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When will the cord be cut in legal publishing?
December 2, 2018
Market shifting caused some of the problem, but ESPN management’s refusal to listen was the real problem. ESPN execs often tried to shoot the messengers instead of listening to the message. And once the damage was done, ESPN decided to fire hundreds of longstanding sports journalists and support personnel… Common sense dictates that sooner or later, legal content creators (the true publishers) are going to take control of their digital publishing. They are going to cut the cord. Sure,...
December 2, 2018
Market shifting caused some of the problem, but ESPN management’s refusal to listen was the real problem. ESPN execs often tried to shoot the messengers instead of listening to the message. And once the damage was done, ESPN decided to fire hundreds of longstanding sports journalists and support personnel… Common sense dictates that sooner or later, legal content creators (the true publishers) are going to take control of their digital publishing. They are going to cut the cord. Sure,...
LinkedIn is Becoming More Like Facebook
November 24, 2018
No question that LinkedIn’s social algorithms are improving. Having the right stuff from the right people land in front of us at the right time is no accident. Neither is the feeling we get to engage in this community discussion. LinkedIn’s social algorithms are no where near as good as Facebook’s, but the fact they are driving participation and engagement is great to see. Know that you get what you put into social media, especially when it comes to making the social algorithms work for you. Liberally...
November 24, 2018
No question that LinkedIn’s social algorithms are improving. Having the right stuff from the right people land in front of us at the right time is no accident. Neither is the feeling we get to engage in this community discussion. LinkedIn’s social algorithms are no where near as good as Facebook’s, but the fact they are driving participation and engagement is great to see. Know that you get what you put into social media, especially when it comes to making the social algorithms work for you. Liberally...
Legal Tech Entrepreneur and Blogger Ivy Grey Joins WordRake
November 24, 2018
Ivy B. Grey, a well-known legal technology entrepreneur and blogger, has joined legal-editing software company WordRake as director of business strategy, the company is announcing today. Grey will be responsible for helping to accelerate WordRake’s growth and further develop the software. “Lawyers in thousands of law firms rely on WordRake for clear and concise writing, and they regard fellow lawyer Ivy Grey as a proofreading and editing expert who understands their writing challenges...
November 24, 2018
Ivy B. Grey, a well-known legal technology entrepreneur and blogger, has joined legal-editing software company WordRake as director of business strategy, the company is announcing today. Grey will be responsible for helping to accelerate WordRake’s growth and further develop the software. “Lawyers in thousands of law firms rely on WordRake for clear and concise writing, and they regard fellow lawyer Ivy Grey as a proofreading and editing expert who understands their writing challenges...
YouTube will Invest $20 Million to Create Learning Resources
November 18, 2018
From EdWeek MarketBrief: YouTube is ramping up the educational resources available through its site by creating a $20 million pool of funding designed partly to support the creation of new content by individuals and organizations. The massive video-sharing platform this summer announced an effort called YouTube Learning, which YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said would provide grants and promotion from companies and others who go through an application process. YouTube is ramping up the educational...
November 18, 2018
From EdWeek MarketBrief: YouTube is ramping up the educational resources available through its site by creating a $20 million pool of funding designed partly to support the creation of new content by individuals and organizations. The massive video-sharing platform this summer announced an effort called YouTube Learning, which YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said would provide grants and promotion from companies and others who go through an application process. YouTube is ramping up the educational...
Forget the “Carrot and Stick” Approach!
November 18, 2018
Further, newer research shows that this “carrot and stick” approach may backfire when participants are offered rewards “…for doing things that aren’t especially interesting, particularly if you watch to see what happens after the rewards stop coming.” (Id.) The participants still put off doing the unappealing task despite being offered a reward for finishing early. Procrastination still occurred. (Id.) And, this approach did not improve school attendance. Again, pupils were offered...
