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.
A new podcast discusses the role of volunteer leadership for professional women of color, how such leadership roles can separate them from their peers, and the value of taking ownership of your career and development and the initiative to find unique opportunities that align to career goals.
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...
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...
NEW YORK — At the recent COO/CFO Forum , we had the chance to sit down with Dr. Evan Parker, founder of Parker Analytics , and a true pioneer in the art and science of using data analytics to help law firms make more informed decisions. Dr. Parker shared with us how he and some fellow researchers analyzed law firm data to determine where the strength of a particular firm lies. The project we discussed looked at profitability as an indicator of law firms that are better at running their organizat...
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....
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.
What are the skills that the legal industry needs to develop and integrate in an era of rapid technological and business model transformation? In a new podcast, Mark Cohen, CEO of Legal Mosaic , a legal business consultancy; and Daniel Rodriguez , the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, discussed this issue at length. With one representative from the academia and one more focused on the business side of law, Rodriguez and Cohen somehow manage to find ...
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 ...
Recently, the Legal Executive Institute’s Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative released its second white paper, titled 5 Marketing Strategies for Attorneys of Color in Big Law [insert link], by Ann Jenrette-Thomas , Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Stinson LLP. In a new podcast announcing the white paper, Natalie Runyon, Director of Enterprise Content for Thomson Reuters, speaks with Jenrette-Thomas about the white paper and what was behind its creation. In additi...
As a follow-up to Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color’s interview with the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession’s CEO Sandra Yamate on the launch of the Social Impact Incubator (SII), Natalie Runyon, Director for Enterprise Content at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, spoke with three SII members Katie Larkin-Wong , Associate at Latham & Watkins; Deanna Kwong , Senior IP Litigation Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Derek Ishikawa , Attorney at Hirschf...
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 poten...
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 a...
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.
In a new podcast, we're featuring a conversation about how financial institutions can hire, train, and retain key staff in the areas of anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory compliance. Gina Jurva, Attorney and Manager of the Risk & Compliance Platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute , speaks to Michael Schidlow, Head of Financial Crime Risk Training for HSBC Bank’s Global Internal Audit Function. Michael designs and delivers customized training courses on anti-m...
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.
The podcast will examine Weil’s Upstander Action Guide . Meredith Moore, the head of D&I and Social Responsibility, will provide an overview of what an Upstander is and what behaviors an Upstander exhibits. She also will discuss the launch session that involved an interactive theatre group acting out scenarios of an Upstander intervention and the impact and outcomes from the Upstander program....
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 this series of podcasts, we will feature the insights of Nancey Watson, of NL Watson Consulting in Toronto, around issues concerning the pricing and procurement of legal services, including how to keep the human touch amid the metrics, what clients want and don’t want, how to avoid pricing pitfalls, and when to walk away from an RFP.
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.
In a new podcast, we’re featuring Gina Scialabba, attorney and the Head of Thought Leadership for the Risk & Compliance platform at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, who is speaking to Jennifer Singh, Senior Director within Thomson Reuters' Digital Identity Solutions group. Singh is currently incubating a new business of identity verification services for Thomson Reuters. This thought-provoking discussion centers around how synthetic identity fraud is it different from traditional i...
In this latest Legal Executive Institute podcast, we're featuring a conversation about the role of a chief diversity & inclusion officer at a law firm. We're speaking with Michele Meyer-Shipp, who last October, became the first ever chief diversity & inclusion officer at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
As part of our Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative, we feature a new podcast in which we speak to Demetra Liggins, a partner at the law firm Thomson & Knight, and Co-Founder — with her twin sister — of Corporate Homie, an organization that seeks to help women and minorities advance in corporate America.
Holly Sais Phillippi, Head of Proposition Customer & Third-Party Risk at Thomson Reuters-Americas, discusses the upcoming Beneficial Ownership rule that will go into effect on May 11. Then, Brett Wolf, a Thomson Reuters journalist, speaks to Jim Richards, founder of RegTech Consulting, about the upcoming rule and what investors and financial institutions can expect on May 11.
In a new podcast, Natalie Runyon, the Head of Thought Leadership for the Talent Platform at Thomson Reuters' Legal Executive Institute, speaks to Michelle Wimes, the Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, about the best ways foster better professional development within law firms.
In this new podcast, Charlotte Rushton, managing director for U.S. Law Firms at Thomson Reuters, will be speaking to Laura Empson, Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Cass Business School in London and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School. Professor Empson’s new book, "Leading Professionals: Power, Politics & Prima Donnas", was published last fall by Oxford University Press.
In a new podcast, Charlotte Rushton, managing director for large and medium law firms at Thomson Reuters, speaks to Beth Cuzzone, Chief Business Growth Officer at Goulston & Storrs, about the highlights of the recent 25th Annual Marketing Partner Forum. Beth was co-chair of the Forum, held earlier this year in California.
At the recent Marketing Partner Forum, I had a chance to speak with Katherine D'Urso, Chief Client Development Officer for Wilmer Hale. I had the opportunity to listen to Katherine speak as part of a panel entitled "Advancing Collaboration: Integrating Legal Project Management in Firmwide Business Development."
In the second part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters Legal, speaks with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. Among her other areas of expertise, Ms. Lee advises clients on issues relating to virtual and digital currencies and related blockchain technologies. She ...
In the first part of our podcast on the technology behind blockchain and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Joe Racyznski, a legal technologist and futurist for Thomson Reuters Legal, speaks with Judith Alison Lee, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. Among her other areas of expertise, Ms. Lee advises clients on issues relating to virtual and digital currencies and related blockchain technologies. She i...
