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November 24, 2014
This past Thursday Ron Dolin and I spole on a panel at the 19th Annual Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute Law Firm Leaders Forum. Above are Ron’s slides which many of you might find interesting. Below is a modified version of my presentation Five Observations Regarding Technology and the Legal Industry (which I gave at the LegalWeek Corporate Counsel Forum last month). Picture It Settled - Moneyball for Negotiation - mentioned at Katz deck slide 87. Thanks!
November 24, 2014
This past Thursday Ron Dolin and I spole on a panel at the 19th Annual Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute Law Firm Leaders Forum. Above are Ron’s slides which many of you might find interesting. Below is a modified version of my presentation Five Observations Regarding Technology and the Legal Industry (which I gave at the LegalWeek Corporate Counsel Forum last month). Picture It Settled - Moneyball for Negotiation - mentioned at Katz deck slide 87. Thanks!
Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code
November 23, 2014
William Li, Pablo Azar, David Larochelle, Phil Hill & Andrew Lo, Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code ABSTRACT: “The agglomeration of rules and regulations over time has produced a body of legal code that no single individual can fully comprehend. This complexity produces inefficiencies, makes the processes of understanding and changing the law difficult, and frustrates the fundamental principle that the law should provide fair notice to the governed....
November 23, 2014
William Li, Pablo Azar, David Larochelle, Phil Hill & Andrew Lo, Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code ABSTRACT: “The agglomeration of rules and regulations over time has produced a body of legal code that no single individual can fully comprehend. This complexity produces inefficiencies, makes the processes of understanding and changing the law difficult, and frustrates the fundamental principle that the law should provide fair notice to the governed....
The Three Forms of (Legal) Prediction: Experts, Crowds and Algorithms
November 23, 2014
The Three Forms of (Legal) Prediction: Experts, Crowds and Algorithms — Professors Daniel Martin Katz & Michael J. Bommarito...
November 23, 2014
The Three Forms of (Legal) Prediction: Experts, Crowds and Algorithms — Professors Daniel Martin Katz & Michael J. Bommarito...
Supercookies Are Tracking +100 Million Cell Users
November 23, 2014
Privacy advocates claim that Verizon is “silently modifying its users’ web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker… sent to every unencrypted website a Verizon customer visits from a mobile device.” According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Verizon’s “tracker, included in an HTTP header called X-UIDH” and the EFF explains how the supercookies work: Like a cookie, this header uniquely identifies users to the websites they visit. Verizon adds the header at the network...
November 23, 2014
Privacy advocates claim that Verizon is “silently modifying its users’ web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker… sent to every unencrypted website a Verizon customer visits from a mobile device.” According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Verizon’s “tracker, included in an HTTP header called X-UIDH” and the EFF explains how the supercookies work: Like a cookie, this header uniquely identifies users to the websites they visit. Verizon adds the header at the network...
Darkhotel Cyberattacks Business Executives in Hotels
November 22, 2014
Kaspersky identifies that Darkhotel is a group of attackers that “seems to know in advance when these individuals will arrive and depart from their high-end hotels. So, the attackers lay in wait until these travelers arrive and connect to the Internet.” The Kaspersky report issued on November 10, 2014 is entitled “THE DARKHOTEL APT A STORY OF UNUSUAL HOSPITALITY” and should be disturbing to everyone who travels, and particularly in Japan since “over 90% of it occurs in the top five countries:...
November 22, 2014
Kaspersky identifies that Darkhotel is a group of attackers that “seems to know in advance when these individuals will arrive and depart from their high-end hotels. So, the attackers lay in wait until these travelers arrive and connect to the Internet.” The Kaspersky report issued on November 10, 2014 is entitled “THE DARKHOTEL APT A STORY OF UNUSUAL HOSPITALITY” and should be disturbing to everyone who travels, and particularly in Japan since “over 90% of it occurs in the top five countries:...
Mediation Search Statistics
November 22, 2014
Mediation is searched 25,000 times a month. 15% of these searches come from California, followed by 8.3% from Texas and 7.3% each from Florida and New York.
November 22, 2014
Mediation is searched 25,000 times a month. 15% of these searches come from California, followed by 8.3% from Texas and 7.3% each from Florida and New York.
Marriott Offers Free WiFi After $600K FCC Fine for Blocking It
November 21, 2014
THEN Think hotels are deliberately blocking your personal Wi-Fi networks so you'll buy theirs? No, it's not just a conspiracy theory. It turns out the federal government is concerned about it, too. Marriott has agreed to pay a $600,000 fine after the Federal Communications Commission found the company blocked consumer Wi-Fi networks last year during an event at a hotel and conference center in Nashville. At the same time, Marriott was charging exhibitors and others as much as $1,000 per device...
November 21, 2014
THEN Think hotels are deliberately blocking your personal Wi-Fi networks so you'll buy theirs? No, it's not just a conspiracy theory. It turns out the federal government is concerned about it, too. Marriott has agreed to pay a $600,000 fine after the Federal Communications Commission found the company blocked consumer Wi-Fi networks last year during an event at a hotel and conference center in Nashville. At the same time, Marriott was charging exhibitors and others as much as $1,000 per device...
Dispute Resolution Evolution
November 21, 2014
Almost every industry has been affected by the expansion of information and communications technology, from medicine to finance to entertainment. A practitioner plucked from each of those fields 30 years ago would find it difficult to recognize the modern equivalent in 2014. However, the legal field has not changed in a similar way. While there has been some progress over the past decades (including online legal research, e-filing, e-discovery, and outsourcing) legal practice today still bears quite...
November 21, 2014
Almost every industry has been affected by the expansion of information and communications technology, from medicine to finance to entertainment. A practitioner plucked from each of those fields 30 years ago would find it difficult to recognize the modern equivalent in 2014. However, the legal field has not changed in a similar way. While there has been some progress over the past decades (including online legal research, e-filing, e-discovery, and outsourcing) legal practice today still bears quite...
Does Your Computer Need a Law Degree
November 19, 2014
“The Formula” is a new book by the author of “The Apple Revolution,” Luke Dormehl, which tackles the rise of algorithms...
November 19, 2014
“The Formula” is a new book by the author of “The Apple Revolution,” Luke Dormehl, which tackles the rise of algorithms...
New Crowdsourced Law Site is Part of Larger Project to ‘Annotate the World’
November 17, 2014
There is something very fitting in the fact that a site that started out deciphering rap lyrics is now turning its attention to making sense of the law. The site, Law Genius, is the newest member of the larger Genius network of crowdsourced community sites, all of which grew out of the original site, Rap Genius, which was started in 2009 for the purpose of listing and annotating rap lyrics. Soon, users started using the site to annotate all sorts of other stuff, from the collected works of Shakespeare...
November 17, 2014
There is something very fitting in the fact that a site that started out deciphering rap lyrics is now turning its attention to making sense of the law. The site, Law Genius, is the newest member of the larger Genius network of crowdsourced community sites, all of which grew out of the original site, Rap Genius, which was started in 2009 for the purpose of listing and annotating rap lyrics. Soon, users started using the site to annotate all sorts of other stuff, from the collected works of Shakespeare...
