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Don’t Look Over Your Shoulder – The Robots May Be Coming For You Next
February 1, 2014
Lawyers will always be required for sage advice and counsel. Of course, that assumes that lawyers will be needed in a world where document review will be by computers, using predictive coding. And that criminal sentencing may be a mathematical equation requiring only a computer. Or a world in which disputes are no longer resolved by jury trials; but, by alternative dispute resolution.
February 1, 2014
Lawyers will always be required for sage advice and counsel. Of course, that assumes that lawyers will be needed in a world where document review will be by computers, using predictive coding. And that criminal sentencing may be a mathematical equation requiring only a computer. Or a world in which disputes are no longer resolved by jury trials; but, by alternative dispute resolution.
Flashback: Forbes: Your Negotiation Crystal Ball Has Arrived
February 1, 2014
Launching at LegalTech New York today, Picture It Settled® software is being billed as a highly-intelligent predictive analytics tool that guides inside and outside attorneys through the negotiation process, based on deep data harvested from thousands of cases. The online-accessible technology was created by a team of attorneys and statisticians led by Don Philbin, a nationally recognized attorney-mediator based in San Antonio. Using neural networks, probability theory and behavioral patterns,...
February 1, 2014
Launching at LegalTech New York today, Picture It Settled® software is being billed as a highly-intelligent predictive analytics tool that guides inside and outside attorneys through the negotiation process, based on deep data harvested from thousands of cases. The online-accessible technology was created by a team of attorneys and statisticians led by Don Philbin, a nationally recognized attorney-mediator based in San Antonio. Using neural networks, probability theory and behavioral patterns,...
Speeding Up Settlement With a Predictive App
February 1, 2014
Associate general counsel Mary Brennan Stitch credited a piece of software with helping her company settle a case by predicting the outcome of various moves during negotiations. “Despite all the books and classes we may have consumed on the art of negotiating, too often we rely largely on educated guesses and gut instinct to dictate our strategy and negotiation tactics,” said Stitch in a statement. She serves as chief litigation counsel at San Antonio–based Rackspace Hosting Inc., which...
February 1, 2014
Associate general counsel Mary Brennan Stitch credited a piece of software with helping her company settle a case by predicting the outcome of various moves during negotiations. “Despite all the books and classes we may have consumed on the art of negotiating, too often we rely largely on educated guesses and gut instinct to dictate our strategy and negotiation tactics,” said Stitch in a statement. She serves as chief litigation counsel at San Antonio–based Rackspace Hosting Inc., which...
Web App Helps Rackspace Settle Legal Dispute
January 30, 2014
Rackspace Hosting recently settled a legal dispute with the help of a locally-developed web application. Mary Brennan...
January 30, 2014
Rackspace Hosting recently settled a legal dispute with the help of a locally-developed web application. Mary Brennan...
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case
January 30, 2014
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case Negotiation Moves Predicted Within 3.5% in New Case Study...
January 30, 2014
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case Negotiation Moves Predicted Within 3.5% in New Case Study...
Valuing IP Claims: Google Sells Handset Business to Lenovo at Loss
January 29, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK +4.58% agreed to buy Google Inc. GOOG -1.43% 's Motorola Mobility unit for $2.91 billion, a deal that reverses the Internet company's short-lived move into smartphone hardware. The deal will transfer the Motorola handset business to the Chinese company, a new entrant into that market that is trying to build its presence rapidly. But Google will retain the vast majority of patents it acquired in its 2012 purchase of Motorola Mobility, a key motivation of the original...
January 29, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK +4.58% agreed to buy Google Inc. GOOG -1.43% 's Motorola Mobility unit for $2.91 billion, a deal that reverses the Internet company's short-lived move into smartphone hardware. The deal will transfer the Motorola handset business to the Chinese company, a new entrant into that market that is trying to build its presence rapidly. But Google will retain the vast majority of patents it acquired in its 2012 purchase of Motorola Mobility, a key motivation of the original...
What’s the Evidence on Using Rational Argument to Change People’s Minds?
January 26, 2014
What’s the evidence on using rational argument to change people’s minds?. Here’s something from the proposal: Is it true that “you can’t tell anybody anything”? From pub arguments to ideology-driven party political disputes it can sometimes seem like people have their minds all made up, that there’s no point trying to persuade anybody of anything. Popular psychology books reinforce the idea that we’re emotional, irrational creatures (Dan Ariely “Predictably irrational”, David...
January 26, 2014
What’s the evidence on using rational argument to change people’s minds?. Here’s something from the proposal: Is it true that “you can’t tell anybody anything”? From pub arguments to ideology-driven party political disputes it can sometimes seem like people have their minds all made up, that there’s no point trying to persuade anybody of anything. Popular psychology books reinforce the idea that we’re emotional, irrational creatures (Dan Ariely “Predictably irrational”, David...
200 Factors Google Uses to Rank Your Website
January 11, 2014
Tip of the hat to Cindy Greenway of Lawmarketing.com for finding this very useful infographic. Today's infographic, posted...
January 11, 2014
Tip of the hat to Cindy Greenway of Lawmarketing.com for finding this very useful infographic. Today's infographic, posted...
When Average Is Over, Let’s Hope You Can Enhance the “Genius Machines”
January 5, 2014
These trends are very applicable to the practice of law. Whether lawyers like it or not–or whether it actually results in an improvement in the quality of legal services–many of the more mundane tasks of law that can be commoditized will be delegated to “genius machines.” Lawyers who can make those machines smarter (those than can do math), and can learn from them, will prosper. Those who can’t will have a tougher time. It won’t be enough for lawyers to say, oh I can’t do computers,...
January 5, 2014
These trends are very applicable to the practice of law. Whether lawyers like it or not–or whether it actually results in an improvement in the quality of legal services–many of the more mundane tasks of law that can be commoditized will be delegated to “genius machines.” Lawyers who can make those machines smarter (those than can do math), and can learn from them, will prosper. Those who can’t will have a tougher time. It won’t be enough for lawyers to say, oh I can’t do computers,...
Google Wants To Build The Ultimate Personal Assistant
January 4, 2014
Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at theLeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is taking in search. Here’s the gist of it: Google knows our expectations of what a search engine should be able to do is quickly changing. The old “ten blue links” search results...
January 4, 2014
Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at theLeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is taking in search. Here’s the gist of it: Google knows our expectations of what a search engine should be able to do is quickly changing. The old “ten blue links” search results...
