Clarity

What if the real value of AI for executives isn't a faster answer, but a better argument? In this episode of "Clarity on Tech", the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bryce Engelland sits down with Thomson Reuters enterprise architect Zafar Khan to explore why a single AI advisor is easy to ignore — or to exploit for the answer you wanted to hear — and how a panel of personas built to disagree, including Adrian Vance and Elara Hunt (who joins to field live questions), can turn that structural weakness into smarter, stickier advice.

In the latest episode of our "Clarity" podcast, we speak with James Lephew, founder of AFC Group, a consultaing firm specializing in financial crime prevention, about what the 2026 FIFA World Cup has to do with your organization's anti-money laundering compliance program and how these large global events often bring massive financial flows and human trafficking with them.

Law firms have made their AI investments and are now looking to calculate their ROI — but what should go into that calculation? In the latest episode of our Clarity podcast, Thomson Reuters' Steve Assie speaks with Gregory Ginex, Senior Partner at Costello Ginex & Wideikis; and Nina Lund, Total Economic Impact Consultant at Forrester, about the real business value of legal AI for law firms, including ROI, productivity, client expectations, alternative fee models, and how AI is reshaping legal work.

In the latest episode of Clarity on Tech, Lizzy Duffy, Senior Director for the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Thomson Reuters' Chief Legal Officer Norie Campbell and Deputy General Counsel Jen Ruddick to go inside GCO 2030, a unique collaboration treating TR's own legal department as a live research subject. Moving beyond the technology, the group discusses the critical human side of AI transformation, exploring how GCO 2030 overcame legal perfectionism to foster structured AI capability.

In the latest episode of Clarity, we speak to government and corporate experts about the emerging fraud trends of 2026 and discuss what organizations need to watch out for now in order to stay ahead of fraud. Because fraud isn't waiting for the future — it's already here, powered by AI, deepfakes, synthetic identities, and coordinated attacks across banking, government, and compliance.

In the latest episode of Clarity, Thomson Reuters' Justin Miller and Eve Starks explore how firms can drive growth by focusing on existing client relationships that have yet to reach their full potential. Their discussion walks through how to build a practical framework for identifying which client relationships are ready to grow and how to design targeted, data-driven programs around them.

In this week's Clarity on Tech, TRI's Zach Warren dives into all things AI governance with Foley & Lardner partner David Simon. The two explore David's recently published framework around how law firms should use AI governance to close the gap between "never use" and "must use" AI approaches. As they discuss, governance has become critical for firms to manage risk while preserving the core skills that define great lawyers.

In this week's Clarity on Tech, TRI's Zach Warren dives into all things AI governance with Foley & Lardner partner David Simon. The two explore David's recently published framework around how law firms should use AI governance to close the gap between "never use" and "must use" AI approaches. As they discuss, governance has become critical for firms to manage risk while preserving the core skills that define great lawyers.

From AI-powered negotiation tools to Bluebook citation assistants, the University of San Francisco School of Law is reimagining how law students learn and work in an AI-driven world. Dean Johanna Kalb and Prof. Nicole Phillips join TRI's Natalie Runyon on this episode of Clarity to discuss the tools they have built, the faculty conversations that shaped the school's AI approach, and what it really takes to prepare lawyers for the world they're entering.

In the latest episode of Clarity, the TRI's Lizzy Duffy speaks with Sean Edwards, Head of Legal at SMBC Bank International, about his team's transformational journey, as it explored what it takes to build buy-in, shift culture, overcome resistance to change, and position the legal department as a showcase for wider change across the organization.