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What ‘Moneyball’ Taught Us About Unbundling Diligence
July 18, 2014
Sometimes change is sought. Sometimes it is dictated. Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s major league baseball team and protagonist in the Michael Lewis book “Moneyball” (2003), found himself in the latter category as his club was cutting expenses—including his best players—while his competition was spending more. He needed a way to beat those teams, and traditional ways of winning typically required great players making big salaries. We’re in a place now in the legal...
July 18, 2014
Sometimes change is sought. Sometimes it is dictated. Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s major league baseball team and protagonist in the Michael Lewis book “Moneyball” (2003), found himself in the latter category as his club was cutting expenses—including his best players—while his competition was spending more. He needed a way to beat those teams, and traditional ways of winning typically required great players making big salaries. We’re in a place now in the legal...
Minimizing the Litigation Risk in Mediation
July 14, 2014
Litigation is defined in numerous dictionaries in various ways. One definition is “The legal process of spending a lot of time, effort and money in court proceedings which may or may not resolve a dispute between two or more parties.” Commercial disputes can be expensive, time consuming, aggravating, acrimonious, and wearing on individuals and families and take valuable time away from home, business and family. Litigation is risky business. Lawyers may not have fully prepared for hearings...
July 14, 2014
Litigation is defined in numerous dictionaries in various ways. One definition is “The legal process of spending a lot of time, effort and money in court proceedings which may or may not resolve a dispute between two or more parties.” Commercial disputes can be expensive, time consuming, aggravating, acrimonious, and wearing on individuals and families and take valuable time away from home, business and family. Litigation is risky business. Lawyers may not have fully prepared for hearings...
Nate Silver’s Failure as Celebrated as Brazil’s Collapse
July 12, 2014
The world may still be reeling from last night’s World Cup semi-Final between Germany and Brazil, but none more so than Nate Silver the celebrated statistician behind the fivethiryeight blog. Silver had pegged Brazil as the favourites to win the cup and stated their chances of success against Germany last night at 65%. Silver shot to prominence during the 2008 presidential elections when writing, initially under the pseudonym Poblano on the blog Daily Kos, before transferring to his own site...
July 12, 2014
The world may still be reeling from last night’s World Cup semi-Final between Germany and Brazil, but none more so than Nate Silver the celebrated statistician behind the fivethiryeight blog. Silver had pegged Brazil as the favourites to win the cup and stated their chances of success against Germany last night at 65%. Silver shot to prominence during the 2008 presidential elections when writing, initially under the pseudonym Poblano on the blog Daily Kos, before transferring to his own site...
Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI: How Silicon Valley’s Lex Machina is Blending AI and Data Analytics to Alter Patent Litigation
July 12, 2014
“There’s been a quiet transition going on in the legal world,” Katz says. And that transition will shake up the legal...
July 12, 2014
“There’s been a quiet transition going on in the legal world,” Katz says. And that transition will shake up the legal...
Influential Papers for 2013
July 10, 2014
Googlers across the company actively engage with the scientific community by publishing technical papers, contributing open-source packages, working on standards, introducing new APIs and tools, giving talks and presentations, participating in ongoing technical debates, and much more. Our publications offer technical and algorithmic advances, feature aspects we learn as we develop novel products and services, and shed light on some of the technical challenges we face at Google. Below are some of the especially...
July 10, 2014
Googlers across the company actively engage with the scientific community by publishing technical papers, contributing open-source packages, working on standards, introducing new APIs and tools, giving talks and presentations, participating in ongoing technical debates, and much more. Our publications offer technical and algorithmic advances, feature aspects we learn as we develop novel products and services, and shed light on some of the technical challenges we face at Google. Below are some of the especially...
Surden: Computable Contracts – Part 2
July 8, 2014
Professor Harry Surden of the University of Colorado has posted Computable Contracts – Part 2, at Concurring Opinions. Here is a summary of the post: This is the second part of a series explaining “computable contracts.” For more about what a computable contract is, please see the first part here. [...] The goal of this second part is to explain the intuition behind how an ordinary contract can become a computable contract. Three Steps to Computable Contracting There are three steps...
July 8, 2014
Professor Harry Surden of the University of Colorado has posted Computable Contracts – Part 2, at Concurring Opinions. Here is a summary of the post: This is the second part of a series explaining “computable contracts.” For more about what a computable contract is, please see the first part here. [...] The goal of this second part is to explain the intuition behind how an ordinary contract can become a computable contract. Three Steps to Computable Contracting There are three steps...
Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative
July 7, 2014
The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative — a project of CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — is apparently...
July 7, 2014
The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative — a project of CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics — is apparently...
Ex-Google Lawyer on Becoming an Ex-Google Lawyer
June 24, 2014
Michael Yang, the general counsel of the photo-sharing website Pinterest Inc., has been asked so often for advice about leaving Google Inc.’s legal department (which he did) that he has written an essay suggesting what factors to consider when making a move. And Yang, a former deputy general counsel at Google before joining Pinterest in 2012, has plenty of good things to say about his former employer in "Should I Leave Google Legal?" on the social publishing platform Medium. First, Yang asks...
June 24, 2014
Michael Yang, the general counsel of the photo-sharing website Pinterest Inc., has been asked so often for advice about leaving Google Inc.’s legal department (which he did) that he has written an essay suggesting what factors to consider when making a move. And Yang, a former deputy general counsel at Google before joining Pinterest in 2012, has plenty of good things to say about his former employer in "Should I Leave Google Legal?" on the social publishing platform Medium. First, Yang asks...
Will the Rise of the Machine Bring Lawyers New Clients?
June 23, 2014
Online kits to do you taxes or make a will are one thing, but robotic doctors and automated architects are another entirely. Tom Meltzer in a story in The Guardian explores how the professions could be at risk in the digital age and what, exactly, that means for lawyers. “Economists and futurists know it’s not all doom and gloom, but it is all change,” said Meltzer. He cites research by Associated Press reporters who analyzed employment data and found that contrary to popular belief, it’s...
June 23, 2014
Online kits to do you taxes or make a will are one thing, but robotic doctors and automated architects are another entirely. Tom Meltzer in a story in The Guardian explores how the professions could be at risk in the digital age and what, exactly, that means for lawyers. “Economists and futurists know it’s not all doom and gloom, but it is all change,” said Meltzer. He cites research by Associated Press reporters who analyzed employment data and found that contrary to popular belief, it’s...
Texas Bar Corporate Counsel Section: Online Mediation
June 23, 2014
Business Law Section and Corporate Counsel Section Thursday, June 26, 2014 Austin Convention Center, Room 19AB 8:50...
June 23, 2014
Business Law Section and Corporate Counsel Section Thursday, June 26, 2014 Austin Convention Center, Room 19AB 8:50...
