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Legal Media App to Share Email, Encourage Content Sharing
March 16, 2014
There are apps for everything these days, but not that many cater to attorneys. Now a legal social media expert has designed a new sharing and analytics tool for law firms. Adrian Dayton is set to launch ClearView Social in April. The weekly columnist for The National Law Journal says the application makes it easier for attorneys to share content with their professional networks through LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms.
March 16, 2014
There are apps for everything these days, but not that many cater to attorneys. Now a legal social media expert has designed a new sharing and analytics tool for law firms. Adrian Dayton is set to launch ClearView Social in April. The weekly columnist for The National Law Journal says the application makes it easier for attorneys to share content with their professional networks through LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms.
PTO Makes a Home Where the Patents Are
March 16, 2014
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is finally establishing a permanent home for a Silicon Valley satellite office, and the region's patent attorneys are elated. "It's a big deal," says Doug Luftman, vice president of innovation services and chief intellectual property counsel for the storage and data management company NetApp Inc. "It's about time," adds Karineh Khachatourian, the managing partner of Duane Morris' Silicon Valley office. There is no note of sarcasm—no tinge of cynicism—in...
March 16, 2014
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is finally establishing a permanent home for a Silicon Valley satellite office, and the region's patent attorneys are elated. "It's a big deal," says Doug Luftman, vice president of innovation services and chief intellectual property counsel for the storage and data management company NetApp Inc. "It's about time," adds Karineh Khachatourian, the managing partner of Duane Morris' Silicon Valley office. There is no note of sarcasm—no tinge of cynicism—in...
Technology is Bringing Legal Advice, Documents to the Masses
March 16, 2014
Joey Mucha used to seal a business deal with a handshake or an email. Now he whips out his smartphone. The San Francisco entrepreneur runs a side business renting out skee ball machines. With the company growing steadily, Mucha decided last year he needed to use contracts to protect his clients and the business. But he didn’t go to a pricey lawyer. Instead, the 27-year-old downloaded a smartphone application called Shake. It guided him through the process of creating easy-to-read...
March 16, 2014
Joey Mucha used to seal a business deal with a handshake or an email. Now he whips out his smartphone. The San Francisco entrepreneur runs a side business renting out skee ball machines. With the company growing steadily, Mucha decided last year he needed to use contracts to protect his clients and the business. But he didn’t go to a pricey lawyer. Instead, the 27-year-old downloaded a smartphone application called Shake. It guided him through the process of creating easy-to-read...
Lawyers Are Out, Tech Is In
March 15, 2014
Computers and applications are replacing the mahogany desks of law firms, according to Shan Li in the Los Angeles Times who reports that technology is “creeping ever faster into the $200-billion U.S. legal field.” * * * Li says these companies focus on the legal services consumers who can’t afford the price of big law firms, but still comprise a $45 billion latent market. “Once ignored by the legal industry, they are now targeted by a growing number of start-ups eager to roll out innovations...
March 15, 2014
Computers and applications are replacing the mahogany desks of law firms, according to Shan Li in the Los Angeles Times who reports that technology is “creeping ever faster into the $200-billion U.S. legal field.” * * * Li says these companies focus on the legal services consumers who can’t afford the price of big law firms, but still comprise a $45 billion latent market. “Once ignored by the legal industry, they are now targeted by a growing number of start-ups eager to roll out innovations...
Predictive Coding Is So Yesterday
March 15, 2014
Computational linguistics and data mining are among the tools that will drive e-discovery in coming years. * * * The Future of Predictive Coding Technology-assisted review tools of the future will analyze ESI using computational linguistics without any user input to analyze ESI content, far beyond keywords, key phrases, or training sets of ESI documents subject to human error. Content analysis will allow powerful categorization of ESI based on data mining and language translation techniques. Once...
March 15, 2014
Computational linguistics and data mining are among the tools that will drive e-discovery in coming years. * * * The Future of Predictive Coding Technology-assisted review tools of the future will analyze ESI using computational linguistics without any user input to analyze ESI content, far beyond keywords, key phrases, or training sets of ESI documents subject to human error. Content analysis will allow powerful categorization of ESI based on data mining and language translation techniques. Once...
