If the plan was to get you to undelete an email from your “junk” folder, the marketing staff at Thomson Reuters’ ProLaw found the perfect one–two email combination to get you to do just that. Here’s what some of us received in our email boxes this morning:
First email subject line:
For a Limited Time,
As my good friend Jason Wilson told me a few minutes ago, “it is a sad day for legal publishing.” As we mentioned back in April, Thomson Reuters was shutting down its Banks Baldwin operations in Ohio and “after it closes, the work will be shifted to New York, Minnesota, the Philippines and India.” Well,
It seems that Thomson Reuters isn’t just sending legal jobs overseas, there’s a new website called “Reuters EXPOSED” that is discussing TR’s move of journalist jobs overseas, and the folks at the New York Newspaper guild aren’t happy about it. In addition, they point that TR’s CEO, Tom Glocer, is trying to
Well, at least now we can assume we know where a lot of those 132 jobs at Banks-Baldwin are going to wind up. According to the Philippine Business Mirror, Thomson Reuters Legal (TR Legal) is using its 275 employee Taguig City, Philippines office as a launching pad. According the article, the Filipino office will be
Hats off to Thomson Reuters for testing out the ‘crowd’ to help them build mobile apps for their Thomson Reuters API through their “StreetApps Challenge“. There are six “prizes” for apps builders ranging from $15K in cash to an iPad for external contestants, to “Thomson Reuters Points” and “Shown on Thomson Reuters Jumbotron