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 identity fraud and the best ways organizations and individuals can protect against it. Whether you are a consumer, an ecommerce retailer or a financial institution, you'll want to hear this.

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 is also the author of several articles on Blockchain Technology and Virtual Currencies for Thomson Reuters.

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 is also the author of several articles on Blockchain Technology and Virtual Currencies for Thomson Reuters.