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Avvo Acquired by Internet Brands
February 3, 2018
2018 has started with a bang in the world of legal directories, with the massive news that US online lawyer giant Avvo has been acquired by Martindale-Hubbell owner, Internet Brands. Announced today – January 11 2018 – Avvo will join Internet Brands’ expanding portfolio of online legal products, which as well as Martindale Hubbell (acquired in 2013) incudes Nolo (acquired 2011), Total Attorneys, Lawyers.com, Attorney Locate, and AllLaw.com. The Avvo acquisition is the culmination of a remarkable...
February 3, 2018
2018 has started with a bang in the world of legal directories, with the massive news that US online lawyer giant Avvo has been acquired by Martindale-Hubbell owner, Internet Brands. Announced today – January 11 2018 – Avvo will join Internet Brands’ expanding portfolio of online legal products, which as well as Martindale Hubbell (acquired in 2013) incudes Nolo (acquired 2011), Total Attorneys, Lawyers.com, Attorney Locate, and AllLaw.com. The Avvo acquisition is the culmination of a remarkable...
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize the Practice of Law. Part One. [VIDEO]
February 3, 2018
Studies have shown that physicians are correct in their diagnoses about 50% of the time. The increasing sophistication and utilization of artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve medicine by aggregating patient information and data, which will allow for more accurate diagnoses more often. A similar application of artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve a number of other fields as well. See Ross Fishman, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,...
February 3, 2018
Studies have shown that physicians are correct in their diagnoses about 50% of the time. The increasing sophistication and utilization of artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve medicine by aggregating patient information and data, which will allow for more accurate diagnoses more often. A similar application of artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve a number of other fields as well. See Ross Fishman, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,...
Lewis on the Effect of Personality on Tort Litigation
February 1, 2018
Richard Lewis has posted to SSRN Humanity in Tort: Does Personality Affect Personal Injury Litigation?. The abstract...
February 1, 2018
Richard Lewis has posted to SSRN Humanity in Tort: Does Personality Affect Personal Injury Litigation?. The abstract...
Bankruptcy Filings Fall 0.7% – Smallest 12-Month Decline Since 2010
January 29, 2018
Bankruptcy filings in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2017, fell just 0.7 percent, compared with bankruptcy cases...
January 29, 2018
Bankruptcy filings in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2017, fell just 0.7 percent, compared with bankruptcy cases...
What Can Machine Learning Do? Workforce Implications
January 28, 2018
Digital computers have transformed work in almost every sector of the economy over the past several decades (1). We are now at the beginning of an even larger and more rapid transformation due to recent advances in machine learning (ML), which is capable of accelerating the pace of automation itself. However, although it is clear that ML is a “general purpose technology,” like the steam engine and electricity, which spawns a plethora of additional innovations and capabilities (2), there is no widely...
January 28, 2018
Digital computers have transformed work in almost every sector of the economy over the past several decades (1). We are now at the beginning of an even larger and more rapid transformation due to recent advances in machine learning (ML), which is capable of accelerating the pace of automation itself. However, although it is clear that ML is a “general purpose technology,” like the steam engine and electricity, which spawns a plethora of additional innovations and capabilities (2), there is no widely...
EmpowerLegal Launches Litigation Suite, a Powerful Series of Streamable Video Tutorials Which Effectively Prepare Clients for Testimony
January 27, 2018
EmpowerLegal, Inc. launches its powerful Litigation Suite, a series of streamable video tutorials which help litigation attorneys and their clients effectively prepare for major legal events including mediations, depositions and trials. Created and narrated by Alan S. Fanger, an award-winning litigation attorney with 30+ years of experience, EmpowerLegal video tutorials provide realistic, professionally-portrayed depictions of depositions, mediations and trials. The videos demystify intimidating...
January 27, 2018
EmpowerLegal, Inc. launches its powerful Litigation Suite, a series of streamable video tutorials which help litigation attorneys and their clients effectively prepare for major legal events including mediations, depositions and trials. Created and narrated by Alan S. Fanger, an award-winning litigation attorney with 30+ years of experience, EmpowerLegal video tutorials provide realistic, professionally-portrayed depictions of depositions, mediations and trials. The videos demystify intimidating...
Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
In Possible U.S. First, Law Firm Will Sell AI Software to its Clients
January 26, 2018
In what is said to be a first for a U.S. law firm, a Pennsylvania law firm will sell artificial intelligence software directly to its clients in the health care industry to enable them to better review, analyze and negotiate contracts. The Pittsburgh-based law firm Horty Springer is partnering with the AI software company LegalSifter to offer the product directly to hospitals and health systems. Initially it will allow clients to review business associate agreements required by HIPAA privacy...
January 26, 2018
In what is said to be a first for a U.S. law firm, a Pennsylvania law firm will sell artificial intelligence software directly to its clients in the health care industry to enable them to better review, analyze and negotiate contracts. The Pittsburgh-based law firm Horty Springer is partnering with the AI software company LegalSifter to offer the product directly to hospitals and health systems. Initially it will allow clients to review business associate agreements required by HIPAA privacy...
Gifford on the Role of Technology in Changing Tort Law
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
Lawyers’ Stress is Increasing
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
