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Negotiating Over the Phone
May 23, 2016
Attorneys negotiate over the telephone all the time and there are some things that you and your client should consider if the parties are trying to work out an agreement. All the negotiating could be done over the phone or the parties may follow up from face to face negotiation or mediation. Either way California Lawyer has some suggestions for communicating with others over the phone. Tips for Negotiating Over the Phone You may dread talking to a particular attorney. Perhaps prior negotiations...
May 23, 2016
Attorneys negotiate over the telephone all the time and there are some things that you and your client should consider if the parties are trying to work out an agreement. All the negotiating could be done over the phone or the parties may follow up from face to face negotiation or mediation. Either way California Lawyer has some suggestions for communicating with others over the phone. Tips for Negotiating Over the Phone You may dread talking to a particular attorney. Perhaps prior negotiations...
Curbing the Runaway Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitration: Making Exceeding the Powers Count
May 23, 2016
Sarah Rudolph Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at Moritz College of Law, has published “Curbing the Runaway Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitration: Making Exceeding the Powers Count,” Alabama Law Review, Forthcoming; Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 344. In her publication, Professor Cole proposes utilizing a standardized “exceeding the powers” standard of review for challenging arbitral awards in state and federal court. Here...
May 23, 2016
Sarah Rudolph Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at Moritz College of Law, has published “Curbing the Runaway Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitration: Making Exceeding the Powers Count,” Alabama Law Review, Forthcoming; Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 344. In her publication, Professor Cole proposes utilizing a standardized “exceeding the powers” standard of review for challenging arbitral awards in state and federal court. Here...
Texas: Court Abused Discretion in Ordering Mediation when Parties Agreed to Arbitrate
May 23, 2016
In In Re Frank A. Smith Sales, Inc. d/b/a Frank Smith Toyota, the Thirteenth District Court of Appeals held that mandamus...
May 23, 2016
In In Re Frank A. Smith Sales, Inc. d/b/a Frank Smith Toyota, the Thirteenth District Court of Appeals held that mandamus...
Uber-Ized Corporate Law: Toward a 21st Century Corporate Governance for Crowdfunding and App-Based Investor Communications
May 22, 2016
J. W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, has published an interesting article entitled “Uber-Ized Corporate Law: Toward a 21st Century Corporate Governance for Crowdfunding and App-Based Investor Communications,” Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 101, 2016; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 16-14. In his scholarly publication, Professor Verret explores the idea of resolving shareholder claims against a corporation by increasing...
May 22, 2016
J. W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, has published an interesting article entitled “Uber-Ized Corporate Law: Toward a 21st Century Corporate Governance for Crowdfunding and App-Based Investor Communications,” Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 101, 2016; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 16-14. In his scholarly publication, Professor Verret explores the idea of resolving shareholder claims against a corporation by increasing...
Settlement Agreements “In Principle” Are Not Enforceable Settlement Agreements
May 22, 2016
Negotiating a settlement can be a tricky business, with drafts going back and forth and language tweaking continually occurring....
May 22, 2016
Negotiating a settlement can be a tricky business, with drafts going back and forth and language tweaking continually occurring....
Lenovo Plans Invests $500 Million in Tech-Startup Fund for AI
May 22, 2016
Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest personal computer maker, plans to invest $500 million in a technology start-up fund, the Beijing-based company said on Wednesday. The fund Lenovo Capital, which will be funded and managed by Lenovo Group, is looking to invest in sectors including artificial intelligence, robot and cloud computing, said the company's senior vice president He Zhiqiang at an event in Beijing. Lenovo has invested $100 million in more than 30 companies in areas including mobile...
May 22, 2016
Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest personal computer maker, plans to invest $500 million in a technology start-up fund, the Beijing-based company said on Wednesday. The fund Lenovo Capital, which will be funded and managed by Lenovo Group, is looking to invest in sectors including artificial intelligence, robot and cloud computing, said the company's senior vice president He Zhiqiang at an event in Beijing. Lenovo has invested $100 million in more than 30 companies in areas including mobile...
The Human Brain May Be Hardwired For Altruism; Certain Activity Inspires People To Be Kind And Generous
May 22, 2016
Psychologists have long debated whether altruism is a learned or innate behavior. "Our altruism may be more hardwired than previously thought," said Christov-Moore, the co-author of a new study in the journal Human Brain Mapping. The study consisted of three parts. First, each participant watched a video of a hand being poked with a pin. Next, the participants were asked to imitate photographs of different faces exhibiting emotions, like happiness, sadness, anger, and excitement. And lastly, the participants...
May 22, 2016
Psychologists have long debated whether altruism is a learned or innate behavior. "Our altruism may be more hardwired than previously thought," said Christov-Moore, the co-author of a new study in the journal Human Brain Mapping. The study consisted of three parts. First, each participant watched a video of a hand being poked with a pin. Next, the participants were asked to imitate photographs of different faces exhibiting emotions, like happiness, sadness, anger, and excitement. And lastly, the participants...
When Experimental Philosophy Meets Psychology
May 21, 2016
A Conversation between Joshua Knobe and Daniel Kahneman DANIEL KAHNEMAN: We're at the nub of the question. You come from philosophy, so there are certain things that are of interest to you. You want to convey two things at once: that the question is exciting, and that you have something new to say about it. It is true that I, as a psychologist, would come to the same question and conclude that it's an impossible question. Those are two impossible questions, and I certainly would not expect people...
May 21, 2016
A Conversation between Joshua Knobe and Daniel Kahneman DANIEL KAHNEMAN: We're at the nub of the question. You come from philosophy, so there are certain things that are of interest to you. You want to convey two things at once: that the question is exciting, and that you have something new to say about it. It is true that I, as a psychologist, would come to the same question and conclude that it's an impossible question. Those are two impossible questions, and I certainly would not expect people...
Will Artificial Intelligence Win the Caption Contest?
May 21, 2016
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don’t just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional emotional meaning. A paper published by Microsoft Research describes an image captioning system that mimics humans’ unique style of visual storytelling. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have spent years teaching computers to label the contents of images, but this new research takes it a step further by teaching a neural-network-based...
May 21, 2016
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don’t just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional emotional meaning. A paper published by Microsoft Research describes an image captioning system that mimics humans’ unique style of visual storytelling. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have spent years teaching computers to label the contents of images, but this new research takes it a step further by teaching a neural-network-based...
Google’s ‘Goals’ Could Be One Of The Largest Behavioral Science Experiments Ever Conducted
May 21, 2016
Can small changes to your calendar have big effects on your behavior? One of the biggest challenges behavioral scientists...
May 21, 2016
Can small changes to your calendar have big effects on your behavior? One of the biggest challenges behavioral scientists...
