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Suffolk Legal Writing Students Will Get Free Licenses to WordRake Editing Software
September 21, 2019
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals. Suffolk’s legal writing program ranked third best in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Law Schools Guide. The program’s director, Kathleen Elliott Vinson, said that WordRake is helpful to students because it requires...
September 21, 2019
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals. Suffolk’s legal writing program ranked third best in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Law Schools Guide. The program’s director, Kathleen Elliott Vinson, said that WordRake is helpful to students because it requires...
An Offer You Can’t Refuse: How A.I. Is Poised to Transform Negotiations. Eye on A.I.
September 12, 2019
Jared Curhan is a professor at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management who specializes in negotiation. His particular...
September 12, 2019
Jared Curhan is a professor at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management who specializes in negotiation. His particular...
Lex Machina releases report on Employment Litigation in the Southeast
September 11, 2019
The Southern District of Texas was one of the busiest venues for employment litigation, according to a report recently released...
September 11, 2019
The Southern District of Texas was one of the busiest venues for employment litigation, according to a report recently released...
“Law Matters — Less Than We Thought” by Klerman and Spamann
September 10, 2019
Daniel M. Klerman (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) and Holger Spamann (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) have published "Law Matters -- Less Than We Thought" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a pre-registered 2×2×2 factorial between-subject randomized lab experiment with 61 federal judges, we test if the law influences judicial decisions, if it does so more under a rule than under a standard, and how its influence compares to that...
September 10, 2019
Daniel M. Klerman (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) and Holger Spamann (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) have published "Law Matters -- Less Than We Thought" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a pre-registered 2×2×2 factorial between-subject randomized lab experiment with 61 federal judges, we test if the law influences judicial decisions, if it does so more under a rule than under a standard, and how its influence compares to that...
Principles for a Judgement Editor Based on Binary Decision Diagrams
September 7, 2019
We introduce the theoretical principles that underlie the design of a software tool which could be used by judges for making decisions about litigations and for writing judgements. The tool is based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), which are graphical representations of truth–valued functions associated to propositional formulas. Given a type of litigation, the tool asks questions to the judge; each question is represented by a propositional atom. Their answers, true or false, allow to evaluate...
September 7, 2019
We introduce the theoretical principles that underlie the design of a software tool which could be used by judges for making decisions about litigations and for writing judgements. The tool is based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDD), which are graphical representations of truth–valued functions associated to propositional formulas. Given a type of litigation, the tool asks questions to the judge; each question is represented by a propositional atom. Their answers, true or false, allow to evaluate...
Do You Have To Be A Jerk To Be Great?
August 30, 2019
Do you have to be so obsessively focused to be great? The traditional masculine answer is yes. But probably the right answer is no. In the first place, being monomaniacal may not even be good for your work. Another book on my summer reading list was “Range,” by David Epstein. It’s a powerful argument that generalists perform better than specialists. ... He shows the same pattern in domain after domain: People who specialize in one thing succeed early, but then they slide back to mediocrity...
August 30, 2019
Do you have to be so obsessively focused to be great? The traditional masculine answer is yes. But probably the right answer is no. In the first place, being monomaniacal may not even be good for your work. Another book on my summer reading list was “Range,” by David Epstein. It’s a powerful argument that generalists perform better than specialists. ... He shows the same pattern in domain after domain: People who specialize in one thing succeed early, but then they slide back to mediocrity...
Robots and AI Threaten to Mediate Disputes Better Than Lawyers
August 27, 2019
Robots and artificial intelligence seem worlds away from the sensitive and nuanced area of international mediation. Here,...
August 27, 2019
Robots and artificial intelligence seem worlds away from the sensitive and nuanced area of international mediation. Here,...
LexisNexis Reengineers CourtLink, Its Docket Research Product
August 26, 2019
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket...
August 26, 2019
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Copyright Registrations Over Time
August 19, 2019
A recent paper reports results from the authors' effort to build what now has to be the single largest U.S. Copyright registration...
August 19, 2019
A recent paper reports results from the authors' effort to build what now has to be the single largest U.S. Copyright registration...
Moffitt on Settlement Malpractice
August 12, 2019
I have been totally remiss in singing the praises of Michael’s new article coming out shortly in the University of Chicago Law Reviewand now, as I am getting ready for class and rereading it, I want to recommend it even more. It’s wonderful empirical work–both creative and comprehensive–with a real impact for what lawyers should know and policy-makers should find troubling. I’ll be teaching this in both my ADR and Ethics classes. Here is the link. And here...
August 12, 2019
I have been totally remiss in singing the praises of Michael’s new article coming out shortly in the University of Chicago Law Reviewand now, as I am getting ready for class and rereading it, I want to recommend it even more. It’s wonderful empirical work–both creative and comprehensive–with a real impact for what lawyers should know and policy-makers should find troubling. I’ll be teaching this in both my ADR and Ethics classes. Here is the link. And here...
