Clarity (Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast)

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.

Our latest Market Insights podcast looks at Thomson Reuters' recently release "Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report" and what government agencies are now doing to protect us.

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 from happening again. 

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 episode of our limited series, Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, featured on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we speak with Judge Tanya Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the First Department of New York, about the application of AI and the essential education required to adequately prepare the judiciary.

Now, in our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of market insights and thought leadership content for corporate and government at the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with a co-author of the 2021 Cost of Compliance report, Susannah Hammond, Senior Regulatory Expert at TRRI, and Brett Wolf, Senior Financial Crimes expert for TRRI, and a contributor to the report.

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 our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of market insights and thought leadership content for corporate and government at the Thomson Reuters Institute, spoke with Kristin Hodgins, Director of Legal Operations at the Office of the Assistant Deputy Attorney General for the government of British Columbia, about how unique it is to have a legal ops role within a government paradigm.

Hosted by Raghu Ramanathan, President of Legal Professionals at Thomson Reuters, the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights channel emphasizes the innovations that are transforming the legal profession, and features, from Frost Brown Todd, Cindy Thurston Bare, chief data and innovation officer, and Kayla Kotila, senior knowledge and research services manager, who elaborate on how they are utilizing AI and promoting its integration throughout the firm. 

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.

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.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights podcast, we look into the steep challenge of fighting online sexual abuse and exploitation in today's digitized world.

The world of technology is rapidly transforming the corporate tax sector — but are tax departments ready for it? Zach Warren, of the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Cheria Coram, a corporate tax technologist and chair of the Tax Executives Institute’s Tax Technology Committee, to discuss what they learned from this year’s TEI Tax Technology Seminar.

In the podcast, the two break down how nailing the cupcake of tech fundamentals is so important before applying the sprinkles of new tools, why tax professionals should adopt a growth mindset and focus on leading through change, and how meeting new global tax regulations all comes down to data readiness.

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.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is here — and now, it’s on professionals in the legal, tax, government, and risk & fraud sectors to adopt it. On this week’s Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Zach Warren, manager of Tech & Innovation content for the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Joel Hron, the head of Thomson Reuters Labs, — live from Stanford University’s CodeX FutureLaw conference — about the newly published Generative AI in Professional Services report, published by Thomson Reuters, and what GenAI’s future looks like from a technological perspective.

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 its overall strategy — but in practice, only about half actually have a fully realized digital strategy at the C-suite level, and many of those have been instituted only in the past couple of years.

In the latest TRI Insights Podcast, Zach Warren, TRI’s technology and innovation insights leader and Lucy Leach, director of research strategy at TRI, discuss why many law firms think they’re above average (but not perfect) on digital strategy, how clients are too often left out of the process, and what the rise of generative artificial intelligence means for digital strategy’s future.

In our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, we sat down with the 20th Annual Law Firm COO & CFO Forum’s three co-chairs — Jeff Connor, Chief Financial Officer at McGuireWoods; Jim Jones, Director at the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law Center; and Gretta Rusanow, Head of Advisory Services in the Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank — to take a look back at the history of the event as well as its present and future.

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.

Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, a limited podcast series presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, will provide perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sphere. This first episode will feature the insights of Prof. Jennifer Albright, Director of the Center for Forensics and Artificial Intelligence in the Arizona Supreme Court.

In the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights channel, TRI’s Nadya Britton and Allan Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group, explore the transformative trends in mergers and acquisitions among tax firms. Since 2011, M&A has evolved from a rare occurrence to a vital growth strategy for many tax firms. This podcast highlights how private equity has revolutionized the sector and how that influx of capital has sparked a surge in M&A activity, with almost weekly announcements of new deals.

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.

In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Rabihah Butler, Enterprise Content Manager, speaks to Andrew Pellington, Senior Director in Product Marketing for Thomson Reuters, about the upcoming Government Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report from the Thomson Reuters Institute.

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.

In the latest podcast in our limited series, Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we speak with Judge Samuel A. Thumma from Division One of the Arizona Court of Appeals, on the use of AI to shape the judiciary and legal community, and about judges’ responsibility to both understand and use AI in the future.

