A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, we feature a conversation with tax expert Melissa Oaks, Senior Manager at Thomson Reuters, who speaks with us about tax policy in the wake of a new political administration.

In the latest installment of The Hearing, a Legal Podcast, an award winning podcast conducted by Thomson Reuters U.K., we feature a conversation between Ron Levine, General Counsel at Herrick Feinstein, and host Joseph Raczynski, of Thomson Reuters, about the history of consumer activist litigation and how that’s changed today.

In the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel , we feature of panel of experts who explore how legal services pricing plays a role in the current landscape for RFPs, and how corporate clients are using those requests to reassert the priorities of the company more broadly.

In a new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, fraud expert Lukayn Hunsicker talks with Gina Jurva, of Thomson Reuters, about the origins of the international criminal ring "Scattered Canary" and its connection to the recent unemployment fraud crimes in several states across the U.S.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a conversation with Lisa Hart Shepherd, Vice President of Research & Advisory Services and Founder of Acritas, a unit of Thomson Reuters about the 4th annual global study, the Acritas Stellar Performance: A Survey of Stand-out Talent Report 2020.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a conversation with Gail Gottehrer, Principal and Founder of the Law Office of Gail Gottehrer. Gottehrer will discuss issues involved in returning to work after the pandemic and what employers and employees can expect. Joining Gottehrer will be Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of enterprise content for corporate counsel and government at Thomson Reuters.

In a new white paper, 5 Steps to Proactively Seek Feedback and Receive it Well, co-authored by Ann Jenrette-Thomas, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Stinson, discusses some of the hardships lawyers face receiving and learning from feedback. Both the white paper and this podcast were produced by  Thomson Reuters Next Gen LoC’s initiative.  This podcasts, featuring Jenrette-Thomas and Dr. Larry Richard, CEO of Lawyer Brain; and Betsy Miller and Tory Nugent, co-chairs of the public client practice at the law firm Cohen Milstein, discusses the context of this new white paper and how lawyers can overcome these challenges.

What does courage and authenticity have to do with leading in an uncertain environment? How can colleagues support their Asian Pacific American (APA) peers who may be feeling uneasy about the xenophobia and racism that has flared since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic? More importantly, how can legal employers show that the societal disparities outside of the workplace matter to them, their organizations, and their employees. In a new podcast in the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Kori Carew, chief inclusion & diversity officer at Seyfarth Shaw, discuss all of these topics with Natalie Runyon, director of enterprise content for talent, inclusion and culture at Thomson Reuters.

A new podcast discusses the role of volunteer leadership for professional women of color, how such leadership roles can separate them from their peers, and the value of taking ownership of your career and development and the initiative to find unique opportunities that align to career goals.

In this podcast, Conway Ekpo, an in-house lawyer at a Wall Street bank, and Erika Stallings, an entertainment lawyer, discuss how they and 20 other seasoned black lawyers — consisting of partners, mid-level and senior associates, and in-house attorneys — realized they needed to use their knowledge and expertise to address the dearth of black lawyers in the legal industry.  To address this gap, Ekpo and Stallings and a few others founded the Black BigLaw Pipeline (BBP) to provide younger attorneys with the skills and training needed to navigate Big Law and develop meaningful relationships that will benefit them in the long-term.

Niki Khoshzamir, CEO of Practice Pro, and David Morrow, start-up adviser for emerging industries, both transitioned from practicing lawyers into business roles within the last few years. During the recent Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Ask-a-Mentor session, the pair sat down with participants from the community of lawyers of color to share their stories of how they made the transition. In this podcast episode, Khoshzamir and Morrow discuss details of the actions they took before, during, and after they made switch to their business roles. They also highlight how they prepared mentally to deal with the lean years of going from making a good salary as a practicing lawyer to making barely enough money to pay their bills. They also share their strategies for how they paid back some or all of their student loans before they left their full-time jobs.

NEW YORK — At the recent COO/CFO Forum, we had the chance to sit down with Dr. Evan Parker, founder of Parker Analytics, and a true pioneer in the art and science of using data analytics to help law firms make more informed decisions. Dr. Parker shared with us how he and some fellow researchers analyzed law firm data to determine where the strength of a particular firm lies. The project we discussed looked at profitability as an indicator of law firms that are better at running their organizations. In particular, the researchers looked at practice concentration as a driver of profitability. What they found was that firms with a greater focus on a smaller number of practice areas, other factors being equal, tended to be more profitable than firms with a disparate focus on a wider number of practices.

