CLE is to ensure participants that they are in the best position possible to assist those in need of immigration advice as a result of the ongoing tragedies in Haiti. The program also will address the emerging issues regarding infrastructure rebuilding.
The moderator will be Mavis Theassa Thompson, president of the National Bar Association. Presenters are Thomas A. Duckenfield III, Of Counsel at Adorno & Yoss and Romy Kapoor, Partner at Adorno & Yoss.
Registration for this free CLE is available on West LegalEdcenter.
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(Photo courtesy: Fox 9)
On Oct. 24, more than 7,000 girls attended KMSP-TV Fox 9’s Girls & Science event at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Thomson Reuters was a proud sponsor of the event.
Leading science and technology companies from the Twin Cities metro area came together to demonstrate how science and technology affect everyday life.
At the Thomson Reuters booth, several hundred girls had the chance to create their own Web sites. At other booths, girls experimented with weather-prediction technologies with Fox 9 meteorologists, explored human biology with St. Jude Medical, and learned about the latest in energy technologies and science from Flint Hills Resources.
Twelve women from Thomson Reuters’ technology organizations volunteered at the event.
“Having a presence in the local community is really important,” said Elizabeth Psihos, president and chief technology officer, Westlaw Business. “As a woman technologist, I have a personal interest in seeing young girls become excited about and educated in the science and technology fields.”
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As we’ve noted, the International Bar Association conference this week in Madrid was a huge event for that group’s members and many companies like us who are on hand to talk with legal professionals about our products.
For Legal Current, our Thomson Reuters, Legal, team in Madrid asked a few of the attendees why they go to the IBA conference. Here are some of those responses:
“There are so many reasons I have chosen to come the IBA. But mainly I am here to benefit from the wide range of lecture sessions, and also to meet people from different jurisdictions so I can expand my frontiers. This is the first time I have come to the conference and I’m very impressed with what I’ve seen so far.” -Alhaji Yesiru Oladele, Ondo State Local Government, Akure, Nigeria
“It’s an opportunity to meet up with friends that I’ve often only spoken to on the phone before, but over a long period of time. I don’t come to every conference but maybe every three years I make the big trip. The Madrid conference is the largest one I have seen and there is even more opportunity for networking.” – Peter King, Weil Gotshal & Manges, London
“I get a better opportunity to meet people here than I would anywhere else in the world. Sometimes cases can come up in different jurisdictions and I find having met people face to face very valuable. The range of topics covered and the breadth of lawyers from all over the world is very impressive.” – Robert S. Bernstein, McCarter & English, New York
The IBA Daily News on the IBA website offers in-depth coverage from the conference, including articles on trends affecting the global legal practice and business of law.
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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.”
