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Hearing Held to Determine Whether NFL Concussion Litigation Should be Arbitrated
April 13, 2013
Yesterday, a hearing was reportedly held in a Philadelphia federal court to determine whether a lawsuit filed by approximately...
April 13, 2013
Yesterday, a hearing was reportedly held in a Philadelphia federal court to determine whether a lawsuit filed by approximately...
A Mention of a Google Alerts Alternative
April 13, 2013
Another Google product which may soon disappear is Google Alerts. Alerts are absolutely essential to keep track of a brand...
April 13, 2013
Another Google product which may soon disappear is Google Alerts. Alerts are absolutely essential to keep track of a brand...
Building a Better Tech School
April 13, 2013
IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University. In truth, it doesn’t look like much — just cubicles and meeting rooms in space donated by Google. But looks deceive; here, with little fanfare, Cornell’s new graduate school of applied sciences is being rolled out. The sparkling, sprawling new campus on Roosevelt Island filled with gee-whiz technology...
April 13, 2013
IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University. In truth, it doesn’t look like much — just cubicles and meeting rooms in space donated by Google. But looks deceive; here, with little fanfare, Cornell’s new graduate school of applied sciences is being rolled out. The sparkling, sprawling new campus on Roosevelt Island filled with gee-whiz technology...
Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays
April 13, 2013
The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial. At a time of slashed judicial budgets across the country, the Bronx offers a stark picture of what happens when an overwhelmed justice system can no longer keep pace: Old cases pile up, prosecutions fail at alarming rates, lives stall while waiting for court hearings and trust in the system...
April 13, 2013
The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial. At a time of slashed judicial budgets across the country, the Bronx offers a stark picture of what happens when an overwhelmed justice system can no longer keep pace: Old cases pile up, prosecutions fail at alarming rates, lives stall while waiting for court hearings and trust in the system...
Patent Grant Estimate for 2013: 267k Utility Patents
April 13, 2013
The chart below shows the number of utility patents issued each calendar year with an estimate for 2013 based upon the first...
April 13, 2013
The chart below shows the number of utility patents issued each calendar year with an estimate for 2013 based upon the first...
What ABA Techshow Shows About Tech
April 13, 2013
In looking back on Techshow, I saw that four themes predominated there, and it struck me that they pretty well summed up the state...
April 13, 2013
In looking back on Techshow, I saw that four themes predominated there, and it struck me that they pretty well summed up the state...
Workshop “Network Analysis in Law” @ International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law – Rome 2013
April 13, 2013
This Workshop builds upon the “Network Analysis and the Law” Tutorial that Mike Bommarito and I ran at Jurix 2011 in Vienna. It was a great honor to be an organizer for both the overall Artificial Intelligence and Law 2013 Conference as well as the Network Analysis and Law workshop. Looking forward to great week of rigorous technical papers at Artificial Intelligence and Law 2013 in Rome in early June!
April 13, 2013
This Workshop builds upon the “Network Analysis and the Law” Tutorial that Mike Bommarito and I ran at Jurix 2011 in Vienna. It was a great honor to be an organizer for both the overall Artificial Intelligence and Law 2013 Conference as well as the Network Analysis and Law workshop. Looking forward to great week of rigorous technical papers at Artificial Intelligence and Law 2013 in Rome in early June!
Roger Fisher, Dean of Dispute Resolution, 1922-2012
April 13, 2013
Roger Fisher, Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on August 25, 2012, at the age of 90. Founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and later the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, co-author of the seminal and perennially bestselling Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, pioneer in teaching negotiation, and inveterate, self-starting peacemaking interventionist, Fisher had an extraordinary impact...
April 13, 2013
Roger Fisher, Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on August 25, 2012, at the age of 90. Founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project and later the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, co-author of the seminal and perennially bestselling Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, pioneer in teaching negotiation, and inveterate, self-starting peacemaking interventionist, Fisher had an extraordinary impact...
Difficult Conversations
April 12, 2013
A few weeks ago, I conducted a “lemon law” mediation. Over the past few months, most of these have been conducted by using separate sessions only; counsel have not wanted to participate in joint sessions. However, this time, plaintiff’s counsel wanted to hold a joint session. Defense counsel who had worked frequently with plaintiff’s counsel in the past and had a cordial relationship with plaintiff’s counsel, agreed. Plaintiff’s counsel explained that she wanted to go through each...
April 12, 2013
A few weeks ago, I conducted a “lemon law” mediation. Over the past few months, most of these have been conducted by using separate sessions only; counsel have not wanted to participate in joint sessions. However, this time, plaintiff’s counsel wanted to hold a joint session. Defense counsel who had worked frequently with plaintiff’s counsel in the past and had a cordial relationship with plaintiff’s counsel, agreed. Plaintiff’s counsel explained that she wanted to go through each...
Relooking at Sacred Cows…
April 12, 2013
Since I am asking my students to think critically about what they are learning, I decided I was going to engage in the exercise of applying interests-based analysis to this sacred cow. If we took the statement of “Thou Shalt Not Suggest Solutions” as a statement of position and explored the interests beneath this position, I wondered if we could nonetheless provide solutions while still addressing the real concerns behind the statement. Of the top of my head, I can think of 2 main reasons...
April 12, 2013
Since I am asking my students to think critically about what they are learning, I decided I was going to engage in the exercise of applying interests-based analysis to this sacred cow. If we took the statement of “Thou Shalt Not Suggest Solutions” as a statement of position and explored the interests beneath this position, I wondered if we could nonetheless provide solutions while still addressing the real concerns behind the statement. Of the top of my head, I can think of 2 main reasons...
