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Within two to three years, accountants may no longer be preparing tax returns or financial statements. So what will your firm be doing instead? In this episode of "Clarity", Nadya Britton, tax insights and strategy lead at the Thomson Reuters Institute, speaks with Allan Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting, and Brian Koltin, Chief Corporate Development Officer, about how AI and private equity are reshaping tax & accounting firms, and the pressure on partner compensation, the new race for talent, and what firms should do now to secure their future.

In our latest "Clarity on Tech" podcast, Natalie Runyon, Content Strategist for the Human Side of AI at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of "The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results", to explore why AI initiatives succeed or fail based on human psychology rather than technology, and what leaders can do to close the gap between strategy and results.

In our latest "Clarity" podcast, Rabihah Butler, content strategist for risk, fraud, compliance, government and courts at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Stephanie Macrafic, Vice President of the ACFE Twin Cities Chapter and Strategic Advisor at RiskScout, to examine and critically assess why BSA/AML and fraud teams need to work together to prevent fraud more effectively and reduce costs for businesses and customers.

In our latest Clarity podcast, Natalie Runyon, Content Strategist for the Human Side of AI at the Thomson Reuters Institute, sits down with Jonah Perlin, Professor of Law in the Legal Practice at Georgetown Law, to unpack whether generative AI is eroding legal writing and research skills or exposing how those skills should have been taught all along.

In the latest episode of Clarity on Tech, Eric Berg, VP, Chief Compliance Officer and Associate General Counsel at IDEX Corporation, sits with TRI's Zach Warren at the recent Future of AI & Technology Forum, and discusses what corporate clients expect from their firms around AI, and how firms can demonstrate an entrepreneurial streak in their approach.

In the latest episode of our Clarity podcast, the Thomson Reuters Institute's Rabihah Butler sits down with David Sanford, Chairman and Co-founder at law firm Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, to talk through his thoughts on corporate executive transitions, and the accompanying red flags, rules agreements, and emotional sensitivity issues.

Damien Weinstein, co-founder and managing partner of law firm Weinstein & Klein, speaks with the Thomson Reuters Institute's Zach Warren about how lawyers can stand out and succeed even when clients are beginning to ask legal questions of AI platforms.

Valerie McConnell, Vice President in Solutions Engineering at Thomson Reuters, speaks with the Thomson Reuters Institute's Zach Warren to break down where human intervention will remain necessary even as AI's capabilities to draft legal briefs and other documents are ever increasing.

Steve Petrie, VP of Transformation Services at Thomson Reuters, talks with Zach Warren, Legal Industry Insights Lead at the Thomson Reuters Institute, about the recent "Turning Law Firm AI Strategies into Practice Report" and the "2026 Stand-out Lawyers Survey"

Almost three-quarters of professionals now use AI several times a week, but are their organizations getting real value from it? In this episode of Clarity on Tech, Mike Abbott speaks with Thomson Reuters segment presidents Raghu Ramanathan (Legal), Elizabeth Beastrom (Tax, Audit & Accounting) and Liz Zimick (Corporates) about key takeaways from our latest Future of Professionals research, including the gap between AI strategy and execution, the rise of shadow AI, and what leaders should do in the next 90 days.

In this episode of "Clarity", Mike Abbott, Head of Thomson Reuters Institute, and Steve Hasker, President and CEO of Thomson Reuters, break down our new Future of Professionals report. This year's findings illustrate a clear shift: AI is embedded in professional work, but its value hinges on effective execution, strategy, and infrastructure. As a result, a gap is forming between those organizations that are achieving real impact and those that are falling behind and seeing growing risks emerge across client relationships, talent, and governance.

In the latest episode of our "Clarity" podcast, the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bryce Engelland and Zach Warren discuss why the Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) is sitting at a dead-average 55 even as law firm revenues break records. The pair unpacks the Q1 2026 numbers and examines what might be keeping the large law firm industry and the LFFI from hitting truly stratospheric heights.

What if the real value of AI for executives isn't a faster answer, but a better argument? In this episode of "Clarity on Tech", the Thomson Reuters Institute's Bryce Engelland sits down with Thomson Reuters enterprise architect Zafar Khan to explore why a single AI advisor is easy to ignore — or to exploit for the answer you wanted to hear — and how a panel of personas built to disagree, including Adrian Vance and Elara Hunt (who joins to field live questions), can turn that structural weakness into smarter, stickier advice.

In the latest episode of our "Clarity" podcast, we speak with James Lephew, founder of AFC Group, a consultaing firm specializing in financial crime prevention, about what the 2026 FIFA World Cup has to do with your organization's anti-money laundering compliance program and how these large global events often bring massive financial flows and human trafficking with them.

Law firms have made their AI investments and are now looking to calculate their ROI — but what should go into that calculation? In the latest episode of our Clarity podcast, Thomson Reuters' Steve Assie speaks with Gregory Ginex, Senior Partner at Costello Ginex & Wideikis; and Nina Lund, Total Economic Impact Consultant at Forrester, about the real business value of legal AI for law firms, including ROI, productivity, client expectations, alternative fee models, and how AI is reshaping legal work.