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MIT: Moneyball and Faculty Rankings
February 21, 2014
How are scholars ranked for promotion, tenure and honors? How can we improve the quantitative tools available for decision makers when making such decisions? Can we predict the academic impact of scholars and papers at early stages using quantitative tools? Current academic decisions (hiring, tenure, prizes) are mostly very subjective. In the era of “Big Data,” a solid quantitative set of measurements should be used to support this decision process. This paper presents a method for predicting...
February 21, 2014
How are scholars ranked for promotion, tenure and honors? How can we improve the quantitative tools available for decision makers when making such decisions? Can we predict the academic impact of scholars and papers at early stages using quantitative tools? Current academic decisions (hiring, tenure, prizes) are mostly very subjective. In the era of “Big Data,” a solid quantitative set of measurements should be used to support this decision process. This paper presents a method for predicting...
Highly Accurate Predictive Analytics Used to Help Settle Longshot Mediation
February 18, 2014
According to reports, Mary Brennan Stich, Vice-President and Associate General Counsel of Rackspace Hosting, recently used...
February 18, 2014
According to reports, Mary Brennan Stich, Vice-President and Associate General Counsel of Rackspace Hosting, recently used...
Google Apps Vault Introduces Targeted Legal Holds
February 15, 2014
Google Apps Vault helps protect organizations of all sizes by enabling them to quickly find and preserve email messages that may be relevant to litigation, thereby reducing investigation costs. Vault also helps manage and preserve business-critical information for continuity, compliance, and regulatory purposes. Last year, the introduction of partial domain licensing allowed Vault customers to save money by buying Vault only for specific users or organizational units. Today, we're going a step...
February 15, 2014
Google Apps Vault helps protect organizations of all sizes by enabling them to quickly find and preserve email messages that may be relevant to litigation, thereby reducing investigation costs. Vault also helps manage and preserve business-critical information for continuity, compliance, and regulatory purposes. Last year, the introduction of partial domain licensing allowed Vault customers to save money by buying Vault only for specific users or organizational units. Today, we're going a step...
Thomson Reuters Rolls Out New Legal Document Drafting Tools
February 15, 2014
The new tools are part of its cloud based Concourse platform launched last year for corporate and government legal departments. ...
February 15, 2014
The new tools are part of its cloud based Concourse platform launched last year for corporate and government legal departments. ...
ABA Lit GC Conf Tomorrow: Leveraging Tech in Mediation
February 13, 2014
Learn how "big data" and other technologies can be used to predict mediation outcomes and leave, or put, more money in your...
February 13, 2014
Learn how "big data" and other technologies can be used to predict mediation outcomes and leave, or put, more money in your...
Lex Machina at LegalTech New York
February 12, 2014
At LegalTech, one of the more interesting panels featured Dan Katz of ReInvent Law and Josh Becker of Lex Machina. I tweeted...
February 12, 2014
At LegalTech, one of the more interesting panels featured Dan Katz of ReInvent Law and Josh Becker of Lex Machina. I tweeted...
February 8, 2014
55Josh King @joshuamking 11h Official footage of @scottgreenfield at #reinventlaw. Note the name tag. pic.twitter.com/N5wMsIkQqT Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More Retweeted by Scott Greenfield and 1 other 50Right Brain Law @rightbrainlaw 12h My favorite picture from #reinventlaw today. Stoked that @ScottGreenfield showed up! pic.twitter.com/eIMz2j4izO Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More Favorited...
Fielding a ‘Moneyball’ Compliance Program
February 7, 2014
“There are rich teams, and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap. And then there's us.” - Brad Pitt, as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, in “Moneyball” All compliance professionals, even those who have never even seen a baseball game, can learn something from the 2011 Brad Pitt film “Moneyball”—the true story about how in 2002 the struggling Oakland Athletics team made more with less. And won. A lot. You have to actually see the movie or, even better,...
February 7, 2014
“There are rich teams, and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap. And then there's us.” - Brad Pitt, as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, in “Moneyball” All compliance professionals, even those who have never even seen a baseball game, can learn something from the 2011 Brad Pitt film “Moneyball”—the true story about how in 2002 the struggling Oakland Athletics team made more with less. And won. A lot. You have to actually see the movie or, even better,...
How Analytics Can Vastly Improve the Negotiation Process
February 7, 2014
Data plays a role in everything. And as we as a society collect more and more data, the ability to parse through it effectively...
February 7, 2014
Data plays a role in everything. And as we as a society collect more and more data, the ability to parse through it effectively...
Legal Technology Disrupters and Why You Need to Take Note
February 5, 2014
Yes, I am still reading Richard Susskind‘s Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future. Chapter 5: Disruptive Legal Technologies definitely caught my attention: * * * 2. Big Data Yes, it’s a buzz term, but there is something behind it. Just like when Kevin O’Keefe and I sat around a table at the Bonaventure Hotel many years ago trying to figure out what this Twitter thing was all about. There is something “there” here. Very little work has yet been undertaken on the relevance...
February 5, 2014
Yes, I am still reading Richard Susskind‘s Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future. Chapter 5: Disruptive Legal Technologies definitely caught my attention: * * * 2. Big Data Yes, it’s a buzz term, but there is something behind it. Just like when Kevin O’Keefe and I sat around a table at the Bonaventure Hotel many years ago trying to figure out what this Twitter thing was all about. There is something “there” here. Very little work has yet been undertaken on the relevance...
