Law Technology News Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay returned on the last day of the Legal Tech New York show to offer further insight on a current hot topic, e-discovery.
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On June 2, Senator Amy Klobuchar made a stop at the Thomson Reuters campus in Eagan, Minn.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Senator Klobuchar for many years, beginning during my tenure as Mayor of Minneapolis – Senator Klobuchar was serving as the Hennepin County District Attorney at the same time.
Senator Klobuchar met with members of Thomson Reuters’ Government Affairs team, including our General Counsel Deirdre Stanley and SVP & Global Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs Ambassador Paula Dobriansky to discuss current legislative issues that matter to a business like ours. Senator Klobuchar is the only member of the U.S. Senate who sits on both the Judiciary and Commerce committees – two committees that directly impact Thomson Reuters.
You can see by this photo that we are using telepresence technology to hold this meeting. If you’ve never experienced a meeting via telepresence, I highly recommend it. Very innovative technology!
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Senator Klobuchar then participated in a Q&A session with a group of 100 Thomson Reuters employees. Her up-close-and-personal-view of the Supreme Court Justice conferee process was of particular interest to the many legal professionals in the room.
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It’s important for our elected officials to understand our business and our employees, and based on today’s visit, our employees want to know our elected officials, too.
One more thing … give Senator Klobuchar’s Taconite Tater Tot Hot Dish a try.
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Check out the top legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News & Insight:
Clemens’ lawyer says accuser is lying about steroids
Roger Clemens’ top lawyer on Thursday revealed his likely strategy to fight charges that the pitching ace lied when he said he hadn’t taken performance enhancing drugs — his main accuser is himself a liar.
JPMorgan to return $861 mln to Lehman brokerage
JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to return more than $800 million of assets that will be distributed to former customers of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc’s brokerage.
New York man convicted in VA contract scam
A Brooklyn man has been found guilty of fraud for posing as a disabled veteran in order to win federal construction contracts worth more than $16 million, authorities said on Thursday.
For the $20 billion BP claims fund, new legal challenges loom
On the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, BP Plc is facing challenges to its effort to contain another kind of disaster: mass litigation.
Rajaratnam defense in last shot to urge acquittal
Raj Rajaratnam’s lawyer took his last shot at keeping his client out of prison, blasting the credibility of key witnesses and telling jurors on Thursday the government failed to prove the hedge fund manager broke insider-trading laws.
For more legal news, visit Thomson Reuters News & Insight.
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Legal Project Management can be an effective approach for firms in handling matters more effectively and efficiently. Susan Lambreth of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins discusses how proven project management principles can be successfully applied to legal work and how firms can implement project management.
You can listen to this interview edition of Legal Current podcast by clicking on the player below.
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Susan Lambreth will be leading a two-day workshop on Legal Project Management in New York, March 29-30. More information is available here.
We’re also on iTunes (just enter Legal Current in the search box).
If you have suggestions for podcast topics for us to focus on, or people to interview within the practice and business of law, send us an email to contact@legalcurrent.com.
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Nola Vanhoy, Director of Practice Innovation, Alston and Bird LLP
The legal world, and specifically information services, are changing every day – every moment. This fast-changing environment was a hot topic of discussion at today’s ARK Group conference, sponsored in part by West KM.
“Develop your passion – and then you’ll have buy in,” suggests Nola Vanhoy, Director of Practice Innovation, Alston and Bird LLP, as the best way of not just dealing with change, but LEADING your change. Nola was a participant in the “The Change Trajectory: Transforming the Flow of Information Across the Firm” session at today’s ARK Group/Managing Partner Magazine’s 5th Annual Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library and Information Service Centers conference in New York.
Nola, along with Gina B. Lynch, National Director of Knowledge Services, Bingham McCutchen LLP, and Sarah Stephens, Chief Knowledge Officer, Sutherland Asbill and Brennan LLP, discussed their strategies for dealing with their changing trajectories, the challenges they’ve encountered in facing change, and their successes in expanding their scope and responsibilities in these changing times.
Seeking out experts, doing your homework, being ever-aware of technology, and viewing “models that work” are all a part of Nola’s successes, while building alliances, “telling [your clients] what they need and not waiting to be asked” and constantly seeking new opportunities are integral to Gina. Thinking broadly, and “beginning now to structure/do what you want” are parts of Sarah’s change-mantra.
By living these ideas and putting them into action every day, all three of these leaders and their associated firms have transformed their environments, and brought not just attention but recognition to their departments in these changing times. And recognition NOT just of their unique, customized, ever-evolving work-product, but more importantly the PEOPLE, and the PASSION that create that product, the aspect most crucial to dealing with our changing world.
Learn more about this and other ARK conference panels and discussions at http://usa.ark-group.com/.
