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Abacus Unveils System that Puts Lawyers’ Desktops in the Cloud
September 27, 2014
Abacus Data Systems, the San Diego company long known for its AbacusLaw practice management system, branched off in a whole new direction today with the launch of Abacus Private Cloud (APC), a secure, hosted, cloud-based environment for law firms to run all their technology and applications. The idea is to free law firms from the burdens of IT management and the expense of IT installation and maintenance. With APC, law firms need no special hardware or software and no network infrastructure. Instead,...
September 27, 2014
Abacus Data Systems, the San Diego company long known for its AbacusLaw practice management system, branched off in a whole new direction today with the launch of Abacus Private Cloud (APC), a secure, hosted, cloud-based environment for law firms to run all their technology and applications. The idea is to free law firms from the burdens of IT management and the expense of IT installation and maintenance. With APC, law firms need no special hardware or software and no network infrastructure. Instead,...
LexisNexis Launches Major Revamp of Lexis Advance (With Screencaps)
September 27, 2014
It has been four years since LexisNexis unveiled its first Lexis Advance product, originally called Lexis Advance for Solos....
September 27, 2014
It has been four years since LexisNexis unveiled its first Lexis Advance product, originally called Lexis Advance for Solos....
Regulating the Internet of Things: First Steps Toward Managing Discrimination, Privacy, Security & Consent
September 27, 2014
The consumer “Internet of Things” is suddenly reality, not science fiction. Electronic sensors are now ubiquitous in our smart phones, cars, homes, electric systems, health care devices, fitness monitors, and workplaces. These connected sensor-based devices create new types and unprecedented quantities of detailed, high-quality information about our everyday actions, habits, personalities and preferences. Much of this undoubtedly increases social welfare. For example, insurers can price automobile...
September 27, 2014
The consumer “Internet of Things” is suddenly reality, not science fiction. Electronic sensors are now ubiquitous in our smart phones, cars, homes, electric systems, health care devices, fitness monitors, and workplaces. These connected sensor-based devices create new types and unprecedented quantities of detailed, high-quality information about our everyday actions, habits, personalities and preferences. Much of this undoubtedly increases social welfare. For example, insurers can price automobile...
Celebrity Photo Theft: Lessons for Outside Counsel
September 27, 2014
In legal education conferences we hear that cybersecurity is very much on the minds of in-house lawyers. It’s one of the things that “keeps them up at night” (that and Jon Voight on Showtime as Mickey Donovan). Working with the corporate computer nerds, in-house lawyers are slowly learning what their company is doing to protect information and how it can improve. Meanwhile, data theft seems to be surging as threats arise from a variety of avenues, ranging from disgruntled employees to external...
September 27, 2014
In legal education conferences we hear that cybersecurity is very much on the minds of in-house lawyers. It’s one of the things that “keeps them up at night” (that and Jon Voight on Showtime as Mickey Donovan). Working with the corporate computer nerds, in-house lawyers are slowly learning what their company is doing to protect information and how it can improve. Meanwhile, data theft seems to be surging as threats arise from a variety of avenues, ranging from disgruntled employees to external...
Discovery of Social Media Data
September 26, 2014
The digital revolution has caused tremendous growth in the volume of documents stored and collected electronically. It has also...
September 26, 2014
The digital revolution has caused tremendous growth in the volume of documents stored and collected electronically. It has also...
Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?
September 21, 2014
As a former physician, I shivered a bit when I heard Dr. Vivek Wadhwa say he would rather have an artificial-intelligence doctor than a human one. “I would trust an A.I. over a doctor any day,” he proclaimed at a recent health innovation conference in San Francisco, noting that artificial intelligence provided “perfect knowledge.” When asked to vote, probably a third of those in attendance agreed. But it made sense: Dr. Wadhwa is a professor, entrepreneur and technology visionary. What’s...
September 21, 2014
As a former physician, I shivered a bit when I heard Dr. Vivek Wadhwa say he would rather have an artificial-intelligence doctor than a human one. “I would trust an A.I. over a doctor any day,” he proclaimed at a recent health innovation conference in San Francisco, noting that artificial intelligence provided “perfect knowledge.” When asked to vote, probably a third of those in attendance agreed. But it made sense: Dr. Wadhwa is a professor, entrepreneur and technology visionary. What’s...
Disneyland to Bring in the Drones
September 21, 2014
Disney has filed for patents employing drone technology in the Magic Kingdom. Drones and Disneyland go together like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, Aladdin and the Genie, Timon and Pumbaa. No? According to a post on the Plane-ly Spoken blog by Mark McKinnon, a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge, the autonomous flying machines may soon be amusement park features, if not fixtures. McKinnon reports that the Walt Disney Co. filed for three patents last week, all of which employ drone technology in some...
September 21, 2014
Disney has filed for patents employing drone technology in the Magic Kingdom. Drones and Disneyland go together like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, Aladdin and the Genie, Timon and Pumbaa. No? According to a post on the Plane-ly Spoken blog by Mark McKinnon, a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge, the autonomous flying machines may soon be amusement park features, if not fixtures. McKinnon reports that the Walt Disney Co. filed for three patents last week, all of which employ drone technology in some...
Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future
September 19, 2014
In his book Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind writes, “Tomorrow’s legal world, as predicted and described here,...
September 19, 2014
In his book Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind writes, “Tomorrow’s legal world, as predicted and described here,...
Android and iPhones Offering Default Encryption, Blocking Police
September 18, 2014
The next generation of Google’s Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first...
September 18, 2014
The next generation of Google’s Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first...
Ahead of the Curve: Three Big Innovators in BigLaw
September 15, 2014
It is time to put down the broad brush used to paint BigLaw as inefficient and out of touch. At least for me, that is the big takeaway from the 2014 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, which took place this past week at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville and included nearly 2,000 lawyers, administrators, staff, and vendors from around the world. My takeaway is based on what I saw during the presentation session for the ILTA Most Innovative Law Firm Award. The three...
September 15, 2014
It is time to put down the broad brush used to paint BigLaw as inefficient and out of touch. At least for me, that is the big takeaway from the 2014 International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, which took place this past week at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville and included nearly 2,000 lawyers, administrators, staff, and vendors from around the world. My takeaway is based on what I saw during the presentation session for the ILTA Most Innovative Law Firm Award. The three...
