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...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Natalie Runyon, strategist for environmental, social & governance (ESG) content at the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Sarah E. Fortt, partner and global co-chair of the ESG Practice at Latham & Watkins, about the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) imposing a stay on its own climate rules amid pending litigation. In the podcast, the pair discuss the implications of the SEC’s new rules, when the pending litigation...

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,...

In this episode, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager of Tax, Accounting & Trade, sits down with Shaun Hunley, Executive Editor at Thomson Reuters, to discuss the upcoming changes and potential developments to taxation in the face of an election year and its results. The pair discusses the tax implications of a potential flip in the White House, which could lead to a shift in tax policy and the nation’s approach to energy tax credits related to environmental, social & governance...

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.

Steve Assie, head of the Canadian business for Thomson Reuters, joins the Thomson Reuters Institute’s Insights podcast to discuss some of the key findings from the recently released 2024 State of the Canadian Law Firm Market Report and the 2024 Canadian Government Lawyers Benchmark Report. Steve and host Bill Josten discuss findings from the report that Canadian lawyers generally view their law firms as successful and have a positive view for potential growth in the market in coming years,...

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...

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we speak to Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Anderson Thumma about our recent 2024 State of the Courts report and what it shows about the impact of technology — including generative artificial intelligence — on access to justice and the courts themselves.  

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.

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...

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

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 law firms and other professional services providers are looking for in their next crop of candidates.

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 first part of our premier podcast of 2024.

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...

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...

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...

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 report’s research around generative artificial intelligence and how it relates to professional...

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...