This past Spring, Melanie Bragg, author and solo practicing lawyer at Bragg Law PC, published her third book, Defining Moments: Insights into the Lawyers Soul. In this podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, chats with Bragg about the impetus for the book and some of the nuggets of wisdom from those she interviewed.  

As part of the World Bank’s Law, Justice and Development Week 2019: Rights, Technology & Development in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4-7, Joe Raczynski, legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters, conducted an interview with Sandie Okoro, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the World Bank.

What are the skills that the legal industry needs to develop and integrate in an era of rapid technological and business model transformation? In a new podcast, Mark Cohen, CEO of Legal Mosaic, a legal business consultancy; and Daniel Rodriguez, the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, discussed this issue at length. With one representative from the academia and one more focused on the business side of law, Rodriguez and Cohen somehow manage to find common ground on the need to transform the legal workforce to accommodate the many new skill sets that are required today. The pair agreed that legal education needs to move beyond just training in legal doctrine and needs to expand to include skills related to the business side of legal practice (including the application of technology) and personal effectiveness skills such as emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial mindset, and communication. While there was agreement that those skills represent the new, broader skill set that today’s industry requires, there’s still room for discussion about how those skills are delivered, including the role of law schools and the need for lifetime learning in a rapidly changing industry. The approach of Rodriguez and Cohen has much in common with the new Delta Lawyer Competency Model, which was recently published by the Legal Executive Institute and authored by Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute; and Alyson Carrel, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Director for the Center on Negotiation and Mediation at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law (with input from many partners across the industry).

The Legal Executive Institute, in collaboration with the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) and the Georgetown Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession recently conducted a survey of law firm leaders of primarily U.S.-based law firms in the midsize to large law firm market to examine where those leaders saw the greatest potential threats to their law firms, how they plan to confront those threats, and how their law firms are approaching institutional change.    We spoke with Jim Jones from Georgetown and Oliver Yandle from the ALA to hear their take on the initial findings in this section of the report.  They shared insights from their many years of experience to help interpret the significance of the findings and advice for how law firms can begin to position themselves to work through partners resistance.   Here are a few key insights they shared: While strategies for dealing with partnership resistance will vary from firm to firm, it is vital that firms not stand still on driving change while waiting for the firms to draw near enough to the precipice of calamity that the partners finally feel compelled to act; Start with younger partners to build a culture that accepts change and the younger partners and future leaders of the firm will feel empowered to drive it forward; Compensation can play a key role in how effective change efforts will be at a given firm because lawyers, by and large, will do what their compensation system tells them is important.  The full audio of our interview with Jim and Oliver is available below.  The full report on the findings from this survey will be available through our website on October 24.  Please consider subscribing to the weekly Legal Executive Institute Newsletter to be sure you don’t miss out on the report when it’s released.

Recently, the Legal Executive Institute’s Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative released its second white paper, titled 5 Marketing Strategies for Attorneys of Color in Big Law [insert link], by Ann Jenrette-Thomas, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Stinson LLP. In a new podcast announcing the white paper, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters, speaks with Jenrette-Thomas about the white paper and what was behind its creation. In addition, the pair discusses why attorneys of color typically generate business differently from traditional business development methods and why it is important for firm leadership and marketing teams to invest in these approaches. Finally, Jenrette-Thomas talks about how law firms should be making investments in future black male partners, given the amount of media attention the topic recently has received within the legal industry.   

As a follow-up to Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color’s interview with the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession’s CEO Sandra Yamate on the launch of the Social Impact Incubator (SII), Natalie Runyon, Director for Enterprise Content at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, spoke with three SII members Katie Larkin-Wong, Associate at Latham & Watkins; Deanna Kwong, Senior IP Litigation Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Derek Ishikawa, Attorney at Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP. In this podcast, they discuss how Millennials think differently about diversity and inclusion and what they recommend to current leaders in the legal profession to expedite inclusion efforts. Moreover, they share why their number one recommendation to speeding up progress is breaking down silos.

