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How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing the Legal Practice
December 21, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI), or the ability of a computer to complete intelligent tasks normally performed by people, has been a trending topic in the law lately, and for good reason. It has the ability to completely transform how lawyers work. AI has already been used for years with e-discovery platforms, but can AI also be used in another key area of litigation, legal research? Even further, can it ultimately replace attorneys conducting these tasks? To address these questions, I interviewed various...
December 21, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI), or the ability of a computer to complete intelligent tasks normally performed by people, has been a trending topic in the law lately, and for good reason. It has the ability to completely transform how lawyers work. AI has already been used for years with e-discovery platforms, but can AI also be used in another key area of litigation, legal research? Even further, can it ultimately replace attorneys conducting these tasks? To address these questions, I interviewed various...
Predictive Coding: A Better Way to Deal with Electronically Stored Information
December 20, 2016
Litigators bemoan the fact that the volume of documents and data produced and requested during discovery continues to increase year on year—as does the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) that clients must preserve. There is a glut of ESI arising as a consequence of the exponential growth in the creation and exchange of electronic files and email traffic. The result is that even in cases with a relatively low monetary value, there are often still hundreds of thousands or even millions...
December 20, 2016
Litigators bemoan the fact that the volume of documents and data produced and requested during discovery continues to increase year on year—as does the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) that clients must preserve. There is a glut of ESI arising as a consequence of the exponential growth in the creation and exchange of electronic files and email traffic. The result is that even in cases with a relatively low monetary value, there are often still hundreds of thousands or even millions...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Shows Off Jarvis, The AI Butler He Built
December 20, 2016
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday (19 December) showed off his very own artificial intelligence (AI) system that he created in his spare time this year. Inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel's Iron Man comics, Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI system to run his household. "My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence - where we're further along than people realise and where we're still...
December 20, 2016
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Monday (19 December) showed off his very own artificial intelligence (AI) system that he created in his spare time this year. Inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel's Iron Man comics, Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI system to run his household. "My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence - where we're further along than people realise and where we're still...
Confidential Arbitration Agreements for High-Profile Clients and Senior Executives
December 20, 2016
Arbitration agreements are commonplace today. It is difficult to obtain a credit card, sign up for cellular phone service, or purchase goods online without agreeing to arbitrate all disputes that arise from such transactions. Consumer advocates bemoan this development whereby citizens are required to abandon their right to go to court in favor of a system of “private justice.” Mandatory arbitration, they argue, deprives plaintiffs alleging common injury from pursuing their claims through more...
December 20, 2016
Arbitration agreements are commonplace today. It is difficult to obtain a credit card, sign up for cellular phone service, or purchase goods online without agreeing to arbitrate all disputes that arise from such transactions. Consumer advocates bemoan this development whereby citizens are required to abandon their right to go to court in favor of a system of “private justice.” Mandatory arbitration, they argue, deprives plaintiffs alleging common injury from pursuing their claims through more...
Data Tools Offer Hints at How Judges Might Rule
December 19, 2016
Services offer lawyers statistics on how likely a given case is to be dismissed It’s like “Moneyball” for judges. Lawyers looking for an edge in court are increasingly turning to hard data to predict how judges might rule, in some cases long before the judges put pen to paper. New tools, mined from millions of court documents, offer lawyers statistics on the likelihood of a lawsuit’s being dismissed, for instance, or the average wait time until a trial. Lawyers say the data can help...
December 19, 2016
Services offer lawyers statistics on how likely a given case is to be dismissed It’s like “Moneyball” for judges. Lawyers looking for an edge in court are increasingly turning to hard data to predict how judges might rule, in some cases long before the judges put pen to paper. New tools, mined from millions of court documents, offer lawyers statistics on the likelihood of a lawsuit’s being dismissed, for instance, or the average wait time until a trial. Lawyers say the data can help...
5th Circuit Overturns NLRB Yet Again in Class Arbitration Waiver Case
December 19, 2016
The nation’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB) decision directing...
December 19, 2016
The nation’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB) decision directing...
Inside the Arbitrator’s Mind
December 19, 2016
Apropos of our recent focus on arbitrators, a new article recently appreared on SSRN, Inside the Arbitrator’s Mind. The piece, authored by FOI Susan Franck (American), Anna van Aaken (Max Planck Institute), James Freda (United Nations), Chris Guthrie (Vanderbilt) and Jeffery Rachlinksi (Cornell) builds on Guthrie’s and Rachlinkski’s piece Inside the Judicial Mind (with Judge Andrew Weistrich) from the early aughts. The abstract is below. Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute...
December 19, 2016
Apropos of our recent focus on arbitrators, a new article recently appreared on SSRN, Inside the Arbitrator’s Mind. The piece, authored by FOI Susan Franck (American), Anna van Aaken (Max Planck Institute), James Freda (United Nations), Chris Guthrie (Vanderbilt) and Jeffery Rachlinksi (Cornell) builds on Guthrie’s and Rachlinkski’s piece Inside the Judicial Mind (with Judge Andrew Weistrich) from the early aughts. The abstract is below. Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute...
LexisNexis Launches Legal Tech Startup Accelerator in Silicon Valley
December 17, 2016
LexisNexis has launched an accelerator in Silicon Valley designed to give startups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal...
December 17, 2016
LexisNexis has launched an accelerator in Silicon Valley designed to give startups a leg-up in the rapidly expanding legal...
Our Automated Future
December 16, 2016
“Could another person learn to do your job by studying a detailed record of everything you’ve done in the past?” Martin Ford, a software developer, asks early on in “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (Basic Books). “Or could someone become proficient by repeating the tasks you’ve already completed, in the way that a student might take practice tests to prepare for an exam? If so, then there’s a good chance that an algorithm may someday be able to learn...
December 16, 2016
“Could another person learn to do your job by studying a detailed record of everything you’ve done in the past?” Martin Ford, a software developer, asks early on in “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (Basic Books). “Or could someone become proficient by repeating the tasks you’ve already completed, in the way that a student might take practice tests to prepare for an exam? If so, then there’s a good chance that an algorithm may someday be able to learn...
Texas Supreme Court Changes Mind, Tackles Arbitration Appeal
December 16, 2016
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear Forest Oil’s challenge to a $16 million arbitration award over drilling waste pollution on the 27,000-acre McAllen Ranch in Hidalgo County. The neutrality of an arbitrator and the panel’s jurisdiction over the dispute are among the issues raised in a long-running dispute that has been before the Supreme Court previously, producing a 2008 decision that allowed the arbitration to proceed.
December 16, 2016
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear Forest Oil’s challenge to a $16 million arbitration award over drilling waste pollution on the 27,000-acre McAllen Ranch in Hidalgo County. The neutrality of an arbitrator and the panel’s jurisdiction over the dispute are among the issues raised in a long-running dispute that has been before the Supreme Court previously, producing a 2008 decision that allowed the arbitration to proceed.
