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Lawyer Sues ‘Fortune Teller’ for Fraud After Alleged Theft
December 22, 2013
Houston attorney Michael G. Busby Jr. paid a Houston "fortune teller" $30 for a tarot card reading on Dec. 4 and $500 for a "ritual to reunite husband and wife." He also alleges in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 16 that he gave her $2,700 in cash in a box on Dec. 6 so she could "cleanse" it and return it to him four hours later, but she has failed to return the money. In fact, Busby, whose firm does bankruptcy and family law, alleges in the petition that Melena Thorn, by and through her in-laws...
December 22, 2013
Houston attorney Michael G. Busby Jr. paid a Houston "fortune teller" $30 for a tarot card reading on Dec. 4 and $500 for a "ritual to reunite husband and wife." He also alleges in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 16 that he gave her $2,700 in cash in a box on Dec. 6 so she could "cleanse" it and return it to him four hours later, but she has failed to return the money. In fact, Busby, whose firm does bankruptcy and family law, alleges in the petition that Melena Thorn, by and through her in-laws...
AIPLA Taps Lex Machina for Legal Analytics
December 22, 2013
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and Lex Machina, a leader in legal analytics, have joined forces...
December 22, 2013
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and Lex Machina, a leader in legal analytics, have joined forces...
Your Boss Wants to be Nate Silver
December 22, 2013
When the Toronto Raptors traded small forward Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings on Dec. 8, the stats geeks who follow professional basketball exulted. The news that Toronto was dumping Gay provided definitive proof, in their minds, of the value of “advanced statistics.” For years, they’d claimed that a set of statistical methods — basically basketball’s version of Sabermetrics – exposed Gay as overcompensated and underperforming. The eyeball test says that Gay looks like a prototypically...
December 22, 2013
When the Toronto Raptors traded small forward Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings on Dec. 8, the stats geeks who follow professional basketball exulted. The news that Toronto was dumping Gay provided definitive proof, in their minds, of the value of “advanced statistics.” For years, they’d claimed that a set of statistical methods — basically basketball’s version of Sabermetrics – exposed Gay as overcompensated and underperforming. The eyeball test says that Gay looks like a prototypically...
Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
December 22, 2013
<nyt_text> BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans. It is the eighth robotics company...
December 22, 2013
<nyt_text> BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense of balance and even — cheetahlike — run faster than the fastest humans. It is the eighth robotics company...
Modus Releases Workflow Software After Partnering With ACC
December 21, 2013
In October, Modus, an e-discovery and data management company, wasselected by the Association of Corporate Counsel as its "premier e-discovery alliance partner." As part of that new partnership, Modus now offers ACC members a complimentary discovery readiness assessment, which includes a workshop that helps organizations analyze their data to effectively manage it for discovery requirements—not discrete litigation needs. CEO Abtin Buergari told LTN that he developed Modus to provide an electronic...
December 21, 2013
In October, Modus, an e-discovery and data management company, wasselected by the Association of Corporate Counsel as its "premier e-discovery alliance partner." As part of that new partnership, Modus now offers ACC members a complimentary discovery readiness assessment, which includes a workshop that helps organizations analyze their data to effectively manage it for discovery requirements—not discrete litigation needs. CEO Abtin Buergari told LTN that he developed Modus to provide an electronic...
25 Years Later, PACER, Electronic Filing Continue to Change Courts
December 21, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, computers were hurtling America into the Information Age. From 1987 to 1989, the nation’s PC sales tripled, as consumers gained unprecedented power to process words, crunch numbers and print documents at home. The World Wide Web was still being invented, but early adopters were discovering personal email. In federal courts, the revolution also was getting under way. Documents were still kept on paper, and law firm couriers lined up daily in clerk’s offices, waiting to pore...
December 21, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, computers were hurtling America into the Information Age. From 1987 to 1989, the nation’s PC sales tripled, as consumers gained unprecedented power to process words, crunch numbers and print documents at home. The World Wide Web was still being invented, but early adopters were discovering personal email. In federal courts, the revolution also was getting under way. Documents were still kept on paper, and law firm couriers lined up daily in clerk’s offices, waiting to pore...
Goldman Sets Strict Limits on Hours. Will Law Firms Follow?
December 21, 2013
I hate to be an alarmist, but I think capitalism is under attack. The reason: Goldman Sachs is going soft, setting limits on how much people can work. I'm not kidding you. Mighty Goldman Sachs has become a veritable nanny-bank. It's not just suggesting bankers work less, it's forcing them to do so. Here's how one analyst described the new system to New York magazine: Unless they receive a special waiver, [junior bankers] aren't supposed to set foot inside Goldman's offices for a period of 36 hours...
December 21, 2013
I hate to be an alarmist, but I think capitalism is under attack. The reason: Goldman Sachs is going soft, setting limits on how much people can work. I'm not kidding you. Mighty Goldman Sachs has become a veritable nanny-bank. It's not just suggesting bankers work less, it's forcing them to do so. Here's how one analyst described the new system to New York magazine: Unless they receive a special waiver, [junior bankers] aren't supposed to set foot inside Goldman's offices for a period of 36 hours...
Clayton Christensen Explains How Disruption Will Occur in Higher Education
December 21, 2013
Clayton Christensen is the Harvard Business School professor who wrote The Innovator's Dilemma, the seminal book on why successful businesses so rarely stay on top over the long term. Although focused on the tech industry -- where product cycles are very short -- Christensen's framework has a much wider application, including legacy industrial enterprises and countries. In 2011, Christensen published a book called The Innovative University, which applied the Innovator's Dilemma framework to higher...
December 21, 2013
Clayton Christensen is the Harvard Business School professor who wrote The Innovator's Dilemma, the seminal book on why successful businesses so rarely stay on top over the long term. Although focused on the tech industry -- where product cycles are very short -- Christensen's framework has a much wider application, including legacy industrial enterprises and countries. In 2011, Christensen published a book called The Innovative University, which applied the Innovator's Dilemma framework to higher...
President Obama Urges Students to Learn to Code
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
No Shades of Grey in the Commoditization of Law
December 20, 2013
Corporate law departments are increasingly separating new matters into one of two buckets of legal work: routine/basic and higher value/risk. There is a clear division: black and white—no shades of gray. “Maybe you shouldn’t say that routine work is being commoditized,” said a lawyer-friend with a frown. “Attorneys can be a bit sensitive.” But once she read the Business Dictionary’s definition of commoditization, she was convinced that although the word commoditization might seem...
December 20, 2013
Corporate law departments are increasingly separating new matters into one of two buckets of legal work: routine/basic and higher value/risk. There is a clear division: black and white—no shades of gray. “Maybe you shouldn’t say that routine work is being commoditized,” said a lawyer-friend with a frown. “Attorneys can be a bit sensitive.” But once she read the Business Dictionary’s definition of commoditization, she was convinced that although the word commoditization might seem...
