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Your Firm’s on the Verge of Being Fired, What Are You Going to Do About It?

In December, we released a report examining corporate clients’ attitudes towards their outside counsel. The report examined why law firms get fired, how clients fire them,…

Bill Josten April 19, 2018

TWLL Roundtable Dinner: “If You’re Not in It to Play the Game, You Can’t Possibly Win”

NEW YORK — The key influence of in-house counsel to champion diversity within law firms was among the topics discussed at the Thomson Reuters Transforming Women’s…

Heather Fox April 16, 2018

Peer Monitor Spotlight: Prominence and Price Elasticity

With spring comes warm weather and optimism. As Susan Bissonette once said, “an optimist is the human personification of spring.” It seems this optimism has…

Marcos Ramirez Esq. April 16, 2018

2018 State of Canadian Corporate Law Departments: Role of In-House Department is Growing

As Canada marked its 150th birthday last year, a new report by Thomson Reuters and Acritas — the 2018 State of Canadian Corporate Law Departments — takes a…

Legal Executive Institute April 12, 2018

UPFRONT & PERSONAL: An Interview with Kevin van Tonder, General Counsel, Legal Shared Services at Schlumberger

Today we continue our monthly feature, “Upfront & Personal”, on the Legal Executive Institute blog. The column, created by Rose Ors, brings “the person behind the title”…

Rose D. Ors April 09, 2018

How the Assignment Review Partner Plays a Critical Role in the Retention of Lawyers of Color

As part of the Legal Executive Institute’s new Talent platform, we sat down with Sonia Menon, Chief Operating Officer at Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg, to…

Natalie Runyon April 02, 2018

Ask Dr. Paola: Detecting & Battling Biases in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Part 2

Each month, Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, a behavioral scientist and senior research fellow for Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and the Harvard Kennedy School,…

Legal Executive Institute March 29, 2018

American University Washington College of Law: Using Practice Management Software in ‘Mini-Firm Situations’

In Thomson Reuters’ examination of methods that law schools can use to help their students become more “practice ready,” we identified law school faculty and staff already…

Carrie Brooker March 28, 2018

New Webinar: KYC Challenges, Processes & Best Practices in Today’s Regulatory Environment

Terrorists, kleptocrats and other criminals often fund their enterprises through illegal activities, laundering those proceeds through financial institutions, hiding their identities and the original source…

Gina Scialabba March 27, 2018

How to Get Started with Your In-House Counsel Commitment To Drive Diversity

According to the Legal Tracker Legal Department Operations Index report issued by Thomson Reuters last October, just 6% of companies' chief legal officers (CLOs) have…

Natalie Runyon March 22, 2018

Reexamining our Orientation: How Previous Experience Drives Decisions

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the concept of the OODA Loop, a decision-making framework where one analyzes how they Observe a situation, Orient…

Bill Josten March 22, 2018

Northwestern Law: Getting ‘Digital Natives’ and Faculty Comfortable with New Technologies

In Thomson Reuters’ examination of methods that law schools can use to help their students become more “practice ready", we identified law school faculty and staff already…

Carrie Brooker March 21, 2018