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In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we speak to Meredith Ritchie, General Counsel of Alliant Credit Union; and Audrey Rubin, senior advisor with BarkerGilmore and former COO of the legal department at Aon, about some of the key findings of the 2023 State of the Corporate Law Department report and how those issues are impacting the daily operations of corporate law departments and in-house lawyers. The discussion covers the increasing regulatory complexity that corporate general counsel must navigate, the pressure to stay on budget, key practices that may be poised for growth in the changing economy, and whether other strategic priorities like diversity, equity & inclusion may potentially see a loss of focus as new challenges take prominence. 

As we move forward from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, compliance and banking regulation become more of a focus. In the latest Insights podcast from Thomson Reuters Institute, we speak with Todd Ehret, of Thomson Reuter Regulatory Intelligence, about how regulators, financial industry leaders, and politicians can look objectively at the red flags that were missed and prevent a bank crisis from happening again. 

In this week’s Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we discuss data concerns around environmental, social & governance (ESG) activities with Frank Zambrelli, Executive Director of the Responsible Business Coalition at Fordham's Gabelli School of Business and Managing Director of the Global ESG Retail practice at Accenture. The podcast explores the current state of ESG data, including why many companies are far away from “audit-quality financial data,” the wrinkles that upcoming government regulations may put into the data collection process, and the difficulties that come with categorizing Scope 3 emissions. 

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we spoke with Todd Ehret, of Thomson Reuters Regulator Intelligence, about the state of compliance described in the recently published white paper, 10 Global compliance concerns for 2023. Now, as we come from the geopolitical concerns that caused a tumultuous 2022, we look ahead to what 2023 may have in store, including new concerns over environmental, social & governance issues and new impactful regulations such as Reg BI.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we sat down with Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, retired from the Supreme Court of Ohio, to discuss the current state of the nation’s court system, as laid out in Thomson Reuters Institute’s recently published 2023 State of the Courts Report. Our conversation covers the courts’ digital divide, the ongoing impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the work she did on the Task Force on Improving Court Operations Using Remote Technology. 

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, we discuss how law firms manage their talent in the post-pandemic era, and how their various strategies have become an area of intense focus as well as a determining factor in how firms can define and differentiate themselves going forward.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we dive deep into the recently published 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market, produced by the Thomson Reuters Institute and the Georgetown Law Center. In the podcast, we examine some of the themes discussed in the report, and in particular some of the things that media coverage may have overlooked, with Jim Jones, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown Law Center and the report’s chief author.

In the most recent Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, our team of strategists reveal the trends they’re watching as we enter 2023, and how changes in the overall economy may affect this coming year’s strategic priorities for law firms, tax & accounting firms, and corporations and impact areas of ESG, technology, and compliance and risk.

In the most recent Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast channel, we are joined once again by Lizzy Duffy, a senior director with the Thomson Reuters Institute’s global client services team. Duffy shares with us some surprising findings around just how powerful a team of lawyers that the client feels operates in a truly collaborative fashion can be for the law firm that employs them.

In the latest Thomson Reuters Institute Insights podcast, available on the Thomson Reuters Institute channel, we speak with Gabriel Hidalgo of FTI Consulting and Teresa Anaya of Archblock about digital assets, how they act within their own ecosystem, and how that compares to and interacts with the traditional economy.