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All is well for BigLaw?
August 9, 2013
I spent the last 10 days on vacation. I returned to these stories: • "Don't bury Big Law just yet" (The American Lawyer) •...
August 9, 2013
I spent the last 10 days on vacation. I returned to these stories: • "Don't bury Big Law just yet" (The American Lawyer) •...
Don’t Bury Big Law Just Yet
August 9, 2013
Headlines like “The Last Days of Big Law” are great—eye-catching and search engine–optimized. If only they were true. While it’s always easy to use “anecdata” and argue, loosely, that the fate of one individual firm, say, the late Dewey & LeBoeuf, is a harbinger for the industry as a whole, that’s actually not the case when it comes to big law firms. As Mark Obbie points out in his Slate article, the New Republic's cover story "looks at one sore throat and proclaims...
August 9, 2013
Headlines like “The Last Days of Big Law” are great—eye-catching and search engine–optimized. If only they were true. While it’s always easy to use “anecdata” and argue, loosely, that the fate of one individual firm, say, the late Dewey & LeBoeuf, is a harbinger for the industry as a whole, that’s actually not the case when it comes to big law firms. As Mark Obbie points out in his Slate article, the New Republic's cover story "looks at one sore throat and proclaims...
Dechert Looks to Hollywood for Marketing Edge (video)
August 9, 2013
Duncan Wiggetts, a London-based partner at Dechert, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the release of A Price Worth Paying, a new film produced by the law firm and Area 17 that highlights some of the corporate governance issues facing today's boards. Written by Wiggetts and directed by Nick White—who was shortlisted for the BAFTA Short Film Award in 2011—the 35-minute drama marks a unique foray into law firm marketing. But will it translate into more client work for Dechert?
August 9, 2013
Duncan Wiggetts, a London-based partner at Dechert, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the release of A Price Worth Paying, a new film produced by the law firm and Area 17 that highlights some of the corporate governance issues facing today's boards. Written by Wiggetts and directed by Nick White—who was shortlisted for the BAFTA Short Film Award in 2011—the 35-minute drama marks a unique foray into law firm marketing. But will it translate into more client work for Dechert?
Second Circuit Enforces Class Waiver in Arbitration Clause Following American Express
August 9, 2013
CONCLUSION To summarize, we hold that: (1) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 does not include a “contrary congressional command” that prevents a class-action waiver provision in an arbitration agreement from being enforced by its terms; and (2) In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, 133 S. Ct. 2304 (2013), Sutherland’s argument that proceeding individually in arbitration would be “prohibitively expensive” is not a sufficient...
August 9, 2013
CONCLUSION To summarize, we hold that: (1) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 does not include a “contrary congressional command” that prevents a class-action waiver provision in an arbitration agreement from being enforced by its terms; and (2) In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, 133 S. Ct. 2304 (2013), Sutherland’s argument that proceeding individually in arbitration would be “prohibitively expensive” is not a sufficient...
The Construction of Emotion in Interactions, Relationships, and Cultures
August 9, 2013
Emotions are engagements with a continuously changing world of social relationships. In the present article, we propose that emotions are therefore best conceived as ongoing, dynamic, and interactive processes that are socially constructed. We review evidence for three social contexts of emotion construction that are embedded in each other: The unfolding of emotion within interactions, the mutual constitution of emotion and relationships, and the shaping of emotion at the level of the larger cultural...
August 9, 2013
Emotions are engagements with a continuously changing world of social relationships. In the present article, we propose that emotions are therefore best conceived as ongoing, dynamic, and interactive processes that are socially constructed. We review evidence for three social contexts of emotion construction that are embedded in each other: The unfolding of emotion within interactions, the mutual constitution of emotion and relationships, and the shaping of emotion at the level of the larger cultural...
Bankruptcy Filings Down 13 Percent in June 2013
August 9, 2013
Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2013, fell 13 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2012, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. June 2013 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,137,978, compared to 1,311,602 bankruptcy cases filed in the 12-month period ending June 2012. This is the lowest total for bankruptcy filings in any 12-month period since the one ending Dec. 31, 2008. The following...
August 9, 2013
Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2013, fell 13 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2012, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. June 2013 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,137,978, compared to 1,311,602 bankruptcy cases filed in the 12-month period ending June 2012. This is the lowest total for bankruptcy filings in any 12-month period since the one ending Dec. 31, 2008. The following...
Masters of our Own Destiny: Marc Teerlink at TEDxFlanders
August 8, 2013
Marc Teerlink, consumer psychologist, a passionate speaker and visionary from IBM, the company that created Watson - the first non-human winner of Jeopardy! Marc will takes the audience on a roller coaster ride, through witty, yet down to earth, examples of the digitization of society and what we can expect of it in the coming three years.
August 8, 2013
Marc Teerlink, consumer psychologist, a passionate speaker and visionary from IBM, the company that created Watson - the first non-human winner of Jeopardy! Marc will takes the audience on a roller coaster ride, through witty, yet down to earth, examples of the digitization of society and what we can expect of it in the coming three years.
List of Cognitive Biases
August 8, 2013
Many of these biases affect belief formation, business and economic decisions, and human behavior in general. They arise...
August 8, 2013
Many of these biases affect belief formation, business and economic decisions, and human behavior in general. They arise...
Jumping to Conclusions, Malcom Gladwell Edition
August 8, 2013
Back in 2009, when Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote Too Big To Fail, Moe Tkacik picked up on one particular anecdote: that Joe Gregory,...
August 8, 2013
Back in 2009, when Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote Too Big To Fail, Moe Tkacik picked up on one particular anecdote: that Joe Gregory,...
Google’s Android Seizes Smartphone Market
August 8, 2013
Google Inc.'s GOOG +0.33% Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple Inc. AAPL -0.82%and BlackBerry Ltd. BB.T 0.00% Google's Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple and BlackBerry. George Stahl reports on MoneyBeat. New data Wednesday from research firm IDC found that Apple's share of the global market slid to 13.2%...
August 8, 2013
Google Inc.'s GOOG +0.33% Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple Inc. AAPL -0.82%and BlackBerry Ltd. BB.T 0.00% Google's Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple and BlackBerry. George Stahl reports on MoneyBeat. New data Wednesday from research firm IDC found that Apple's share of the global market slid to 13.2%...
