Thompson

Anne Thompson is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With over 17 years experience in developing software applications for legal professionals, Anne brings a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing the legal community and the public whom it serves.

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FINN

Mostly silent partner. Also based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 14 years experience chasing squirrels, Finn brings a reality check to the nature of work and has taught me well that “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

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mission

To keep people at the heart of all endeavors.

Recent Achievements

UX for startups

Read about the collaboration with Resolve Disputes Online under Projects. Anne enjoyed providing guidance to an energetic and passionate team to help them achieve their vision of greater access to justice!

Design

Not so recent, but integral to Anne’s professional career at Thomson Reuters; she worked with a cross-functional team of over 350 people using Agile methodologies to develop Westlaw which launched in 2010.

This involved:

  • managing visual design and CSS resources

  • helping plan and execute customer research with over 3,000 customers

  • managing a beta release for 300 customers across all law firm segments

DEVELOPMENT

Judicial Chambers—Partnered with judges, law clerks, designers and developers to create a secure, cloud-based document drafting and collaboration solution, integrating Westlaw search and citation markup capabilities.

IJIS COURTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Drafted high-level scope and definition document on Knowledge Management for the Court Component Model to support the Joint Technology Committee’s strategic objectives for 2018–2019.

BLOCKCHAIN

  • Co-led a workshop at the IJIS Symposium with federal, state and local government agency participants to elicit potential use cases for distributed ledger technology for interagency records management.

  • Co-presented with Paul Embley and Di Graski at IJIS Symposium, IJIS Mid-year Briefing and at ASU’s Center for Law, Science and Innovation Workshop, focusing on use cases in the public sector and statewide legislative activity.