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A New Blog on the Intersection of Technology and Law Practice
August 30, 2014
Many readers of this blog will be interested to know that a new blog called the Legal Technology Blog has recently joined the Law Professor Blogs Network. The LT blog covers the intersection of technology and law practice including the technology skills law schools need to start teaching students to compete in the rapidly evolving legal services marketplace. There are already several posts you'll likely want to read including: Basic Legal Tech Skills That Should Exist in Law School Curricula New...
August 30, 2014
Many readers of this blog will be interested to know that a new blog called the Legal Technology Blog has recently joined the Law Professor Blogs Network. The LT blog covers the intersection of technology and law practice including the technology skills law schools need to start teaching students to compete in the rapidly evolving legal services marketplace. There are already several posts you'll likely want to read including: Basic Legal Tech Skills That Should Exist in Law School Curricula New...
Online Legal Services Gets a Boost from ABA & Rocket Lawyer Partnership
August 29, 2014
I was thrilled to hear the news today from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog that the ABA announced its partnership with Rocket...
August 29, 2014
I was thrilled to hear the news today from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog that the ABA announced its partnership with Rocket...
Cybercrime is Getting Worse – 5 Reasons
August 29, 2014
On the heels of the recent report that cybercrime is a $575 billion growth industry, Infoworld pointed out “that amount of crime has persisted for a long time, well before the Internet.” The article included these 5 reasons why cybercrime is worse than ever: 1. Internet criminals almost never get caught. The world is full of malicious individuals who have no problem skirting rules and laws, as well as taking property that belongs to other people. Bad people exist — and the Internet is a very...
August 29, 2014
On the heels of the recent report that cybercrime is a $575 billion growth industry, Infoworld pointed out “that amount of crime has persisted for a long time, well before the Internet.” The article included these 5 reasons why cybercrime is worse than ever: 1. Internet criminals almost never get caught. The world is full of malicious individuals who have no problem skirting rules and laws, as well as taking property that belongs to other people. Bad people exist — and the Internet is a very...
Primer on European Union’s Right To Be Forgotten
August 28, 2014
The “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) is a weird term. We cannot make people “forget” things, but we can require database operators to “forget” content by deleting it or making it more obscure. Europe has done exactly that. In Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González, Case No. C-131/12 (2014), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) reached four important conclusions. 1) Privacy Directive Applies. First, the ECJ concluded that “the...
August 28, 2014
The “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) is a weird term. We cannot make people “forget” things, but we can require database operators to “forget” content by deleting it or making it more obscure. Europe has done exactly that. In Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González, Case No. C-131/12 (2014), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) reached four important conclusions. 1) Privacy Directive Applies. First, the ECJ concluded that “the...
Court Grants Search Warrant to Entire Apple eMail Account for [REDACTED]@mac.com
August 28, 2014
A Judge ruled it was unreasonable to ask Apple “to execute a search warrant” which “could pose problems, as non-government...
August 28, 2014
A Judge ruled it was unreasonable to ask Apple “to execute a search warrant” which “could pose problems, as non-government...
Why Lawyers Need Not Fear Disruptive Innovation
August 27, 2014
Disruption Happens Disruptive innovation is real. It happens all the time. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen pioneered the theory in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma. However, pundits who predict doom and gloom for lawyers don't understand disruption theory. For example, they often equate disruption with going out of business. Christensen recently noted that disruption "is not a theory about survivability." Christensen cites the example of U.S. Steel. So-called mini...
August 27, 2014
Disruption Happens Disruptive innovation is real. It happens all the time. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen pioneered the theory in his book, The Innovator's Dilemma. However, pundits who predict doom and gloom for lawyers don't understand disruption theory. For example, they often equate disruption with going out of business. Christensen recently noted that disruption "is not a theory about survivability." Christensen cites the example of U.S. Steel. So-called mini...
Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds?
August 26, 2014
A program entitled Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? was held 21 August 2014 at ILTA 2014: International Legal Technology Association Annual Educational Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The Website for the program does not appear to have a stable, publicly available URL, but those with a username and password may be able to access the site at: http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/personifyebusiness/Default.aspx?productid=1795754 Here is a summary of the program, from the program’s...
August 26, 2014
A program entitled Do Robot Lawyers Dream of Billable Seconds? was held 21 August 2014 at ILTA 2014: International Legal Technology Association Annual Educational Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The Website for the program does not appear to have a stable, publicly available URL, but those with a username and password may be able to access the site at: http://ilta.ebiz.uapps.net/personifyebusiness/Default.aspx?productid=1795754 Here is a summary of the program, from the program’s...
Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics
August 26, 2014
Every four years for more than a century there’s been an International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) held somewhere...
August 26, 2014
Every four years for more than a century there’s been an International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) held somewhere...
Why Law Firms Need R&D Investment
August 25, 2014
Lawyers hardly ever talk about research and development. We might be the only major industry or professional sector that fails to do so. Last year, total spending on R&D by the world’s 1,000 largest companies was about $638 billion, according to the Strategy& 2013 Global Innovation 1000 Study. The 10 companies that spent the most on R&D (from Volkswagen to Johnson & Johnson) shelled out a little less than $100 billion themselves. Five of the ten companies on that list were in the health-care...
August 25, 2014
Lawyers hardly ever talk about research and development. We might be the only major industry or professional sector that fails to do so. Last year, total spending on R&D by the world’s 1,000 largest companies was about $638 billion, according to the Strategy& 2013 Global Innovation 1000 Study. The 10 companies that spent the most on R&D (from Volkswagen to Johnson & Johnson) shelled out a little less than $100 billion themselves. Five of the ten companies on that list were in the health-care...
Google Law Review Rankings 2014
August 25, 2014
As the fall law review submission season heats up, everyone faces a bewilderingly vast array of different law reviews. How should...
August 25, 2014
As the fall law review submission season heats up, everyone faces a bewilderingly vast array of different law reviews. How should...
