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 servic...
Nov 29, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 29
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...
Nov 14, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 28
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 th...
Nov 08, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 27
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 Cu...
Oct 25, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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...
Oct 23, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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 outsour...
Oct 17, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 24
While keeping personal information private is incredibly important for any number of reasons, it is also crucial that some of that very same information be available in some situations. That balance — between data privacy and protection — animates the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast. In it, Thomson Reuters Institute’s Rabihah Bulter speaks with Ben Bawden, a principal at consulting firm Brooks Bawden Moore; Kate Friedrich, VP of Government Affairs & ESG at Thomson Reuters; ...
Oct 10, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Client feedback programs are one of the most effective ways to increase the share of legal spend from a client, yet less than one-third of clients say they have been asked to participate in such a program. For the law firm lawyers that take advantage of client feedback programs, 70% say they want to do the programs more; and 50% of lawyers not getting feedback from clients say they want to start such a program. In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we speak wit...
Oct 03, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 22
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...
Sep 26, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 21
In the latest episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Brent Turner, principal consultant within the Thomson Reuters Institute’s advisory services, speaks with Jessica Pavlik, chief operating officer at law firm Berger Singerman about how she is leading efforts to navigate the complexity of the latest economic environment and technology trends at play within the legal industry.
Sep 12, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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.
Aug 26, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 19
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...
Aug 08, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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 strat...
Jul 25, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 17
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 year may fare and what events law firm leaders should be on the lookout for.
Jul 18, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 16
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 s...
Jul 11, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 15
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, Enterpr...
Jun 20, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 14
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 leg...
Jun 06, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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 to be all things to all clients, the research shows that, much more often, those law firms that have ...
May 23, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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 tax & accounting firm would see as a strategic priority. In this new report, however, efficie...
May 09, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 director of Homeland Security Investigations, who provides a unique perspective on the data breach. I...
May 02, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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 ho...
Apr 25, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast , we 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 departments and in-house lawyers. The discussion covers the increasing regulatory complexity that corporate ge...
Apr 10, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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.
Mar 28, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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 govern...
Mar 21, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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 environmental, social & governance issues and new impactful regulations such as Reg BI....
Mar 07, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 ....
Feb 21, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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.
Feb 07, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 t...
Jan 24, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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.
Jan 11, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 collaborative fashion can be for the law firm that employs them....
Dec 12, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 23
