Clarity

The corporate tax world has seen a lot of change in recent years between budgetary and hiring crunches and regulatory shifts. There's one area, however, in which many corporate tax departments still see a lot of room to grow: technology. Fresh off the first edition of the  Corporate Tax Technology Report , published by the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) and Tax Executives Institute, TRI's Zach Wa...

Aaron Boersma from Google and Shanna Davidson from Barnes & Thornburg join the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast to discuss client and law firm perspective on some of the key findings from the Thomson Reuters Institute's recent Legal Department Operations (LDO) Index report. As clients find themselves seemingly caught between the challenge of needing to control costs and the realities of...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) holds a lot of potential to transform law, upending everything from how lawyers do their daily work to how law firms and clients interact and conduct business. However, that begs the question: Where does the actual person fit into all of this? In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, recorded live at the Generative AI & Emerging Technology F...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast,  Heather Fischer, Senior Advisor of Human Rights Crimes at Thomson Reuters Special Services and a previous Special Advisor for Human Trafficking at The White House , discusses today's launch of the Human Trafficking Resource Center, which makes use of the City of Houston's world-class anti-trafficking toolkits , with Minal Patel Davis, Dire...

In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Nadya Britton, the Enterprise Content Manager for Tax and Trade at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sat down with Suzanne Offerman, Director of Outbound Product Marketing ONESOURCE Global Trade   at Thomson Reuters, to discuss key insights from the recently released 2023 Corporate Global Trade Survey Report   . In the podcast,...

While keeping personal information private is incredibly important for any number of reasons, it is also crucial that some of that very same information be available in some situations. That balance — between data privacy and protection — animates the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast. In it, Thomson Reuters Institute's Rabihah Bulter speaks with Ben Bawden, a principal at consulti...

Client feedback programs are one of the most effective ways to increase the share of legal spend from a client, yet less than one-third of clients say they have been asked to participate in such a program. For the law firm lawyers that take advantage of client feedback programs, 70% say they want to do the programs more; and 50% of lawyers not getting feedback from clients say they want to start s...

In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Nadya Britton, the Enterprise Content Manager for Tax & Accounting content at the Thomson Reuters Institute, spoke with Pilar Mata, Executive Director of Tax Executive Institute, about the findings from the Institute's  2023 State of the Corporate Tax Department survey report. The discussion shed light on the present landscap...

In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Brent Turner, principal consultant within the Thomson Reuters Institute's advisory services, speaks with Jessica Pavlik, chief operating officer at law firm Berger Singerman about how she is leading efforts to navigate the complexity of the latest economic environment and technology trends at play within the legal industry.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker provides his key takeaways from the newly published Future of Professionals report, including how AI could change professional services in "very fundamental ways" but also provide a "big step forward" in improving working lives.

More than 100 leading academics and senior leaders of professional organizations came together recent at  the  Professions Summit:  Leading through Uncertainty to Clarity , to discuss current organizational challenges and their implications for professionals. In our latest podcast,  Natalie Runyon, ESG Strategist for the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Summit organizer  Laura Empson ,  P...

Every law firm has a strategy to serve clients and win business, and every law firm also works with some sort of technology in today's digital world. But how often does that overall strategy take law firms' digital initiatives into account? Recent research from the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) found that most law firms are satisfied with how they're tying their firm's digital transformation to...

Dealing with economic uncertainty has become a part of daily life for law firm leadership and it seems there is always a new crisis to be worried about. In this week's Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Thomson Reuters Industry Data Analyst Bryce Engelland discusses with Lawrence J. White, professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, how the second half of the...

In this week's Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, our technology content leader Zach Warren dives into the generative artificial intelligence (AI) craze within law firms, speaking with Kelley Drye & Warren chief information officer Judi Flournoy. As a law firm CIO with years of legal technology experience, Flournoy has seen tech trends come and go. However, generative AI and ChatGPT isn't...

Fraud, waste & abuse in government are very important topics in a time when many government agencies are being asked to do more with less and are attempting to use technology to bridge the gap while bringing new staff up to speed. With the global pandemic moving to the rearview, government workers must focus on the monumental task ahead, including improving their efficiency and technical ability....

After several banner years, many law firms find themselves in a different position in 2023. While billing rates set new record marks, law firm profitability continues to slip, driven down by a continued rise in overhead expenses and a slowing of how effectively law firms collect the cash that is owed to them. In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights Podcast, host Bill Josten is joined by B...

As demand for legal services shifts and tightens, how law firms differentiate themselves in the market is critical. Jen Dezso, director of client relationships for the Thomson Reuters Institute, joins the podcast to discuss recent research into how law firms are effectively developing standout brand positions and the importance of clear brand equity for law firms. While it can be tempting to try t...

In our latest podcast, Nadya Britton, tax & accounting specialist for the Thomson Reuters Institute, chats with Corey Greene, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Thomson Reuters, about some of interesting findings around operational efficiency from the  2023 State of the Tax Professional Report . Although efficiency isn't a new concept for most businesses, until recently it was hardly something a...

As the world buzzes about the chaos caused by 21-year-old Jack Teixeira and the online chat service Discord, the new Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast examines the real conversation around the data breach controversy and other security concerns. Rabihah Butler, corporate compliance & risk specialist for the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks to Jim Dinkins, former executive associate direc...

In the new Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Zach Warren, technology specialist for the Thomson Reuters Institute, revisits the "2023 Alternative Legal Services Provider (ALSP) Report" with Jim Jones, Senior Fellow at the Center on Ethics in the Legal Profession at Georgetown University. Now a few months out from the report's initial release, Jim and Zach explore what surprised them from...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast , w e speak to Meredith Ritchie, General Counsel of Alliant Credit Union; and Audrey Rubin, senior advisor with BarkerGilmore and former COO of the legal department at Aon, about some of the key findings of the 2023 State of the Corporate Law Department report and how those issues are impacting the daily operations of corporate law departmen...

As we move forward from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, compliance and banking regulation become more of a focus. In the latest Insights podcast from Thomson Reuters Institute, we speak with  Todd Ehret, of Thomson Reuter Regulatory Intelligence,  about how regulators, financial industry leaders, and politicians can look objectively at the red flags that were missed and prevent a bank crisis...

In this week's Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we discuss data concerns around environmental, social & governance (ESG) activities with Frank Zambrelli, Executive Director of the Responsible Business Coalition at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business and Managing Director of the Global ESG Retail practice at Accenture. The podcast explores the current state of ESG data, including why ma...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast , we spoke with Todd Ehret, of Thomson Reuters Regulator Intelligence, about the state of compliance described in the recently published white paper, 10 Global compliance concerns for 2023 . Now, as we come from the geopolitical concerns that caused a tumultuous 2022, we look ahead to what 2023 may have in store, including new concerns over...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast , we sat down with Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor, retired from the Supreme Court of Ohio, to discuss the current state of the nation's court system, as laid out in Thomson Reuters Institute's recently published 2023 State of the Courts Report . Our conversation covers the courts' digital divide, the ongoing impacts from the COVID-19 pandemi...