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In this week's  Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we speak with industry experts about impact on the compliance industry of the newly operational beneficial ownership database, discussing what they see on the horizon and what concerns they have about what lies ahead.

Jay Courie , Managing Member at MGC Law joins the Thomson Reuters Institute team for the latest installment of the Designing Your Candidate podcast series to discuss what his firm is looking for when hiring associate lawyers. Whether lateral attorneys or new hires, the skillsets that associates need to succeed in the legal market today and in the future are becoming more diverse and more complex.

In the latest  Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we gather a panel of industry experts and legal professionals to discuss the current state of crypto-assets and look at what might be in crypto's future as litigation and regulatory compliance become bigger factors in this sector.

It's well understood how technology is changing law, but what may be less understood is how it is changing legal hiring. In this second installment in the new  Designing Your Candidate limited series for the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, Kenneth Jones, COO of law firm technology subsidiary Xerdict and business professor at Seton Hall, describes what technology skills today's...

In the first installment in the new  Designing Your Candidate limited series for the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, Esther Bowers, Chief Practice Innovation Officer at Honigman, discusses the roles she needs to hire to drive innovation and legal operations and what her ideal candidates for those roles might look like. Make sure to subscribe for future episodes exploring what l...

With key insights on law firm growth, rates, and profits, the  2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market is an invaluable resource for law firm leaders. Chief author James Jones, Senior Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, joins the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bill Josten for a deep dive into some of these important insights.

The role of in-house legal departments is growing and will continue to do so in 2024 as the complexity of the regulatory environment around sustainability increases. In our latest podcast episode, TRI's ESG strategist Natalie Runyon speaks with Christine Uri, an ESG expert and adviser to corporate legal departments.  

At the opening of 2024, our in-house experts on the tax and legal industries, Nadya Britton and Bill Josten, share what they see as the key issues for the coming year.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute podcast, our resident experts Natalie Runyon, Zach Warren, and Rabihah Butler share their 2024 predictions for employers and professionals within the legal, tax & accounting, and risk & compliance industries — with a special eye toward environmental, social & governance (ESG) issues, regulatory developments, and the impact of artificial intelligence — in the...

By all accounts, 2023 was the year of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), giving some organizations a major boost while catching others blindsided without plans or procedures. For a few truly forward-thinking organizations, however, it's already time to look beyond Gen AI to start planning for what's next. In this week's Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Zach Warren, head...

In the final episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast for 2023, Mike Abbott, Head of the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Laura Clayton McDonnell, President of Thomson Reuters' Corporates business. The pair discuss highlights from the recent  Future of Professionals: C-Suite Survey  and the varying perspectives on generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), one of the most...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we feature a discussion with colleagues Alexander Robson, Managing Editor, and Lindsey Rogerson, Senior Editor at Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence (TRRI) of the key highlights from this year's UN Climate Change conference known as COP 28. This episode of our Insights podcast is part of a collaboration between the Thomson Reuters Inst...

In our latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Natalie Runyon, ESG strategist with the Thomson Reuters Institute speaks with colleagues Lucy Leach, Director of Technical Research, and Tom Snavely, Principal Consultant and advisor to law firms, about the talent-related insights revealed in the recently published Thomson Reuters  Future of Professionals report . The podcast discusses the...

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...