The Hearing, part two – A legal podcast from Thomson Reuters

Hosted by social media commentator and employment lawyer Kevin Poulter (@kevinpoulter), The Hearing provides an unprecedented view into the most interesting people and topics in and around the legal industry. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent, but always informative, insightful and entertaining. Our second episode features futurist Joseph Raczynski on the future of the robot lawyer. You […]

The Hearing – A legal podcast from Thomson Reuters

Hosted by social media commentator and employment lawyer Kevin Poulter (@kevinpoulter), The Hearing provides an unprecedented view into the most interesting people and topics in and around the legal industry. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent, but always informative, insightful and entertaining. Our first episode features Dame Fiona Woolf. You can listen and subscribe via iTunes, Spotify […]

In the knowhow: Why Thomson Reuters Practical Law and Westlaw are essential for law firm knowhow

Law firms run on information – from communicating internally and with clients, to keeping up with the latest reports, news and changes to law. If staff don’t have access to the precedents and resources needed to get the job done it could mean losing clients, and therefore profit. Jon Poole, solicitor at Teacher Stern, says Practical Law […]

Thomson Reuters bridges gap between practical guidance and legal research with closer integration of Practical Law and Westlaw UK

Thomson Reuters has enhanced its leading know-how service, Practical Law, by integrating a selection of content from its legal research solution, Westlaw UK. The closer integration bridges the gap between practical guidance and legal research and creates a more seamless experience between the two products. The integration provides access to cases, legislation and journals from […]

Thomson Reuters and Clifford Chance extend their collaboration to support compliance with MiFID II legislation

Thomson Reuters and Clifford Chance have expanded their recent collaboration to provide services to financial institutions who must comply with new post-trade transparency requirements as mandated by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The collaboration comes ahead of the 3 January 2018 deadline for meeting the MiFID II legislation which, according to […]

Thomson Reuters creates Matter Maps for law firms and in-house lawyers

Thomson Reuters has created more than 70 “Matter Maps” based on its leading Practical Law service that guide law firms and in-house lawyers through key phases of work and tasks associated with a legal matter*.  Thomson Reuters has created the Matter Maps at a time when the legal services market is shifting towards a more […]

Investment in UK lawtech start-ups tops £16m, reveals report by Thomson Reuters and Legal Geek

Investment into UK lawtech start-ups has reached £16m, reveals Movers and Shakers: UK Lawtech Startups, a new report by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets, and Legal Geek, the UK’s largest lawtech community. The report, which tracks and analyses fast-growing start-ups in the legal technology space across the UK, […]

Industry analysis from Thomson Reuters: Don’t dodge a faster draft

This article was also featured as an industry analysis in the May 2017 issue of LPM magazine, download LPM.  Serving clients profitably is the second greatest challenge for law firms after attracting valuable clients, according to Thomson Reuters Legal UK & Ireland’s 2016 report: Pedal harder, pedal smarter. Lawyers now need to address the challenge of […]

Legal IT industry insight from Thomson Reuters: Check yourself before you tech yourself

This article was also featured as an industry insight piece in the LPM Legal IT landscapes 2017 report. Click here to download the report for free. The pace of technological change in the top 100 law firms can be taken for granted, to an extent – but it’s encouraging to see that a willingness to explore new […]

Industry view from Thomson Reuters: New ball game

This article was also featured as an industry view in the February 2016 issue of LPM. To read the issue in full, download LPM.  Attracting new clients was the top concern of small and mediumsized law firm respondents when the results came in from our Lawyer-Entrepreneur 2017 report (October 2016). The respondents also agreed that while growth forecasts are good, […]