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Law Firms Are Sponsoring Incubators, Cozying Up With Young Entrepreneurs
May 29, 2014
On the 25th floor of the high-rise where Foley & Lardner has its Chicago offices, some of the city's most promising high-tech startup companies have set up shop in a space the firm set aside just for them. The companies include an e-commerce site for fashion, an online learning company, a promotions company and a company that provides evaluations of medical devices—all of which have, and likely will continue to have, a host of legal needs. If someone has a question or needs some legal documents,...
May 29, 2014
On the 25th floor of the high-rise where Foley & Lardner has its Chicago offices, some of the city's most promising high-tech startup companies have set up shop in a space the firm set aside just for them. The companies include an e-commerce site for fashion, an online learning company, a promotions company and a company that provides evaluations of medical devices—all of which have, and likely will continue to have, a host of legal needs. If someone has a question or needs some legal documents,...
Lack of Vision in Law School Strategizing
May 28, 2014
Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Irvine), Creating a Law School That Emphasizes Public Interest Law, 7 DePaul J. for Soc. Just. 1 (2013) talks about his deanship in the project of founding the law school in Irvine. It really is a shame Irvine, with all that money, just aimed to be a generic top 20 law school instead of experimenting. And more important than money: it began with no vested interests in the form of stodgy and divided faculty to overcome. It's only chance to truly make top 20, as opposed...
May 28, 2014
Erwin Chemerinsky (UC-Irvine), Creating a Law School That Emphasizes Public Interest Law, 7 DePaul J. for Soc. Just. 1 (2013) talks about his deanship in the project of founding the law school in Irvine. It really is a shame Irvine, with all that money, just aimed to be a generic top 20 law school instead of experimenting. And more important than money: it began with no vested interests in the form of stodgy and divided faculty to overcome. It's only chance to truly make top 20, as opposed...
Scalia: Most Law Schools Will Have to Cut Tuition; Cutting Faculty Would ‘Be No Huge Disaster’
May 28, 2014
Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t agree with proposals to cut law-school education from three to two years, but that doesn’t mean he opposes reform. In a commencement speech to William & Mary law graduates earlier this month, Scalia said tuition will have to be cut at the “vast majority” of law schools. And that means some painful choices will have to be made. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and Above the Law note Scalia’s speech (PDF), posted online last Thursday. Scalia...
May 28, 2014
Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t agree with proposals to cut law-school education from three to two years, but that doesn’t mean he opposes reform. In a commencement speech to William & Mary law graduates earlier this month, Scalia said tuition will have to be cut at the “vast majority” of law schools. And that means some painful choices will have to be made. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog and Above the Law note Scalia’s speech (PDF), posted online last Thursday. Scalia...
An Updated Database of State Tort Law Reforms (5th)
May 28, 2014
Ronen Avraham (Texas) recently alerted me to an update of one of the more helpful resources around for those who study torts and tort reform. Specifically, the Database of State Tort Law Reforms (DSTLR 5th) seeks to create "one 'canonized' dataset will increase our understanding of tort reform’s impacts on our lives." A fuller (though excerpted) description follows. "This manuscript of the DSTLR (5th) updates the DSTLR (4th) and contains the most detailed, complete and comprehensive legal...
May 28, 2014
Ronen Avraham (Texas) recently alerted me to an update of one of the more helpful resources around for those who study torts and tort reform. Specifically, the Database of State Tort Law Reforms (DSTLR 5th) seeks to create "one 'canonized' dataset will increase our understanding of tort reform’s impacts on our lives." A fuller (though excerpted) description follows. "This manuscript of the DSTLR (5th) updates the DSTLR (4th) and contains the most detailed, complete and comprehensive legal...
DARPA-Funded Computerized Psychologists Can Diagnose Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
May 28, 2014
A veteran is having a virtual therapy session. His counselor is named Ellie, and she is, among other things, a very good listener. She's responsive to the soldier's comments. She reads the subtleties of his facial expressions. She nods appreciatively at his insights. She grimaces, slightly, when he tells her about a trauma he experienced. Ellie is an avatar, a virtual therapist developed at USC with funding from DARPA, the Defense Department's advanced research center. And "people love interacting...
May 28, 2014
A veteran is having a virtual therapy session. His counselor is named Ellie, and she is, among other things, a very good listener. She's responsive to the soldier's comments. She reads the subtleties of his facial expressions. She nods appreciatively at his insights. She grimaces, slightly, when he tells her about a trauma he experienced. Ellie is an avatar, a virtual therapist developed at USC with funding from DARPA, the Defense Department's advanced research center. And "people love interacting...
Here’s Why Believing People Can Change Is So Important in Life
May 28, 2014
Adolescents who believe people can change cope better with the challenges of attending high school, a new study finds. In contrast, those who believed that people’s personalities are fixed and unchangeable fared worse, suffering higher levels of stress and poorer physical health. The study’s authors were inspired by the idea that the high school years are a defining period in life: “Iconic films such as The Breakfast Club or Back to the Future depict teens as indelibly marked as “losers,”...
May 28, 2014
Adolescents who believe people can change cope better with the challenges of attending high school, a new study finds. In contrast, those who believed that people’s personalities are fixed and unchangeable fared worse, suffering higher levels of stress and poorer physical health. The study’s authors were inspired by the idea that the high school years are a defining period in life: “Iconic films such as The Breakfast Club or Back to the Future depict teens as indelibly marked as “losers,”...
Can Cognitive Training Boost Self-Control?
May 27, 2014
I’m someone who when sat in front of a fast food menu will always make a beeline for the most artery-clogging burger and a large...
May 27, 2014
I’m someone who when sat in front of a fast food menu will always make a beeline for the most artery-clogging burger and a large...
LegalZoom Hits a Legal Hurdle in North Carolina
May 27, 2014
While the purveyor of online self-help documents LegalZoom was still probably celebrating the South Carolina Supreme Court’s...
May 27, 2014
While the purveyor of online self-help documents LegalZoom was still probably celebrating the South Carolina Supreme Court’s...
Analyzing Financial Fraud Cases Using a Linguistics-Based Text Mining Approach
May 27, 2014
The paper proposes a linguistics-based text mining approach to automate the process of extracting financial concepts from...
May 27, 2014
The paper proposes a linguistics-based text mining approach to automate the process of extracting financial concepts from...
Accounting Class Action Filings and Settlements—2013 Review
May 27, 2014
The number of accounting case settlements in 2013 increased for the second year in a row, but remained low compared with the previous 10 years, according to Cornerstone Research’s latest report, Accounting Class Action Filings and Settlements—2013 Review and Analysis. While the number of securities class action filings that included accounting allegations (47) remained relatively constant in 2013 compared with 2012, the market capitalization losses associated with these filings more than doubled. More...
May 27, 2014
The number of accounting case settlements in 2013 increased for the second year in a row, but remained low compared with the previous 10 years, according to Cornerstone Research’s latest report, Accounting Class Action Filings and Settlements—2013 Review and Analysis. While the number of securities class action filings that included accounting allegations (47) remained relatively constant in 2013 compared with 2012, the market capitalization losses associated with these filings more than doubled. More...
