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November 23, 2019
Last night, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law hosted the first public screening of Laughing Matters, a documentary about comedians and mental health by Soul Pancake, the production company of actor/comedian Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office). In light of the shocking statistics on the mental health of college students (pages 13-16) and graduate and professional students (pages 13-16), Pepperdine President Jim Gash has made student mental health and well-being one of his three...
November 23, 2019
Last night, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law hosted the first public screening of Laughing Matters, a documentary about comedians and mental health by Soul Pancake, the production company of actor/comedian Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office). In light of the shocking statistics on the mental health of college students (pages 13-16) and graduate and professional students (pages 13-16), Pepperdine President Jim Gash has made student mental health and well-being one of his three...
How Technology Changed Divorce
November 3, 2019
From Forbes: Thanks to technology, we can buy groceries online. We can search online for a job, a pet, even a spouse....
November 3, 2019
From Forbes: Thanks to technology, we can buy groceries online. We can search online for a job, a pet, even a spouse....
Artificial Intelligence update: Robot solves Rubik’s Cube
November 1, 2019
For those interested in the debate over whether and how AI will impact legal practice (including replacing the need for attorneys when it comes to the more routine tasks associated with practicing law), there's this article from today's New York Times reporting on a robotic hand that was trained to solve a Rubik's Cube. Given that the AI programmers gave the robot the equivalent of 10,000 years to practice the task, query whether this is really a reflection of artificial learning or instead...
November 1, 2019
For those interested in the debate over whether and how AI will impact legal practice (including replacing the need for attorneys when it comes to the more routine tasks associated with practicing law), there's this article from today's New York Times reporting on a robotic hand that was trained to solve a Rubik's Cube. Given that the AI programmers gave the robot the equivalent of 10,000 years to practice the task, query whether this is really a reflection of artificial learning or instead...
vLex Partners to Add 400,000 Blog Posts to Global Research Collection
October 26, 2019
The international legal research service vLex has partnered with the legal blogging company LexBlog to add more than 400,000 law-related blog posts to its collection of legal-research materials, which currently spans some 100 jurisdictions, including the United States. As a result of this partnership, legal researchers using vLex will now have direct access to legal news, insights and analysis from the LexBlog network of more than 23,000 individual bloggers writing on more...
October 26, 2019
The international legal research service vLex has partnered with the legal blogging company LexBlog to add more than 400,000 law-related blog posts to its collection of legal-research materials, which currently spans some 100 jurisdictions, including the United States. As a result of this partnership, legal researchers using vLex will now have direct access to legal news, insights and analysis from the LexBlog network of more than 23,000 individual bloggers writing on more...
Will artificial intelligence replace human lawyering?
October 25, 2019
This article argues "no" - at least not when it comes to uniquely human skills like empathy, imagination, and creativity. (But see this new book by Professor Arthur Miller - no, not that one - who argues that when it comes to creativity, AI will eventually surpass the human ability to create in truly novel ways). The article, by Professors Julie A. Oseid (St. Thomas - Minn.), Amy Vorenberg (UNH), and Melissa Love Koenig (Marquette) is called Ok, Google, Will...
October 25, 2019
This article argues "no" - at least not when it comes to uniquely human skills like empathy, imagination, and creativity. (But see this new book by Professor Arthur Miller - no, not that one - who argues that when it comes to creativity, AI will eventually surpass the human ability to create in truly novel ways). The article, by Professors Julie A. Oseid (St. Thomas - Minn.), Amy Vorenberg (UNH), and Melissa Love Koenig (Marquette) is called Ok, Google, Will...
Failing Technology a Reason For Some Bar Association Declines
October 19, 2019
The New York Law Journal’s Susan DeSantis reports that it’s survival of the fittest as membership declines in bar associations. In New York, State Bar President, Hank Greenberg of Greenberg Traurig believes failing technology is the primary reason for his state’s steep membership declines. From DeSantis: “Membership has been declining since 2012, and Greenberg thinks it’s because the state bar is relying on a website infrastructure that was built...
