Thomson Reuters will join with ABA Techshow in support of key sponsorships at this year’s conference, including the Arrival Reception, Appathon, and the keynote address featuring bestselling author Nicholas Carr. Carr’s conversation will center on technology, culture and the Internet, and their impact on the legal industry and legal professionals. Carr is author of “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us,” “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” (a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist), “The Big Switch: Rewriting the World, from Edison to Google,” and “Does IT Matter?”.

Following the keynote presentation on Friday, April 17, Carr will sign copies of his latest title in the Thomson Reuters booth (#307). Additionally, the Thomson Reuters booth will feature product experts and demonstrations of WestlawNext, Practical Law, Firm Central, Litigation Solutions and ProView.

In celebration of the baseball season, Thomson Reuters also will host the Arrival Reception where attendees can network while enjoying ballpark-themed food and drinks on Wednesday, April 15.

Thomson Reuters will provide attendees an opportunity to learn and discuss some of the most relevant topics impacting the legal profession and firms today during four “Lunch n’ Learn” sessions hosted on Friday, April 17. Topics for the “Lunch n’ Learns” include:

• The future of advertising (hosted by FindLaw)
• Practice management and other legal cloud services specifically for solo or small firms (hosted by Firm Central)
• Deliver results, gain efficiencies and become more profitable! Use technology to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage (hosted by Litigation Technology Solutions)
• Technology to help your business law firm be more efficient (hosted by Practical Law)
• Managing to key performance metrics and improve lawyer efficiency. How effective is your firm? (hosted by ProLaw)

As in previous years, Thomson Reuters will sponsor the charging lounge where a renowned caricaturist will be stationed, allowing attendees to take home a one-of-a-kind souvenir.

The ABA Techshow Thomson Reuters team

Thomson Reuters also will host five “Taste of Tech” dinners at local restaurants with discussions focusing on gamification, social media, the cloud and e-discovery, and giving attendees the opportunity for informal conversation and networking with peers.

Members of the legal community who are not able to attend ABA Techshow, held April 15-18, can still follow the events and sessions – and stay abreast of technology trends and trendsetters – by following @Westlaw or @LegalCurrent on Twitter, or visiting Legal Current, the corporate blog for Thomson Reuters Legal, throughout the show.

For complete conference details, visit techshow.com.

EAGAN, Minn. – Thomson Reuters announced the addition of a new practitioner-focused page covering the insurance industry on WestlawNext. For the first time, regulatory and legislative coverage for the insurance industry will be provided by CQ Roll Call Washington Briefings, building on the collection of authoritative content that CQ Roll Call provides to Practitioner Insights.

Coverage of the new practice page will include state regulations relevant to insurance coverage for automobiles, fire, homes and healthcare. Insurance regulatory and legislative developments will be tracked at the federal level related to natural disasters and terrorism risk, as well as financial services.

According to Jill Roisum, senior director of Product Management at Thomson Reuters, legal professionals require the latest, most relevant legal information, as well as regulatory and legislative developments, that affect their practice area and their clients. “The expansive and up-to-the minute coverage CQ Roll Call provides pertaining to government, legislative and regulatory activity of the insurance industry will bring critical resources to help legal professionals efficiently and effectively advise their clients or organization,” she noted. “The insurance industry current awareness content will be maintained by a dedicated team of attorney editors. This content, along with Reuters news and timely analysis from Westlaw Journals, will enable users to track the legal and regulatory landscape for their clients, and identify new business development opportunities,” Roisum added.

“We are excited to expand the content that CQ Roll Call provides to WestlawNext users,” said Meg Hargreaves, CQ Roll Call’s senior vice president and chief client officer. “CQ Roll Call’s coverage of developing legislative and regulatory policy brings an additional resource to keep WestlawNext subscribers abreast of the news in one of the most highly regulated and rapidly evolving industries.”

In addition to the newly offered insurance practice area, specific Practitioner Insights pages are available for: Antitrust; Bankruptcy; Capital Markets; Corporate Counsel; Corporate Governance; Employment; Energy and Environment; Finance and Banking; Health Law, Immigration; Intellectual Property; Mergers and Acquisitions; Products Liability; and Securities Enforcement and Litigation. Jurisdictions offered through Practitioner Insights also include National and New York.

Practitioner Insights advanced alerting capabilities gives legal professionals a heads-up on market trends and breaking news, and users can tailor the format, frequency and location of the alerts. Practitioner Insights also offers trending information on what other legal professionals are viewing and selecting in WestlawNext, providing a high-level resource confirming that the most relevant content has been reviewed.

