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No, Thomson Reuters is not about to go out of business or shut down its Westlaw legal research service.

But it is about to shut down Westlaw Classic, as the original version has been called ever since the introduction of WestlawNext.

As of August 31, 2015, Westlaw Classic will go the way of

When last I checked in on Firm Central, the cloud-based practice management platform from Thomson Reuters, it had just added rules-based court calendaring through the Deadline Assistant add-on module. In the months since, several other enhancements have been made to Firm Central. They…

Eight-hundred-year-old documents are not the usual bailiwick of this blog. On Friday, however, I had the great privilege of attending an event at the Supreme Court for the release of the book, Magna Carta:…

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At its international Vantage 2014 user conference last week in New York City, Thomson Reuters Elite showed off several new products. I attended a June 23 media day there, where members of the media met with Thomson Reuters executives and attended presentations on the new products. (Full disclosure: Thomson Reuters paid my travel to New York and fed me better than I usually eat.) Elite is a suite of "enterprise business management" products for law firms and other professional services firms that handle financial management, client and matter management, business development and risk…

Here is an interesting factoid for you: David Lat, editor of the blog Above the Law, is credited with coining three of the 7,500 new terms in the latest edition of Black’s Law Dictionary.

Due out Friday in its 10th edition from Thomson Reuters,…

At LegalTech in New York this week, Thomson Reuters will be showing a new addition to WestlawNext — the PeopleMap public records service. Although PeopleMap, itself, is not new, its integration into WestlawNext is new. and with that integration comes new visualization tools that now enable users to map…

Here is a surprising story that I missed earlier this week while I was off at a conference: Thomson Reuters Legal is getting a new president. Out goes Mike Suchsland, president since 2011. In comes Susan Taylor Martin, currently the managing director of Thomson Reuters Legal in the UK and Ireland.

Susan Taylor…

I am thrilled to announce my new monthly column for the ABA Journal, “Ambrogi on Tech.” The first installment is now available, a review of the Thomson Reuters practice-management platform Firm Central: Thomson Reuters’ cloud platform Firm Central emphasizes integration—at a cost.

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I was thrilled this week to interview two giants of the courtroom, F. Lee Bailey and his former law partner, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Kenneth J. Fishman, about their new book, Excellence in Cross Examination, published by Thomson Reuters, in which the two share their insights and lessons on how to excel in cross-examination.

The book…

Legal professionals have lots of options for fee-based legal research services these days, but the most popular among them all is WestlawNext, according to the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Of all lawyers who use fee-based online legal research services, 28 percent say the one they use most often is WestlawNext.

And as if…

A few days off the grid and I return to several notable announcements from companies that cater to lawyers:

A business development platform launched. Yesterday, Thomson Reuters Elite announced the release of Business Development Premier, a platform for customer relationship management and business…