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Is Your Salary Fair? Calculator Will Help Lawyers Decide
October 19, 2013
How does your lawyer salary compare to those of others in your field? Soon you may be able to find out using a web-based lawyer salary and intelligence tool calledPayCloud. Currently seeking lawyers to join the beta version of its site, PayCloud aims to provide lawyers with the ability to compare their salaries against those of others in comparable fields and locations and to obtain regularly updated data on how salaries are developing within a given field.
October 19, 2013
How does your lawyer salary compare to those of others in your field? Soon you may be able to find out using a web-based lawyer salary and intelligence tool calledPayCloud. Currently seeking lawyers to join the beta version of its site, PayCloud aims to provide lawyers with the ability to compare their salaries against those of others in comparable fields and locations and to obtain regularly updated data on how salaries are developing within a given field.
Opening up Course Builder Data
October 19, 2013
Course Builder is an experimental, open source platform for delivering massive online open courses. When you run Course Builder, you own everything from the production instance to the student data that builds up while your course is running. Part of being open is making it easy for you to access and work with your data. Earlier this year we shipped a tool called ETL (short for extract-transform-load) that you can use to pull your data out of Course Builder, run arbitrary computations on it, and load...
October 19, 2013
Course Builder is an experimental, open source platform for delivering massive online open courses. When you run Course Builder, you own everything from the production instance to the student data that builds up while your course is running. Part of being open is making it easy for you to access and work with your data. Earlier this year we shipped a tool called ETL (short for extract-transform-load) that you can use to pull your data out of Course Builder, run arbitrary computations on it, and load...
Rebirth of IT
October 19, 2013
Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the Gartner ITExpo in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown. In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d...
October 19, 2013
Yesterday I had the chance to deliver the keynote at the Gartner ITExpo in Orlando. I took this opportunity to reflect on how business technology has evolved in the three years since I last spoke on this stage — and, as part of that, how Google’s commitment to enterprise customers has grown. In 2010, the suggestion that a company could move all of its employees to the cloud was often met with skepticism. People relied on desktop computers and Exchange servers because that was what they’d...
Open Records: A Look at Attorney General Greg Abbott’s Tenure
October 18, 2013
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott first campaigned for his office 12 years ago, he promised a new era of government...
October 18, 2013
When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott first campaigned for his office 12 years ago, he promised a new era of government...
Body Language, Negotiation & Haggling
October 18, 2013
Of course nonverbal communication communication has a role in every interaction, we all know that, right? Demetria Gallegos of the Wall Street Journal explores the "art" of haggling during a recent trip to a medieval fair. She reflects on how due to a lack of haggling, her piece of the pie was smaller (yes- pun intended for those who get that joke). While reading this article, it shows how we really are (or are not) negotiating numerous times on a daily basis. Also, those that are good...
October 18, 2013
Of course nonverbal communication communication has a role in every interaction, we all know that, right? Demetria Gallegos of the Wall Street Journal explores the "art" of haggling during a recent trip to a medieval fair. She reflects on how due to a lack of haggling, her piece of the pie was smaller (yes- pun intended for those who get that joke). While reading this article, it shows how we really are (or are not) negotiating numerous times on a daily basis. Also, those that are good...
The Soft Touch: The Village Elder
October 18, 2013
At the beginning of every mediation session, I am not sure which hat I will be wearing. Will it be the role of the poker player who is dealing for dollars? The priest who listens to his parishioners’ penitence? The bartender who tells stories? The judge who tells the parties what to do? The philosopher who shares thoughts about the way of the world? Some days I wear all those hats. Other days I might wear just one. As my experience over many years has developed, there is one hat that I find...
October 18, 2013
At the beginning of every mediation session, I am not sure which hat I will be wearing. Will it be the role of the poker player who is dealing for dollars? The priest who listens to his parishioners’ penitence? The bartender who tells stories? The judge who tells the parties what to do? The philosopher who shares thoughts about the way of the world? Some days I wear all those hats. Other days I might wear just one. As my experience over many years has developed, there is one hat that I find...
ND Texas Compels Would-Be FLSA Class Action to Arbitration
October 18, 2013
The Northern District of Texas has accepted a United States Magistrate Judge’s findings, conclusions, and recommendation that a putative class action lawsuit filed pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) be submitted to arbitration. In Rogers v. Epic Health Services, Inc., No. 3:13-CV-1752-O, (N. D. Tex., September 17, 2013) the court granted Epic Heath Services, Inc.’s (“Epic”) motion to compel arbitration in a one page order. In the case, Joshua Rogers worked at Epic...
October 18, 2013
The Northern District of Texas has accepted a United States Magistrate Judge’s findings, conclusions, and recommendation that a putative class action lawsuit filed pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) be submitted to arbitration. In Rogers v. Epic Health Services, Inc., No. 3:13-CV-1752-O, (N. D. Tex., September 17, 2013) the court granted Epic Heath Services, Inc.’s (“Epic”) motion to compel arbitration in a one page order. In the case, Joshua Rogers worked at Epic...
Arbitrators Rule in Favor of Chevron in Ecuador Oil Pollution
October 18, 2013
A panel of three international arbitrators has found that United States oil company Chevron is not liable for “collective damage” claims in the company’s ongoing dispute over oil contamination in parts of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. The panel reportedly found that a 1995 agreement signed by Chevron’s predecessor, Texaco Corporation, released the oil giant from such liability. Still, the panel of arbitrators did not rule whether Chevron may be held liable for any damages endured by individual...
October 18, 2013
A panel of three international arbitrators has found that United States oil company Chevron is not liable for “collective damage” claims in the company’s ongoing dispute over oil contamination in parts of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest. The panel reportedly found that a 1995 agreement signed by Chevron’s predecessor, Texaco Corporation, released the oil giant from such liability. Still, the panel of arbitrators did not rule whether Chevron may be held liable for any damages endured by individual...
IBM Researcher Can Decipher Your Personality From Looking at 200 of Your Tweets
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
October 17, 2013
An IBM researcher says she can make a good educated guess about your personality just from looking at 200 of your Twitter messages. That may seem obvious, as people typically express their personalities through the 140-character messaging service. But Michelle Zhou, a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., can do this personality analysis in a disciplined and automated fashion using the science of data analytics. Companies that pay attention to this research could...
Illinois Supreme Court Increases Reporting Requirements for Family Mediation
October 17, 2013
Anyone who knows RSI knows that we’re all about data. We believe that courts need good data about their programs in order to make good decisions about them. That’s why we were thrilled when the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Child Custody Issues asked for our help in developing a mediator report and participant survey that will be used statewide for family mediation. We’re even more thrilled that those forms have been adopted and will be required by the Supreme Court. This is part of the Court’s amendments...
October 17, 2013
Anyone who knows RSI knows that we’re all about data. We believe that courts need good data about their programs in order to make good decisions about them. That’s why we were thrilled when the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Child Custody Issues asked for our help in developing a mediator report and participant survey that will be used statewide for family mediation. We’re even more thrilled that those forms have been adopted and will be required by the Supreme Court. This is part of the Court’s amendments...
