During her presentation, Hackett discussed the importance of data, various methods of providing value and using resources available to improve efficiency.

In the first of a three-part interview, Hackett shares her thoughts about the critical tools and language that lawyers are going to need to succeed in the future.

We’re Listening @ WestlawSmallLaw is our program to inspire this conversation. We want to hear what you like about our products, what we need to improve, and also what new products and solutions you’d like to see us create to help your firm work better and smarter. 

Please look for our team at the We’re Listening @ WestlawSmallLaw booth #209 in the exhibit hall– you can’t miss it. While you’re there, don’t forget to pick up your free “ear buds.” 

You will have the opportunity to provide your feedback directly to our team, as well as on one of our many other channels.  So tell us what you think!  We’ve made it easy: 

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We’re looking forward to hearing you there!

-The Westlaw Small Law Team

The result is often higher productivity for the firm, and lower costs for the client, creating a win-win situation that strengthens the firm-client relationship and can result in more business for the firm.

In a recent post on the ABA’s Legal Rebels blog, Allison Guidette,  senior vp and general manager, Large Law Firm Segment, discusses how technology can help firms achieve greater efficiency.

Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we feature a blog post on millennial jurors and how to hold their attention in the courtroom. 

Our interview segment is with Ferd Mitchell, an author and healthcare expert who joins us to discuss President Obama’s healthcare law. A more detailed version of Ferd’s perspective on the law can be found in his new book, Legal Practice Implications of the New U.S. National Health Care Plan. 

We also have our “In the News” segment, featuring a story from Thomson Reuters News & Insight on how to avoid the controversy surrounding social media policies in the workplace. To learn more about this topic, check-out our interview segment with Robert Brownstone from our April podcast.

You can listen to the episode now by clicking the Play button on the built-in player below, or listen later.

We’re also on iTunes (just enter “Legal Current” in the search box).

If you have a suggestion for a future interview or episode theme, just leave a comment on this blog post or send an email to contact@legalcurrent.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at @legalcurrent.

Show notes for May 2012:

0:00-0:50 Open
0:55-2:20 “Chaos in the Courts”
2:20-3:45 “On the Blawgs”
3:45-26:55 Interview/Ferd Mitchell
26:55-28:55 “In the News” with Thomson Reuters News & Insight 
29:00-29:30 Closing comments

Eddie Pasatiempo, senior director, Customer Experience, Serengeti, shares some of the key advantages of attending the summit and discusses additional resources Serengeti provides to their customers such as the newly created Serengeti Professional Services program.

Check back with Legal Current for new posts from the Serengeti Summit.

Catherine Dunn of Corporate Counsel recently spoke with Rob Thomas, vice president, Market Development for Thomson Reuters, about general counsel and the CFO working together to improve efficiency, as well as track and reduce legal spending.

Their conversation, stemming from a white paper authored by Thomas and available for download at Serengeti Law, focused on the challenges GCs can face when trying to justify improving their technology to track and analyze legal spend, as well as the benefits to the company when these services are implemented.

Serengeti Law recently unveiled a redesigned website that allows easier access for customers to learn about its offerings, request demonstrations and work with Serengeti Professional Services.

Serengeti Law is part of Thomson Reuters and provider of Serengeti Tracker^TM, the legal profession’s most widely used and highest rated e-billing and matter management platform.

That’s where Thomson CompuMark comes in. You’ve always been able to count on us to provide screening services to make sure your trademark isn’t already registered by someone else, but soon we’ll be expanding this and providing you with the most global coverage, period. 

Over the past few months and over the coming few months, Thomson CompuMark is performing the Herculean task of more than tripling the number of our trademark screening registers. This summer, the number of registers covered by Thomson CompuMark will reach an impressive 186, making it the largest collection of trademark screening information available anywhere. 

The upcoming expanded coverage will include markets unavailable from any other online source. We’re starting that process now with 40 new databases released this week, including strategically important countries like Taiwan, Kosovo and Malaysia. 

So, with Thomson CompuMark, you get your brand off to the right start by screening the world with a single search, thanks to SAEGIS® on SERION®. 

Find out more about this expansion of coverage, and stay tuned for more SAEGIS databases coming in the weeks ahead.

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Built upon state-of-the-art Westlaw technology, Westlaw NZ was developed specifically for New Zealand customers and modeled after Thomson Reuters online legal information services in the United Kingdom, United States, Asia, India and South America.

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