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How To Overcome Cultural Barriers: Overseas Negotiations Advice
June 14, 2015
It’s a dilemma that negotiators face with increasing frequency: growing economic globalization offers a multitude of new opportunities yet often necessitates alternatives to face-to-face meetings, such as phone calls, email messages, video-conferencing, or instant messaging. Newly available technologies can be powerful negotiating tools that save time and money, but if not managed properly, they also come with some predictable pitfalls, such as misunderstandings and mutual distrust. What’s...
June 14, 2015
It’s a dilemma that negotiators face with increasing frequency: growing economic globalization offers a multitude of new opportunities yet often necessitates alternatives to face-to-face meetings, such as phone calls, email messages, video-conferencing, or instant messaging. Newly available technologies can be powerful negotiating tools that save time and money, but if not managed properly, they also come with some predictable pitfalls, such as misunderstandings and mutual distrust. What’s...
Corporate Counsel Say Law Firms Are Becoming More Tech-Savvy
June 14, 2015
Inside counsel identify 9 percent more law firms using technology as a source of innovation in 2015, according to a new BTI Consulting report. It’s no secret: there is a widespread perception in the legal industry that law firms are not on the forefront of technology adoption. Indeed, the idea that law firms are becoming more tech-savvy may sound oxymoronic, but a new survey of nearly 700 corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies revealed that more law firms are using client-facing technology. In...
June 14, 2015
Inside counsel identify 9 percent more law firms using technology as a source of innovation in 2015, according to a new BTI Consulting report. It’s no secret: there is a widespread perception in the legal industry that law firms are not on the forefront of technology adoption. Indeed, the idea that law firms are becoming more tech-savvy may sound oxymoronic, but a new survey of nearly 700 corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies revealed that more law firms are using client-facing technology. In...
Georgetown’s Iron Tech Competition Grows In Audience and Interest
June 13, 2015
Georgetown University Law Center’s fourth annual “Iron Tech Lawyer Competition—Access to Justice Edition,” has grown a bit. The event, held Wednesday, included small teams of students that developed apps to help consumers, nonlawyer advocates and public-interest lawyers navigate complex areas of the law with simple, streamlined tools.
June 13, 2015
Georgetown University Law Center’s fourth annual “Iron Tech Lawyer Competition—Access to Justice Edition,” has grown a bit. The event, held Wednesday, included small teams of students that developed apps to help consumers, nonlawyer advocates and public-interest lawyers navigate complex areas of the law with simple, streamlined tools.
Speech Recognition Moves Past Dream Stage
June 13, 2015
Speech becomes an interesting alternative when you must input data hands-free (think of dialing a call from your car); when speech can produce a text, email or draft as fast and as well as your typing skills (especially on a mobile device); or when it can do quick searches or initiate commands. In other words, by not asking speech recognition to do everything and being frustrated when it does not do it all, we can focus on where speech really helps us and take advantage of the help it offers us right...
June 13, 2015
Speech becomes an interesting alternative when you must input data hands-free (think of dialing a call from your car); when speech can produce a text, email or draft as fast and as well as your typing skills (especially on a mobile device); or when it can do quick searches or initiate commands. In other words, by not asking speech recognition to do everything and being frustrated when it does not do it all, we can focus on where speech really helps us and take advantage of the help it offers us right...
LegalZoom Sues North Carolina State Bar
June 8, 2015
LegalZoom Accuses Bar of Squelching Competition The long-running feud between LegalZoom.com Inc. and the North Carolina...
June 8, 2015
LegalZoom Accuses Bar of Squelching Competition The long-running feud between LegalZoom.com Inc. and the North Carolina...
Google Beats Apple in a Race to The Road
June 7, 2015
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has placed Android Auto, its in-car software system on the road. South Korean car-maker Hyundai is featuring the OS in its new Sonata cars. The software was added to the vehicles in a software update that went out this week. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), which has been working on its own car OS, has yet to show up in any consumer car. Owners of the 2015 Sonata in the US will be able to ask their dealer to put Android Auto into their car. The system will only...
June 7, 2015
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has placed Android Auto, its in-car software system on the road. South Korean car-maker Hyundai is featuring the OS in its new Sonata cars. The software was added to the vehicles in a software update that went out this week. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), which has been working on its own car OS, has yet to show up in any consumer car. Owners of the 2015 Sonata in the US will be able to ask their dealer to put Android Auto into their car. The system will only...
Robot Learns Skills Through Trial and Error, Like You Do
June 7, 2015
As a rule, robots have to learn through explicit instruction, whether it's through new programming, watching videos or holding their hands. UC Berkeley's BRETT (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) isn't nearly that dependent, however. The machine uses neural network-based deep learning algorithms to master tasks through trial and error, much like humans do. Ask it to assemble a toy and it'll keep trying until it understands what works. In theory, you'd rarely need to give the robot...
June 7, 2015
As a rule, robots have to learn through explicit instruction, whether it's through new programming, watching videos or holding their hands. UC Berkeley's BRETT (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) isn't nearly that dependent, however. The machine uses neural network-based deep learning algorithms to master tasks through trial and error, much like humans do. Ask it to assemble a toy and it'll keep trying until it understands what works. In theory, you'd rarely need to give the robot...
Robot Kitchen Cooks
June 6, 2015
Visitors to the inaugural Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Asia in Shanghai on Monday were cooked food by a robotic kitchen, the first of its kind according to its creators. Designed by London-based Moley Robotics, the automated kitchen consists of two large robotic arms which can construct dishes based on an iTunes-like library of recipes. The arms were designed by the Shadow Robot company, which also provides technologies to NASA, and consist of 20 motors, 24 joints and 129 sensors allowing them...
June 6, 2015
Visitors to the inaugural Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Asia in Shanghai on Monday were cooked food by a robotic kitchen, the first of its kind according to its creators. Designed by London-based Moley Robotics, the automated kitchen consists of two large robotic arms which can construct dishes based on an iTunes-like library of recipes. The arms were designed by the Shadow Robot company, which also provides technologies to NASA, and consist of 20 motors, 24 joints and 129 sensors allowing them...
Robot Tongue Identifies The Correct Beer Every Time
June 6, 2015
Machines mimicking a human's sense of taste are going on a beer-tasting binge. Despite being called electronic tongues, these devices aren't party robots, pouring beer onto wagging, mechanical tongues. "It's just a bunch of wires and buttons and computers," said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain. "It's an ugly thing full of cables." However it looks, Méndez and colleagues developed an electronic tongue that accurately distinguished...
June 6, 2015
Machines mimicking a human's sense of taste are going on a beer-tasting binge. Despite being called electronic tongues, these devices aren't party robots, pouring beer onto wagging, mechanical tongues. "It's just a bunch of wires and buttons and computers," said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain. "It's an ugly thing full of cables." However it looks, Méndez and colleagues developed an electronic tongue that accurately distinguished...
Law Without Lawyers: Access to Civil Justice and the Cost of Legal Services
June 1, 2015
This Article will discuss access to justice as a function of the cost of civil litigation. Framing the issue in this way, justice as a function of cost, it is worth noting that justice and cost are two of the three goals referenced in Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states: “These rules . . . should be construed and administered to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, in positing these...
June 1, 2015
This Article will discuss access to justice as a function of the cost of civil litigation. Framing the issue in this way, justice as a function of cost, it is worth noting that justice and cost are two of the three goals referenced in Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states: “These rules . . . should be construed and administered to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, in positing these...
