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Ten Things GCs Need to Know When Searching for the Perfect Arbitration Clause
October 24, 2016
In this edition of “Ten Things,” former Travelocity and Sabre General Counsel Sterling Miller searches for the perfect arbitration clause. Alas, much like Moby Dick, El Dorado, Sasquatch, and honesty in politicians, the search comes up dry. But, with a little work, you can come up with a “really damn good” arbitration clause that will better suit your company’s interests and goals. It requires time and effort, such as taking a long look at the clauses you are using now and asking yourself...
October 24, 2016
In this edition of “Ten Things,” former Travelocity and Sabre General Counsel Sterling Miller searches for the perfect arbitration clause. Alas, much like Moby Dick, El Dorado, Sasquatch, and honesty in politicians, the search comes up dry. But, with a little work, you can come up with a “really damn good” arbitration clause that will better suit your company’s interests and goals. It requires time and effort, such as taking a long look at the clauses you are using now and asking yourself...
Study Investigates Public–Private Partnership Disputes
October 24, 2016
Highlights This study investigates public–private partnership disputes and their critical influential factors. ...
October 24, 2016
Highlights This study investigates public–private partnership disputes and their critical influential factors. ...
AI, Start-ups and Incubators: The Legal Geek Conference
October 23, 2016
Artificial Lawyer spent 12 happy hours at the Legal Geek Conference on Brick Lane in East London yesterday and can confirm to those who might be wondering, that yes, this was the best legal tech event of the year. Jimmy Vestbirk, Legal GeekThe success of the event was very much driven by entrepreneur, Jimmy Vestbirk, who created Legal Geek and set the tone from the get-go, with a great Truman Brewery space for the event and mandatory high fives to the attendees sitting on either...
October 23, 2016
Artificial Lawyer spent 12 happy hours at the Legal Geek Conference on Brick Lane in East London yesterday and can confirm to those who might be wondering, that yes, this was the best legal tech event of the year. Jimmy Vestbirk, Legal GeekThe success of the event was very much driven by entrepreneur, Jimmy Vestbirk, who created Legal Geek and set the tone from the get-go, with a great Truman Brewery space for the event and mandatory high fives to the attendees sitting on either...
Bloomberg Law’s New Litigation Analytics Peeks Under the Robes of Judicial Data
October 23, 2016
Last year, I wrote here that judge analytics is the new black. I was referring to the growing selection of tools that analyze case dockets and judicial opinions to provide insights into how judges rule on various types of matters and how long it takes them to do so. Products in this space include ALM’s Judicial Perspectives, Lex Machina, Premonition and Ravel Law with its Judge Analytics. Now comes Bloomberg Law to the mix with its launch yesterday of Litigation Analytics. It aims...
October 23, 2016
Last year, I wrote here that judge analytics is the new black. I was referring to the growing selection of tools that analyze case dockets and judicial opinions to provide insights into how judges rule on various types of matters and how long it takes them to do so. Products in this space include ALM’s Judicial Perspectives, Lex Machina, Premonition and Ravel Law with its Judge Analytics. Now comes Bloomberg Law to the mix with its launch yesterday of Litigation Analytics. It aims...
Half-Billion-Dollar Divorce Blows Up in Galveston
October 23, 2016
After a $416 million judgment is overturned, the couple is legally married again Did you hear about the half-billion dollar divorce in Galveston? Bet not. The divorce was done so quietly that two years ago, almost no one heard about the $416 million ruling a Galveston court declared in Winnie Alwazzan's favor. It was so quiet, lawyers contend, that even Winnie's estranged husband, Isa Alwazzan, didn't know. For the past several years, Isa has lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Winnie says...
October 23, 2016
After a $416 million judgment is overturned, the couple is legally married again Did you hear about the half-billion dollar divorce in Galveston? Bet not. The divorce was done so quietly that two years ago, almost no one heard about the $416 million ruling a Galveston court declared in Winnie Alwazzan's favor. It was so quiet, lawyers contend, that even Winnie's estranged husband, Isa Alwazzan, didn't know. For the past several years, Isa has lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Winnie says...
