A new survey of solo and small law firms examines the management challenges they face and how they are responding to those challenges. Thanks to Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group, which conducted the survey, I’ve been given exclusive access to the survey results and will be reporting them in a…
Thomson Reuters' Firm Central Rolls Out a Number of New Features
Widgets on matter pages can now be rearranged or removed.
It has been over a year since I last wrote about Firm Central, the cloud-based practice management application from Thomson Reuters. I’ve been meaning to write an update since January, when Firm Central got a notable new feature, but…
Thomson Reuters Says Glitch Left Out Text from 600 Cases Since 2014
An example of where text was missing.
What it should have said.
Subscribers to Thomson Reuters Westlaw and hard-copy reporter volumes got a surprise last night: An email informing them that TR had erroneously omitted small portions of text from some 600 cases published since November 2014.
“As part of our…
Could the kCura-Content Analyst Deal Be A Setback for Thomson Reuters' New E-Discovery Product?
There is a side story worth noting after Monday’s announcement by kCura that it had acquired Content Analyst Company — one that I have not seen mentioned in any of the coverage — and that is the deal’s potential impact on Thomson Reuters.
kCura is the company behind…
Westlaw Gets An App for News and Research on an iPhone
Westlaw has had an iPad app since 2010. Surprisingly, however, it has not had its own iPhone app. iPhone users could access Westlaw through a mobile-optimized site. But there was no app.
Well, now there is. Last Wednesday, Thomson Reuters introduced a Westlaw app built specifically for use on…
'Practice Point' from Thomson Reuters Serves Up the Best of Westlaw and Practical Law
When Thomson Reuters acquired the UK-based Practical Law Company three years ago, the legal industry generally reacted positively, although no one knew quite what would come out of the acquisition. Practical Law sells “know-how” for transactional and corporate lawyers, which means that it sells various resources that literally help…
Thomson Reuters Unveils New Platforms for E-Discovery and Legal Research and Offers Glimpse of New AI Product Using IBM’s Watson
Conducting a search in eDiscovery Point.
At what was billed as an Innovation Summit in its Times Square headquarters yesterday, Thomson Reuters Legal briefed journalists, bloggers and analysts on two products it is unveiling at Legaltech New York next week and also offered tantalizing hints of a product it is developing using the…
Handshake Software Adds Integrations with West KM and Ravel Law
A Ravel Law search conducted from within a Handshake portal.
Handshake Software yesterday announced that it now has an integration partnership with the legal research platform Ravel Law. That announcement comes a month after Handshake announced its integration with West km, the Thomson Reuters knowledge management…
Westlaw is Back — In Name, Anyway
Last May, I reported the imminent demise of Westlaw. It wasn’t that the legal research service was going away. But as Thomson Reuters’ next-generation platform WestlawNext became the company’s primary focus, the company decided to phase out the older platform, which it by then referred to as Westlaw Classic.
In my post, I cited…
Friday Roundup: Two New Cloud Platforms, Two New Databases and a Product Update
Here are some stories of note this week from the world of legal technology and the legal web:
Platform aims to make legal services more affordable. A new cloud-based platform called PlanetXLaw aims to help lawyers deliver legal services more affordably to low and moderate income consumers. The platform is unique in that it collects…
Thomson Reuters Has Acquired Business Integrity, It Said Today
Hot off the wire today: Thomson Reuters announced that its legal business has acquired Business Integrity, a company that provides document assembly and contract creation tools to law firms and corporations.
The company’s primary product is ContractExpress, an enterprise-level document automation platform used primarily at larger law firms and corporations.
Its…
Thomson Reuters Elite Sets Sights on Cloud and Customer Service
CTO Eric Sugden speaks at the opening keynote.
At its worldwide Vantage 2015 user conference last week in Las Vegas, Thomson Reuters Elite announced an anticipated 2017 move to the cloud for its flagship product, Elite 3E, and a new emphasis on building a “customer-centric” organization.
Elite is a suite…
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