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 Warren dives into the report with Todd Lard, Tax Counsel at Tax Executives Institute, to explore why so many tax departments categorize their tech maturity as reactive, whether these departments have the personnel to carry out modern tech implementations, and how smaller departments with tiny tech budgets can do more with less.

The podcast also examines the artificial intelligence (AI) question: Where does generative AI actually fit into the day-to-day work of corporate tax professionals?

The Thomson Reuters Institute’s 2024 Staffing Ratios Survey contained some interesting departures from long-term trends. TRI analyst Marcus Belanger joins our latest TRI Insights podcast to discuss the surprising uptick in headcount among library and knowledge management professionals within law firms, the trend toward using a higher level of professional to fill some roles (and the associated cost increases), as well as the potential outlook for law firm professional staff over the coming years.

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 Institute and TRRI around the launch of the new white paper ESG: Navigating past the noise, which was authored by TRRI and published by the Thomson Reuters Institute.

In the latest podcast in our limited series, Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we speak with Judge Robert J. Torres, the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Guam, on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the responsibility of the judiciary and legal community, and how AI can potentially push us forward to a brighter future.

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 of technology content development for TRI, talks with Jeff Wong, Global Chief Innovation Officer at EY, about what he sees as the next big innovations in the market that professionals should know about now.

In the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights channel, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager for Tax, Accounting & Trade at TRI, sat down again with Shaun Hunley, Executive Editor of Checkpoint, to delve into the potential tax policies of Donald Trump's presidency and what it may mean for tax preparers. The pair talk through several key issues, including Trump’s aims to lower the corporate tax rate, his proposal for a universal baseline tariff on all U.S. imports, and more surprising proposals like exempting tip income and overtime pay from taxation.

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.

In our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of market insights and thought leadership content for corporate and government at the Thomson Reuters Institute, spoke with Gemma Stainforth, a senior client manager at Thomson Reuters Acritas.

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.

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.

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.

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 pandemic, and the work she did on the Task Force on Improving Court Operations Using Remote Technology. 

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.

In today’s installment of The Hearing, a Legal Podcast, an award winning podcast conducted by Thomson Reuters U.K., we feature a conversation between legal and mathematical macroeconomics genius Doug Pepe and Joseph Raczynski, technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters.

Together, the pair take us through blockchain, tokens, and cryptocurrency in a way that's genuinely enlightening.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, experts from Thomson Reuters Practical Law team discussed how best to navigate data privacy laws in the United States, Canada, and the European Union, while emphasizing the importance of risk assessments and the balance between the rights of data subjects and business interests. The podcast also highlights the evolving nature of privacy laws and the need for better communication and adaptability among jurisdictions to better facilitate global business operations.

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 landscape and future trends within corporate tax departments, particularly concerning technology adoption and talent management — two themes that stood out in the report. As the podcast highlights, the shift towards technology and automation has become the focal point for many tax departments and many department leaders said they are proud of their departments’ achievements in this area.

Nearly 90% of tax & accounting firms want technology to be an integral or significant part of their overall firm strategy — but do they actually have the ability to pull this off? In today’s Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, TRI’s Zach Warren and Nadya Britton offer up their findings from the first Tax Firm Technology Report and explore the critical role of technology in today’s tax firms.

In our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, of the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Henry Engler, Senior Regulatory Expert at Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and primary author of the new report, ESG: Fast-emerging challenges for financial institutions.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, nationally recognized legal services procurement experts Audrey Rubin, formerly of Aon, and Justin Ergler, formerly of GlaxoSmithKline, join host Bill Josten, TRI’s senior manager for legal content, to discuss clients’ perspective on law firm rates in 2024 and what they wish law firms would consider in setting rates for 2025.

In a conversation that ranges from rates, to revenue, profits, cost recovery, and alternative fee arrangements, the podcast illuminates valuable insights on how law firms can focus not only on the rates they charge their clients, but on how they can deliver greater value while also making higher profits.

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.

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, the pair discussed the talent gap in global trade compliance, and how companies are increasingly outsourcing and turning to technology for solutions. They also spoke about how integrating advanced technologies offers significant benefits to global companies, and how many considerations around environmental, social & governance (ESG) issues have become pivotal in supplier relations.

