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LinkedIn Post Likely Didn’t Violate Noncompete Clause
November 12, 2013
A LinkedIn profile update alerting a user’s contacts about her new job did not necessarily constitute a solicitation of business that ran afoul of her noncompete agreement, a Massachusetts trial judge has ruled. KNF&T Inc. v. Muller was filed last month in Suffolk, Mass., Superior Court against former KNF&T vice president Charlotte Muller and her new employer, Panther Global Group Inc. KNF&T, which does business as KNF&T Staffing Resources, claims Muller violated her one-year...
November 12, 2013
A LinkedIn profile update alerting a user’s contacts about her new job did not necessarily constitute a solicitation of business that ran afoul of her noncompete agreement, a Massachusetts trial judge has ruled. KNF&T Inc. v. Muller was filed last month in Suffolk, Mass., Superior Court against former KNF&T vice president Charlotte Muller and her new employer, Panther Global Group Inc. KNF&T, which does business as KNF&T Staffing Resources, claims Muller violated her one-year...
A Brave New Technological World in the Texas Bar Journal
November 10, 2013
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. —Marshall McLuhan Is...
November 10, 2013
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. —Marshall McLuhan Is...
Robotic Cars: Road Hazard or Help?
November 9, 2013
Developers of self-driving car technology are using smaller and cheaper sensors to drive down prices, and car companies like Nissan Motor Co. are lining up to buy, with plans to deploy "driverless" cars in the next decade. But lobbying for legislation to allow such technology on the road could take longer.
November 9, 2013
Developers of self-driving car technology are using smaller and cheaper sensors to drive down prices, and car companies like Nissan Motor Co. are lining up to buy, with plans to deploy "driverless" cars in the next decade. But lobbying for legislation to allow such technology on the road could take longer.
Big Data and Pharmacovigilance: Using Health Information Exchanges to Revolutionize Drug Safety
November 9, 2013
Data on individual patients collected through state and federal health information exchanges has the potential to usher in a new era of drug regulation. These exchanges, produced by recent health care reform legislation, will amass an unprecedented amount of clinical information on drug usage, demographic variables, and patient outcomes. This information could aid the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with post-market drug surveillance because it more accurately reflects clinical practice outcomes...
November 9, 2013
Data on individual patients collected through state and federal health information exchanges has the potential to usher in a new era of drug regulation. These exchanges, produced by recent health care reform legislation, will amass an unprecedented amount of clinical information on drug usage, demographic variables, and patient outcomes. This information could aid the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with post-market drug surveillance because it more accurately reflects clinical practice outcomes...
Gamification: Coming Soon to Training, Document Review Near You
November 9, 2013
OK — fess up. How many of you play Angry Birds on your iPhone? What if you could play a game that improves the productivity, collaboration, compliance, or expertise of your legal practice? Within a few years, you may be routinely doing just that. Corporations like Cisco Systems and Google's Motorola Mobility have embraced gamification, and analysts say the trend is gaining steam. Now, software vendors, law firms, and general counsel are starting to experiment to see just how gamification might...
November 9, 2013
OK — fess up. How many of you play Angry Birds on your iPhone? What if you could play a game that improves the productivity, collaboration, compliance, or expertise of your legal practice? Within a few years, you may be routinely doing just that. Corporations like Cisco Systems and Google's Motorola Mobility have embraced gamification, and analysts say the trend is gaining steam. Now, software vendors, law firms, and general counsel are starting to experiment to see just how gamification might...
Deans: Cornell Tech is Redefining Tech Education
November 8, 2013
The goal of the nascent Cornell NYC Tech campus is a simple one: be the pre-eminent graduate school for digital disciplines in the information age, the campus’s founding dean, Dan Huttenlocher, said during an Oct. 25 “University Spotlights” campus talk on “Iteration and Innovation in the Cornell Tech curriculum.” Huttenlocher and Cornell Tech associate dean Rajit Manohar spent an hour with trustees, alumni and others, peppered with questions about Cornell Tech’s approach to everything...
November 8, 2013
The goal of the nascent Cornell NYC Tech campus is a simple one: be the pre-eminent graduate school for digital disciplines in the information age, the campus’s founding dean, Dan Huttenlocher, said during an Oct. 25 “University Spotlights” campus talk on “Iteration and Innovation in the Cornell Tech curriculum.” Huttenlocher and Cornell Tech associate dean Rajit Manohar spent an hour with trustees, alumni and others, peppered with questions about Cornell Tech’s approach to everything...
Alternative Dispute Resolution Gets an Online Network
November 7, 2013
Social networkers have Facebook, professional networkers have LinkedIn, and now those looking to learn about and network...
November 7, 2013
Social networkers have Facebook, professional networkers have LinkedIn, and now those looking to learn about and network...
Efficiency Is the New Legal Pedigree
November 7, 2013
A Harvard Law School degree looks great on paper, but technology-savvy law firms can often trump competitors who come to beauty contests armed only with Ivy League pedigrees. That was the message of the 75-minute In-House Counsel Panel at the 2013 Legal Marketing Technology Conference/West, held in San Francisco Tuesday at the Hotel Nikko. Want to impress corporate counsel? What really grabs their attention is when attorneys "get it" — and show the ability to to understand and fulfill the individual...
November 7, 2013
A Harvard Law School degree looks great on paper, but technology-savvy law firms can often trump competitors who come to beauty contests armed only with Ivy League pedigrees. That was the message of the 75-minute In-House Counsel Panel at the 2013 Legal Marketing Technology Conference/West, held in San Francisco Tuesday at the Hotel Nikko. Want to impress corporate counsel? What really grabs their attention is when attorneys "get it" — and show the ability to to understand and fulfill the individual...
Patent Wars Erupt Again in Tech Sector
November 4, 2013
The long-running patent war among the technology industry’s heavyweights just grew a whole lot bigger—and more controversial. After a brief hiatus for major new litigation, a joint venture owned by Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Ltd., Ericsson Inc., and Sony Corp. launched a barrage of new lawsuits against a group of defendants that include Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc., HTC Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co. The suits, brought by the so-called Rockstar...
November 4, 2013
The long-running patent war among the technology industry’s heavyweights just grew a whole lot bigger—and more controversial. After a brief hiatus for major new litigation, a joint venture owned by Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Ltd., Ericsson Inc., and Sony Corp. launched a barrage of new lawsuits against a group of defendants that include Google Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc., HTC Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co. The suits, brought by the so-called Rockstar...
CourtListener Adds 1.5 Million Opinions, Expands Coverage
November 3, 2013
Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the launch of CourtListener, a free website that lets you create alerts to notify you of new cases that match your search criteria. Today, the site announced that it is adding more than 1.5 million court opinions to its database, expanding its coverage to a total of 350 federal and state jurisdictions. The cases were donated to CourtListener by LawBox, the company behind the LawBox legal research app for iOS devices. Originally created by Michael Lissner...
November 3, 2013
Back in 2011, I wrote a post about the launch of CourtListener, a free website that lets you create alerts to notify you of new cases that match your search criteria. Today, the site announced that it is adding more than 1.5 million court opinions to its database, expanding its coverage to a total of 350 federal and state jurisdictions. The cases were donated to CourtListener by LawBox, the company behind the LawBox legal research app for iOS devices. Originally created by Michael Lissner...
