West offers law firm competitive intelligence; launches Westlaw Japan & Counsel Monitor services.Thomson West (Eagan, MN), in an alliance with the Citigroup Private Bank Law Firm Group (New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), has launched West PeerMonitor, a new law firm financial performance benchmarking service designed to help law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
The new service enables law firm executives to benchmark their business performance against a designated group of peer law firms across a range of pricing, profit and expense categories. It is designed to reveal current trends at the firm, practice group, office location or timekeeper levels in categories such as a firm's competitiveness, profitability and productivity. Also, Thomson West and Shin Nippon Hoki Hoki can mean:
SNHS Spanish National Honor Society ; Tokyo), a publisher of legal, tax and accounting information for the Japanese market, have signed a joint venture agreement establishing Westlaw Japan K.K. (Tokyo), a business that will develop a new online service for the world's second largest legal information market. Thomson said the venture is the first of its kind in Japan. SNHS will provide Japanese law Japanese law Law as it has developed in Japan as a consequence of the combination of two cultural and legal traditions, one indigenous Japanese, the other Western. In the 8th century Japan borrowed and adapted the legal system of the Chinese Tang dynasty. content, editorial staff, knowledge of the Japanese market and a sales channel. Thomson will provide the technology platform, online infrastructure, online information solutions, and the Westlaw brand. SNHS said the venture will focus on opportunities driven by the anticipated increase in the adoption of online legal information services See Information Systems. by Japanese legal professionals. Finally, West has also launched Counsel Monitor, an intelligence service designed to help corporate legal departments explain the business implications of legal trends by company, industry and law firm. The service aggregates case law and dockets from Westlaw, and assists the user in identifying litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. trends, monitor competitive representation and benchmark within an industry. It also provides an overview of the latest news, current legal activity and deals. It shows which law firms and attorneys represent specific companies, and distribution of cases among state and federal courts. |
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