What You Need to Know

• In a recent lawsuit, a former Thomson Reuters editor claimed the company sought to "make an example of her" after she led a group of employees in voicing concern over the company's contracts with the DHS and ICE.
• Thomson Reuters employees as well as staff from LexisNexis’ brands tied to parent company RELX have voiced their concerns to respective leadership and demanded their companies cut contracts with the federal immigration authorities or DHS as a whole.
• Thomson Reuters’ long-term minority investor BCGEU said that it has been raising similar issues to those described in the lawsuit since 2020.

An ex-Thomson Reuters attorney editor is accusing her former employer of firing her in retaliation for her reporting that the company's products were being used to unlawfully compile and deliver sensitive data to federal immigration authorities.

In a lawsuit filed last week, the former editor claimed Thomson Reuters sought to "make an example of her" after she led a group of employees in voicing concern over the company's contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The controversy around Thomson Reuters’ data sharing is not unique in legal tech. LexisNexis parent company RELX and its subsidiary LexisNexis Risk Solutions, has also received pushback over contractual ties to federal immigration authorities.

Since March, Thomson Reuters employees as well as staff from LexisNexis’ brands...

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