Thomson Reuters Institute Insights Podcast

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 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 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 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 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 at EY, about what he sees as the next big innovations in the market that professionals should know about now.

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.

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 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 service firms’ talent challenges as well as client and lawyer satisfaction.

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?

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.

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.

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.