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Doug Noll’s Advanced Legal Negotiation Master Class Tomorrow Featuring Picture It Settled
December 2, 2013
Learn how to exploit lawyer predictability in mediation using concession planning. When: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Time: 9:00 am Pacific/Noon Eastern Length: 60 minutes Cost: $49.99 What participant's say about these webinars: "I had an intense mediation yesterday, an employment case with a lot of hard feelings and an opposing attorney who lost her professional distance. Your latest webinar helped me prepare myself & the clients. But better still, it helped me help a very...
December 2, 2013
Learn how to exploit lawyer predictability in mediation using concession planning. When: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Time: 9:00 am Pacific/Noon Eastern Length: 60 minutes Cost: $49.99 What participant's say about these webinars: "I had an intense mediation yesterday, an employment case with a lot of hard feelings and an opposing attorney who lost her professional distance. Your latest webinar helped me prepare myself & the clients. But better still, it helped me help a very...
Are Landlines on Their Way Out?
November 30, 2013
In a recent podcast on NPR's All Tech Considered Martin Kaste muses over whether or not the landline has come to an end. The quality of the landline connection has apparently been declining for sometime now, according to people who live in further out areas, as well as experts interviewed by Kaste. The poor quality is due to both the expense at maintaining the traditional infrastructures, as well as new technology, which sees calls being rerouted through the Internet. The expenses of maintaining...
November 30, 2013
In a recent podcast on NPR's All Tech Considered Martin Kaste muses over whether or not the landline has come to an end. The quality of the landline connection has apparently been declining for sometime now, according to people who live in further out areas, as well as experts interviewed by Kaste. The poor quality is due to both the expense at maintaining the traditional infrastructures, as well as new technology, which sees calls being rerouted through the Internet. The expenses of maintaining...
Dropbox Gets Down to Business: ‘The Internet Filing System’
November 30, 2013
Code-cranking visionary Drew Houston (pronounced like the Manhattan street, "how-stun," not like the Texas city) is attaching a rocket to the back of his San Francisco-based company Dropbox by launching a new product tailored for businesses to manage their professional and personnel information. Dropbox first grew popular among college students who used it to store documents and access updated versions via the cloud, anywhere and from any device. After building a base of 200 million accounts,...
November 30, 2013
Code-cranking visionary Drew Houston (pronounced like the Manhattan street, "how-stun," not like the Texas city) is attaching a rocket to the back of his San Francisco-based company Dropbox by launching a new product tailored for businesses to manage their professional and personnel information. Dropbox first grew popular among college students who used it to store documents and access updated versions via the cloud, anywhere and from any device. After building a base of 200 million accounts,...
California’s New ‘Digital Eraser’ Evaporates Embarrassment
November 30, 2013
On Sept. 23, California Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed into law Senate Bill 568, “Privacy Rights for California Minors in a Digital World.” S.B. 568 includes a provision known as the “Delete Button” or “Eraser” law, which allows minors under 18 to request that companies delete specified information that the requestor had previously posted online. California State Senator Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who sponsored the bill, said a motivating factor behind the law is that colleges...
November 30, 2013
On Sept. 23, California Governor Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed into law Senate Bill 568, “Privacy Rights for California Minors in a Digital World.” S.B. 568 includes a provision known as the “Delete Button” or “Eraser” law, which allows minors under 18 to request that companies delete specified information that the requestor had previously posted online. California State Senator Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who sponsored the bill, said a motivating factor behind the law is that colleges...
Retired S.C. Lawyer Disciplined for No Active Email
November 28, 2013
Should lawyers be disciplined for not having active e-mail accounts? The South Carolina Disciplinary Board thinks so. Aaron Weems, associate at Fox Rothschild, reports on the Pennsylvania Family Law blog that the S.C. board recently ruled a retired lawyer "poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice" for not having an active e-mail address. Weems recites anecdotes from his own practice, when opposing counsel's lack of technological tools caused...
November 28, 2013
Should lawyers be disciplined for not having active e-mail accounts? The South Carolina Disciplinary Board thinks so. Aaron Weems, associate at Fox Rothschild, reports on the Pennsylvania Family Law blog that the S.C. board recently ruled a retired lawyer "poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice" for not having an active e-mail address. Weems recites anecdotes from his own practice, when opposing counsel's lack of technological tools caused...
Why Texans Are Poised for the Future of the Legal Biz
November 26, 2013
"Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future" from British lawyer/futurist Richard Susskind is, by turns, inspiring...
November 26, 2013
"Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future" from British lawyer/futurist Richard Susskind is, by turns, inspiring...
Auto Correct: Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
November 25, 2013
Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids. They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks. They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups, and head-on collisions. They nod off at the wheel, wrestle with maps, fiddle with knobs, have marital spats, take the curve too late, take the curve...
November 25, 2013
Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids. They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks. They rubberneck, hotdog, and take pity on turtles, cause fender benders, pileups, and head-on collisions. They nod off at the wheel, wrestle with maps, fiddle with knobs, have marital spats, take the curve too late, take the curve...
Google to Grab Consumers By the Throat
November 24, 2013
To those who called Google Inc.'s Glass freakish: "you ain't seen nothin' yet." Wireless device-maker Motorola Mobility, acquired last year by Google, is looking to market U.S. Patent application No. 20130297301, which allows for a microphone to be electronically tattooed on a customer's throat, giving a whole new meaning to "wearable device." The microphone tattoo would include a wireless transceiver to connect to a mobile device, according to the Nov. 7 patent application. Positioned near...
November 24, 2013
To those who called Google Inc.'s Glass freakish: "you ain't seen nothin' yet." Wireless device-maker Motorola Mobility, acquired last year by Google, is looking to market U.S. Patent application No. 20130297301, which allows for a microphone to be electronically tattooed on a customer's throat, giving a whole new meaning to "wearable device." The microphone tattoo would include a wireless transceiver to connect to a mobile device, according to the Nov. 7 patent application. Positioned near...
Keep the Feds Out of Your Smartphone
November 23, 2013
So the Central Intelligence Agency can buy $10 million worth of phone records from AT&T, and the National Security...
November 23, 2013
So the Central Intelligence Agency can buy $10 million worth of phone records from AT&T, and the National Security...
How Technology is Affecting the Way Students Write
November 23, 2013
This is an article from the November issue of Campus Technology Magazine called "Is Tech Changing the Way Students Write?" Some educators believe that it is, but not for the better. Because students read online material in a more superficial fashion, their writing tends to reflect that same level of superficiality according to Naomi Baron, Executive Director for the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at American University and author of the forthcoming book from Oxford University Press...
November 23, 2013
This is an article from the November issue of Campus Technology Magazine called "Is Tech Changing the Way Students Write?" Some educators believe that it is, but not for the better. Because students read online material in a more superficial fashion, their writing tends to reflect that same level of superficiality according to Naomi Baron, Executive Director for the Center for Teaching, Research and Learning at American University and author of the forthcoming book from Oxford University Press...