To learn more about Practitioner Insights on WestlawNext, visit legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com.

About CQ Roll Call

CQ Roll Call provides essential intelligence and grassroots advocacy resources to take action. As the premier source of timely news, objective reporting and analysis, and coverage of elections and the politics of legislation, we keep our fingers on the pulse of the legislative process and give our clients the tools they need to maximize their influence. We are the ultimate insiders, and our unmatched network of relationships and expertise has powered the productivity of those who have relied on us since 1945.

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Insurance is just that, an item that most people have and may not rely on often, but when the time comes and it is needed, they are glad they have insurance.

Thomson Reuters recently announced the addition of a new practitioner-focused page covering the insurance industry on WestlawNext. Regulatory and legislative coverage for the insurance industry will be provided by CQ Roll Call Washington Briefings. Coverage of the new practice page will include state regulations relevant to insurance coverage for automobiles, fire, homes, and healthcare. Insurance regulatory and legislative developments will be tracked at the federal level related to natural disasters and terrorism risk, as well as financial services.

“The expansive and up-to-the minute coverage CQ Roll Call provides pertaining to government, legislative and regulatory activity of the insurance industry will bring critical resources to help legal professionals efficiently and effectively advise their clients or organization,” said Jill Roisum, senior director of Product Management at Thomson Reuters, noting legal professionals require the latest, most relevant legal information, as well as regulatory and legislative developments, that affect their practice area and their clients.

“The insurance industry current awareness content will be maintained by a dedicated team of attorney editors. This content, along with Reuters news and timely analysis from Westlaw Journals, will enable users to track the legal and regulatory landscape for their clients, and identify new business development opportunities,” Roisum added.

Practitioner Insights provides up-to-the-minute legal developments, insights and analysis, while offering advanced alerting capabilities giving legal professionals a heads-up on market trends and breaking news.

In addition to the newly offered insurance practice area, specific Practitioner Insights pages are available for: Antitrust; Bankruptcy; Capital Markets; Corporate Counsel; Corporate Governance; Employment; Energy and Environment; Finance and Banking; Health Law, Immigration; Intellectual Property; Mergers and Acquisitions; Products Liability; and Securities Enforcement and Litigation. Jurisdictions offered through Practitioner Insights also include National and New York.

To learn more about Practitioner Insights on WestlawNext, visit legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com. Click here to read the full announcement.

Screenshot of the Medical Litigator home page

The medical litigation practice area is clearly complex, can be difficult to navigate and for many, can be even harder to understand. Medical Litigator, now available on WestlawNext, is built to help legal professionals understand and learn medical terms, conditions, procedures, devices, and drugs, which in turn enables them to more confidently evaluate and litigate medical cases. It also enables them to communicate more effectively with their clients and medical professionals with whom they are working.

Medical Litigator has been upgraded to be more user-friendly, easing the ability to simultaneously search a wide variety of medical guides and summaries, medical journals and abstracts, legal texts and resources, case law, jury verdicts, and medical illustrations, the latter of which can be used as exhibits in trials. Search results can be easily narrowed to view only content that users consider most important for their particular case. For example, a user may choose to view only search results for medical illustrations or medical journals.

Legal professionals can leverage Medical Litigator to:

• Learn and understand the key issues of a case;
• Understand medical terms and issues (causation, standard of care, severity of injury);
• Research current litigation, verdicts, settlements;
• Locate health care professionals and expert witnesses; and
• Discuss information with medical experts.

  Screenshot of a sample summary page

Additionally, Medical Litigator on WestlawNext provides a “Learn About,” which provides a high-level summary of a disease, injury, medical device or drug. These

summaries also are available by way of linked medical terms and drugs embedded within case law and analytical content. Medical Litigator also will take general terms, such as heart attack, and provide a list of medical-related terms. For example, Cardiac Infarction, Inferior Myocardial Infarction, Lateral Myocardial Infarction, Microinfarction of Heart, Non-Q Wave Myocardial Infarction, etc. Users can select any of those related terms to be included in their Medical Litigator search.

Furthermore, medical license information is available to verify the license status of a physician or other medical professional.

Medical Litigator ultimately helps users assess claims, educate themselves and clients, find authoritative sources, and bring effectiveness and efficiency to work requiring both medical and legal information.