Seal Software Unveils Contract Analytics
March 15, 2014
Seal Software, a provider of contract life-cycle management software, announced today the availability of Contract Analytics, the next generation of its contract discovery and analysis software. The new software is designed to discover, extract and analyze contract data to give corporations greater visibility and control of their contracts. Seal software searches a corporate network to discover contracts in file types ranging from GIF and TIFF to Microsoft Word. It then creates searchable PDF files...
March 15, 2014
Seal Software, a provider of contract life-cycle management software, announced today the availability of Contract Analytics, the next generation of its contract discovery and analysis software. The new software is designed to discover, extract and analyze contract data to give corporations greater visibility and control of their contracts. Seal software searches a corporate network to discover contracts in file types ranging from GIF and TIFF to Microsoft Word. It then creates searchable PDF files...
Surgeons Reconstruct Long Island Baby’s Skull With 3D Printing Technology
March 15, 2014
When baby Gabriel was born in August, his dad, Manuel Dela Cruz, said everything initially seemed fine with his new son. It wasn’t until a week after his birth that Gabriel’s parents thought their son’s forehead looked abnormal. “We noticed something was wrong with him,” Dela Cruz, of East Quogue, N.Y., said “His eye wasn’t the same, and his right forehead was more protruded than the other one.” Worried for their son’s health, the new parents took Gabriel to a pediatrician,...
March 15, 2014
When baby Gabriel was born in August, his dad, Manuel Dela Cruz, said everything initially seemed fine with his new son. It wasn’t until a week after his birth that Gabriel’s parents thought their son’s forehead looked abnormal. “We noticed something was wrong with him,” Dela Cruz, of East Quogue, N.Y., said “His eye wasn’t the same, and his right forehead was more protruded than the other one.” Worried for their son’s health, the new parents took Gabriel to a pediatrician,...
Renovating the Law: Reality vs. Wish Lists
March 15, 2014
Talk of change in the legal profession is a hot topic. The back-to-back conferences this month in New York—LegalTech New York, LexRedux and ReInvent Law—all addressed particular perspectives of where the future lies. * * * Change is messy. Technology is an easier answer than remaking the rules that create the bounds within which the legal profession works. Lawyers can move to the cloud individually largely without regulatory interference, where remaking themselves as an alternative business...
March 15, 2014
Talk of change in the legal profession is a hot topic. The back-to-back conferences this month in New York—LegalTech New York, LexRedux and ReInvent Law—all addressed particular perspectives of where the future lies. * * * Change is messy. Technology is an easier answer than remaking the rules that create the bounds within which the legal profession works. Lawyers can move to the cloud individually largely without regulatory interference, where remaking themselves as an alternative business...
Rise of the New Social Employee
March 14, 2014
Back in the day, and by day I’m referring to PI (pre-Internet), the social employee was someone who knew how to network,...
March 14, 2014
Back in the day, and by day I’m referring to PI (pre-Internet), the social employee was someone who knew how to network,...
Technology is Bringing Legal Advice and Documents to the Masses
March 14, 2014
Technology is creeping ever faster into the $200-billion U.S. legal field, shaking up an industry that has long been defined by tradition and dominated by white-shoe firms. Law firms are already adapting to seismic shifts in the industry. The collapse of several big ones and the downsizing of many other firms during the economic turmoil left thousands of lawyers out of work. Survivors faced a stark new landscape in which clients demanded more flexibility and an alternative to the tradition of billing...
March 14, 2014
Technology is creeping ever faster into the $200-billion U.S. legal field, shaking up an industry that has long been defined by tradition and dominated by white-shoe firms. Law firms are already adapting to seismic shifts in the industry. The collapse of several big ones and the downsizing of many other firms during the economic turmoil left thousands of lawyers out of work. Survivors faced a stark new landscape in which clients demanded more flexibility and an alternative to the tradition of billing...
