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New US Patent Lawsuits Set to Drop Dramatically in 2016 According to Lex Machina
December 7, 2016
It has been clear for most of 2016 that the number of new patent litigation cases was going to be down this year in the US. But it is now becoming...
December 7, 2016
It has been clear for most of 2016 that the number of new patent litigation cases was going to be down this year in the US. But it is now becoming...
Tort Tactics: An Empirical Study of Personal Injury Litigation Strategies
December 7, 2016
This paper reveals some of the tactics that lawyers may use when conducting personal injury litigation. The research is empirically based by being drawn from structured interviews with a cross-section of practitioners. This qualitative evidence helps to place the rules of tort in a wider context and suggests that tactical considerations may affect the outcome of individual cases irrespective of their legal merits. A range of strategies are considered here to illustrate how they may be used at different...
December 7, 2016
This paper reveals some of the tactics that lawyers may use when conducting personal injury litigation. The research is empirically based by being drawn from structured interviews with a cross-section of practitioners. This qualitative evidence helps to place the rules of tort in a wider context and suggests that tactical considerations may affect the outcome of individual cases irrespective of their legal merits. A range of strategies are considered here to illustrate how they may be used at different...
“Power Poses” Don’t Stand Up
December 6, 2016
Perhaps you’ve seen the famous TED talk about so-called power poses. It encouraged viewers to change the course of their lives by assuming what are thought of as dominant postures. "So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space. You're basically opening up. It's about opening up." That's Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy. Her talk is the second most-watched on the TED site: 37 million views. The 2010 study by Cuddy and colleagues that inspired the talk stated that striking power poses...
December 6, 2016
Perhaps you’ve seen the famous TED talk about so-called power poses. It encouraged viewers to change the course of their lives by assuming what are thought of as dominant postures. "So you make yourself big, you stretch out, you take up space. You're basically opening up. It's about opening up." That's Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy. Her talk is the second most-watched on the TED site: 37 million views. The 2010 study by Cuddy and colleagues that inspired the talk stated that striking power poses...
An Empirical Examination of the Effect of the Compensation Requirement on Eminent-Domain Exercises
December 5, 2016
We empirically test the fiscal-illusion hypothesis in the takings context in Israel. Israeli law allows local governments...
December 5, 2016
We empirically test the fiscal-illusion hypothesis in the takings context in Israel. Israeli law allows local governments...
The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods
December 4, 2016
Can Supreme Court rulings change Americans’ policy views? Prior experimental and observational studies come to conflicting conclusions because of methodological limitations. We argue that existing studies overlook the media’s critical role in communicating Court decisions and theorize that major decisions change Americans’ opinions most when the media offer one-sided coverage supportive of the Court majority. We fielded nationally representative surveys shortly before and after two major Supreme...
December 4, 2016
Can Supreme Court rulings change Americans’ policy views? Prior experimental and observational studies come to conflicting conclusions because of methodological limitations. We argue that existing studies overlook the media’s critical role in communicating Court decisions and theorize that major decisions change Americans’ opinions most when the media offer one-sided coverage supportive of the Court majority. We fielded nationally representative surveys shortly before and after two major Supreme...
Nextlaw Labs Invests in On Demand Legal Company ‘Hire an Esquire’
December 4, 2016
Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech innovation platform of global law firm Dentons, has expanded its portfolio today with an investment...
December 4, 2016
Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech innovation platform of global law firm Dentons, has expanded its portfolio today with an investment...
Why Facebook Rules the World
December 4, 2016
One day, when historians tell the strange story of the 21st century, this age of software and smartphones, populism and Pokemon,...
December 4, 2016
One day, when historians tell the strange story of the 21st century, this age of software and smartphones, populism and Pokemon,...
Relative Judgments
December 3, 2016
This paper presents a theory of relative judgments, suggesting that judges evaluate individual cases on the basis of how those cases are ranked in comparison to the other cases in their caseloads. Consequently, judges view a case more severely when their caseloads contain milder cases and more leniently when their caseloads contain graver cases. The paper develops a novel empirical identification strategy that exploits the properties of caseload distribution under random assignment of cases as a source...
December 3, 2016
This paper presents a theory of relative judgments, suggesting that judges evaluate individual cases on the basis of how those cases are ranked in comparison to the other cases in their caseloads. Consequently, judges view a case more severely when their caseloads contain milder cases and more leniently when their caseloads contain graver cases. The paper develops a novel empirical identification strategy that exploits the properties of caseload distribution under random assignment of cases as a source...
Google Music Tries To Read Your Mood
December 3, 2016
Google says its music tool will get smarter with playlists that take into account location, time and even the weather. It’s...
December 3, 2016
Google says its music tool will get smarter with playlists that take into account location, time and even the weather. It’s...
LinkedIn Engagement on the Rise for Lawyers
December 3, 2016
The amount of engagement on LinkedIn is on the rise. More comments and likes on posts, more requests to connect and more messages exchanged between connections. This is all good for lawyers. LinkedIn’s been a “safer” and more “understandable” social network for lawyers and law firms than Facebook and Twitter. Rather than trying to figure out offline who to meet and how to meet them, lawyers are meeting people and building relationships from their desktop or iPhone.
December 3, 2016
The amount of engagement on LinkedIn is on the rise. More comments and likes on posts, more requests to connect and more messages exchanged between connections. This is all good for lawyers. LinkedIn’s been a “safer” and more “understandable” social network for lawyers and law firms than Facebook and Twitter. Rather than trying to figure out offline who to meet and how to meet them, lawyers are meeting people and building relationships from their desktop or iPhone.