October 19, 2019
The New York Law Journal’s Susan DeSantis reports that it’s survival of the fittest as membership declines in bar associations. In New York, State Bar President, Hank Greenberg of Greenberg Traurig believes failing technology is the primary reason for his state’s steep membership declines. From DeSantis: “Membership has been declining since 2012, and Greenberg thinks it’s because the state bar is relying on a website infrastructure that was built...
The Great Enrollment Crash
September 22, 2019
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Great Enrollment Crash: Students aren’t showing up. And it’s only going to get worse. ... Higher education has fully entered a new structural reality. You’d be naïve to believe that most colleges will be able to ride out this unexpected wave as we have previous swells. Those who saw modest high-school graduation dips by 2020 as surmountable must now absorb the statistical reality: Things are only going to get worse. As Nathan Grawe has shown,...
September 22, 2019
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Great Enrollment Crash: Students aren’t showing up. And it’s only going to get worse. ... Higher education has fully entered a new structural reality. You’d be naïve to believe that most colleges will be able to ride out this unexpected wave as we have previous swells. Those who saw modest high-school graduation dips by 2020 as surmountable must now absorb the statistical reality: Things are only going to get worse. As Nathan Grawe has shown,...
Utah Supreme Court Votes to Approve Pilot Allowing Non-Traditional Legal Services
September 14, 2019
The Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to approve the recommendations of a work group that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.” In an email, Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas, who cochaired the Utah Work Group on Regulatory Reform, said that the court voted unanimously to pursue the recommendations laid out in the work group’s report.
September 14, 2019
The Utah Supreme Court voted unanimously yesterday to approve the recommendations of a work group that called for “profoundly reimagining the way legal services are regulated in order to harness the power of entrepreneurship, capital, and machine learning in the legal arena.” In an email, Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas, who cochaired the Utah Work Group on Regulatory Reform, said that the court voted unanimously to pursue the recommendations laid out in the work group’s report.
Project Gives Legal Research Providers Free Access to Nearly Half Million Posts
September 8, 2019
LexBlog is making it’s aggregated and curated database of legal blogs freely available to legal research providers (libraries, legal research companies/platforms, AI solutions) via an enhanced RSS feed. Providers will have open and free access to almost a half a million legal blog posts and an ongoing feed of posts from 1,400 blogs and 23,000 blog authors – and growing by the day. These blogs include both blogs published on the LexBlog platform as well as blogs published elsewhere. Inclusion...
September 8, 2019
LexBlog is making it’s aggregated and curated database of legal blogs freely available to legal research providers (libraries, legal research companies/platforms, AI solutions) via an enhanced RSS feed. Providers will have open and free access to almost a half a million legal blog posts and an ongoing feed of posts from 1,400 blogs and 23,000 blog authors – and growing by the day. These blogs include both blogs published on the LexBlog platform as well as blogs published elsewhere. Inclusion...
NY Times: More Private Colleges Cut Tuition As Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%
September 1, 2019
Following up on my previous post, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%: New York Times, More Private Colleges Are Cutting Tuition, but Don’t Expect to Pay Less: [A] small but rising number of mostly private liberal arts colleges ... are cutting their tuition prices. But what they’re actually doing is reducing their advertised rates, which only the wealthiest students usually pay. At the same time, the colleges are also reducing the heavy discounts...
September 1, 2019
Following up on my previous post, Private College Tuition Discount Rate Hits All-Time High Of 52%: New York Times, More Private Colleges Are Cutting Tuition, but Don’t Expect to Pay Less: [A] small but rising number of mostly private liberal arts colleges ... are cutting their tuition prices. But what they’re actually doing is reducing their advertised rates, which only the wealthiest students usually pay. At the same time, the colleges are also reducing the heavy discounts...
