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Game On: Will Gaming Technology Infiltrate Law?
January 6, 2014
OK—fess up. How many of you play Angry Birds on your iPhone? What if you could play a game that improves the productivity, collaboration, compliance, or expertise of your legal practice? Within a few years, you may be routinely doing just that. Corporations like Cisco Systems and Google's Motorola Mobility have embraced gamification, and analysts say the trend is gaining steam. Now, software vendors, law firms, and general counsel are starting to experiment to see just how gamification might play...
January 6, 2014
OK—fess up. How many of you play Angry Birds on your iPhone? What if you could play a game that improves the productivity, collaboration, compliance, or expertise of your legal practice? Within a few years, you may be routinely doing just that. Corporations like Cisco Systems and Google's Motorola Mobility have embraced gamification, and analysts say the trend is gaining steam. Now, software vendors, law firms, and general counsel are starting to experiment to see just how gamification might play...
Using Data of Reader Behavior To Publish Better Books
January 5, 2014
As an author, I would love to know how people read my book. Which parts do they like? Which parts do they skim over? Which parts are rough to understand? Which parts are so good they linger over them, and maybe reread it. Which parts do they find so engaging they will tell their friend about it. If only there was some way to capture this date. What am I talking about? Of course this data can be captured. Because data! The Times has a report on how several companies are offering readers access...
January 5, 2014
As an author, I would love to know how people read my book. Which parts do they like? Which parts do they skim over? Which parts are rough to understand? Which parts are so good they linger over them, and maybe reread it. Which parts do they find so engaging they will tell their friend about it. If only there was some way to capture this date. What am I talking about? Of course this data can be captured. Because data! The Times has a report on how several companies are offering readers access...
LegalTech App for Google Glass
January 5, 2014
Thomas Bruce of Cornell LII fame is working on what I think is the first LegalTech App for Google Glass. In short, it allows you to look at a law posted on a sign, and the app will find the legal citation, and pull up the text of the statute. That’s pretty cool. Here is how Tom describes it: We have a tool called Citationer that extracts citations from documents, and it has a Tesseract-based OCR component that we use with image-based PDFs. Turns out that it’ll work with any image format,...
January 5, 2014
Thomas Bruce of Cornell LII fame is working on what I think is the first LegalTech App for Google Glass. In short, it allows you to look at a law posted on a sign, and the app will find the legal citation, and pull up the text of the statute. That’s pretty cool. Here is how Tom describes it: We have a tool called Citationer that extracts citations from documents, and it has a Tesseract-based OCR component that we use with image-based PDFs. Turns out that it’ll work with any image format,...
Can The Star Trek Replicator Be Far Behind?
January 5, 2014
Office Depot Gives You a Firsthand Look at 3D Printing | GadgeTell. Okay, we will all probably be long dead when the first replicator arrives. However, Office Depot will be demoing 3D printers that show the future of manufacturing. In the future, gooey concoctions of plastics and other building materials will arrive in large vats, next to large machines that will extrude them onto a platform as directed by computers. The result will be just about any item you can imagine. Check out the list to see if an Office...
January 5, 2014
Office Depot Gives You a Firsthand Look at 3D Printing | GadgeTell. Okay, we will all probably be long dead when the first replicator arrives. However, Office Depot will be demoing 3D printers that show the future of manufacturing. In the future, gooey concoctions of plastics and other building materials will arrive in large vats, next to large machines that will extrude them onto a platform as directed by computers. The result will be just about any item you can imagine. Check out the list to see if an Office...
Can Lawyers Be Luddites?
January 5, 2014
Can Lawyers Be Luddites? it is sort of a trick question. If you don't know what Luddite means, there is a far greater chance that you are one. I'll give you more information about the origination of the term later in this post, but suffice to say that today Luddite means that you are anti-technology. There has been a lot of discussion about how well lawyers need to understand technology since the ABA House of Delegates amended Comment 8 to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 on Competence....
January 5, 2014
Can Lawyers Be Luddites? it is sort of a trick question. If you don't know what Luddite means, there is a far greater chance that you are one. I'll give you more information about the origination of the term later in this post, but suffice to say that today Luddite means that you are anti-technology. There has been a lot of discussion about how well lawyers need to understand technology since the ABA House of Delegates amended Comment 8 to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.1 on Competence....
When Average Is Over, Let’s Hope You Can Enhance the “Genius Machines”
January 5, 2014
These trends are very applicable to the practice of law. Whether lawyers like it or not–or whether it actually results in an improvement in the quality of legal services–many of the more mundane tasks of law that can be commoditized will be delegated to “genius machines.” Lawyers who can make those machines smarter (those than can do math), and can learn from them, will prosper. Those who can’t will have a tougher time. It won’t be enough for lawyers to say, oh I can’t do computers,...
January 5, 2014
These trends are very applicable to the practice of law. Whether lawyers like it or not–or whether it actually results in an improvement in the quality of legal services–many of the more mundane tasks of law that can be commoditized will be delegated to “genius machines.” Lawyers who can make those machines smarter (those than can do math), and can learn from them, will prosper. Those who can’t will have a tougher time. It won’t be enough for lawyers to say, oh I can’t do computers,...
Google Wants To Build The Ultimate Personal Assistant
January 4, 2014
Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at theLeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is taking in search. Here’s the gist of it: Google knows our expectations of what a search engine should be able to do is quickly changing. The old “ten blue links” search results...
January 4, 2014
Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at theLeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is taking in search. Here’s the gist of it: Google knows our expectations of what a search engine should be able to do is quickly changing. The old “ten blue links” search results...
Walter Isaacson Crowdsources New Book
January 4, 2014
In the early days of this blog, I endeavored to liveblog several law review articles. The goal, in part, was to solicit real-time feedback. The experiments were helpful, though fittingly enough, I haven’t finished any of them. A few of them I will hopefully return to in the next year. But the idea is good. Best-selling author, Walter Isaacon has taken this experiment to a new level. One of the most successful authors in the world, Walter Isaacson, is seeking the wisdom of the crowds...
January 4, 2014
In the early days of this blog, I endeavored to liveblog several law review articles. The goal, in part, was to solicit real-time feedback. The experiments were helpful, though fittingly enough, I haven’t finished any of them. A few of them I will hopefully return to in the next year. But the idea is good. Best-selling author, Walter Isaacon has taken this experiment to a new level. One of the most successful authors in the world, Walter Isaacson, is seeking the wisdom of the crowds...
Google Scholar Library – Categorize Your Legal Research
January 4, 2014
Google Scholar Library - Google Scholar Blog. When two or more solutions to a law practice management process are available,...
January 4, 2014
Google Scholar Library - Google Scholar Blog. When two or more solutions to a law practice management process are available,...
Voxgov Aggregates and Analyzes Government News and Media
January 3, 2014
Keeping track of an issue within the U.S. government can be daunting. The government is gargantuan, with thousands of entities...
January 3, 2014
Keeping track of an issue within the U.S. government can be daunting. The government is gargantuan, with thousands of entities...
