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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...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast , we discuss how law firms manage their talent in the post-pandemic era, and how their various strategies have become an area of intense focus as well as a determining factor in how firms can define and differentiate themselves going forward.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel , we dive deep into the recently published 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market , produced by the Thomson Reuters Institute and the Georgetown Law Center. In the podcast, we examine some of the themes discussed in the report, and in particular some of the things th...

In the most recent Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel , our team of strategists reveal the trends they're watching as we enter 2023, and how changes in the overall economy may affect this coming year's strategic priorities for law firms, tax & accounting firms, and corporations and impact areas of ESG, technology, and co...

In the most recent Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel , we are joined once again by Lizzy Duffy, a senior director with the Thomson Reuters Institute's global client services team. Duffy shares with us some surprising findings around just how powerful a team of lawyers that the client feels operates in a truly collaborati...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute  channel, we speak with Gabriel Hidalgo of FTI Consulting and Teresa Anaya of Archblock about digital assets, how they act within their own ecosystem, and how that compares to and interacts with the traditional economy.

In a new Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute channel, we discuss the Thomson Reuters Institute's Legal Department Operations (LDO) Index , an annual look at the state of affairs within corporate legal departments, and what it says about department leaders' thinking in the current environment.

In this week's podcast available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute channel, we speak to Suzanne Offerman, Senior Product Manager at Thomson Reuters, about Thomson Reuters' inaugural Global Trade Report 2022: Turbulence Tempered with Technology , released in September.

In this week's podcast available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute  channel, Lindsey Rogerson and Henry Engler , editors with Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, speak with Natalie Runyon, director of ESG content for Thomson Reuters Institute, about the newly released SPECIAL REPORT: ESG Under Strain , which digs deep into the current challenges governments and companies are facing on the ESG...

In this week's podcast available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute podcast channel, we speak to Jeff Connor, Chief Financial Officer at McGuireWoods and co-chair of Thomson Reuters' upcoming 21st Annual COO/CFO Forum , about the tough questions that law firms may be facing in the coming months and years.    

In this latest Thomson Reuters Institute podcast, we explore what artificial intelligence actually means in the legal industry and how it can be a boon to a law practice.

In the latest podcast available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute channel, we speak with Elizabeth Duffy, Senior Director of Global Client Services at the Thomson Reuters Institute, about law firms' efforts to proactively seek out their clients' thoughts and attitudes in a formal client feedback program.

In the latest podcast available on the  Thomson Reuters Institute channel, we speak to the Rachel Wolcott and Brett Wolf of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and the co-authors of a new white paper about how global financial institutions are managing the evolving sanctions regime against Russia in the wake of its invasion of the Ukraine.