Jared Applegate, Chief Legal Operations Officer at Barnes & Thornburg, joins the latest installment of the “Designing Your Candidate” podcast series to discuss what his ideal candidates might look like for some of the legal operations functions that he oversees. From pricing to legal project management and practice management, the need to find professionals who will become strong team players who understand the legal industry and can help to motivate change is becoming crucially important for many firms.

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.

While there’s no guarantees a legal matter will end the way you hope, a few key strategies can help outcomes more closely match client goals. Lizzy Duffy, Senior Director of Client Relationships for the Thomson Reuters Institute, joins the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast to discuss findings from the recent Secrets to successful matters report that can help clients and law firms achieve outcomes that both sides can define as successful.

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.

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 Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights podcast, Thomson Reuters' Jen Dezso discusses the data shedding light on today's legal talent challenges.

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 technology professionals need to know — and how artificial intelligence may be set to change the entire equation.

Make sure to subscribe for future episodes exploring what law firms and other professional services providers are looking for in their next crop of candidates.

In our latest podcast, Natalie Runyon speaks with Loreal Jiles from the Institute of Management Accountants, and Brad Monterio from the California Society of CPAs, about their collaboration on groundbreaking research in the area of diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) within the accounting profession.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Norie Campbell, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Thomson Reuters, joins TRI’s Lizzy Duffy to discuss the multi-faceted role of the general counsel’s office in helping guide the strategy of today’s increasingly complex business organizations. The discussion covers how general counsel provide effective service to the business while operating under increasing cost constraints, protecting the business from an increasing regulatory and risk environment, and enabling growth.

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 Forum in New York City, the Thomson Reuters Institute’s Zach Warren sat down with Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, to discuss why it’s humans and AI rather than humans versus AI, how Orrick is working to prioritize mental health while introducing innovative technology, and where she sees generative AI actually making an impact in the future of the legal profession.

Holly Hill, Partner and Sustainability Leader with MinterEllisonRuddWatts, joins us to discuss what her firm looks for when hiring new associates, especially those fresh from law school. Hill points out that the New Zealand-based law firm has experienced a unique pinch in the past several years as many of their prime associate targets were lured by lucrative offers from firms in Australia and even the United States. With competition for top legal talent remaining tight, the firm focused on building a solid early pipeline for incoming talent.

MinterEllisonRuddWatts is a leading full-service, legal, and business advisory firm. It is a New Zealand owned and operated partnership, dating back 140 years. It also has a strong international presence through the MinterEllison Legal Group — one of the largest full-service legal groups in the Asia-Pacific region. MinterEllisonRuddWatts has built a strong brand in the market with numerous accolades and Tier 1 rankings in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

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 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 compliance and risk.

A new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel features a panel discussion with two litigators from the law firm Garfunkel Wild, moderated by Thomson Reuters Practical Law, around the legal ramifications and logistics of returning to the office.

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.

In our latest podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, we speak to Richmond Law Prof. Josh Kubicki who shares how the Richmond Legal Business Design Hub got its start, the challenges its creators faced, and the valuable lessons learned from the inaugural “Legal Design Challenge” this past spring semester. Also joining us is David Rueff, Chief Client Solutions Group Officer at Baker Donelson.

In this episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we discuss recent corporate sustainability disclosure regulations and how companies are preparing to meet them. Kevin Fertig and Colleen Cochran at Agendi, a sustainability consulting firm, discuss a range of key topics from the regulators’ climate rules to the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requirements, and how the upcoming US election may impact corporate climate action.

In a new podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, we speak to Bryan Feldhaus, a shareholder at law firm Lommen Abdo in Minneapolis, about how his firm is coping with the realities of managing and acquiring talent in a midsize firm today.

On this episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager for Tax, Accounting & Trade at TRI, sat down with Bianca Kuijper, Chief Operating Officer at Orbitax, to discuss the impact of Pillar 2 global minimum tax rules and how corporate tax departments will need to adopt new approaches to comply with country-by-country reporting requirements.

