Revolutionizing Rights: AI and the Future of Legal Equality, a limited podcast series presented on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, will provide perspectives on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal sphere. This first episode will feature the insights of Prof. Jennifer Albright, Director of the Center for Forensics and Artificial Intelligence in the Arizona Supreme Court.

The upcoming 5th annual Fraud Waste & Abuse Report, from the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI), will shed light on the daily litany of challenges that government workers face. In the latest TRI Insights podcast, Andrew Pellington, of Thomson Reuters Risk & Fraud discusses the results of the report and what's new in fraud in 2024 with TRI's Rabihah Butler.

The world of technology is rapidly transforming the corporate tax sector — but are tax departments ready for it? Zach Warren, of the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Cheria Coram, a corporate tax technologist and chair of the Tax Executives Institute's Tax Technology Committee, to discuss what they learned from this year's TEI Tax Technology Seminar.

In the podcast, the two break down how nailing the cupcake of tech fundamentals is so important before applying the sprinkles of new tools, why tax professionals should adopt a growth mindset and focus on leading through change, and how meeting new global tax regulations all comes down to data readiness.

Mike Abbott, head of the Thomson Reuters Institute, and Steve Hasker, president and CEO of Thomson Reuters, discuss the recently released 2nd annual Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast this week. Their conversation highlights the numerous insights from thousands of professionals surveyed across many organizations worldwide about the impact that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will have on their work, including time-savings, the need for responsible AI development, and the importance of human expertise and judgment in the use of GenAI.

The Thomson Reuters Institute's 2024 Staffing Ratios Survey contained some interesting departures from long-term trends. TRI analyst Marcus Belanger joins our latest TRI Insights podcast to discuss the surprising uptick in headcount among library and knowledge management professionals within law firms, the trend toward using a higher level of professional to fill some roles (and the associated cost increases), as well as the potential outlook for law firm professional staff over the coming years.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Insights podcast, Tom Snavely, of Thomson Reuters Advisory Group, and Becky Halat, of Thomson Reuters Client Services, discuss collaboration within law firms, how it works, and how it's a critical ingredient in firm-wide structured cross-practice key account management programs.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is set to make a splash in the legal industry, but its introduction not only raises practice of law questions — it's set to have a major impact on billing and pricing practices. On this week's episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Bill Josten and Zach Warren, both of TRI, examine GenAI's impact on legal billing, including why we're not seeing the impact on time sheets quite yet (but will soon), whether GenAI will finally be what kills the billable hour, and if a $1 million legal problem now takes 15 minutes to solve, where does all that value go?

The recent Q1 2024 Law Firm Financial Index Report showed promise with several positive trends for the large law firm market, putting the quarter in favorable standing compared to previous years. Some of the fundamentals underlying that strength, however, are notably different than in years past. In our latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, Brent Turner from Thomson Reuters Advisory Service and Bryce Engelland, an analyst with the Thomson Reuters Institute, discusses the findings in the Q1 LFFI Report and the broader context of their meaning for the market.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Bryce Engelland, TRI's legal industry data analyst, and Tom Snavely, TR principal in advisory services, sit down with Natalie Runyon, TRI's director of environmental, social & governance (ESG) content, to discuss insights from the recent report on law firm office attendance policies and how firms are using hybrid work arrangements to attract and retain the best lawyers.

On this episode of the Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) Insights podcast, Nadya Britton, Enterprise Content Manager for Tax, Accounting & Trade at TRI, sat down with Bianca Kuijper, Chief Operating Officer at Orbitax, to discuss the impact of Pillar 2 global minimum tax rules and how corporate tax departments will need to adopt new approaches to comply with country-by-country reporting requirements.