Thomson Reuters Unveils Offerings That Make Adopting New Technology Easier Than Ever
No more excuses to avoid new technology.
It’s fun to rib lawyers for being Luddites, but in reality most lawyers understand the importance of technology and how it could — theoretically — improve their practice. After all, lawyers are laying out for new iPhones and high-end televisions, so it’s not as if they don’t see the march of technology. And, it’s not like lawyers still go to the stacks to Shepardize. Lawyers figured out electronic legal research.
Where lawyers actually stumble is adoption. An iPhone makes sense. Everyone knows that it works and the company spends considerable effort ensuring that it’s user friendly. The same can be said of the pillars of the legal research world at this point. But what is there to assure a naturally risk-averse attorney to invest considerable resources in a legal tech solution?
Thomson Reuters, one of those pillars of the legal research world through its Westlaw brand, unveiled a pair of new offerings yesterday that focus on promoting adoption for the legal consumer.
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Thomson Reuters Marketplace is an online store that allows customers to “research, trial and purchase a wide range of trusted and tested solutions.” In other words, it takes the risk out of jumping into technology. There are already over 50 products in Marketplace, including ClientPay, Alteryx, and a number of options to “connect[] users to many of the powerful features of HighQ, including enhancing their workflows with ready-to-use solution templates.”
Marketplace is in beta now and is expected for full release in February.
At the same time, Thomson Reuters announced Legal Home, “an integrated digital launchpad serving as a central entry point for legal professionals to seamlessly access essential resources and information in one place.” In other words, your one stop shop for all things Thomson Reuters… and beyond.
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Legal Home also provides a detailed view into a user’s HighQ sites and activity feeds, across multiple instances, to stay up to date on key tasks for matters and projects. Users also can quickly retrieve their recent Office 365 documents and add personal links to regularly visited sites for ease of access. Additionally, the latest news and industry developments are available and delivered through Practical Law Legal Updates.
As companies move toward suites of products, these sorts of “one-pane” navigation offerings are going to become more important.
As described above, Thomson Reuters Legal Home will have a place for your most trusted online resources. What’s going on down in that corner…
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Someone’s got good taste.
Legal Home is free to Thomson Reuters customers and is now available in the U.S. and UK, and will soon be available in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
So go on… don’t be scared. Try some stuff out and see what some easy-to-use technology can do for your practice.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