November 18, 2018
Further, newer research shows that this “carrot and stick” approach may backfire when participants are offered rewards “…for doing things that aren’t especially interesting, particularly if you watch to see what happens after the rewards stop coming.” (Id.) The participants still put off doing the unappealing task despite being offered a reward for finishing early. Procrastination still occurred. (Id.) And, this approach did not improve school attendance. Again, pupils were offered...
Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions
November 16, 2018
Under the standard model in law and economics, agents maximize expected profit subject to constraints set by legal rules. In such a model, the expected reaction to legal innovations is immediate. However, this is not what we observe after class actions have been introduced into Israeli law. For a long time, the new procedure was rarely utilized. Then, the adoption process gained momentum. We discuss alternative explanations for this phenomenon. We find that class action filings are explained not only...
November 16, 2018
Under the standard model in law and economics, agents maximize expected profit subject to constraints set by legal rules. In such a model, the expected reaction to legal innovations is immediate. However, this is not what we observe after class actions have been introduced into Israeli law. For a long time, the new procedure was rarely utilized. Then, the adoption process gained momentum. We discuss alternative explanations for this phenomenon. We find that class action filings are explained not only...
The Rationale for Motions in the Design of Adjudication
November 15, 2018
The conduct of adjudication is often influenced by motions––requests made by litigants to modify the course of adjudication. The question studied in this article is why adjudication should be designed so as to permit the use of motions. The answer developed is that litigants will naturally know a great deal about their specific matter, whereas a court will ordinarily know little except to the degree that the court has already invested effort to appreciate it. By giving litigants the right to bring...
November 15, 2018
The conduct of adjudication is often influenced by motions––requests made by litigants to modify the course of adjudication. The question studied in this article is why adjudication should be designed so as to permit the use of motions. The answer developed is that litigants will naturally know a great deal about their specific matter, whereas a court will ordinarily know little except to the degree that the court has already invested effort to appreciate it. By giving litigants the right to bring...
This AI Startup Generates Legal Papers Without Lawyers, and Suggests a Ruling
November 10, 2018
An artificial intelligence application (app) developed by Ignacio Raffa, a startup founder from Buenos Aires, can now draft a ruling on a non-complex case in seconds, going so far as recommending a ruling to the judge. The app was developed in collaboration with the local district attorney's office. The app, Prometea, is being used for stuff like taxi license disputes, not murder trials, but it’s a significant automation that is beneficial to the city's overworked justice system. The Buenos...
November 10, 2018
An artificial intelligence application (app) developed by Ignacio Raffa, a startup founder from Buenos Aires, can now draft a ruling on a non-complex case in seconds, going so far as recommending a ruling to the judge. The app was developed in collaboration with the local district attorney's office. The app, Prometea, is being used for stuff like taxi license disputes, not murder trials, but it’s a significant automation that is beneficial to the city's overworked justice system. The Buenos...
Bloomberg Law Debuts New Attorney Analytics Tool to Better Evaluate Outside Counsel
November 7, 2018
The new Attorney Analytics tool will provide stats on over 100,000 lawyers, from companies and cases they’ve represented...
November 7, 2018
The new Attorney Analytics tool will provide stats on over 100,000 lawyers, from companies and cases they’ve represented...
The Eight Big Negotiation Mistakes that Entrepreneurs Make
November 6, 2018
Entrepreneurs, whose job is to transform ideas into new products or services for which there is a market, pride themselves on creating disruption and driving innovation. But they often fumble key interactions because they don't know how to handle the negotiation challenges that almost always arise. Entrepreneurship typically entails a series of interactions between founders, partners, potential partners, investors, and others at various stages of the entrepreneurial process – from the “seed”...
November 6, 2018
Entrepreneurs, whose job is to transform ideas into new products or services for which there is a market, pride themselves on creating disruption and driving innovation. But they often fumble key interactions because they don't know how to handle the negotiation challenges that almost always arise. Entrepreneurship typically entails a series of interactions between founders, partners, potential partners, investors, and others at various stages of the entrepreneurial process – from the “seed”...
