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Big Data, Internet and the Technology that will Define the Future of Business
March 21, 2015
Our social environment, how we enjoy ourselves, how we buy, what we study, how we travel,… Everything we do has changed...
March 21, 2015
Our social environment, how we enjoy ourselves, how we buy, what we study, how we travel,… Everything we do has changed...
BigLaw’s Ralph Baxter Joins Lex Machina
March 20, 2015
Legal analytics innovator Lex Machina has recruited Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe former chair Ralph Baxter onto the company’s...
March 20, 2015
Legal analytics innovator Lex Machina has recruited Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe former chair Ralph Baxter onto the company’s...
Robots are the Lawyers of the Future
March 19, 2015
Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. Writing in The Sunday Times, Andrew Keen - author of 'The Internet is Not the Answer' - says: 'Oddly enough, it's the most skilled workers who will be the most vulnerable in the second machine age.' He then explains that gardeners and cooks might not be replaced by software and then points to lawyers...
March 19, 2015
Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. Writing in The Sunday Times, Andrew Keen - author of 'The Internet is Not the Answer' - says: 'Oddly enough, it's the most skilled workers who will be the most vulnerable in the second machine age.' He then explains that gardeners and cooks might not be replaced by software and then points to lawyers...
Lawyer Selection Analyzed Using Big Data
March 16, 2015
How do people select the lawyers they work with? How do they choose between associates and partners? What influences their decisions when finding attorneys to represent them in court? Do attorney track records in court truly demonstrate their litigation-based abilities? These are some of the questions answered by a study done using big data by Premonition, a Florida-based artificial intelligence company targeting the legal industry. The group uses big data to analyze trends and outliers in litigation. The...
March 16, 2015
How do people select the lawyers they work with? How do they choose between associates and partners? What influences their decisions when finding attorneys to represent them in court? Do attorney track records in court truly demonstrate their litigation-based abilities? These are some of the questions answered by a study done using big data by Premonition, a Florida-based artificial intelligence company targeting the legal industry. The group uses big data to analyze trends and outliers in litigation. The...
Big Data Analytics Uncovers Form in Unstructured Legal Data
March 13, 2015
The concept of “Big Data” may conjure up images of a distant future where intelligent databases make predictions that dictate how we work and live. But that future may be far closer than you think. A wide range of industries have already adopted Big Data advancements, and the legal space is poised to adopt predictive technologies that facilitate critical processes such as discovery, venue selection and case strategy. While the Big Data revolution is being driven by multiple factors, upstarts...
March 13, 2015
The concept of “Big Data” may conjure up images of a distant future where intelligent databases make predictions that dictate how we work and live. But that future may be far closer than you think. A wide range of industries have already adopted Big Data advancements, and the legal space is poised to adopt predictive technologies that facilitate critical processes such as discovery, venue selection and case strategy. While the Big Data revolution is being driven by multiple factors, upstarts...
New Firm Combines Wearables And Data To Improve Decision Making
March 11, 2015
Humanyze, a unique new firm spawned in the MIT Media Lab, has developed a system that uses a smart employee badge to collect employee behavioral data, which it links to specific metrics with the goal of improving business performance. It announced $1M in seed funding today. * * * Humanyze president Ben Waber says while sports teams have done a great job of using data to evaluate their employees (players), business to this point has not used data effectively to measure the productivity of its workers....
March 11, 2015
Humanyze, a unique new firm spawned in the MIT Media Lab, has developed a system that uses a smart employee badge to collect employee behavioral data, which it links to specific metrics with the goal of improving business performance. It announced $1M in seed funding today. * * * Humanyze president Ben Waber says while sports teams have done a great job of using data to evaluate their employees (players), business to this point has not used data effectively to measure the productivity of its workers....
Legal Professionals Apply Tech to Productivity Challenges
March 11, 2015
Some of the most arduous productivity challenges are found in the legal profession, amidst the masses of data and documents juggled by lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals—but more attorneys are turning to automation technology to improve efficiencies and collaboration, according to a new study by Workshare Inc., a provider of enterprise and law firm secure file sharing and collaboration applications. In fact, a majority of respondents (59 percent) said projects were mainly held...
March 11, 2015
Some of the most arduous productivity challenges are found in the legal profession, amidst the masses of data and documents juggled by lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals—but more attorneys are turning to automation technology to improve efficiencies and collaboration, according to a new study by Workshare Inc., a provider of enterprise and law firm secure file sharing and collaboration applications. In fact, a majority of respondents (59 percent) said projects were mainly held...
The Early Days of Legal Analytics
March 10, 2015
There is an interesting story in Forbes on Lex Machina, a legal start-up that provides analytics for use in patent litigation....
March 10, 2015
There is an interesting story in Forbes on Lex Machina, a legal start-up that provides analytics for use in patent litigation....
LegalTech Show in NYC
March 8, 2015
Just as Uber and Lyft disrupt the taxi business, legal tech 2.0 frightens incumbent providers and cheers consumers. Desired or not, however, it is still embedded within the existing system. The current web of natural language laws, courts and the regulatory state remain largely intact. Our system of justice evolves but does not radically shift. We are, however, fast approaching 3.0, where the power of computational technology for communication, modeling and execution permit a radical redesign,...
March 8, 2015
Just as Uber and Lyft disrupt the taxi business, legal tech 2.0 frightens incumbent providers and cheers consumers. Desired or not, however, it is still embedded within the existing system. The current web of natural language laws, courts and the regulatory state remain largely intact. Our system of justice evolves but does not radically shift. We are, however, fast approaching 3.0, where the power of computational technology for communication, modeling and execution permit a radical redesign,...
A Breath of Fresh Air: The 10 CodeX Stanford Legal Startups at LegalTech
March 7, 2015
LegalTech NY rolled around again with its usual E-Discovery heavyweights, software vendors for large firms, and great keynotes. New this year, was an aisle dedicated to legal tech startups, the result of a collaboration between ALM and CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics that brings industry-changing legal technology companies and key thought leaders to ALM Events. It was as if Silicone Alley had moved uptown and occupied aisle 1700. And it was exciting, engaging, and energizing. I...
March 7, 2015
LegalTech NY rolled around again with its usual E-Discovery heavyweights, software vendors for large firms, and great keynotes. New this year, was an aisle dedicated to legal tech startups, the result of a collaboration between ALM and CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics that brings industry-changing legal technology companies and key thought leaders to ALM Events. It was as if Silicone Alley had moved uptown and occupied aisle 1700. And it was exciting, engaging, and energizing. I...
