Clarity

In this special episode of "Clarity", Mike Abbott, Head of the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Mark Wasserman, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and former CEO of Eversheds Sutherland, to unpack the sudden collapse of Weil Gotshal. 

What happens when you build a large language model that only has to be exceptional at one thing? In this episode of "Clarity on Tech," Alexander Kardos-Nyheim, Head of Thomson Reuters Labs, explains why Thomson Reuters built its own legal-focused foundation model, Thomson, instead of simply licensing capability from the frontier AI labs, and what that means for professionals who depend on AI they...

What happens when a legal department and its outside counsel stop working as separate teams and start operating as one? In this episode of "Clarity", Norie Campbell, Chief Legal Officer of Thomson Reuters, Jen Roddick, Deputy General Counsel at Thomson Reuters, and Matt Peters, Head of Transformation at McCarthy Tétrault, explore how shared AI-powered playbooks can reduce friction, accelerate lega...

Within two to three years, accountants may no longer be preparing tax returns or financial statements. So what will your firm be doing instead? In this episode of "Clarity", Nadya Britton, tax insights and strategy lead at the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Allan Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting, and Brian Koltin, Chief Corporate Development Officer, about how AI and private equity are res...

In our latest "Clarity on Tech" podcast, Natalie Runyon, Content Strategist for the Human Side of AI at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of "The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results", to explore why AI initiatives succeed or fail based on human psychology rather than technology, and what leaders...

In our latest "Clarity" podcast, Rabihah Butler, content strategist for risk, fraud, compliance, government and courts at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Stephanie Macrafic, Vice President of the ACFE Twin Cities Chapter and Strategic Advisor at RiskScout, to examine and critically assess why BSA/AML and fraud teams need to work together to prevent fraud more effectively and reduce c...

In our latest Clarity podcast, Natalie Runyon, Content Strategist for the Human Side of AI at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Jonah Perlin, Professor of Law in the Legal Practice at Georgetown Law, to unpack whether generative AI is eroding legal writing and research skills or exposing how those skills should have been taught all along.

In the latest episode of  Clarity on Tech , Eric Berg, VP, Chief Compliance Officer and Associate General Counsel at IDEX Corporation, sits with TRI's Zach Warren at the recent Future of AI & Technology Forum , and discusses what corporate clients expect from their firms around AI, and how firms can demonstrate an entrepreneurial streak in their approach.

In the latest episode of our  Clarity  podcast, the Thomson Reuters Institute's Rabihah Butler sits down with David Sanford, Chairman and Co-founder at law firm Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, to talk through his thoughts on corporate executive transitions, and the accompanying red flags, rules agreements, and emotional sensitivity issues.

Damien Weinstein, co-founder and managing partner of law firm Weinstein & Klein, speaks with the Thomson Reuters Institute's Zach Warren about how lawyers can stand out and succeed even when clients are beginning to ask legal questions of AI platforms.

Valerie McConnell, Vice President in Solutions Engineering at Thomson Reuters, speaks with the Thomson Reuters Institute's Zach Warren to break down where human intervention will remain necessary even as AI's capabilities to draft legal briefs and other documents are ever increasing.

Steve Petrie, VP of Transformation Services at Thomson Reuters, talks with Zach Warren, Legal Industry Insights Lead at the Thomson Reuters Institute, about the recent "Turning Law Firm AI Strategies into Practice Report" and the "2026 Stand-out Lawyers Survey"

Almost three-quarters of professionals now use AI several times a week, but are their organizations getting real value from it? In this episode of  Clarity on Tech , Mike Abbott speaks with Thomson Reuters segment presidents Raghu Ramanathan (Legal), Elizabeth Beastrom (Tax, Audit & Accounting) and Liz Zimick (Corporates) about key takeaways from our latest Future of Professionals research, includ...

In this episode of "Clarity", Mike Abbott, Head of Thomson Reuters Institute, and Steve Hasker, President and CEO of Thomson Reuters, break down our new Future of Professionals  report. This year's findings illustrate a clear shift: AI is embedded in professional work, but its value hinges on effective execution, strategy, and infrastructure. As a result, a gap is forming between those organizatio...

In the latest episode of our " Clarity" podcast, the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bryce Engelland and Zach Warren discuss why the Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) is sitting at a dead-average 55 even as law firm revenues break records. The pair unpacks the Q1 2026 numbers and examines what might be keeping the large law firm industry and the LFFI from hitting truly stratospheric heights.

What if the real value of AI for executives isn't a faster answer, but a better argument? In this episode of "Clarity on Tech", the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bryce Engelland sits down with Thomson Reuters enterprise architect Zafar Khan to explore why a single AI advisor is easy to ignore — or to exploit for the answer you wanted to hear — and how a panel of personas built to disagree, including...

In the latest episode of our "Clarity" podcast, we speak with James Lephew, founder of AFC Group, a consultaing firm specializing in financial crime prevention, about what the 2026 FIFA World Cup has to do with your organization's anti-money laundering compliance program and how these large global events often bring massive financial flows and human trafficking with them.

Law firms have made their AI investments and are now looking to calculate their ROI — but what should go into that calculation? In the latest episode of our  Clarity podcast, Thomson Reuters' Steve Assie speaks with Gregory Ginex, Senior Partner at Costello Ginex & Wideikis; and Nina Lund, Total Economic Impact Consultant at Forrester, about the real business value of legal AI for law firms , incl...

In the latest episode of Clarity on Tech , Lizzy Duffy, Senior Director for the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Thomson Reuters' Chief Legal Officer Norie Campbell and Deputy General Counsel Jen Ruddick to go inside GCO 2030, a unique collaboration treating TR's own legal department as a live research subject. Moving beyond the technology, the group discusses the critical human side of A...

In the latest episode of Clarity , we speak to government and corporate experts about the emerging fraud trends of 2026 and discuss what organizations need to watch out for now in order to stay ahead of fraud. Because fraud isn't waiting for the future — it's already here, powered by AI, deepfakes, synthetic identities, and coordinated attacks across banking, government, and compliance.

In the latest episode of  Clarity , Thomson Reuters' Justin Miller and Eve Starks explore how firms can drive growth by focusing on existing client relationships that have yet to reach their full potential. Their discussion walks through how to build a practical framework for identifying which client relationships are ready to grow and how to design targeted, data-driven programs around them.

In this week's Clarity on Tech , TRI's Zach Warren dives into all things AI governance with Foley & Lardner partner David Simon. The two explore David's recently published framework around how law firms should use AI governance to close the gap between "never use" and "must use" AI approaches. As they discuss, governance has become critical for firms to manage risk while preserving the core skills...

From AI-powered negotiation tools to Bluebook citation assistants, the University of San Francisco School of Law is reimagining how law students learn and work in an AI-driven world. Dean Johanna Kalb and Prof. Nicole Phillips join TRI's Natalie Runyon on this episode of  Clarity to discuss the tools they have built, the faculty conversations that shaped the school's AI approach, and what it reall...

In the latest episode of Clarity , the TRI's Lizzy Duffy speaks with Sean Edwards, Head of Legal at SMBC Bank International, about his team's transformational journey, as it explored what it takes to build buy-in, shift culture, overcome resistance to change, and position the legal department as a showcase for wider change across the organization.

In the first episode of the 4 th season of Clarity on Tech , Vanderbilt AI Law Lab Professor Caitlin (Cat) Moon and Hari Osofsky, former Dean of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, explore how legal education must develop a sharper focus on preserving legal judgment to better prepare lawyers for tomorrow's AI-driven legal profession.