Law Firms

Video: Growing Market Segmentation is Becoming More Active in Industry, Says Georgetown’s Jones

Jim Jones, a senior fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, talks with Ralph Baxter, LEI Chairman, about the panel Jones chaired that discussed law firm…

James W. Jones November 05, 2014

Video: Creating an Innovative Environment is Vital for Law Firms, Says Shearman & Sterling’s Johnsen

Kenneth Johnsen, COO & CFO of Shearman & Sterling LLP, discusses his panel on fostering innovations at law firms at the 13th Annual Thomson Reuters…

Kenneth Johnsen November 05, 2014

The Best of Times… The Worst of Times

The current legal landscape presents stark contrasts—it is at once the best of times and the worst of times, as Dickens would have put it.…

Ralph Baxter November 05, 2014

‘A Bright New World Lies Ahead’ for Law and its Practitioners

This is my first substantive blog. Not just for Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute, but ever. I spent the last 40 years in the delivery…

Ralph Baxter October 29, 2014

A Clarion Call to Join the Legal Technology Movement

Earlier this month, CodeX—The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics—presented Evolve Law, a demonstration event for legal technology. Owen Byrd from IP analytics firm Lex Machina,…

Roland Vogl October 29, 2014

Welcome to the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute

We seek to make the Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute (LEI) a comprehensive, practical, and accessible resource for all those who lead and manage the…

Ralph Baxter October 20, 2014

Navigating Today’s Complicated and Fragmented Legal Ecosystem

Not too long ago, most commercial legal practice was something carried out between a narrowly defined set of players: corporations (or other types of organizations),…

David Curle October 20, 2014

Challenges and Solutions for Electronic Billing

It has become clear that, for law firms, not only is electronic billing here to stay, but adoption by corporate clients will continue to accelerate.…

Thomson Reuters Institute May 07, 2014

Einstein’s Theory of Business Development

The connection between energy and matter is a fascinating subject to explore. While it generally sounds like the stuff of science fiction, I have uncovered…

Thomson Reuters Institute May 06, 2014

The Importance of Porter’s Five Forces

It’s been more than thirty years since a young Harvard associate professor of Economics published his first Harvard Business Review article, “How Competitive Forces Shape…

Thomson Reuters Institute May 05, 2014