Reports & White Papers

The 2020 Report on the State of the Midsize Legal Market: Challenges & Change

The 2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market — produced by Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and the Georgetown Law Center on Ethics…

Barb McGivern March 16, 2020

State of the UK Legal Market: Challenges Emerge to Growth & Sustainability

Over the past couple of years, the legal market in the United Kingdom has shown a pretty good track record of growth, with revenues up…

Thomson Reuters Institute March 09, 2020

Peer Monitor Economic Index Slips in 2019’s Fourth Quarter

The large law firm market has seen arguably the best two-year period since the end of the recession. Indeed, 2019 marked the first two-year stretch…

Thomson Reuters Institute February 03, 2020

Regulatory Considerations for Risk & Compliance Officers in Canada for 2020

Risk and compliance officers in Canada will need to make a running start into the new decade to keep up with a regulatory landscape in…

Helen Chan January 31, 2020

White Paper: Law Firm Leader Perceptions of the Value of Technology

Law firm leaders who are engaged in making decisions about the technology that’s implemented at their firms seem to uniformly understand that such technology will…

Thomson Reuters Institute January 27, 2020

10 Things Compliance Officers Need to Do in 2020

This year — 2020 — should be the year of perfect vision. If only it were that simple for financial services risk and compliance officers…

Susannah Hammond January 24, 2020

2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market: From Incremental Change to Revolutionary Innovation

Ever heard of the “Fosbury Flop”? Whether you have or not, if you’ve watched the sport of high jumping anytime in the past 50 years…

Bill Josten January 06, 2020

Forum Magazine: Cost of Compliance Report 2019 — 10 Years of Regulatory Change

Since the financial crisis, financial services firms have seen unprecedented levels of regulatory change as governments and policy makers have sought to ensure that a…

Susannah Hammond November 22, 2019

Accountability Gets Personal: A TRRI Special Report

“If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail” —Proverb December is the last step in the dance for the sector-by-sector roll-out to solo regulated…

Susannah Hammond November 20, 2019

The 2019 Law Firm Business Leaders Report: Listening to the Business Side of the Law Firm

Most legal market surveys focus on law firm partners, and understandably so. With law firm C-suites becoming the rule rather than the exception, it’s important…

Barb McGivern November 12, 2019

Law Firm Business Leaders See Many Challenges for Future Profitability, Ability to Drive Change, New Report Finds

The business leaders who are increasingly being tapped as important sources of leadership for the business functions of law firms, such as finance and operations,…

Bill Josten October 28, 2019

2019 Legal Tracker LDO Index Report: Trends over Time

At times, the most profound insight can be found not by considering what has changed, but instead by focusing on what has remained the same.…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 15, 2019