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Lessons From the Rise of LegalZoom
July 25, 2015
Yesterday I applied Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to Big Law. Basically, disruptive innovations...
July 25, 2015
Yesterday I applied Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation to Big Law. Basically, disruptive innovations...
Exiting Stealth Mode, 24M Takes On the Battery Industry
July 25, 2015
Aiming to completely overhaul the lithium-ion battery industry, MIT-based scientist Yet-Ming Chiang on Monday publicly unveiled his latest startup, called 24M. The company uses a novel battery composition based on a semi-solid material that eliminates much of the bulk of conventional lithium-ion batteries—which are typically made up mostly of inactive, non-energy-storing materials—while dramatically increasing the energy density. Chiang and 24M CEO Throop Wilder also say that they can reduce...
July 25, 2015
Aiming to completely overhaul the lithium-ion battery industry, MIT-based scientist Yet-Ming Chiang on Monday publicly unveiled his latest startup, called 24M. The company uses a novel battery composition based on a semi-solid material that eliminates much of the bulk of conventional lithium-ion batteries—which are typically made up mostly of inactive, non-energy-storing materials—while dramatically increasing the energy density. Chiang and 24M CEO Throop Wilder also say that they can reduce...
Legal Leaders Increasingly Open to the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Practice
July 25, 2015
Survey sees a considerable drop-off in the number of legal leaders who believe computers could never replace legal professionals. The industries and jobs most frequently associated with automation and artificial intelligence often fall in the skilled labor arenas—fabrication and assembly, for example. But as artificial intelligence grows smarter, jobs that have historically had a closer affiliation with the humanities may also become fodder for software automation, including man in the legal...
July 25, 2015
Survey sees a considerable drop-off in the number of legal leaders who believe computers could never replace legal professionals. The industries and jobs most frequently associated with automation and artificial intelligence often fall in the skilled labor arenas—fabrication and assembly, for example. But as artificial intelligence grows smarter, jobs that have historically had a closer affiliation with the humanities may also become fodder for software automation, including man in the legal...
Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband
July 24, 2015
Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like light exposure and noise levels. It won’t be marketed as a consumer device, said Andy Conrad, head of the life...
July 24, 2015
Google Inc.’s life sciences group has created a health-tracking wristband that could be used in clinical trials and drug tests, giving researchers or physicians minute-by-minute data on how patients are faring. The experimental device, developed within the company’s Google X research division, can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature, and also environmental information like light exposure and noise levels. It won’t be marketed as a consumer device, said Andy Conrad, head of the life...
IBM Watson for Contract Analytics at Legal OnRamp
July 23, 2015
OnRamp describes itself as offering “hosted software and services to help legal departments deliver results more efficiently with higher quality and lower cost.” I recently spoke with Paul Lippe, CEO (and former GC of Synopsys, an AI software company for computer-aided design), and other management to learn more about their use of IBM Watson. Borrowing from IBM Watson’s notion of “cognitive computing,” Paul calls contracts the “cognitive backbone” of the enterprise. Yet he points...
July 23, 2015
OnRamp describes itself as offering “hosted software and services to help legal departments deliver results more efficiently with higher quality and lower cost.” I recently spoke with Paul Lippe, CEO (and former GC of Synopsys, an AI software company for computer-aided design), and other management to learn more about their use of IBM Watson. Borrowing from IBM Watson’s notion of “cognitive computing,” Paul calls contracts the “cognitive backbone” of the enterprise. Yet he points...
An Open Letter from Seyfarth’s New Chief Strategy Officer – Joshua Kubicki
July 22, 2015
Why Strategy Now? To Address the Mid-term Emerging and Evolving Needs of our Clients In recent decades, firms in the AmLaw200 have become chained to the short-term. They think, plan, and make choices with this fiscal year in mind, narrowly focusing on inorganic pathways to growth such as lateral recruitment, acquisitions, and mergers. One way in which Seyfarth has differentiated itself, particularly in the last decade — since the inception of its efforts to apply Lean principles to the practice...
July 22, 2015
Why Strategy Now? To Address the Mid-term Emerging and Evolving Needs of our Clients In recent decades, firms in the AmLaw200 have become chained to the short-term. They think, plan, and make choices with this fiscal year in mind, narrowly focusing on inorganic pathways to growth such as lateral recruitment, acquisitions, and mergers. One way in which Seyfarth has differentiated itself, particularly in the last decade — since the inception of its efforts to apply Lean principles to the practice...
Picture It Settled Featured in 60 Apps in 60 Minutes
July 22, 2015
Picture It Settled Lite helps you visualize the negotiation dance and calculate your next steps Analyzes your position and develops successful negotiation strategies
July 22, 2015
Picture It Settled Lite helps you visualize the negotiation dance and calculate your next steps Analyzes your position and develops successful negotiation strategies
Labor and Employment Law in a World of Automated Systems
July 20, 2015
We may still be decades away from true artificial intelligence, but intelligent systems and new technologies are adding challenges to the modern workplace. The computing systems and programs currently pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) may still be a long way off from self-awareness (the hallmark of true AI), but they are creating very real challenges for human society. Chief among these are the implications on historic and societal underpinnings of how humans work. Presently,...
July 20, 2015
We may still be decades away from true artificial intelligence, but intelligent systems and new technologies are adding challenges to the modern workplace. The computing systems and programs currently pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence (AI) may still be a long way off from self-awareness (the hallmark of true AI), but they are creating very real challenges for human society. Chief among these are the implications on historic and societal underpinnings of how humans work. Presently,...
U.S. Tech Funding – What is Going On?
July 19, 2015
What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital?...
July 19, 2015
What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital?...
Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
July 19, 2015
Artificial Neural Networks have spurred remarkable recent progress in image classification and speech recognition. But even...
July 19, 2015
Artificial Neural Networks have spurred remarkable recent progress in image classification and speech recognition. But even...
