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Court Rules on iPhone, iPad Use
March 30, 2015
There are countless ways that an iPhone and iPad can be useful to an attorney while in court — whether you are at counsel table or just monitoring proceedings from the cheap seats in back. I often use my iPhone to look up a statute, check my calendar, get some information from an email, or remind myself of the name of another attorney in the courtroom. I often use my iPad to look at a case cited by an opponent, review the key part of an exhibit or transcript, or take notes. But you cannot do any of this...
March 30, 2015
There are countless ways that an iPhone and iPad can be useful to an attorney while in court — whether you are at counsel table or just monitoring proceedings from the cheap seats in back. I often use my iPhone to look up a statute, check my calendar, get some information from an email, or remind myself of the name of another attorney in the courtroom. I often use my iPad to look at a case cited by an opponent, review the key part of an exhibit or transcript, or take notes. But you cannot do any of this...
Learning to See Data
March 29, 2015
FOR the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe: Daniel Kohn, a Brooklyn-based painter and conceptual artist. Mr. Kohn has no training in computers or genetics, and he’s not there to conduct art therapy classes. His role is to help the scientists with a signature 21st-century problem: Big Data overload. Advanced computing produces waves of abstract digital data that in many cases...
March 29, 2015
FOR the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe: Daniel Kohn, a Brooklyn-based painter and conceptual artist. Mr. Kohn has no training in computers or genetics, and he’s not there to conduct art therapy classes. His role is to help the scientists with a signature 21st-century problem: Big Data overload. Advanced computing produces waves of abstract digital data that in many cases...
‘Legal Rebel’ Katz to Join IIT Chicago-Kent Law
March 28, 2015
Daniel Katz, currently a professor at Michigan State University College of Law, will join the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law in the fall of 2015. Katz was named a “Legal Rebel” in 2013 by the American Bar Association’s Journal. That year he also received a Fastcase 50 award—he was one of 50 people acknowledged by Fastcase Inc., a legal content and software provider, as “the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders...
March 28, 2015
Daniel Katz, currently a professor at Michigan State University College of Law, will join the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law in the fall of 2015. Katz was named a “Legal Rebel” in 2013 by the American Bar Association’s Journal. That year he also received a Fastcase 50 award—he was one of 50 people acknowledged by Fastcase Inc., a legal content and software provider, as “the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders...
Internet Brands Widens Footprint in Legal with Purchase of Total Attorneys
March 28, 2015
Internet Brands, one of the world’s largest operators of websites that serve targeted vertical markets, this week widened its footprint in the legal industry with the purchase of the law practice management and marketing site Total Attorneys. Internet Brands already operates the Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directory; the Nolo legal self-help site; and the Lawyers.com, AllLaw and AttorneyLocate.com sites for helping consumers find lawyers and legal information. (Internet Brands operates Martindale.com,...
March 28, 2015
Internet Brands, one of the world’s largest operators of websites that serve targeted vertical markets, this week widened its footprint in the legal industry with the purchase of the law practice management and marketing site Total Attorneys. Internet Brands already operates the Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directory; the Nolo legal self-help site; and the Lawyers.com, AllLaw and AttorneyLocate.com sites for helping consumers find lawyers and legal information. (Internet Brands operates Martindale.com,...
Data Analytics Poised to Move Up Another Gear in Legal
March 25, 2015
Data analytics will move to a new level in law firms over the next two years, with additional applications beyond e-discovery, legal techies predict. Data analytics are gaining traction in the legal market Data analytics in the legal marketplace will dictate legal spend in the next couple of years with large organisations and law firms seeing such information as core to legal strategy, according to research from Huron Legal. In a survey of 129 legal technologists, two in three (68 per cent)...
March 25, 2015
Data analytics will move to a new level in law firms over the next two years, with additional applications beyond e-discovery, legal techies predict. Data analytics are gaining traction in the legal market Data analytics in the legal marketplace will dictate legal spend in the next couple of years with large organisations and law firms seeing such information as core to legal strategy, according to research from Huron Legal. In a survey of 129 legal technologists, two in three (68 per cent)...
Big Law Brings Big Knowledge Management
March 22, 2015
O'Melveny & Myers is building a litigation support tool atop an intranet and enterprise search engine. “Too big to fail” does not apply to law firms. After Bingham McCutchen, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Heller Ehrman, Howrey and Thelen, everyone knows that. Big law firms, however, are too big to ignore past precedents and their expert knowledge in litigation and transactions, which can differentiate them from other firms. O’Melveny & Myers knows that. The Am Law 100 firm is rolling out a new firm-wide...
March 22, 2015
O'Melveny & Myers is building a litigation support tool atop an intranet and enterprise search engine. “Too big to fail” does not apply to law firms. After Bingham McCutchen, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Heller Ehrman, Howrey and Thelen, everyone knows that. Big law firms, however, are too big to ignore past precedents and their expert knowledge in litigation and transactions, which can differentiate them from other firms. O’Melveny & Myers knows that. The Am Law 100 firm is rolling out a new firm-wide...
Can Computers Practice Law?
March 21, 2015
Can computers practice law? Many are inclined to say yes when using them affects us in so many ways. When scanning the pages of Law Journal Newsletters' Legal Tech Newsletter, we learn a good deal about the use of computers in the practice of law, but what I am really asking here is how far can—or will—we go to automate dispute resolution? Everyone associated with legal technology supports the use of computers in managing the practice of law. Years ago, many of the tasks easily accomplished...
March 21, 2015
Can computers practice law? Many are inclined to say yes when using them affects us in so many ways. When scanning the pages of Law Journal Newsletters' Legal Tech Newsletter, we learn a good deal about the use of computers in the practice of law, but what I am really asking here is how far can—or will—we go to automate dispute resolution? Everyone associated with legal technology supports the use of computers in managing the practice of law. Years ago, many of the tasks easily accomplished...
New ‘Redact Assistant’ Easily Redacts Word and Excel Files
March 21, 2015
Lawyers often have to redact documents in order to obscure confidential, privileged or sensitive information. Redaction is most typically required for documents filed with a court or exchanged during discovery. For PDF documents, redaction is a fairly simple process, because most of the leading PDF programs used by lawyers include redaction as a built-in feature. Both Adobe Acrobat Pro and Nuance Power PDF Advanced include the ability to black out sensitive information. Redaction is not so straightforward...
March 21, 2015
Lawyers often have to redact documents in order to obscure confidential, privileged or sensitive information. Redaction is most typically required for documents filed with a court or exchanged during discovery. For PDF documents, redaction is a fairly simple process, because most of the leading PDF programs used by lawyers include redaction as a built-in feature. Both Adobe Acrobat Pro and Nuance Power PDF Advanced include the ability to black out sensitive information. Redaction is not so straightforward...
Big Data, Internet and the Technology that will Define the Future of Business
March 21, 2015
Our social environment, how we enjoy ourselves, how we buy, what we study, how we travel,… Everything we do has changed...
March 21, 2015
Our social environment, how we enjoy ourselves, how we buy, what we study, how we travel,… Everything we do has changed...
BigLaw’s Ralph Baxter Joins Lex Machina
March 20, 2015
Legal analytics innovator Lex Machina has recruited Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe former chair Ralph Baxter onto the company’s...
March 20, 2015
Legal analytics innovator Lex Machina has recruited Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe former chair Ralph Baxter onto the company’s...
