In July, Thomson Reuters unveiled Westlaw Edge, the next generation of its legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to help legal professionals find answers and perform research more efficiently. The engineering of the AI that went into that was spearheaded by Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, vice president of research…
Move Over Westlaw – Meet the Next-Generation Westlaw Edge, With Advanced AI and Analytics
It was eight years ago that Thomson Reuters unveiled WestlawNext to great fanfare, eventually phasing out classic Westlaw entirely. A lot has changed in those eight years, both in the legal market and in legal technology.
Today, Thomson Reuters is officially announcing its next-generation legal research platform, Westlaw Edge, which uses advanced artificial intelligence…
New 3E Matter Pricing from Thomson Reuters Elite Helps Firms Budget and Price Legal Matters
Budgeting legal matters is the bane of many a law firm. Whether creating a budget for an hourly matter or setting a price for a fixed-fee representation, firms fear setting prices too low or too high.
A new cloud-based product from Thomson Reuters Elite, 3E Matter Pricing, provides a suite of tools intended…
Firm Central Enhances Its Financial Reporting, Time and Billing, and other Features
Firm Central, the Thomson Reuters cloud-based practice management platform, recently rolled out a new reporting module, replacing its former reporting feature with more robust features and a wider array of user options.
In addition, Firm Central has introduced a number of improvements in recent months to its time and billing functions and across various…
Thomson Reuters Legal Gets New Leaders, Organizational Restructuring
Thomson Reuters today announced the appointment of co-chief operating officers to lead its legal and tax and accounting businesses and the departure of Susan Taylor Martin as president of the legal business.
Brian Peccarelli
Effective July 1, Brian Peccarelli, president of Tax & Accounting, will become co-COO with responsibility for customer markets.…
Thomson Reuters Unveils Watson-Powered AI Product for Data Privacy Law
Two years ago yesterday, at a briefing for journalists and bloggers, Thomson Reuters let drop a tantalizing tidbit about a product it was developing based on IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence platform. TR offered only crumbs of details, saying the product would help corporate legal and corporate compliance users untangle the sometimes-confusing…
Solo and Small Firms Face Many Challenges, Survey Shows, But Few Have Made Changes to Address Them
Lawyers in solo and small firms face many challenges, chief among them being acquiring new business, according to the soon-to-be-published 2017 State of U.S. Small Law Firms survey conducted by Thomson Reuters.
Recently in my column at Above the Law, I gave an overview of the survey, which polled more than 300…
An Exclusive First Look At A New Survey of Solo and Small Firm Lawyers
Soon to be released is the 2017 State of U.S. Small Law Firms, a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters of more than 300 law firms ranging in size from solo to 29 lawyers. I have been given an exclusive preview of the survey, and I write about it for my column this week at