In our new podcast, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and content strategist for the Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative sat down with Paula Edgar and Wendy Amengual Wark, partners from Inclusion Strategy Solutions. Both Edgar and Amengual Wark have deep expertise in how to build inclusive organizations that promote workplaces where everyone, including under-represented groups, can thrive and reach their full potential. In this podcast, we explore the reasons why representation of women, professionals of color, and members of the LGBT+ and disability communities as so under-resented at the corporate executive ranks and why their progress is advancing so slowly. We also debunk the myth that increasing diversity results in compromising on quality, citing the fact that research study after research study going back to the 1990s say the exact opposite. In addition, we also examine the definition of inclusion, as well as the approach of Edgar and Amengual Wark to partnering with straight white men to craft their “distance travelled” story and allow them to open up about fears of working with women in the post #MeToo era. Next, we discuss how to interrupt common norms that continue to promote gender-specific social structures that hurt both men and women. Finally, we close out our conversation by investigating the role of allies and how to activate their commitment and advocacy.

In a new podcast, we feature industry experts Amanda DuPont, an investigative research specialist and speaker with Thomson Reuters, and Catherine Banks, a compliance, risk, and audit specialist for the Risk Team at Refinitiv. Amanda and Catherine are going to discuss the concept of risk scoring of customer accounts by financial institutions, how it works, and how the practice can help protect a financial firm’s reputation and its balance sheet. They will also discuss how new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are impacting the fight against financial fraud and the role regulators play in the concept of risk scoring.

This podcast features a conversation about the duties of a general counsel within a midsize law firm with David Wollin, general counsel of Hinckley Allen. The interview will focus on areas of the duties of midsize law firm GC, how to tell when a firm needs one, and the impact on the firm itself. The interview is conducted by James Jones of Georgetown Law and the GC Roundtable.

In a new podcast, we're featuring a conversation about how financial institutions can hire, train, and retain key staff in the areas of anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory compliance. Gina Jurva, Attorney and Manager of the Risk & Compliance Platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Michael Schidlow, Head of Financial Crime Risk Training for HSBC Bank’s Global Internal Audit Function. Michael designs and delivers customized training courses on anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, and financial crime compliance best practices.

This podcast features a conversation about fraud investigations in financial institutions and how to enhance them with real-time data. Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Rick Wells, director of the Global Financial Crimes Compliance group at Bank of America.

The podcast will examine Weil’s Upstander Action Guide. Meredith Moore, the head of D&I and Social Responsibility, will provide an overview of what an Upstander is and what behaviors an Upstander exhibits. She also will discuss the launch session that involved an interactive theatre group acting out scenarios of an Upstander intervention and the impact and outcomes from the Upstander program.

As part of the Legal Executive Institute’s Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative’s ongoing coverage, we are featuring a podcast to discuss the goals of the Black GC 2025 Initiative concerning hiring, training and retention of GCs of color, with Ernest Tuckett, former General Counsel for the Americas at AkzoNobel and co-founder of the Black GC 2025 Initiative.

In this series of podcasts, we will feature the insights of Nancey Watson, of NL Watson Consulting in Toronto, around issues concerning the pricing and procurement of legal services, including how to keep the human touch amid the metrics, what clients want and don’t want, how to avoid pricing pitfalls, and when to walk away from an RFP.

In this podcast, we’re talking about legal ramifications of sexual harassment in the medical profession and how attorneys can best advise clients about the issues involved with Andrew Zwerling, a partner at the law firm of Garfunkel Wild, a full-service law firm with more than 30 years of experience in the health care industry, advising on both industry-specific matters as well as the business and legal needs of its clients in the health care industry.

In a new podcast, we’re featuring Gina Scialabba, attorney and the Head of Thought Leadership for the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, who is speaking to Jennifer Singh, Senior Director within Thomson Reuters' Digital Identity Solutions group. Singh is currently incubating a new business of identity verification services for Thomson Reuters. This thought-provoking discussion centers around how synthetic identity fraud is it different from traditional identity fraud and the best ways organizations and individuals can protect against it. Whether you are a consumer, an ecommerce retailer or a financial institution, you’ll want to hear this.

In this latest Legal Executive Institute podcast, we're featuring a conversation about the role of a chief diversity & inclusion officer at a law firm. We're speaking with Michele Meyer-Shipp, who last October, became the first ever chief diversity & inclusion officer at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

As part of our Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative, we feature a new podcast in which we speak to Demetra Liggins, a partner at the law firm Thomson & Knight, and Co-Founder — with her twin sister — of Corporate Homie, an organization that seeks to help women and minorities advance in corporate America.

Holly Sais Phillippi, Head of Proposition Customer & Third-Party Risk at Thomson Reuters-Americas, discusses the upcoming Beneficial Ownership rule that will go into effect on May 11. Then, Brett Wolf, a Thomson Reuters journalist, speaks to Jim Richards, founder of RegTech Consulting, about the upcoming rule and what investors and financial institutions can expect on May 11.