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Truly inspiring stories are everywhere; you just need to look for them. But for Paul Rosario, a project manager in our Governance, Risk & Compliance group, sharing his inspirational life story with strangers on a fairly regular basis is a way for him to give back to the organization that changed his life – the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
His story begins at age 11, when Rosario was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. During a hospital stay, he was visited by a volunteer with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He asked for a vacation for his family of five to Cancun, Mexico, and the wish was granted several months later after he finished chemotherapy and was healthy enough to travel, but for those months in between, Rosario said the promise of the trip was a light at the end of the tunnel.
“The illness consumes you, and after awhile you forget there is hope and it is hard to focus on anything positive,” said Rosario. “After meeting with Make-A-Wish I was filled with excitement, knowing that I had a trip to look forward to. That wish changed my outlook and gave me the hope I was missing.”
Rosario attributes his survival to the Winthrop University Hospital Cancer Center for Kids. It was there that he beat the cancer, and came back years later as a volunteer speaker at one of the hospital’s fundraising events. There he told his inspiring, yet difficult story.
“When you start describing your experiences, it brings you back,” said Rosario. “Even when I was battling cancer, sharing that struggle was something I repressed and never spoke about. During that speech I was holding back tears, but I received an overwhelming response from the parents in the audience to keep doing what I was doing.”
It was this speech that triggered Rosario’s desire to give back to the foundation that gave him so much when he was young. When he contacted Make-A-Wish, they put him on a fast track to becoming a member of the Alumni Speakers Bureau and assigned him his first speech at the Wine & Wishes fundraiser in 2010 – the foundation’s largest event with an audience of more than 600 people – before ever hearing him speak. Since then Rosario has spoken at many events, but says that the pain that comes with speaking about his story still remains.
“Talking about it will never be easy, but repetition makes it easier. It will always hurt to relive that experience, but the message is so powerful that the impact outweighs any of the feelings. Knowing that sharing my story will create awareness of the power of a wish and ultimately bring in donations to keep granting more wishes makes it worth it.”
Check out the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s website to learn more.
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The Dodd-Frank Reform Act, recently signed into law, is ushering in some of the most pervasive changes in securities laws potentially since the 30s, says Gerald Lins, general counsel of ING Investment Management Americas in New York, and co-author of the 2011 edition of Regulation of Investment Advisers.
Watch the brief video below to hear Lins discuss some of the key updates to the 2011 edition of the book, as well as his thoughts on the top trends in securities laws.
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Every year beginning in 2009, a prestigious award has been bestowed upon a member of the Thomson Reuters, Legal Sales and Account Management organization in honor of Stu Wolfer, a sales representative serving firms in Idaho and Montana who was also in the United States Army Reserve. Wolfer was a motivated and highly successful sales rep, loved by his customers and colleagues. He was a good family man and very active in his community. Stu earned numerous awards for his outstanding service to both his company and his country. In addition to a Purple Heart, he received the Army’s second-highest award for heroic achievement, the Bronze Star. In 2008, Stu was one of two U.S. troops who died in an attack on the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government headquarters in central Baghdad.
At this year’s Annual Sales Meeting, Tammie Follett, senior account manager and business development specialist, received the third-annual Stu Wolfer Distinguished Service Award.
Follett was recognized for her extensive volunteer efforts on behalf of numerous charitable organizations. She currently serves on the board of directors for both Africa Classroom Connection and Books for Africa and recently traveled to Malawi, South Africa, where she delivered $150,000 worth of legal texts and an embossed copy of Black’s Law Dictionary from Thomson Reuters to the University of Malawi-Chancellor College. She is also on the board at the Tubman Chrysalis Center, a Twin Cities organization helping women, children and families struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse and mental health issues. She is on the board of directors at YEA Corps, a program to assist young adults to implement their entrepreneurial ideas. And, she is on the advisory board of Polish Your Star, a woman’s leadership and networking organization.
Thomson Reuters will donate $5,000 to the charity of Tammie’s choice, and her name will appear on a plaque on display at its Eagan campus.
Congratulations, Tammie.
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Caught up with Jobst Elster, head of content, InsideLegal, at the ALM Editor’s Breakfast this morning, and he has some thoughts on the latest trends in e-discovery at the show.
You may recall an interview we did with Elster last year at ILTA about law firm technology purchasing trends.
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What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android.
Black’s is available as an Android App and also [...]
Pangea3 CEO David Perla was a member on the panel for Legal Process Outsourcing 2.0 at the ACC Annual Conference in Denver recently.
With the rapid growth surrounding LPOs in the legal industry, the panel addressed numerous topics and issues ranging from: how each company addresses the relationship with the LPO differently to the best way [...]
We’ve got a great podcast this month to kick-off the New Year featuring an interview segment with attorney Yar Chaikovsky about monetizing patents and the forthcoming impacts of patent reform.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we learn about one blogger’s top five social media tips for businesses.
In our “Chaos in the Courts” segment, we [...]
