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Government Calling for Public Opinion on Big Data
March 5, 2014
President Obama is calling on senior government officials to review how Big Data affects the lives of Americans, according to a recent statement in the Federal Register. Public input into this effort is now being requested, as the inquiry examines the challenges for both public and private sectors, whether the U.S. can create international norms on how to manage data and promote the free flow of information that is consistent with both privacy and security. Responses to the following questions...
March 5, 2014
President Obama is calling on senior government officials to review how Big Data affects the lives of Americans, according to a recent statement in the Federal Register. Public input into this effort is now being requested, as the inquiry examines the challenges for both public and private sectors, whether the U.S. can create international norms on how to manage data and promote the free flow of information that is consistent with both privacy and security. Responses to the following questions...
Challenging Technical Inertia at Law Firms
March 5, 2014
Roberta Gelb has seen many things in her position as President of Chelsea Office Systems, which she has run since its inception in 1984. She began the panel “Why Does it Cost $800,000 to Produce a Document?” at the Chief Information & Technology Officers Forum with a story. While working with a firm to improve document automation, Gelb encountered a secretary who refused to implement a new fix. Every time the secretary needed to fill out a purchase form, for example, she would find and fill...
March 5, 2014
Roberta Gelb has seen many things in her position as President of Chelsea Office Systems, which she has run since its inception in 1984. She began the panel “Why Does it Cost $800,000 to Produce a Document?” at the Chief Information & Technology Officers Forum with a story. While working with a firm to improve document automation, Gelb encountered a secretary who refused to implement a new fix. Every time the secretary needed to fill out a purchase form, for example, she would find and fill...
Confidentiality Agreements: Some Unintended Consequences
March 4, 2014
This is part of a series of articles on transactional contracts issues by Prof. Michael L. Bloom and students in the Transactional Lab at the University of Michigan Law School. Business transactions often involve parties sharing information that they do not want used or discussed outside of the specific transaction. In an effort to protect their information, parties will often negotiate a confidentiality agreement to prohibit undesired use and disclosure of information. While confidentiality...
March 4, 2014
This is part of a series of articles on transactional contracts issues by Prof. Michael L. Bloom and students in the Transactional Lab at the University of Michigan Law School. Business transactions often involve parties sharing information that they do not want used or discussed outside of the specific transaction. In an effort to protect their information, parties will often negotiate a confidentiality agreement to prohibit undesired use and disclosure of information. While confidentiality...
Voluntary Oregon Early Discussion and Resolution Program Offers Mediation Service to Patients, Medical Providers
March 4, 2014
Last year, the Oregon Legislature passed a resolution creating the voluntary Early Discussion and Resolution (“EDR”) process to address undesired healthcare outcomes. The resolution was signed into law in March and the EDR program is scheduled to go live on July 1, 2014. The EDR process offers a structured, confidential avenue for patients and their loved ones to address adverse healthcare events that did not result from a patient’s underlying illness with medical providers and healthcare...
March 4, 2014
Last year, the Oregon Legislature passed a resolution creating the voluntary Early Discussion and Resolution (“EDR”) process to address undesired healthcare outcomes. The resolution was signed into law in March and the EDR program is scheduled to go live on July 1, 2014. The EDR process offers a structured, confidential avenue for patients and their loved ones to address adverse healthcare events that did not result from a patient’s underlying illness with medical providers and healthcare...
Eastern District of Texas Adopts Model Order for Focusing Patent Claims and Prior Art
March 4, 2014
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013, Chief District Judge Leonard Davis, on behalf of the Eastern District of Texas, adopted a model...
March 4, 2014
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013, Chief District Judge Leonard Davis, on behalf of the Eastern District of Texas, adopted a model...
Use of Planned Early Dispute Resolution
March 4, 2014
Mediations sought by claimants in disputes with insurers before Ontario’s insurance regulator, the Financial Services Commission...
March 4, 2014
Mediations sought by claimants in disputes with insurers before Ontario’s insurance regulator, the Financial Services Commission...
Miami Shines as International Arbitration Hot Spot
March 4, 2014
It sounds like international arbitrators are taking a page out of Will Smith’s book (or at least one of his songs), because Miami has become the hot spot for alternative dispute resolution, according to Joseph Mamounas and Jose Ferrer in Bilzin Sumberg’s New Miami blog. Miami is home to the Latin American headquarters for many multinational companies and is the worldwide base of at least five of the Fortune 500 corporations, according to Mamounas and Ferrer, making it a prime corporate...
March 4, 2014
It sounds like international arbitrators are taking a page out of Will Smith’s book (or at least one of his songs), because Miami has become the hot spot for alternative dispute resolution, according to Joseph Mamounas and Jose Ferrer in Bilzin Sumberg’s New Miami blog. Miami is home to the Latin American headquarters for many multinational companies and is the worldwide base of at least five of the Fortune 500 corporations, according to Mamounas and Ferrer, making it a prime corporate...
Ex-MasterCard GC to Lead ADR Group
March 3, 2014
A top in-house lawyer getting a new job: priceless. Noah Hanft, currently the general counsel and chief franchise officer...
March 3, 2014
A top in-house lawyer getting a new job: priceless. Noah Hanft, currently the general counsel and chief franchise officer...
Click Fraud Detection: Adversarial Pattern Recognition Over 5 Years at Microsoft
March 3, 2014
Abstract. Microsoft adCenter is the third largest Search advertising platform in the United States behind Google and Yahoo, and services about 10% of US traffic. At this scale of traffic approximately 1 billion events per hour, amount-ing to $2.3 billion ad dollars annually, need to be scored to determine if it is fraudulent or bot-generated [46], [51], [58]. In order to accomplish this, adCenter has developed arguably one of the largest data mining systems in the world to score traffic quality,...
March 3, 2014
Abstract. Microsoft adCenter is the third largest Search advertising platform in the United States behind Google and Yahoo, and services about 10% of US traffic. At this scale of traffic approximately 1 billion events per hour, amount-ing to $2.3 billion ad dollars annually, need to be scored to determine if it is fraudulent or bot-generated [46], [51], [58]. In order to accomplish this, adCenter has developed arguably one of the largest data mining systems in the world to score traffic quality,...
Shestowsky on Litigation Preferences
March 3, 2014
I am delighted to share a new article from Donna Shestwosky and look forward to reading her findings! NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW PEOPLE WANT THEIR LAWSUITS RESOLVED As court systems throughout the country struggle to deliver civil justice in the face of budget cuts, a new study by a UC Davis law professor finds that people involved in civil lawsuits prefer mediation to nonbinding arbitration and like judge trials more than jury trials. In her study, “The Psychology of Procedural Preference:...
March 3, 2014
I am delighted to share a new article from Donna Shestwosky and look forward to reading her findings! NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW PEOPLE WANT THEIR LAWSUITS RESOLVED As court systems throughout the country struggle to deliver civil justice in the face of budget cuts, a new study by a UC Davis law professor finds that people involved in civil lawsuits prefer mediation to nonbinding arbitration and like judge trials more than jury trials. In her study, “The Psychology of Procedural Preference:...