EAGAN, Minn – Thomson Reuters has released the iOS app for Black’s Law Dictionary, 10^th Edition. For more than a century, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for ensuring a common understanding of the growing language of law. It also is the most widely cited resource in legal arguments and judicial opinions.

Black’s Law Dictionary, 10th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 50,000 terms, including 7,500 new entries.

The new iOS app contains many new features, such as:

• “Did You Mean” search functionality: A spell checker functionality that provides alternative suggestions for misspelled search terms
• “Define in Black’s”: Define words within definition text by selecting a word and tapping Define in Black’s
• Enhanced linking: Link to subentries and cross-references from a search result, within a definition, and between definitions; link to Westlaw® content via the WestlawNext® iPad® app
• Word of the Day: Audio pronunciation available on all Word of the Day entries; link to full definition from Word of the Day tab; history slider on Word of the Day tab provides quick navigation to previous Word of the Day entries
• History: Track viewed definitions and sort by date or alphabetical order
• Intuitive structure, formatted for easy reading and navigation

“We’re pleased to be able to offer an updated app for our most popular and esteemed title,” said Andy Martens, global head of Product and Editorial for Thomson Reuters. “The law is understood and enforced according to the words that define it, making Black’s Law Dictionary as important to the practice of law as is our common understanding of its language. We are thrilled to be able enhance the experience through our updated mobile app.”

The app can be downloaded from iTunes.

Are you a forward-thinking technologist or entrepreneur who is developing next-generation technology solutions that can advance the legal system? If so, then you need to join the 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge.

Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics – and hosted by InnoCentive, this competition is an open call for legal professionals, programmers, entrepreneurs, data scientists and any other interested parties to develop new applications that improve the efficiency of the legal system by providing high-value analytics. The contest is now open and runs through Sept. 15, 2015.

Participants will gain access to several years of federal court dockets content from WestlawNext, which can be combined with outside data sources to develop applications that can create or identify useful metrics, trends, patterns, projections and predictions to support the practice and business of law.

Awards, including a $20,000 top prize, will be presented in November. Entries will be judged on their ability to innovate big-data analytics to address practical or professional needs of the legal marketplace. Submissions will be evaluated for novel combination, integration and application of data analysis.

Innovate away!

EAGAN, Minn. — Thomson Reuters and CodeX today announced the 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge, a unique open call to forward-thinking technologists and entrepreneurs to develop next-generation technology solutions that can advance the legal system. Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — develops technologies for a better legal system.

The 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge, hosted by InnoCentive, is a competition for legal professionals, programmers, entrepreneurs, data scientists and any other interested parties to develop new applications that improve the efficiency of the legal system by providing high-value analytics. The contest is now open and runs through Sept. 15, 2015.

Participants will gain access to several years of federal court dockets content from WestlawNext^®, which can be combined with outside data sources to develop applications that can create or identify useful metrics, trends, patterns, projections and predictions to support the practice and business of law.

“Innovation and partnership are at the heart of our business,” said Susan Taylor Martin, president of the Legal business of Thomson Reuters. “We are pleased to celebrate these values in this challenge that opens our content to the entrepreneurs and innovators who will experiment with new approaches to how legal work gets done. We are especially pleased to work again with Dr. Roland Vogl and his team at CodeX.”

Awards, including a US$20,000 top prize, will be presented in November. Entries will be judged on their ability to innovate big-data analytics to address practical or professional needs of the legal marketplace. Submissions will be evaluated for novel combination, integration and application of data analysis.

“This challenge is a unique opportunity for participants to access the resources of Thomson Reuters and develop new solutions that can benefit the legal marketplace,” said Karl Florida, managing director, Small Law Firm, and innovation champion at Thomson Reuters. “Litigators rely on analytical information to plan case strategy, make more informed decisions about litigation and help manage their clients’ expectations. We’re looking forward to the combination of Thomson Reuters resources in big data with the energy and passion of Challenge participants to spark new levels of innovation and develop new tools for legal practitioners.”

“We’re delighted to work with Thomson Reuters on this initiative,” said Dr. Vogl, executive director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and founder and executive director of the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX). “I’ll be interested to see what results from the businesses’ spirit of partnership and openness in making this massive, interrelated data set available to a diverse universe of innovators.”

More information about the 2015 Legal Tech Open Innovation Challenge can be found at innocentive.com.

