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The Legal Ecosystem: A Look at Tension Points for an Industry in Turmoil (Part 1)

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series of articles in which Lucy Endel Bassli will explore the key players in the legal…

Lucy Endel Bassli June 19, 2018

VANTAGE Executive Summit: What Law Firms Should Know About the State of Corporate Law Departments

NEW YORK — Corporate law departments have undergone (and are still undergoing) fundamental change in how they function as part of their corporate parents’ mission.…

Legal Executive Institute June 18, 2018

Forum Magazine: Adobe’s Journey towards Operational Excellence

Nearly a decade ago, Adobe’s legal department began the journey toward operational excellence. The legal department has since gone on to refine and improve its…

Rose D. Ors June 15, 2018

The “Delta” Lawyer Competency Model Discovered through LegalRnD Workshop

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Thomson Reuters was a sponsor of a two-day gathering at Michigan State University College of Law’s LegalRnD Center run by Dan…

Natalie Runyon June 14, 2018

Forum Magazine: The Lure of Failing Strategies

In the recently released 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market, produced by the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and the Georgetown Law…

Bill Josten June 13, 2018

Forum Magazine: The State of AI and “New Wave” Legal Technology

Richard Tromans is the founder of Tromans Consulting, a London-based strategy and innovation consultancy for the legal industry. He is also the founder of Artificial…

David Curle June 04, 2018

Choosing the Right (and Usable!) Tech Innovation for the Global Law Firm: A Conversation with Norton Rose Fulbright’s Saskia Mehlhorn (Part 2)

Probably one of the most important strategies that law firms today face is the decision of what, where and how much technological innovation to apply…

Gregg Wirth May 31, 2018

Forum Magazine: Path Toward Prosperity — Raines Returns to Firm as COO with a Plan for Profitability

Career arcs don’t always conform to a nice easy plotline – there are bumps, unexpected delays and diverging routes. And for C.W. Raines, the newly…

Forum Magazine May 31, 2018

Women in Practice: Gender Diversity from the Practitioner’s Perspective

WASHINGTON, DC — Gender diversity statistics show that the legal profession has a lot of ground to make up, but fortunately, it is responding in…

Transforming Womens Leadership May 30, 2018

Forum Magazine: The New State of the Corporate Legal Department Report – Innovation, Data and Collaboration Drive Optimal Results

Thomson Reuters in partnership with Acritas has recently released its first annual report for corporate legal departments, with the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) as…

Lisa Hart Shepherd May 25, 2018

“Stretch Sooner by Connecting with Potential Clients,” Says Tope Yusuf, Arent Fox Partner

As part of the launch of Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative, we interviewed Tope Yusuf, partner at Arent Fox, who discusses why…

Natalie Runyon May 24, 2018

Choosing Wisely: Don’t be Paralyzed by Your Budget

Recently I’ve become more aware of a bit of a phenomenon within law firms. It’s nothing new, it’s just something that hadn’t really caught my attention…

Bill Josten May 24, 2018