No-Poach Settlements Highlight Antitrust Danger in Hiring
May 12, 2014

The U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney general of California entered into a settlement on May 1 with online marketplace eBay Inc. over an alleged pact with software company Intuit Inc. that neither company would recruit programmers from the other. The settlement was the latest battle in a long antitrust war between Silicon Valley giants and tech employees who claim these companies cheated them out of the chance to compete for better compensation through a series of secret bilateral “no-poaching”...

2013 Annual Survey of Fifth Circuit Class Action Cases
May 12, 2014

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the federal district courts in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi saw a decrease in class...

WIPO Publishes Administered Mediation Rules
May 12, 2014

The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") has published a set of WIPO administered mediation rules effective June...

Bryan Garner Discusses the Latest Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary
May 12, 2014

Here is an interesting factoid for you: David Lat, editor of the blog Above the Law, is credited with coining three of the 7,500...

Legal Tech Startups Face Funding Challenges
May 11, 2014

Some venture capitalists shy away from legal technology because lawyers can't resist skirmishes. “If you have a hammer … you probably know how to use it,” —Miriam Rivera, partner, Ulu Ventures. When two prominent venture capitalists express concerns about providing funding for new legal technology companies, you have to wonder whether there are extra hurdles to obtaining outside funding for legal technology start-ups.That was a somewhat startling revelation at the 2014 LexRedux West—Silicon...

Two New Tools Allow You to Compare Major Firms’ Billing Rates
May 11, 2014

Call it keeping up with the Joneses (or at least the Jones Days): Two new products provide peeks into the billing rates being...

People Looking for a Lawyer are Turning to the Internet First, Survey Finds
May 11, 2014

Once upon a time, the first thing that an overwhelming majority of people in need of legal representation would do is turn to relatives or friends for personal referrals. Some would consult the Yellow Pages or the local bar association, while only a small handful would use the Internet before any of the other aforementioned options. According to a recent survey conducted by FindLaw.com and Thomson Reuters, those numbers have completely flipped around over the last decade. While the Internet...

EU Mediation Rejected by Panama Since Not In Construction Contract
May 11, 2014

The European Commission offered to mediate a multi-billion dollar dispute that may delay work to widen the Panama Canal, but the Panama Canal Authority rejected the offer because mediation is not a dispute resolution mechanism specified in the construction contract. Reuters (January 20, 2014)

Stanford Activist Urges Lawyers to Integrate Design Into Legal Tech
May 11, 2014

Architecture and engineering are hardly what you think of when redesigning a law firm, at least when the redesign goes beyond the physical. But Yves Faguy in the National, the Canadian Bar Association's magazine's website, outlined how lawyers can learn from their more contemporary professional peers. “The missions of law and design are not that separate and [are] quite powerful if you bring them together,” Margaret Hagan, the codirector of the Program for Legal Technology and Design at Stanford...

Google Names Capital Factory as its Latest Google Tech Hub
May 10, 2014

Austin’s Capital Factory is Google’s latest Tech Hub. Mayor Lee Leffingwell, donning a pair of Google glasses, made...