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Robots are the Lawyers of the Future
March 19, 2015
Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. Writing in The Sunday Times, Andrew Keen - author of 'The Internet is Not the Answer' - says: 'Oddly enough, it's the most skilled workers who will be the most vulnerable in the second machine age.' He then explains that gardeners and cooks might not be replaced by software and then points to lawyers...
March 19, 2015
Lawyers, even at the highest level, are vulnerable to the advances of artificial intelligence as Amazon, Google and Facebook focus on ways of replacing humans with robots in all parts of the workplace. Writing in The Sunday Times, Andrew Keen - author of 'The Internet is Not the Answer' - says: 'Oddly enough, it's the most skilled workers who will be the most vulnerable in the second machine age.' He then explains that gardeners and cooks might not be replaced by software and then points to lawyers...
Hired Hackers Aided Corporate Lawsuits
March 17, 2015
Two private detectives in California are accused in a federal indictment of hiring computer hackers to obtain information from litigants in civil lawsuits. Private detectives Nathan Moser of Menlo Park and Peter Siragusa of Novato are accused of hiring computer experts to hack into computers, email and Skype accounts. In one case, the indictment (PDF) says, hackers installed a keylogger to record the keys struck on a keyboard. The San Jose Mercury News and a press release summarize the allegations.
March 17, 2015
Two private detectives in California are accused in a federal indictment of hiring computer hackers to obtain information from litigants in civil lawsuits. Private detectives Nathan Moser of Menlo Park and Peter Siragusa of Novato are accused of hiring computer experts to hack into computers, email and Skype accounts. In one case, the indictment (PDF) says, hackers installed a keylogger to record the keys struck on a keyboard. The San Jose Mercury News and a press release summarize the allegations.
Tax Boards Use An Online System To Resolve Disputes
March 16, 2015
As a proving ground for online dispute resolution, there is no better venue than eBay. Transactions there give rise to some 60 million disputes a year. Virtually all are handled through eBay's own ODR process. Ninety percent of the disputes are resolved through the software alone, without a need for human intervention. Of course, eBay and ODR are a natural fit. Buyers and sellers make their deals entirely online, so it makes sense for them to handle their disputes there. But what about brick-and-mortar...
March 16, 2015
As a proving ground for online dispute resolution, there is no better venue than eBay. Transactions there give rise to some 60 million disputes a year. Virtually all are handled through eBay's own ODR process. Ninety percent of the disputes are resolved through the software alone, without a need for human intervention. Of course, eBay and ODR are a natural fit. Buyers and sellers make their deals entirely online, so it makes sense for them to handle their disputes there. But what about brick-and-mortar...
Lawyer Selection Analyzed Using Big Data
March 16, 2015
How do people select the lawyers they work with? How do they choose between associates and partners? What influences their decisions when finding attorneys to represent them in court? Do attorney track records in court truly demonstrate their litigation-based abilities? These are some of the questions answered by a study done using big data by Premonition, a Florida-based artificial intelligence company targeting the legal industry. The group uses big data to analyze trends and outliers in litigation. The...
March 16, 2015
How do people select the lawyers they work with? How do they choose between associates and partners? What influences their decisions when finding attorneys to represent them in court? Do attorney track records in court truly demonstrate their litigation-based abilities? These are some of the questions answered by a study done using big data by Premonition, a Florida-based artificial intelligence company targeting the legal industry. The group uses big data to analyze trends and outliers in litigation. The...
Why I Make Robots the Size of a Grain of Rice
March 14, 2015
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.
March 14, 2015
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future.
Social Media Postings in Sexual Harassment Litigation
March 12, 2015
Sexual harassment litigation typically involves accusations of unwelcome sexual conduct or comments in the workplace. Sometimes allegations are simply denied. More often, however, defendants assert that plaintiff either welcomed or wasn’t offended by the alleged conduct or comments. Increasingly, an important evidentiary weapon in this battle comes from social networking postings, such as tweets, Facebook status posts, private messages, etc. At some point in the mutual mud-slinging, counsel find...
March 12, 2015
Sexual harassment litigation typically involves accusations of unwelcome sexual conduct or comments in the workplace. Sometimes allegations are simply denied. More often, however, defendants assert that plaintiff either welcomed or wasn’t offended by the alleged conduct or comments. Increasingly, an important evidentiary weapon in this battle comes from social networking postings, such as tweets, Facebook status posts, private messages, etc. At some point in the mutual mud-slinging, counsel find...
New Firm Combines Wearables And Data To Improve Decision Making
March 11, 2015
Humanyze, a unique new firm spawned in the MIT Media Lab, has developed a system that uses a smart employee badge to collect employee behavioral data, which it links to specific metrics with the goal of improving business performance. It announced $1M in seed funding today. * * * Humanyze president Ben Waber says while sports teams have done a great job of using data to evaluate their employees (players), business to this point has not used data effectively to measure the productivity of its workers....
March 11, 2015
Humanyze, a unique new firm spawned in the MIT Media Lab, has developed a system that uses a smart employee badge to collect employee behavioral data, which it links to specific metrics with the goal of improving business performance. It announced $1M in seed funding today. * * * Humanyze president Ben Waber says while sports teams have done a great job of using data to evaluate their employees (players), business to this point has not used data effectively to measure the productivity of its workers....
Legal Professionals Apply Tech to Productivity Challenges
March 11, 2015
Some of the most arduous productivity challenges are found in the legal profession, amidst the masses of data and documents juggled by lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals—but more attorneys are turning to automation technology to improve efficiencies and collaboration, according to a new study by Workshare Inc., a provider of enterprise and law firm secure file sharing and collaboration applications. In fact, a majority of respondents (59 percent) said projects were mainly held...
March 11, 2015
Some of the most arduous productivity challenges are found in the legal profession, amidst the masses of data and documents juggled by lawyers, paralegals and other legal professionals—but more attorneys are turning to automation technology to improve efficiencies and collaboration, according to a new study by Workshare Inc., a provider of enterprise and law firm secure file sharing and collaboration applications. In fact, a majority of respondents (59 percent) said projects were mainly held...
The Early Days of Legal Analytics
March 10, 2015
There is an interesting story in Forbes on Lex Machina, a legal start-up that provides analytics for use in patent litigation....
March 10, 2015
There is an interesting story in Forbes on Lex Machina, a legal start-up that provides analytics for use in patent litigation....
LegalTech Show in NYC
March 8, 2015
Just as Uber and Lyft disrupt the taxi business, legal tech 2.0 frightens incumbent providers and cheers consumers. Desired or not, however, it is still embedded within the existing system. The current web of natural language laws, courts and the regulatory state remain largely intact. Our system of justice evolves but does not radically shift. We are, however, fast approaching 3.0, where the power of computational technology for communication, modeling and execution permit a radical redesign,...
March 8, 2015
Just as Uber and Lyft disrupt the taxi business, legal tech 2.0 frightens incumbent providers and cheers consumers. Desired or not, however, it is still embedded within the existing system. The current web of natural language laws, courts and the regulatory state remain largely intact. Our system of justice evolves but does not radically shift. We are, however, fast approaching 3.0, where the power of computational technology for communication, modeling and execution permit a radical redesign,...
