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Your “Likes” Can Reveal Your Personality
April 8, 2013
Recently, I have been conducting some research on what items surrounding a person say about that person’s personality and then...
April 8, 2013
Recently, I have been conducting some research on what items surrounding a person say about that person’s personality and then...
ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content (via MicrosoftResearch)
April 7, 2013
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate...
April 7, 2013
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate...
ABA Techshow: Southwest by South
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
April 7, 2013
The southwest and south exhibit halls to the American Bar Association's Techshow at the Chicago Hilton opened Thursday. There were no flash mobs, but plenty of signs in the southwest hall that new and enhanced products continue to be released afterLegalTech New York. Among the offerings: • Santa Clara, Calif.-based Connected Datadebuted its Transporter product (pictured left). It is an on-premise, network storage device designed to share files with other Transporter devices anywhere in the world,...
Take Harvard Law Survey On Online Arbitration for Consumer Disputes Today!
April 7, 2013
If you want to have an impact on the design of the first online arbitration platform designed specifically for consumer disputes,...
April 7, 2013
If you want to have an impact on the design of the first online arbitration platform designed specifically for consumer disputes,...
Legal Market Disruptions Ignite at ABA Techshow
April 7, 2013
An event that started as a "lark" is now a tradition on the eve of theABA Techshow: LexThink.1 (formerly Ignite Law). LexThink.1 is a collection of thematic monologues delivered in six-minute increments that expound the future of law practice. It is produced byMatthew Homann, CEO at Kendeo and founder at LexThink, andJoAnna Forshee, CEO of InsideLegal.com and Envision Agency, and last night was sponsored by Clio, the practice management sofware as a service. The theme for 2013: market disruption...
April 7, 2013
An event that started as a "lark" is now a tradition on the eve of theABA Techshow: LexThink.1 (formerly Ignite Law). LexThink.1 is a collection of thematic monologues delivered in six-minute increments that expound the future of law practice. It is produced byMatthew Homann, CEO at Kendeo and founder at LexThink, andJoAnna Forshee, CEO of InsideLegal.com and Envision Agency, and last night was sponsored by Clio, the practice management sofware as a service. The theme for 2013: market disruption...
Automation and Employment
April 7, 2013
The question I consider is whether automation, technical progress, outsourcing, and the increasing complexity of products and services—all closely related phenomena—are reducing demand for workers, especially but not only those who do not have a high IQ. There is a long history of exaggerated concern, rightly derided by economists, with the replacement and hence displacement of workers by machines. The idea at its simplest is that labor-saving devices whether in home or factory production,...
April 7, 2013
The question I consider is whether automation, technical progress, outsourcing, and the increasing complexity of products and services—all closely related phenomena—are reducing demand for workers, especially but not only those who do not have a high IQ. There is a long history of exaggerated concern, rightly derided by economists, with the replacement and hence displacement of workers by machines. The idea at its simplest is that labor-saving devices whether in home or factory production,...
RoundUp of Coverage of ReInvent Law Silicon Valley 2013
April 6, 2013
This is Hardly a Complete List but These Provide a Good Overview …. The Future of Law as Seen From Silicon Valley (The...
April 6, 2013
This is Hardly a Complete List but These Provide a Good Overview …. The Future of Law as Seen From Silicon Valley (The...
Automating Legal References in Legislation
April 6, 2013
This is a blog I have wanted to write for quite some time. It addresses what I believe to be the single most important issue...
April 6, 2013
This is a blog I have wanted to write for quite some time. It addresses what I believe to be the single most important issue...
Carey on Modeling Contradictions in Judicial Precedent
April 6, 2013
Matthew Carey, Esq., of Thomson Reuters has published Holdings about holdings: Modeling contradictions in judicial precedent,...
April 6, 2013
Matthew Carey, Esq., of Thomson Reuters has published Holdings about holdings: Modeling contradictions in judicial precedent,...
Information is Cheap, but Meaning is Expensive: Building Analytical Skill Into Legal Research Instruction
April 5, 2013
This article is by Professor Yasmin Sokkar Harker (CUNY) and available at 105 Law Libr. J. 79 (2013). From the synopsis: Law students and new attorneys must have well-developed analytical skills in order to find information that is pertinent to their legal problems and to become competent legal researchers in today’s information-rich environment. Law librarians and legal research instructors can help develop students’ analytical skills by asking them to participate in activities that encourage...
April 5, 2013
This article is by Professor Yasmin Sokkar Harker (CUNY) and available at 105 Law Libr. J. 79 (2013). From the synopsis: Law students and new attorneys must have well-developed analytical skills in order to find information that is pertinent to their legal problems and to become competent legal researchers in today’s information-rich environment. Law librarians and legal research instructors can help develop students’ analytical skills by asking them to participate in activities that encourage...
