You may think of Amazon’s voice-activated virtual assistant Alexa as a fun accessory for your home, allowing you to ask for a song or check the weather. But a new tool from Thomson Reuters might encourage you to take Alexa to your law office, where it can now track your billable hours and…
ROSS AI Plus Wexis Outperforms Either Westlaw or LexisNexis Alone, Study Finds
ROSS Intelligence, the artificial intelligence legal research platform, outperforms Westlaw and LexisNexis in finding relevant authorities, in user satisfaction and confidence, and in research efficiency, and is virtually certain to deliver a positive return on investment.
These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology…
Podcast: How Small and Solo Law Firms View Success
I’ve written a number of times here about the findings of a Thomson Reuters survey, The State of the U.S. Small Law Firms Study, in which solo and small firm lawyers were asked about how they define success, the challenges they face and what firms are doing to achieve success.
Recently, I joined
Two New Podcasts — And A Notable Podcast Anniversary
The good folks at the Legal Talk Network — who host my two podcasts — have launched two new podcasts worth your listening time.
The newest, launched earlier this month, is Down the Hall with Practical Law. Presented by Thomson Reuters Practical Law, and hosted by Renee Karibi-Whyte, a director with the legal…
How Solos Differ From Other Lawyers: Survey Offers Insights
I’ve been writing here about the new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group, to which I was given exclusive first-look access. As I’ve read through the survey results, I was struck by a consistent fact. In almost every category covered, solos stood alone. Their responses…
More Exclusive Survey Results: Few Small Firms Implementing New Technology
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This is another in a series of posts about the findings of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group to which Thomson Reuters has given me exclusive access. Today I am going to discuss what the survey found…
More Exclusive Survey Results: How Small Law Firms Measure Success
How small firms characterize their success.
I’ve been writing about the findings of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group to which Thomson Reuters has given me exclusive access. Today I am going to discuss what firms say about their goals and priorities,…
Exclusive Survey Results: Small Firms’ Greatest Challenges And What They’re Doing To Address Them
Recently in my column at Above the Law, I provided an overview of a new survey of small-solo law firm management conducted by Thomson Reuters Solo and Small Law Firm group. I promised to follow-up with subsequent posts here in order to drill down deeper into the data, to which Thomson…
Exclusive: Survey of Small Firm Management and Technology
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…