About CodeX

At CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, researchers and entrepreneurs design technologies for a better legal system. CodeX’s mission is to develop technologies that empower all parties in our legal system: lawyers, judges, policymakers and the public at large. CodeX emphasizes the research and development of computational law, the branch of legal informatics concerned with the automation and mechanization of legal analysis.

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

As you may have heard, Thomson Reuters recently launched a community for its small law firm customers. The Legal Professional Online Community is an online environment where customers can connect directly with peers, as well as with Thomson Reuters and industry experts, and explore and discuss small law firm-specific subjects and topics.

The Legal Community is available at no cost to Thomson Reuters small law firm customers with FindLaw INSIGHT and WestlawNext access. A one-time Community registration is required at initial login. Access outside of these two sources is in development and will be available sometime later this year.

So what makes this community different from other online communities? For one, select Thomson Reuters and industry experts are available to answer questions and share insights to help customers manage and grow their practice more effectively. In addition, the Community is a closed environment exclusive to customers, and is moderated by Thomson Reuters. This makes the Community a more certain environment where attorneys can interact with confidence.

“We’re excited to welcome our WestlawNext small law firm and FindLaw INSIGHT customers into the Legal Professional Online Community,” said Michelle Wildenauer, senior director of Market Development at Thomson Reuters. “We hope the Community becomes our customers’ go-to source to ask questions of other attorneys, connect with Thomson Reuters experts, and get tips on how to better manage and grow their business.”

The “Share with Community” function

Customers can also share WestlawNext content with their colleagues and other Community members with the “Share with Community” feature. WestlawNext is the first product to leverage the social platform’s clip and share widget, which allows customers to highlight up to 250 characters of WestlawNext text and share it directly into the community. The post in the Community automatically pulls in the highlighted text along with a link back to the original content in WestlawNext.

“This integration between the Community and WestlawNext is an exciting enhancement to the attorneys’ workflow,” said Rose Ostrow, head of Social Platforms at Thomson Reuters. “The clip and share widget is a great example of how the platform can be more deeply integrated into products and websites.”

This post was written by Andy Duggan, product operations lead at Thomson Reuters

“The Power of Connection” is the theme for this year’s AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Most would agree that “connection” is meant in a personal sense – the conference is our chance to connect with our peers and colleagues in order to foster both business and personal relationships.

But “The Power of Connection,” in another sense, would make a great tagline for the Business Law Center (BLC) on WestlawNext. Throughout the original development of BLC, making connections between all the various sources of corporate legal information was the primary goal.

Related Info tabs on the Business Law Center

As a result, there are several BLC features that embody this theme – but none more than Related Info tabs. BLC streamlines research on transactions (like mergers or securities offerings) by creating a summary page for every deal. From the summary, it’s simple to use the Related Info tabs to access all available documents and information such as SEC filings, agreements, comment letters and related M&A deals.

BLC also makes some “powerful connections” by incorporating information and links from other Thomson Reuters products, such as Thomson Financial and Practical Law. Through its connection to Thomson Financial, BLC is able to provide a wealth of information on private mergers, loans and offerings that weren’t disclosed to the SEC. And many Practical Law Practice Notes now feature links directly to pre-set search results in the BLC, which enables a seamless flow from know-how research to precedent gathering.

If you are in Philadelphia for the AALL Annual Meeting this year and want more details on the “Power of Connection” in the Business Law Center, please stop by our Exhibitor Showcase in the Exhibit Hall Theater on Monday, July 20 from 1:30 – 2 p.m.

The Legaltech 2015 conference returned to San Francisco, CA after a 10 year break, and the conference ended with an awards ceremony held at The City Club of

WestlawNext received the award for Best Research Platform at Legaltech 2015

San Francisco on July 14, 2015. Tom Larranaga of Legaltech news announced the awards, which recognized 26 companies, law firms, and technology innovators for their contributions to the legal industry in 2015.

Each year law firms, government agencies, and corporate legal departments submit their nominations for the Legaltech awards, and this year they nominated and selected WestlawNext as the Best Research Platform. Since its release, WestlawNext has revolutionized legal research, helping researchers complete their tasks an average of 64 percent faster than Westlaw classic researchers. By leveraging 125 years of West’s proprietary analysis of the law, WestSearch has been helping researchers reach the best results faster.

We’re ecstatic that WestlawNext has been recognized by our customers and Legaltech as the best research platform, and we’d like to thank Legaltech and ALM for the award and putting on a fantastic conference. We’re looking forward to the Legaltech 2016 events.