The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) published its Case Matter/Management White Paper recently, featuring an article penned by Thomson Reuters own Allison Guidette, vice president of Litigation for our U.S. Core Legal business.
The article, “Enhancing Productivity in Litigation,” appears on pages 28-33. Guidette references insight from James Jones, senior vice president at Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, while exploring the new ways law firms are seeking growth, the difference between productivity and efficiency, and the various methods and tools firms are using to gain productivity.
The digital version of the article features an audio podcast discussion with Jones about productivity challenges for law firms.
You also can access the podcast here:
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Thomson Reuters, Legal, employees participate in a prairie restoration project in Eagan, Minn.
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Law Technology News is providing its readers some awareness of an environmental project underway on the campus of the headquarters of Thomson Reuters, Legal.
An LTN article titled “Prairie, Flowering: Restoring 10 acres of Minnesota with native grass and wildflowers” provides details of an effort that we wrote about here, last month.
The article, written by Legal Current contributor Nicole Hansen, explains the process to prepare the land in Eagan, Minnesota that was set aside for the prairie restoration, and the overall committment of the company to green initiatives:
Environmental stewardship isn’t a new concept for Thomson Reuters, Legal. Our predecessor company, West Publishing, began recycling metal shavings, sheepskin scraps, and paper trimmings left over from platemaking and bookbinding in 1906. Today, our Eagan Green Team offers many employee and corporate programs. More than 100 employees participate in a variety of volunteer subcommittees, focusing on organic gardening, recycling, and bird habitats around the campus.
You can read the entire article in LTN for more information. And you can see more photos from the prairie planting on our Flickr page.
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GP Solo posted a review of two Thomson Reuters, Legal, products in its April/May edition.
Jan Matthew Tamanini writes about Legal Checklists and Legal Checklists – Specially Selected Forms. (more…)
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Question: What do MBA, JD and comedian have in common? Answer: Elaine Thompson.
A product developer at the Eagan, Minn. headquarters of Thomson Reuters, Legal, Thompson recently took her comedy show on the road … well, really in the air, by way of a United States C-130 military aircraft and a Black Hawk helicopter. Destination: Iraq … to entertain America’s finest.
Organized by Lone Wolf Entertainment, Thompson and two other comedians packed 11 shows into six days in April across military bases in southern Iraq. Traveling from base to base by Black Hawk helicopter, the trio treated more than 1,000 soldiers to an hour and a half of laughter – something those immersed in a war zone for months, sometimes years, saw as welcome moment of comic relief.
Supporting the troops was Thompson’s main reason for taking the gig. “The troops are just happy to see someone from home,” Thompson said. “Of course the natural adrenaline rush didn’t hurt.”
I asked Elaine about her trip and if any moments stood out. She quickly replied “the whole trip.” She continued, “You get there and it’s very intimidating – it was a culture shock – everyone was wearing camouflage and carrying around huge guns.” (You can hear her response to my question here.)
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Thompson has been performing for eight years. The self proclaimed introvert said, “A lot of people think comics are really outgoing and extroverted, but I’m the exact opposite – until I hit the stage.”
Read more about Thompson’s experience in this article in the Pioneer Press.
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The recent FindLaw survey about most Americans’ lack of knowledge about the United State Supreme Court caught the attention of Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
The study (read the news release) found that nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name even one member of the court.
Here’s Hardball’s take on the survey:
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A new FindLaw.com survey suggests most Americans have some brushing up to do on their knowledge of the United States Supreme Court.
According to the survey, nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name even one member of the court!
Clarence Thomas is the most well known justice but could be named by only 19 percent of Americans.
Chief Justice John Roberts was named by 16 percent of people surveyed. Sonia Sotomayor, the newest justice, could be named by only 15 percent of Americans.
According to FindLaw, only one percent of Americans could correctly name all nine current members of the Supreme Court.
To help you follow the court, FindLaw has a number of free Internet resources, such as the FindLaw Supreme Court Center. You also can visit the U.S. Supreme Court website for the current and historical Supreme Court calendars, dockets, decisions, opinions and briefs, as well as Supreme Court history and biographies of justices.
The FindLaw.com survey was a telephone survey of 1,000 American adults and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent.
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Ever have one of those days? You know, the kind of day where you find yourself in need of the trusted legal advice of a lawyer?
FindLaw.com exists, in part, for that feeling. For when “life gets legal,” according to a commercial now airing in the Atlanta television market.
We’ve got the clip here for you, from FindLaw’s YouTube channel:
What do you think?
It’s the first TV commercial FindLaw has produced. Writing on The Official FindLaw Blog, Michelle Croteau says:
Hopefully, you will never have quite the legal day that our friend in the commercial does, but if you do, there is somewhere to go. Property questions, identity theft, and one cute, but badly behaved dog; our first commercial outing on TV will show a few of the everyday examples of the kind of problems that can get to any of us, anytime.
You can read more about the commercial on The Official FindLaw Blog here and here.
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Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer was recently a guest on The Bottom Line, a weekly radio program produced by the BBC World Service and The Open University.
Glocer, along with David Yarnton, general manager of Nintendo UK, and David Lynn, managing director of MTV Networks, UK and Ireland, talked with host Evan Davis about some opportunities and challenges they each face in the digital age. (more…)
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The development of WestlawNext is featured in an article in the current issue of PROFIT, published by Oracle. It describes many of the challenges faced by the R&D and IT development teams at Thomson Reuters, Legal, during the five-year effort to bring WestlawNext to life.
Featured in the article are CTO Rick King, and Technology vice presidents Cary Felbab and Mick Atton. Attorney and blogger Bob Ambrogi is also quoted in the article.
You can read it here.
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With all the recent news involving product recalls, FindLaw’s latest survey found that half of all Americans have owned a consumer product that has been recalled.
In addition, one-third of Americans have owned an automobile that was the subject of a recall.
The most commonly owned recalled products were:
-Automobile (33%)
-Child or infant product or toy (16%)
-Household appliance (12%)
-Drug (7%)
-Medical device (3%)
You can get more details on the FindLaw survey here.
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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.