In a new podcast, Natalie Runyon, the Head of Thought Leadership for the Talent Platform at Thomson Reuters' Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Michelle Wimes, the Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, about the best ways foster better professional development within law firms.

In this new podcast, Charlotte Rushton, managing director for U.S. Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, will be speaking to Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Cass Business School in London and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. Professor Empson’s new book, "Leading Professionals: Power, Politics & Prima Donnas", was published last fall by Oxford University Press.

In a new podcast, Charlotte Rushton, managing director for large and medium law firms at Thomson Reuters, speaks to Beth Cuzzone, Chief Business Growth Officer at Goulston & Storrs, about the highlights of the recent 25th Annual Marketing Partner Forum. Beth was co-chair of the Forum, held earlier this year in California.

At the recent Marketing Partner Forum, I had a chance to speak with Katherine D'Urso, Chief Client Development Officer for Wilmer Hale. I had the opportunity to listen to Katherine speak as part of a panel entitled "Advancing Collaboration: Integrating Legal Project Management in Firmwide Business Development."

In the second part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters Legal, speaks with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. Among her other areas of expertise, Ms. Lee advises clients on issues relating to virtual and digital currencies and related blockchain technologies. She is also the author of several articles on Blockchain Technology and Virtual Currencies for Thomson Reuters.

In the first part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters Legal, speaks with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. Among her other areas of expertise, Ms. Lee advises clients on issues relating to virtual and digital currencies and related blockchain technologies. She is also the author of several articles on Blockchain Technology and Virtual Currencies for Thomson Reuters.

In the second of our podcasts on autonomous vehicles, Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thompson Reuters Legal, speaks to Phil Yannella, the co-practice leader of Ballard Spahr's Privacy and Data Security Group, about security and regulatory issues around driverless vehicles.

We’re discussing the new Tax Reform Act that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump at the end of December, with Steve Looney, the chair of the Tax & Corporate department at the law firm of Dean Mead in Orlando, Fla.

In preparation for the upcoming Marketing Partner Forum, we recently sat down with Jill Weber, Chief Marketing Officer of Stinson Leonard Street, to talk with her about “metrics that matter,” the title of the session she will be co-hosting as part of that event.

In our latest podcast, we speak to Perry Teicher, a corporate attorney that serves on the leadership of the Global Impact Finance and Investment Group at the law firm of Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe. Teicher explains Impact Finance, which involves working with investors or companies that are particularly concerned about environmental and social impact as a core part of their investment strategy. Impact Finance projects intentionally try to create a positive environmental or social impact, in addition to some type of financial return.

Neal Walters, the practice leader of Ballard Spahr's Product Liability and Mass Tort group, speaks with Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thompson Reuters Legal, about the legal impact of the connectivity issues involving autonomous vehicles.

In our latest Legal Executive Institute podcast, we feature Charlotte Rushton, Managing Director for Large & Medium Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, speaking with Bill Caraher, Chief Information Officer at the Wisconsin-based law firm von Briesen & Roper. Mr. Caraher recently participated in a panel at the Legal Executive Institute’s Emerging Legal Technology Forum, titled “The Pace of Progress: Assessing Innovative Design, Technology & Process in Law Firms & Corporate Legal Departments”, which focused on the various ways law firms and legal departments are incorporating enterprise innovation as part of a broader strategic plan.

Listen now to final panel of the recent "Future of Law Schools" conference, held by Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute. The panel, "A Law School Performance Report Card: A Conversation about Education, Rankings, and What Matters in Entry-Level Hiring" was moderated by William D. Henderson, Professor of Law & Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession, Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

In our latest Legal Executive Institute podcast, we feature Charlotte Rushton, Managing Director for Large & Medium Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, speaking to Theo Ling, a partner in the Toronto office of Baker McKenzie. Mr. Ling recently participated in a panel at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, held in Toronto. The panel was titled “Leading Change: Defining Strategic Investments in Legal Technology” and focused on the broad range of considerations law firms need to think about as they choose what technologies to invest in.

In a new Legal Executive Institute podcast, Tom Vidal, a partner at Pryor Cashman, talks about “Lawyering Beyond the Desk” — How getting up from your desk can help you better engage with clients, promote business development and improve your own career satisfaction.

In this new podcast, we speak to Patrick R. Krill about addiction in the legal industry & the new report from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being.

