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Litigation Risk Assessment: A Tool to Enhance Negotiation
December 12, 2017
Comparisons between final settlement offers and trial outcomes raise serious questions about whether lawyers and clients...
December 12, 2017
Comparisons between final settlement offers and trial outcomes raise serious questions about whether lawyers and clients...
How A Tired Mind Limits the Body
December 8, 2017
But even here the body/mind distinction proves illusory. Consider a new paper by Daniel Longman, Jay Stock and Jonathan Wells. Their subjects were sixty-two male rowers from the University of Cambridge. They were all in excellent shape. On their first visit to the lab, the men rowed as intensely as possible for three minutes as the scientists tracked their total power output. On their second visit, the men were given an arduous mental task. Seventy-five words were briefly flashed on a screen; their...
December 8, 2017
But even here the body/mind distinction proves illusory. Consider a new paper by Daniel Longman, Jay Stock and Jonathan Wells. Their subjects were sixty-two male rowers from the University of Cambridge. They were all in excellent shape. On their first visit to the lab, the men rowed as intensely as possible for three minutes as the scientists tracked their total power output. On their second visit, the men were given an arduous mental task. Seventy-five words were briefly flashed on a screen; their...
How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation
December 7, 2017
It’s hard not to get worked up emotionally when you’re in a tense conversation. After all, a disagreement can feel like a threat. You’re afraid you’re going to have to give up something — your point of view, the way you’re used to doing something, the notion that you’re right, or maybe even power – and your body therefore ramps up for a fight by triggering the sympathetic nervous system. This is a natural response, but the problem is that our bodies and minds aren’t particularly...
December 7, 2017
It’s hard not to get worked up emotionally when you’re in a tense conversation. After all, a disagreement can feel like a threat. You’re afraid you’re going to have to give up something — your point of view, the way you’re used to doing something, the notion that you’re right, or maybe even power – and your body therefore ramps up for a fight by triggering the sympathetic nervous system. This is a natural response, but the problem is that our bodies and minds aren’t particularly...
34th Annual Texas Bar Litigation Update Institute
December 6, 2017
34th Annual Litigation Update Institute Cosponsored by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas MCLE Credit: 14 hours (including 1 hour ethics). Applies to the Texas Bar College & Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Appellate, Civil Trial, and Personal Injury Trial Law. Austin - Live Presentation January 11-12, 2018 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Register by December 28 and save up to $100! Bring your new associates - attorneys licensed 5 years...
December 6, 2017
34th Annual Litigation Update Institute Cosponsored by the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas MCLE Credit: 14 hours (including 1 hour ethics). Applies to the Texas Bar College & Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Appellate, Civil Trial, and Personal Injury Trial Law. Austin - Live Presentation January 11-12, 2018 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Register by December 28 and save up to $100! Bring your new associates - attorneys licensed 5 years...
How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect The Practice of Law
December 5, 2017
Benjamin Alarie (Toronto), Anthony Niblett (Toronto) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect the Practice of Law: Artificial intelligence is exerting an influence on all professions and industries. We have autonomous vehicles, instantaneous translation among the world’s leading languages, and search engines that rapidly locate information anywhere on the web in a way that is tailored to a user’s interests and past search history. Law is not immune from disruption...
December 5, 2017
Benjamin Alarie (Toronto), Anthony Niblett (Toronto) & Albert Yoon (Toronto), How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect the Practice of Law: Artificial intelligence is exerting an influence on all professions and industries. We have autonomous vehicles, instantaneous translation among the world’s leading languages, and search engines that rapidly locate information anywhere on the web in a way that is tailored to a user’s interests and past search history. Law is not immune from disruption...
More realtime data on Google Trends
December 3, 2017
Google Trends can be window into the world, giving us a peek into what people are searching for—whether it’s elections, music, sports or games. Now you can see the world in realtime through more lenses: News, Shopping, Images and YouTube. We’re opening up more data to show what people in the world are looking for, as they’re looking for it—whether it’s just out of curiosity, to write a story or something else. And it’s really easy to do: say you’re curious about search interest...
December 3, 2017
Google Trends can be window into the world, giving us a peek into what people are searching for—whether it’s elections, music, sports or games. Now you can see the world in realtime through more lenses: News, Shopping, Images and YouTube. We’re opening up more data to show what people in the world are looking for, as they’re looking for it—whether it’s just out of curiosity, to write a story or something else. And it’s really easy to do: say you’re curious about search interest...
Understanding Medical Conversations
December 2, 2017
Good documentation helps create good clinical care by communicating a doctor's thinking, their concerns, and their plans to the rest of the team. Unfortunately, physicians routinely spend more time doing documentation than doing what they love most — caring for patients. Doctors often spend ~6 hours in an 11-hour workday in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) on documentation.1Consequently, one study found that more than half of surveyed doctors report at least one symptom of burnout.2 In...
December 2, 2017
Good documentation helps create good clinical care by communicating a doctor's thinking, their concerns, and their plans to the rest of the team. Unfortunately, physicians routinely spend more time doing documentation than doing what they love most — caring for patients. Doctors often spend ~6 hours in an 11-hour workday in the Electronic Health Records (EHR) on documentation.1Consequently, one study found that more than half of surveyed doctors report at least one symptom of burnout.2 In...
Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights
December 2, 2017
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed 100 drop-offs to strategically placed vans in Zurich with a perfect safety record and more deliveries are planned for next year. About 50 individual customers placed orders with Swiss online shopping platform Siroop, choosing “airmail deals” from selected items from retailer Black & Blaze Coffee Roasting Co. for same-day delivery. The drones...
December 2, 2017
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed 100 drop-offs to strategically placed vans in Zurich with a perfect safety record and more deliveries are planned for next year. About 50 individual customers placed orders with Swiss online shopping platform Siroop, choosing “airmail deals” from selected items from retailer Black & Blaze Coffee Roasting Co. for same-day delivery. The drones...
Listening Leads to Empathy
December 1, 2017
Have you ever sat back with your eyes closed and listened to music or someone speaking? Why did you do it? Probably, to appreciate more fully and deeply what you were hearing. By shutting down one of our senses, we allow ourselves to hone in more deeply to the music or conversation. Well, you are not crazy for doing this. A recent study, posted on LiveScience.com (posted on October 10, 2017 entitled Listen, Don’t Look: Why Your Ears Can Tell More Than Your Eyes by Samantha Mattewson) reveals...
December 1, 2017
Have you ever sat back with your eyes closed and listened to music or someone speaking? Why did you do it? Probably, to appreciate more fully and deeply what you were hearing. By shutting down one of our senses, we allow ourselves to hone in more deeply to the music or conversation. Well, you are not crazy for doing this. A recent study, posted on LiveScience.com (posted on October 10, 2017 entitled Listen, Don’t Look: Why Your Ears Can Tell More Than Your Eyes by Samantha Mattewson) reveals...
Oberdiek on a Normative Theory of Risk Imposition
November 29, 2017
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law School) has posted Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (OUP, 2017) (Introduction) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is the Introduction to Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (Oxford University Press, 2017). Human life has always been shadowed by risks like disease and natural disaster, but modern life is distinctively risky. In the first instance, today, risk utterly permeates life. The sheer variety and scope of risks that attend industrialized and industrializing...
November 29, 2017
John Oberdiek (Rutgers Law School) has posted Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (OUP, 2017) (Introduction) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is the Introduction to Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (Oxford University Press, 2017). Human life has always been shadowed by risks like disease and natural disaster, but modern life is distinctively risky. In the first instance, today, risk utterly permeates life. The sheer variety and scope of risks that attend industrialized and industrializing...
