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Moneyball for Lawyers
April 14, 2014
Lex Machina uses predictive analytics to harness data in IP cases, helping lawyers create litigation strategies. A task...
April 14, 2014
Lex Machina uses predictive analytics to harness data in IP cases, helping lawyers create litigation strategies. A task...
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Litigators
April 14, 2014
How to get the best result for your client, at the lowest cost Borrowing from Stephen R. Covey—author of the bestseller, The...
April 14, 2014
How to get the best result for your client, at the lowest cost Borrowing from Stephen R. Covey—author of the bestseller, The...
NSA Exploited Heartbleed Bug for Years
April 14, 2014
A report that the NSA regularly used the Heartbleed bug for years “to gather critical intelligence” but kept “the...
April 14, 2014
A report that the NSA regularly used the Heartbleed bug for years “to gather critical intelligence” but kept “the...
‘Very Modest’ Jobs Growth Seen For Law School Graduates
April 14, 2014
The law school class of 2013 didn’t have much better luck than their predecessors in finding jobs, as entry-level employment data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association revealed that very little changed in the hiring market. Altogether, 57 percent of the 46,776 students who graduated in 2013 found full-time, long-term jobs that required bar passage within nine months of graduation, compared with 56.2 percent the previous year. An additional 10.1 percent landed jobs for which a J.D....
April 14, 2014
The law school class of 2013 didn’t have much better luck than their predecessors in finding jobs, as entry-level employment data released Wednesday by the American Bar Association revealed that very little changed in the hiring market. Altogether, 57 percent of the 46,776 students who graduated in 2013 found full-time, long-term jobs that required bar passage within nine months of graduation, compared with 56.2 percent the previous year. An additional 10.1 percent landed jobs for which a J.D....
A Reality Club Discussion on the Work of Daniel Kahneman
April 13, 2014
Daniel Kahneman turned 80 on March 5th and Edge noted the occasion with a reprise of a number of his contributions to our pages. (See "Kahneman Turns 80"). At that time, Kahneman's longtime colleague, behavioural economist Richard Thaler, suggested that Edge follow up the birthday announcement by doing what it does best, asking Edgies who work in fields including, but not limited to, psychology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, law, medicine, a question. For their responses to...
April 13, 2014
Daniel Kahneman turned 80 on March 5th and Edge noted the occasion with a reprise of a number of his contributions to our pages. (See "Kahneman Turns 80"). At that time, Kahneman's longtime colleague, behavioural economist Richard Thaler, suggested that Edge follow up the birthday announcement by doing what it does best, asking Edgies who work in fields including, but not limited to, psychology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, law, medicine, a question. For their responses to...
Tech-Savvy Litigators Give Advice and Recommend Tools
April 13, 2014
Tech-savvy lawyers should keep two age-old pieces of advice in mind before they decide to take their toys into the courtroom to help them argue a case: Always be prepared, and if something can go wrong, it probably will. The good news for lawyers is that there is no shortage of affordable technological tools and applications at their disposal. During an introductory level session held at ABA Techshow on Thursday, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner William Latham and solo practitionerMarc...
April 13, 2014
Tech-savvy lawyers should keep two age-old pieces of advice in mind before they decide to take their toys into the courtroom to help them argue a case: Always be prepared, and if something can go wrong, it probably will. The good news for lawyers is that there is no shortage of affordable technological tools and applications at their disposal. During an introductory level session held at ABA Techshow on Thursday, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner William Latham and solo practitionerMarc...
Fifth LexThink.1 Stresses Greater Collaboration for Lawyers to Avoid Irrelevance
April 13, 2014
Collaboration is important for lawyers if they wish to avoid becoming irrelevant. That was the main takeaway from the fifth...
April 13, 2014
Collaboration is important for lawyers if they wish to avoid becoming irrelevant. That was the main takeaway from the fifth...
New Product Revokes Sent Emails
April 13, 2014
Law firm emails to clients may not be encrypted and recipients may forward your communication to others who were not the intended recipients of the original message. A new product launched this year by the Virtru Corp., called Virtru, is catering to keeping these communications secure from the National Security Agency and others. Besides encrypting messages, Virtru allows customers to revoke a sensitive email at any time and track where and to whom a message is forwarded. The sender can also...
April 13, 2014
Law firm emails to clients may not be encrypted and recipients may forward your communication to others who were not the intended recipients of the original message. A new product launched this year by the Virtru Corp., called Virtru, is catering to keeping these communications secure from the National Security Agency and others. Besides encrypting messages, Virtru allows customers to revoke a sensitive email at any time and track where and to whom a message is forwarded. The sender can also...
Preventing Bad Settlement Decisions and Impasse Using Brain Science and Game Theory
April 13, 2014
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution PREVENTING BAD SETTLEMENT DECISIONS AND IMPASSE USING BRAIN SCIENCE, GAME THEORY, ANIMATED COMMUNICATION, AND MICRO-INTERVENTIONS Faculty: Don Philbin and Douglas Noll The fact patterns of this course will be familiar to the experienced mediator and trial advocate in negotiation: difficult people, heightened emotions, overly confident case assessments, deeply held beliefs, barriers to rational deals. We will explore the neuropsychology behind these...
April 13, 2014
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution PREVENTING BAD SETTLEMENT DECISIONS AND IMPASSE USING BRAIN SCIENCE, GAME THEORY, ANIMATED COMMUNICATION, AND MICRO-INTERVENTIONS Faculty: Don Philbin and Douglas Noll The fact patterns of this course will be familiar to the experienced mediator and trial advocate in negotiation: difficult people, heightened emotions, overly confident case assessments, deeply held beliefs, barriers to rational deals. We will explore the neuropsychology behind these...
Can Small Firms Compete with BigLaw for a Fraction of the Cost? Yes, If You Save on Tech, Solos Say
April 12, 2014
Michael Lewis’s influential book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game has spawned a hit movie and launched a statistical revolution that has forever changed the way people analyze sports. Before that, however, it was a blueprint for the financially disadvantaged Oakland Athletics to compete with their rich counterparts. By utilizing many of the same techniques the Athletics did, lawyers from small firms and even solo practices can get similar results as their big-budget rivals at a fraction...
April 12, 2014
Michael Lewis’s influential book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game has spawned a hit movie and launched a statistical revolution that has forever changed the way people analyze sports. Before that, however, it was a blueprint for the financially disadvantaged Oakland Athletics to compete with their rich counterparts. By utilizing many of the same techniques the Athletics did, lawyers from small firms and even solo practices can get similar results as their big-budget rivals at a fraction...