In the second of a two-part podcast, Thomson Reuters' Joe Raczynski discusses the legal impact of driverless car technology with Akerman's Gail Gottehrer.

In a new two-part podcast, Thomson Reuters' Joe Raczynski discusses the legal impact of driverless car technology with Akerman partner Gail Gottehrer. This is Part 1.

In a new Legal Executive Institute podcast, we feature a discussion about career trajectories that occurred at the 2017 Women's Transformative Leadership Forum, which was held in Toronto in late-June. The podcast features Charlotte Rushton, the Managing Director for U.S. large law firms at Thomson Reuters, speaking to Shanin Lott, Managing Director for Talent and Professional Resources at the law firm of Stikeman Elliott, and a co-chair of the Women's Transformative Leadership Forum.

Thomson Reuters' Sharon Sayles Belton interviews Renee Livingston of the Livingston Law Firm for the Legal Executive Institute blog and the Transforming Women's Leadership in the Law spotlight page.

In a new podcast, Stuart Dodds, Director of Global Pricing and Legal Project Management at Baker McKenzie and author of "Smarter Pricing, Smarter Profit", speaks about how clients and law firms are approaching the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs).

In the second in a series of podcasts focused on NAMWOLF, the National Association of Women and Minority Owned Law Firms, Sharon Sayles Belton, Thomson Reuter's Vice President of Government Affairs and Community relations, interviews Janice Brown of the Brown Law Group in San Diego. Janice is also vice chair of NAMWOLF.

In the first of a new series of podcasts focused on NAMWOLF, the National Association of Women and Minority Owned Law Firms, Sharon Sayles Belton, Thomson Reuter's Vice President of Government Affairs and Community relations, interviews Sheryl Axelrod, the head of the Axelrod Firm. Sheryl was recently honored with NAMWOLF's 2017 Yolanda Coly Advocacy Award.

In a new Thomson Reuters' Legal Executive Institute podcast, attorneys Jim Dering and Sandy Jensen, both partners at the law firm of Garfunkel Wild, discuss the hot topic of medical marijuana and its legal status.

In a new podcast, Stuart Dodds, Director of Global Pricing and Legal Project Management at Baker McKenzie and author of "Smarter Pricing, Smarter Profit", speaks about the increasing importance of pricing directors within a law firm and how that role is key to competitiveness and profitability.

David Richman, the head of Rivkin Radler’s Complex Tort & Product Liability and Medical Malpractice Defense Practice Groups, and Michael Versichelli, a partner who focuses his practice on commercial and insurance coverage litigation, continue the conversation about the impact Telemedicine — the intersection of technology and medical care — is having on legal issues such as privacy, patient care and medical malpractice insurance.

In a new podcast, David Richman, the head of Rivkin Radler’s Complex Tort & Product Liability and Medical Malpractice Defense Practice Groups, talks about the impact Telemedicine — the intersection of technology and medical care — is having on legal issues such as privacy and patient care.

Katia Bloom, Associate General Counsel for ForgeRock, talks about SunLaw, a group for women In-House attorneys, with Natalie Runyon, of Thomson Reuters' Transforming Women's Leadership in the Law initiative.

Dr. Larry Richard, Founder & Principal Consultant at LawyerBrain LLC, is an expert in lawyer personality, managing change and how to build up lawyers' resilience to today’s legal environment. In this second installment of his discussion with Legal Executive Institute, Dr. Richard analyzes how law firms and corporate legal departments can best deal with the outcome and ease the stress surrounding the systemic change occurring in the legal marketplace.

Katherine Brown, president of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, discusses the group's GOOD Guys program, which was created out of the desire to engage all attorneys — men and women alike — to be one of the “GOOD Guys” in the fight for gender equity.

Dr. Larry Richard, Founder & Principal Consultant at LawyerBrain LLC, is an expert in lawyer personality, managing change and how to build up lawyers' resilience to today’s legal environment. Dr. Richard discusses with the Legal Executive Institute how this stress around change manifests itself in lawyers’ performance and how law firms and corporate legal departments can best deal with the outcome.

In this podcast, Jane Pigott of R3 Group, discusses mentoring circles, and how mentoring programs can help break down barriers to women’s advancement.

Leadership In Action: Interviews with Law Firms Leaders on Issues Important to Running a Successful Mid-Size Law Firm Guest: Mark Dedman of Spicer Rudstrom PLLC, Nashville Tennessee Topic this Month: Differences between Marketing and Business Development