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Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative
July 7, 2014
The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative — a project of CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — is apparently...
July 7, 2014
The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative — a project of CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — is apparently...
Bar Associations: Protecting Consumers or the Status Quo?
July 6, 2014
Some Bar Associations are behind the times. And some are challenged by the dual and potentially conflicting roles they play: one, to self-regulate the practice of law in order to protect consumers; and two, to protect the guild of lawyers from competition. A recent Texas State Bar ethics ruling demands a reaction because not only does it fail to protect consumers, it creates additional barriers for advancing the profession. The ruling states that a Texas law firm may not use “officer” or “principal”...
July 6, 2014
Some Bar Associations are behind the times. And some are challenged by the dual and potentially conflicting roles they play: one, to self-regulate the practice of law in order to protect consumers; and two, to protect the guild of lawyers from competition. A recent Texas State Bar ethics ruling demands a reaction because not only does it fail to protect consumers, it creates additional barriers for advancing the profession. The ruling states that a Texas law firm may not use “officer” or “principal”...
Law Review Colloquium on Law Reviews
July 6, 2014
The Thomas E. Cooley Law Review has published a lengthy set of articles on law reviews. You can access it here. If you are looking for advice on how to spruce up your law school’s journals, you may find some here. However, if you are aware that fewer and fewer lawyers, courts, and law students are looking to law reviews—except authors in search of footnotes for their pieces— and you are looking for innovative thinking, you’re looking in the wrong place. Few of us read law reviews for entertainment...
July 6, 2014
The Thomas E. Cooley Law Review has published a lengthy set of articles on law reviews. You can access it here. If you are looking for advice on how to spruce up your law school’s journals, you may find some here. However, if you are aware that fewer and fewer lawyers, courts, and law students are looking to law reviews—except authors in search of footnotes for their pieces— and you are looking for innovative thinking, you’re looking in the wrong place. Few of us read law reviews for entertainment...
E-Discovery: Even IRS Computers Crash
July 6, 2014
On June 17, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen sat before a firing range of politicians in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, more than a month after his agency produced a June 13 letter describing the tax authority’s efforts to produce documents related to the Tea Party 501(c)(3) investigation. While disappearing government email might seem cliché, the facts behind the headlines are pretty easily understandable. Put simply: no money, no storage. The short...
July 6, 2014
On June 17, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen sat before a firing range of politicians in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, more than a month after his agency produced a June 13 letter describing the tax authority’s efforts to produce documents related to the Tea Party 501(c)(3) investigation. While disappearing government email might seem cliché, the facts behind the headlines are pretty easily understandable. Put simply: no money, no storage. The short...
2013 Report Shows Increase in Federal and State Wiretaps
July 2, 2014
The number of federal and state wiretaps authorized in 2013 increased 5 percent over 2012, with telephone wiretaps the most...
July 2, 2014
The number of federal and state wiretaps authorized in 2013 increased 5 percent over 2012, with telephone wiretaps the most...
Dealing with Difficult People? Lessons from Ronald Reagan
June 30, 2014
In recent months, U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have struggled to find a winning strategy to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to back away from his aggressions toward Ukraine. In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Ken Adelman, U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations and arms-control director, writes that recently declassified accounts of negotiations between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offer lessons that could help Western leaders...
June 30, 2014
In recent months, U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders have struggled to find a winning strategy to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to back away from his aggressions toward Ukraine. In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Ken Adelman, U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations and arms-control director, writes that recently declassified accounts of negotiations between Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offer lessons that could help Western leaders...
Making College Count
June 29, 2014
Jun. 27, 2014 - 6:31 - Trinity University vice president Michael Fischer says scholarship programs are key to revamping student...
June 29, 2014
Jun. 27, 2014 - 6:31 - Trinity University vice president Michael Fischer says scholarship programs are key to revamping student...
Texas Bar Joins List of Jurisdictions to Offer Free Fastcase Access
June 29, 2014
Fastcase, as you may know, is one several online legal research alternatives to Westlaw and Lexis that have sprung up in the last...
June 29, 2014
Fastcase, as you may know, is one several online legal research alternatives to Westlaw and Lexis that have sprung up in the last...
SmartWatch Fever
June 29, 2014
I catch a lot of flak from friends and others about my addiction to SmartWatches. Hey, buying and reviewing the latest in wearable computers is a dirty job; but, somebody has to do it. This is the first time I am waiting on two SmartWatches at the same time. Okay, one of them is a smartwatchphone that I bought from Asia just for fun; but, the other is the Gear Live, which is the newest member of the family of watches I might actually wear. I love my Gear 2 Neo and wear it every day. But, the appeal...
June 29, 2014
I catch a lot of flak from friends and others about my addiction to SmartWatches. Hey, buying and reviewing the latest in wearable computers is a dirty job; but, somebody has to do it. This is the first time I am waiting on two SmartWatches at the same time. Okay, one of them is a smartwatchphone that I bought from Asia just for fun; but, the other is the Gear Live, which is the newest member of the family of watches I might actually wear. I love my Gear 2 Neo and wear it every day. But, the appeal...
Preparing for the ‘Internet of Things’
June 28, 2014
In the early 1980s, programmers at Carnegie Mellon University connected a Coke machine to the World Wide Web. Users could check the status of the machine and availability of products over the Internet before walking to the machine. It's generally considered the first example of an Internet appliance, and the beginning of the "Internet of things." By 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth, with the number of connected things expected to reach...
June 28, 2014
In the early 1980s, programmers at Carnegie Mellon University connected a Coke machine to the World Wide Web. Users could check the status of the machine and availability of products over the Internet before walking to the machine. It's generally considered the first example of an Internet appliance, and the beginning of the "Internet of things." By 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth, with the number of connected things expected to reach...