How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
October 22, 2016
The ability to learn from experience will likely be a key in enabling robots to help with complex real-world tasks, from assisting the elderly with chores and daily activities, to helping us in offices and hospitals, to performing jobs that are too dangerous or unpleasant for people. However, if each robot must learn its full repertoire of skills for these tasks only from its own experience, it could take far too long to acquire a rich enough range of behaviors to be useful. Could we bridge this...
October 22, 2016
The ability to learn from experience will likely be a key in enabling robots to help with complex real-world tasks, from assisting the elderly with chores and daily activities, to helping us in offices and hospitals, to performing jobs that are too dangerous or unpleasant for people. However, if each robot must learn its full repertoire of skills for these tasks only from its own experience, it could take far too long to acquire a rich enough range of behaviors to be useful. Could we bridge this...
Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google
October 22, 2016
Recently, there have been significant advances in Machine Learning that enable computer systems to solve complex real-world problems. One of those advances is Google’s large scale, graph-based machine learning platform, built by the Expander team in Google Research. A technology that is behind many of the Google products and features you may use everyday, graph-based machine learning is a powerful tool that can be used to power useful features such as reminders in Inbox and smart messaging in Allo,...
October 22, 2016
Recently, there have been significant advances in Machine Learning that enable computer systems to solve complex real-world problems. One of those advances is Google’s large scale, graph-based machine learning platform, built by the Expander team in Google Research. A technology that is behind many of the Google products and features you may use everyday, graph-based machine learning is a powerful tool that can be used to power useful features such as reminders in Inbox and smart messaging in Allo,...
A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale
October 22, 2016
Ten years ago, we announced the launch of Google Translate, together with the use of Phrase-Based Machine Translation as the key algorithm behind this service. Since then, rapid advances in machine intelligence have improved our speech recognition and image recognition capabilities, but improving machine translation remains a challenging goal. Today we announce the Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which utilizes state-of-the-art training techniques to achieve the largest improvements...
October 22, 2016
Ten years ago, we announced the launch of Google Translate, together with the use of Phrase-Based Machine Translation as the key algorithm behind this service. Since then, rapid advances in machine intelligence have improved our speech recognition and image recognition capabilities, but improving machine translation remains a challenging goal. Today we announce the Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which utilizes state-of-the-art training techniques to achieve the largest improvements...
Will AI Rush in a ‘Skills Renaissance’ in Law?
October 21, 2016
What’s the deal with young people these days? Well, in the context of lawyers, the young are leading the way with technology. A recent Reuters blog pegs the innovators’ age range between generations Y (born mid-70s to early 2000s) and Z (the 90s – 2000s), within which lie the individuals that are transforming the future of legal services. And nothing looks to impact law more significantly in the coming decade than artificial intelligence (AI). The real-world benefit of its application is “continuing...
October 21, 2016
What’s the deal with young people these days? Well, in the context of lawyers, the young are leading the way with technology. A recent Reuters blog pegs the innovators’ age range between generations Y (born mid-70s to early 2000s) and Z (the 90s – 2000s), within which lie the individuals that are transforming the future of legal services. And nothing looks to impact law more significantly in the coming decade than artificial intelligence (AI). The real-world benefit of its application is “continuing...
Ways to Make a Great First Impression Without Saying a Word
October 21, 2016
Whether you’re meeting a prospective client, interviewing for a job or meeting someone to negotiate or mediate a legal matter, first impressions matter. They set the tone of the relationship between you and the other person or people. If you blunder in the future you may be able get back on track but that’s not a situation you want to be in. Minda Zetlin has a number of suggestions on how to make a good impression without saying a word in an article in Inc. magazine. Be on time. Arriving...
October 21, 2016
Whether you’re meeting a prospective client, interviewing for a job or meeting someone to negotiate or mediate a legal matter, first impressions matter. They set the tone of the relationship between you and the other person or people. If you blunder in the future you may be able get back on track but that’s not a situation you want to be in. Minda Zetlin has a number of suggestions on how to make a good impression without saying a word in an article in Inc. magazine. Be on time. Arriving...
