
Clarity
Welcome to Clarity, a podcast powered by the Thomson Reuters Institute. In each episode, we dive deep into a single question from decision-makers and thought leaders from legal, corporate, tax, accounting & audit, and government communities. Grounding the conversation in the Institute’s research and practice leads’ domain expertise, in each episode, we sit down with a special guest or panel of experts from our community of partners, clients, and key leaders in each industry we serve.
Latest episodes

Jan 29, 2024 • 16min
Designing Your Candidate: What tech skills are needed today
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.

Jan 24, 2024 • 17min
Designing Your Candidate: Legal operations and innovation
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.

Jan 23, 2024 • 43min
Key takeaways from the “2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market”
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.

Jan 17, 2024 • 21min
The role of in-house legal in ESG
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.

Jan 10, 2024 • 32min
Predictions for 2024: Developments in legal and tax
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.

Jan 8, 2024 • 26min
Predictions for 2024: ESG, AI and regulatory risk
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.

Jan 3, 2024 • 37min
Beyond Gen AI: The next technologies to know about for 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.

Dec 12, 2023 • 20min
What the C-Suite is thinking about the impact of Generative AI
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.

Dec 6, 2023 • 17min
Highlights from the UN’s COP 28 conference
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.

Nov 29, 2023 • 30min
What the "Future of Professionals" report says about Gen AI’s impact on talent
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.