In the latest episode of our limited series, Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, featured on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we have a conversation with Judge James “Jay” Francis, a retired U.S. Magistrate Judge from the Southern District of New York and current arbitrator, about the application of AI in the judiciary and the ethical considerations surrounding its use.

No mais recente podcast do canal Thomson Reuters Institute Insights, Lionel Nobre, Vice-Presidente de Tributação para a América Latina na Dell Technologies, junta-se a Edinilson Apolinario, Diretor de Tributação e Conteúdo para a América Latina na Thomson Reuters, para discutir as conclusões do recente relatório sobre a Reforma Tributária no Brasil. Eles exploram temas como o impacto que a reforma terá sobre os profissionais corporativos, os desafios e oportunidades que enfrentarão, como a tecnologia pode otimizar seu trabalho e recomendações para organizações navegarem com sucesso por essa transição.

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 game-changing innovations impacting companies today.

The podcast also explains where members of corporate C-Suites are focused right now and how the rise of Gen AI may impact their goals.

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, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at the Bayes Business School at the University of London, to discuss key take-aways and highlights from the event.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager for Tax & Accounting at TRI, and Bryce Engelland, a TRI Industry Analyst focused on international economics and the global legal market, engaged in a comprehensive dialogue about the dynamic nature of global trade and its effects on supply chains, highlighting the transition from a stable economy to one requiring constant adaptation by businesses. The pair also discuss the need for supply chain managers to be proactive, conduct regular risk assessments, and embrace technological advancements to safeguard against disruptions in a volatile global landscape.

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 increasing legal matter volumes with little by way of additional staffing or budget to manage those new matters, they must look for creative way to “do more with less” and will likely be relying more on outside counsel. While this presents opportunities for law firms, it can also be a breeding ground for worry as clients increasingly look to shuffle work around in search of greater cost effectiveness.

This podcast’s buy-side/sell-side discussion of these topics and more sheds new light on the challenge that corporate legal department operations professionals face today, what law firms are doing to help, and what more can be done.

Mike Abbott, head of the Thomson Reuters Institute, and Steve Hasker, president and CEO of Thomson Reuters, discuss the recently released 2^nd annual Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast this week. Their conversation highlights the numerous insights from thousands of professionals surveyed across many organizations worldwide about the impact that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will have on their work, including time-savings, the need for responsible AI development, and the importance of human expertise and judgment in the use of GenAI.

In the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights channel, we discuss tech debt, which may not be the type of debt you’re used to from finance, but its implications can be dangerous to law firms and other businesses all the same. In the podcast, TRI’s Zach Warren and Bryce Engelland delve into the concept of tech debt and its implications for the legal industry, discussing how tech debt arises from short-term technological decisions and the importance of managing it to avoid long-term costs.

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 that media coverage may have overlooked, with Jim Jones, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown Law Center and the report’s chief author.

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.

Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, a limited podcast series presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, provides perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sphere. This episode features the insights of Carlos Martinez, Esq., Public Defender for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

The recent Q1 2024 Law Firm Financial Index Report showed promise with several positive trends for the large law firm market, putting the quarter in favorable standing compared to previous years.  Some of the fundamentals underlying that strength, however, are notably different than in years past. In our latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Brent Turner from Thomson Reuters Advisory Service and Bryce Engelland, an analyst with the Thomson Reuters Institute, discusses the findings in the Q1 LFFI Report and the broader context of their meaning for the market.

After a year of change in the compliance landscape, the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast discusses with regulatory and compliance expert Todd Ehret of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence many of the trends that will unfold during 2024.

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 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 just a continuation of past AI initiatives, she believes, but a true game-changer.

That’s why she’s encouraging those within her firm to get acquainted early. “They need to understand this technology early so they understand where it’s going to lead them later,” Flournoy explains. 

In the podcast, she discusses not only the use cases she sees now, but her prognostications for law firms’ future, why generative AI will be here “faster than anyone realizes,” and why one AI is reminiscent of the movie Her.

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 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.

Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, a limited podcast series presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, will provide perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sphere. This episode will feature the insights of Hon. Judge Maritza Braswell, federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

In this latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, we speak to two executives from Skadden Arps about how diversity in law firm recruiting is becoming a crucial component of how firms attract top talent.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Insights podcast, Tom Snavely, of Thomson Reuters Advisory Group, and Becky Halat, of Thomson Reuters Client Services, discuss collaboration within law firms, how it works, and how it’s a critical ingredient in firm-wide structured cross-practice key account management programs.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights podcast, we discuss what the recent “State of the Corporate Tax Department Report" says about how departments are coping in today’s legal environment.

In the latest podcast available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, of the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Kelsey Nicol, of Thomson Reuters; and Lyndsey Wurst, Legal Operations Manager at Securian Financial.  

The podcast features a preview of Nicol and Wurst’s upcoming panel at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute titled, The Modern Legal Department transformation and Next-Gen Tech for Legal Operations.

The upcoming 5th annual Fraud Waste & Abuse Report, from the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI), will shed light on the daily litany of challenges that government workers face. In the latest TRI Insights podcast, Andrew Pellington, of Thomson Reuters Risk & Fraud discusses the results of the report and what’s new in fraud in 2024 with TRI’s Rabihah Butler.

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, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence at the City of Houston under the leadership of Mayor Sylvester Turner.

As the podcast describes, the new Resource Center will make these toolkits readily accessible online to cities and other public authorities into the future. These step-by-step guides will help municipal authorities quickly mobilize anti-trafficking campaigns which may otherwise take years of planning, saving cities money and other public resources.

Of all the issues employers will face in 2022, talent recruitment, retention, and management will likely be among the top. This will be true in major corporations, small businesses, professional services like law firms and tax & accounting firms, and even government agencies. While some common thread can be found as to how talent questions might impact each of these employer groups, each will also face somewhat unique circumstances as well, based on their particular place in the market.

To begin to unpack how some of these issues may shape 2022, the Thomson Reuters Institute brought together its team of in-house industry experts to explore the peculiarities of each of these key groups and address how each group might face some of the talent challenges this year.

In the latest podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights channel, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager for Tax, Accounting & Trade at TRI, talks with Marianne Rowden, CEO of e-Merchants Trade Council, about the highlights from TRI's 4th annual Global Trade Report and the potential implications of Donald Trump's return to office on supply chains and trade, regulations, and talent challenges.

In the latest episode of our limited series, Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, featured on the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast channel, we speak with TRI’s Rabihah Butler and Zach Warren and look back on the lessons learned from this series and the current state of AI in the courts.

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 podcast on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, legal education expert Bill Henderson, talks to Natalie Runyon of Thomson Reuters, about where legal education is heading in the future and why scalability will become such an important issue.

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.

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 many companies are far away from “audit-quality financial data,” the wrinkles that upcoming government regulations may put into the data collection process, and the difficulties that come with categorizing Scope 3 emissions. 

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 Brent Turner from Thomson Reuters Institute Advisory Services to discuss the realities of today’s legal marketplace and what law firms can do to protect their profitability this year and beyond.

As the podcast explains, the solution doesn’t necessarily lie in ever-increasing rates or in pushing clients to take smaller discounts. Instead, the answer most likely comes from ensuring the firm’s partners are following best practices for how they handle their bills.

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 the results, including how quickly the ALSP market has grown in such a short amount of time, and how law firm attitudes towards ALSPs are shifting.

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.

Today, lawyers are grappling to incorporate environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) principles into their practices and better serve their corporate clients. In a new podcast, we discuss the recently released Thomson Reuters Stellar Performance report.

In the podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights channel, Gina Jurva, attorney and manager of market insights and thought leadership content for corporate and government at the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Jen Dezo, Director of Client Relations at Thomson Reuters Market Insights and Thought Leadership, about the report.

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.

The Legal Executive Institute, in conjunction with the broader Thomson Reuters Institute, is pleased to announce that we are launching our new podcast channel, Thomson Reuters Market Insights. Featuring podcasts aimed at tax, compliance, and legal professionals, this new channel will focus on bringing listeners engaging interviews and content from thought leaders across a variety of disciplines.