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If you can Lead you can Negotiate
September 19, 2016
Researchers constantly seek to learn more about the trick to being a good leader. According to Dina Krasikova, assistant professor of management at the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA), confidence is the key to being a successful and creative leader. This research can also help understand some of the tools necessary to be a good mediator. “When leaders feel confident that they can produce creative outcomes, their subordinates become more creative,” she said. “It’s that simple....
September 19, 2016
Researchers constantly seek to learn more about the trick to being a good leader. According to Dina Krasikova, assistant professor of management at the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA), confidence is the key to being a successful and creative leader. This research can also help understand some of the tools necessary to be a good mediator. “When leaders feel confident that they can produce creative outcomes, their subordinates become more creative,” she said. “It’s that simple....
Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making
September 18, 2016
From the article: “The prevalence of noise has been demonstrated in several studies. Academic researchers have repeatedly confirmed that professionals often contradict their own prior judgments when given the same data on different occasions. For instance, when software developers were asked on two separate days to estimate the completion time for a given task, the hours they projected differed by 71%, on average. When pathologists made two assessments of the severity of biopsy results, the correlation...
September 18, 2016
From the article: “The prevalence of noise has been demonstrated in several studies. Academic researchers have repeatedly confirmed that professionals often contradict their own prior judgments when given the same data on different occasions. For instance, when software developers were asked on two separate days to estimate the completion time for a given task, the hours they projected differed by 71%, on average. When pathologists made two assessments of the severity of biopsy results, the correlation...
Stanford Student’s Robot Lawyer Fights Parking Tickets
September 18, 2016
From JD Journal: DoNotPay’s developer Joshua Browder told ABC News that it has helped appeal over 175,000 tickets worth roughly $5 million. So far, DoNotPay has been set up in New York and London, and Browder named Seattle as it’s next destination. “Whenever I try to expand to a new area I always do it based on demand,” Browder said. “Lots of people are writing (and) saying that Seattle should be the next place.” ABC News stated that the Seattle option went live on Friday evening. Drivers...
September 18, 2016
From JD Journal: DoNotPay’s developer Joshua Browder told ABC News that it has helped appeal over 175,000 tickets worth roughly $5 million. So far, DoNotPay has been set up in New York and London, and Browder named Seattle as it’s next destination. “Whenever I try to expand to a new area I always do it based on demand,” Browder said. “Lots of people are writing (and) saying that Seattle should be the next place.” ABC News stated that the Seattle option went live on Friday evening. Drivers...
Post-Vacation Divorce
September 18, 2016
From Bloomberg: The post-vacation hangover may be dangerous for your marriage. Filings for divorce spike twice a year, in March and August, according to a new study. University of Washington sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini found divorce filings seem to follow the annual schedule of family holidays: lowest in November and December, then peaking in March after the passage of winter holidays and Valentine's Day. Filings drop in April and don't spike again until...
September 18, 2016
From Bloomberg: The post-vacation hangover may be dangerous for your marriage. Filings for divorce spike twice a year, in March and August, according to a new study. University of Washington sociology professor Julie Brines and doctoral candidate Brian Serafini found divorce filings seem to follow the annual schedule of family holidays: lowest in November and December, then peaking in March after the passage of winter holidays and Valentine's Day. Filings drop in April and don't spike again until...
Donating $7 Million Divorce Settlement to Charity
September 17, 2016
From USA Today: Amber Heard is donating the entirety of her settlement money from Johnny Depp to charity, the actress said in a statement on Thursday. "As described in the restraining order and divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves," says Heard in a statement sent to USA TODAY. Heard, 30, reached settlement terms with Depp, 52, on Tuesday,...
September 17, 2016
From USA Today: Amber Heard is donating the entirety of her settlement money from Johnny Depp to charity, the actress said in a statement on Thursday. "As described in the restraining order and divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves," says Heard in a statement sent to USA TODAY. Heard, 30, reached settlement terms with Depp, 52, on Tuesday,...
ILTA Survey: The AI Results
September 17, 2016
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) recently published its ‘Technology Purchasing Survey’ during its marquee annual event in Maryland, USA, giving significant space to AI in the results for the first time. The first finding of the report regarding artificial intelligence (AI) software is that 3% of responding members said they had made legal AI software ‘purchases’ in the last 12 months and 6% intended to do so in the following 12 months, or 9% over a 24 month...
September 17, 2016
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) recently published its ‘Technology Purchasing Survey’ during its marquee annual event in Maryland, USA, giving significant space to AI in the results for the first time. The first finding of the report regarding artificial intelligence (AI) software is that 3% of responding members said they had made legal AI software ‘purchases’ in the last 12 months and 6% intended to do so in the following 12 months, or 9% over a 24 month...
Ray Kurzweil on the Amazing Future He Sees
September 17, 2016
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist, a director of engineering at Google and a co-founder of the Singularity University think tank...
September 17, 2016
Ray Kurzweil is a futurist, a director of engineering at Google and a co-founder of the Singularity University think tank...
Meditation May Make You Better at Negotiation
September 16, 2016
Meditation is seen as a way to relax, focus on yourself and clear your cluttered brain of extraneous and harmful thoughts. Dina Kaplan, in an article in Forbes magazine, wrote about how meditation may make you better at negotiation She stated she thought meditation would help her in her personal life but it also helped her professionally. She says it “dramatically” improved her negotiation skills. Kaplan writes she was a “terrible” negotiator, often not getting what she wanted and angering...
September 16, 2016
Meditation is seen as a way to relax, focus on yourself and clear your cluttered brain of extraneous and harmful thoughts. Dina Kaplan, in an article in Forbes magazine, wrote about how meditation may make you better at negotiation She stated she thought meditation would help her in her personal life but it also helped her professionally. She says it “dramatically” improved her negotiation skills. Kaplan writes she was a “terrible” negotiator, often not getting what she wanted and angering...
Resolving Complex Environmental Disputes
September 16, 2016
The parties agreed to the following goals: (1) share their independent, on-site investigation results; (2) jointly share the costs of investigating the off-site “regional” groundwater contamination plume; (3) agree on the most effective and least costly remedial approach; and then (4) prepare a joint remedial action plan for agency approval. In the mediation, as the parties shared investigation results, they bid out the remedial work to a single contractor who would perform the work specified...
September 16, 2016
The parties agreed to the following goals: (1) share their independent, on-site investigation results; (2) jointly share the costs of investigating the off-site “regional” groundwater contamination plume; (3) agree on the most effective and least costly remedial approach; and then (4) prepare a joint remedial action plan for agency approval. In the mediation, as the parties shared investigation results, they bid out the remedial work to a single contractor who would perform the work specified...
