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The Admissibility of Social Media Evidence
March 27, 2013
A lawyer recently expressed to me serious doubts about using evidence from social media websites. According to him, electronically...
March 27, 2013
A lawyer recently expressed to me serious doubts about using evidence from social media websites. According to him, electronically...
Suit Offers a Peek at Emails Discussing Inflated Legal Bill
March 26, 2013
They were lawyers at the world’s largest law firm, trading casual e-mails about a client’s case. One made a sarcastic joke about how the bill was running way over budget. Another described a colleague’s approach to the assignment as “churn that bill, baby!” The e-mails, which emerged in a court filing late last week, provide a window into the thorny issue of law firm billing. The documents are likely to reinforce a perception held by many corporate clients — and the public — that...
March 26, 2013
They were lawyers at the world’s largest law firm, trading casual e-mails about a client’s case. One made a sarcastic joke about how the bill was running way over budget. Another described a colleague’s approach to the assignment as “churn that bill, baby!” The e-mails, which emerged in a court filing late last week, provide a window into the thorny issue of law firm billing. The documents are likely to reinforce a perception held by many corporate clients — and the public — that...
ReInvent Law London 2013 – A Free, Open & Crowd Sourced Conference
March 24, 2013
#ReInvent Law London 2013 will be an open, crowd-sourced conference! Talks will be submitted by the public and then those...
March 24, 2013
#ReInvent Law London 2013 will be an open, crowd-sourced conference! Talks will be submitted by the public and then those...
‘Assassins’ Aim to Reinvent Law
March 20, 2013
You would almost think Daniel Martin Katz was running for office, he's such a travelin' man these days. His blog, computationallegalstudies.com features his travel itinerary, aka "The Campaign Trail," with tightly-scheduled conferences across the globe. On December 10, 2012, it was the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Conference; then there were six events before the reprise of ReInventLaw in Silicon Valley on March 8. And so forth, and so on. Monday night, Katz was at Lincoln Center in New York City...
March 20, 2013
You would almost think Daniel Martin Katz was running for office, he's such a travelin' man these days. His blog, computationallegalstudies.com features his travel itinerary, aka "The Campaign Trail," with tightly-scheduled conferences across the globe. On December 10, 2012, it was the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Conference; then there were six events before the reprise of ReInventLaw in Silicon Valley on March 8. And so forth, and so on. Monday night, Katz was at Lincoln Center in New York City...
Facebook Joins Forces With Data Brokers To Gather More Intel About Users For Ads
March 19, 2013
When I visit Facebook, I seem to keep getting the same old ad for a dentist who offers discounts to Duke alumni. That’s...
March 19, 2013
When I visit Facebook, I seem to keep getting the same old ad for a dentist who offers discounts to Duke alumni. That’s...
2013 State of Entrepreneurship Address: ‘Financing Entrepreneurial Growth’
March 19, 2013
Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital. The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in financing entrepreneurial growth, a key driver of job creation and economic expansion, at its fourth annual State of Entrepreneurship Address on February 5, 2013. The event featured remarks from Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, U.S....
March 19, 2013
Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital. The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in financing entrepreneurial growth, a key driver of job creation and economic expansion, at its fourth annual State of Entrepreneurship Address on February 5, 2013. The event featured remarks from Small Business Administrator Karen Mills, U.S....
Which social media are the Inc. 500 using?
March 17, 2013
Law firms would be well served to know which social media are most popular for our nation’s fastest growing businesses. After all, networking to build relationships and enhance your word of mouth reputation requires going where the people are. Jon Xavier (@jxav) of the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that LinkedIn is now the most popular, supplanting Facebook. Here’s a summary of a study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on which social media Inc. 500 companies are using. LinkedIn...
March 17, 2013
Law firms would be well served to know which social media are most popular for our nation’s fastest growing businesses. After all, networking to build relationships and enhance your word of mouth reputation requires going where the people are. Jon Xavier (@jxav) of the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that LinkedIn is now the most popular, supplanting Facebook. Here’s a summary of a study by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on which social media Inc. 500 companies are using. LinkedIn...
Remember Yahoo Pipes? You Should If You Want to Tame Your Info
March 17, 2013
If you like to tinker with and automate your web, and if you are a fan of services like IFTTT, then you may or may not have heard of Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo Pipes has been around for a dog’s lifetime in Internet years – it was first introduced in early 2007. While venerable, it is still mighty useful if you spend a few moments getting to know what it can do for you. So, what can it do for you? It’s tagline is “rewire the Web.” Pipes describes itself as a powerful composition tool to aggregate,...
March 17, 2013
If you like to tinker with and automate your web, and if you are a fan of services like IFTTT, then you may or may not have heard of Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo Pipes has been around for a dog’s lifetime in Internet years – it was first introduced in early 2007. While venerable, it is still mighty useful if you spend a few moments getting to know what it can do for you. So, what can it do for you? It’s tagline is “rewire the Web.” Pipes describes itself as a powerful composition tool to aggregate,...
The Inevitable Path of Google Glass in the Workplace
March 16, 2013
Google's Project Glass — the tech giant's effort to create augmented reality glasses — should be available to regular consumers by the end of this year. The prototype has a long way to go, though — even Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted last week that it's not "a done deal yet."
March 16, 2013
Google's Project Glass — the tech giant's effort to create augmented reality glasses — should be available to regular consumers by the end of this year. The prototype has a long way to go, though — even Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted last week that it's not "a done deal yet."
