Thomson Reuters Appoints New President of Legal Division
December 30, 2013
We see from a post at the Dewey B Strategic blog, “Thomson Reuters Legal Names First Female President, Susan Taylor Martin,” that the game of musical chairs continues over at one of the world’s largest media and information outfits. Writer Jean P. O’Grady is particularly pleased to see a female executive appear on the legal publishing scene, the lack of which she has written about before.
Taylor Martin, who has been with the company since 1993, has been serving as managing director of Thomson Reuters Legal in the U.K. and Ireland. Like us, O’Grady is full of questions.
She writes:
“It is impossible to second-guess the internal decisions of an organization. Yet I find it somewhat hard to fathom why less than a year after outgoing president Mike Suchsland made the bold pronouncement that TR Legal was no longer in the content business, he is well, out! He didn’t just announce a new direction, it was accompanied by two new cloud based and process centric platforms, Concourse for In House Counsel and Firm Central for small law firms.
Will Ms Martin remain in the UK or will she relocate to the TR Legal headquarters in Egan Minnesota? Does her selection suggest a shift away from a US focus? Is the US market regarded as so mature that TR will focus on the development of non-US legal products?”
Though O’Grady asked Thomson Reuters these questions, as of this writing it looks like she still has not heard back. I suppose we will all have to wait and see where these changes will lead. The media conglomerate can trace its history way, way back to the formation of Sweet and Maxwell legal publishing in 1799.
Cynthia Murrell, December 30, 2013
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