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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...
LegalTech New York Primer: Advice From Veterans
February 1, 2014
Download apps, plan ahead, and drink lots and lots of coffee. Heading to the Big Apple for the Super Bowl LegalTech New York? Well, aside from the most important advice that applies to events at both Met Stadium and the New York Hilton Midtown (wear comfortable shoes and bring very warm coats) here's some instant mentoring for newbies: >> Sprint: For newbies, do a lap of the vendor floors to get a feel for things, then go back and target those vendors that have products or services...
February 1, 2014
Download apps, plan ahead, and drink lots and lots of coffee. Heading to the Big Apple for the Super Bowl LegalTech New York? Well, aside from the most important advice that applies to events at both Met Stadium and the New York Hilton Midtown (wear comfortable shoes and bring very warm coats) here's some instant mentoring for newbies: >> Sprint: For newbies, do a lap of the vendor floors to get a feel for things, then go back and target those vendors that have products or services...
CFPB’s Preliminary Report: Financial Consumers Can Only Avoid Arbitration By Using A Credit Union
January 31, 2014
Assuming you were all caught up on your Words With Friends games, you would read the 168-page initial report of the Consumer...
January 31, 2014
Assuming you were all caught up on your Words With Friends games, you would read the 168-page initial report of the Consumer...
Vermont Law Leads Again at LegalTech
January 31, 2014
Students and faculty from the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School will attend LegalTech 2014 in New York City, bringing with them ideas and expertise that are sought after by industry leaders like Google, LexisNexis, and Capital Novus. This is the fourth year Vermont Law has attended the conference, which has resulted in jobs for students and research support for faculty. Considered the largest and most important legal technology event of the year, LegalTech annually draws tens...
January 31, 2014
Students and faculty from the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School will attend LegalTech 2014 in New York City, bringing with them ideas and expertise that are sought after by industry leaders like Google, LexisNexis, and Capital Novus. This is the fourth year Vermont Law has attended the conference, which has resulted in jobs for students and research support for faculty. Considered the largest and most important legal technology event of the year, LegalTech annually draws tens...
Changes Ahead For Social Media In the Workplace
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
Dispute Resolution Mechanisms for Intractable Medical Futility Disputes
January 31, 2014
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In this Article, I provide an overview of dispute resolution mechanisms through which healthcare providers can resolve these disputes. In Section I, identify three distinctive features of medical futility disputes. First, they usually concern life-sustaining medical treatment for patients in a hospital’s intensive care unit. Second, these patients typically lack decision making capacity. So, a surrogate...
January 31, 2014
Medical futility disputes occur frequently in healthcare facilities across the United States. In this Article, I provide an overview of dispute resolution mechanisms through which healthcare providers can resolve these disputes. In Section I, identify three distinctive features of medical futility disputes. First, they usually concern life-sustaining medical treatment for patients in a hospital’s intensive care unit. Second, these patients typically lack decision making capacity. So, a surrogate...
Plaintiphobia in the Supreme Court
January 31, 2014
Through the years debate has raged over whether the Supreme Court’s summary judgment trilogy and Twombly-Iqbal pleading decisions had significant practical effects. To address that question, this article introduces a new empirical measure: the difference between the pretrial-adjudication judgment rates for the defendant and for the plaintiff. Plotting that rates’ difference over time suggests that the cases on summary judgment and pleading, which were far and away the two most major alterations...
January 31, 2014
Through the years debate has raged over whether the Supreme Court’s summary judgment trilogy and Twombly-Iqbal pleading decisions had significant practical effects. To address that question, this article introduces a new empirical measure: the difference between the pretrial-adjudication judgment rates for the defendant and for the plaintiff. Plotting that rates’ difference over time suggests that the cases on summary judgment and pleading, which were far and away the two most major alterations...
Plaintiphobia in State Courts Redux? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal
January 31, 2014
Prior federal and state civil appeals studies show that appeals courts overturn jury verdicts more than bench decisions and that defendants fare better than plaintiffs on appeal. Attitudinal and selection effect hypotheses may help explain an appellate court tilt that favors defendants. This study builds on and extends our prior work on state civil appeals and examines a comprehensive state court civil appeals data set to test leading theories on appellate outcomes as well as to explore the relation...
January 31, 2014
Prior federal and state civil appeals studies show that appeals courts overturn jury verdicts more than bench decisions and that defendants fare better than plaintiffs on appeal. Attitudinal and selection effect hypotheses may help explain an appellate court tilt that favors defendants. This study builds on and extends our prior work on state civil appeals and examines a comprehensive state court civil appeals data set to test leading theories on appellate outcomes as well as to explore the relation...
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...
