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New Software Finds and Interprets Contract Obligations
June 14, 2014
Companies employ different strategies for managing contracts and, like most things today, technology can provide a helping hand. Huron Consulting Group has released a Q-and-A interview with Managing Director Jeffrey Catanzaro that explores some of the newer options. Catanzaro said the emerging technology has focused on the need to take an inventory of a company’s contractual obligations. There are now tools that search repositories, discover contracts and extract document metadata to inject...
June 14, 2014
Companies employ different strategies for managing contracts and, like most things today, technology can provide a helping hand. Huron Consulting Group has released a Q-and-A interview with Managing Director Jeffrey Catanzaro that explores some of the newer options. Catanzaro said the emerging technology has focused on the need to take an inventory of a company’s contractual obligations. There are now tools that search repositories, discover contracts and extract document metadata to inject...
LexisNexis Upgrades Early Case Analyzer
June 14, 2014
Key improvements, according to Best: • Explore View helps users examine collected data early in the process. • Statistical...
June 14, 2014
Key improvements, according to Best: • Explore View helps users examine collected data early in the process. • Statistical...
Here’s Why Lawyers Shouldn’t Care About iOS 8
June 14, 2014
Once again, Apple holds its annual World Wide Developer Conference to showcase its new design features. I didn’t watch the keynote — you need Apple products to stream Apple’s conference — but from what I’m reading, the conference was all about Android. In fact, this is one post that sums up the event: Of course, if you’re interested in the Cliff Notes version of Tim Cook’s let’s bash Android and call it innovation keynote, check out this video: This year, Apple announced iOS 8.
June 14, 2014
Once again, Apple holds its annual World Wide Developer Conference to showcase its new design features. I didn’t watch the keynote — you need Apple products to stream Apple’s conference — but from what I’m reading, the conference was all about Android. In fact, this is one post that sums up the event: Of course, if you’re interested in the Cliff Notes version of Tim Cook’s let’s bash Android and call it innovation keynote, check out this video: This year, Apple announced iOS 8.
Why lawyers Will Love iOS 8
June 14, 2014
The iPhone and iPad are amazing tools for lawyers because they are relatively easy to use, but are also incredibly powerful. But as lawyers (and others) start to master the basics of iOS, they often start to want more powerful features. Every year, Apple adds more advanced features to iOS, and now it is hard to imagine that there was a time when we didn't have third party apps, copy and paste, or even Siri. But based on the announcements made by Apple yesterday, when iOS 8 comes out this Fall,...
June 14, 2014
The iPhone and iPad are amazing tools for lawyers because they are relatively easy to use, but are also incredibly powerful. But as lawyers (and others) start to master the basics of iOS, they often start to want more powerful features. Every year, Apple adds more advanced features to iOS, and now it is hard to imagine that there was a time when we didn't have third party apps, copy and paste, or even Siri. But based on the announcements made by Apple yesterday, when iOS 8 comes out this Fall,...
Google Brings Message Encryption (Back) to Google Apps Mail
June 14, 2014
In our past articles about message encryption options for Gmail and Google Apps, we’ve lamented the unavailability of a built-in option for most users. Google mail messages are encrypted internally, so messages sent between Gmail or Google Apps users are secure, but messages sent to non-Google users (e.g., those using Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo Mail) are not encrypted – without the addition of a third-party add-on like those discussed in our earlier post. In 2007, Google acquired the Postini...
June 14, 2014
In our past articles about message encryption options for Gmail and Google Apps, we’ve lamented the unavailability of a built-in option for most users. Google mail messages are encrypted internally, so messages sent between Gmail or Google Apps users are secure, but messages sent to non-Google users (e.g., those using Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo Mail) are not encrypted – without the addition of a third-party add-on like those discussed in our earlier post. In 2007, Google acquired the Postini...
What You’re Missing Without Google Now
June 13, 2014
This is a great day in the life post about how an Android user has become dependent upon his Google Now personal assistant device software. Google Now is like having a very smart person at your side all the time. Just swipe the screen left and everything you need to know is available, often before you know you need to know it. If you haven't tried Android, read this article, and ask yourself if you would like to have that kind of functionality. I use it all day, every day, and it makes solo law practice...
June 13, 2014
This is a great day in the life post about how an Android user has become dependent upon his Google Now personal assistant device software. Google Now is like having a very smart person at your side all the time. Just swipe the screen left and everything you need to know is available, often before you know you need to know it. If you haven't tried Android, read this article, and ask yourself if you would like to have that kind of functionality. I use it all day, every day, and it makes solo law practice...
5 Ways Computers Are Revolutionizing the Legal Profession
June 10, 2014
Northwestern University law professor John O. McGinnis, writing in the latest issue of City Journal, explores how the rise of machine intelligence is disrupting and transforming the legal profession. In the journal, which is published by the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, Mr. McGinnis identifies five areas of the law that “face encroachment” by computers: 1) E-discovery is the area “ripest for computational transformation,” he says: 2) The rise of computation in legal search...
June 10, 2014
Northwestern University law professor John O. McGinnis, writing in the latest issue of City Journal, explores how the rise of machine intelligence is disrupting and transforming the legal profession. In the journal, which is published by the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, Mr. McGinnis identifies five areas of the law that “face encroachment” by computers: 1) E-discovery is the area “ripest for computational transformation,” he says: 2) The rise of computation in legal search...
Are Legal Professionals Impeding Innovation?
June 9, 2014
It’s time for Americans to change up the legal system, in an attempt to improve access, suggests the University of Southern California Professor Gillian Hadfield in her scholarly article “Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets.” Hadfield explained that through innovation, state courts have the power to fix the problem of cost and other barriers to justice for the majority of litigants—they’re just not. “Millions of those who cannot avoid court—those...
June 9, 2014
It’s time for Americans to change up the legal system, in an attempt to improve access, suggests the University of Southern California Professor Gillian Hadfield in her scholarly article “Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets.” Hadfield explained that through innovation, state courts have the power to fix the problem of cost and other barriers to justice for the majority of litigants—they’re just not. “Millions of those who cannot avoid court—those...
Scientists May Have Decoded One of the Secrets to Superconductors
June 8, 2014
The microscopic structure of high-temperature superconductors has long puzzled scientists seeking to harness their virtually limitless technological potential. Now at last researchers have deciphered the cryptic structure of one class of the superconductors, providing a basis for theories about how they manage to transport electricity with perfect efficiency when cooled, and how scientists might raise their operating temperature closer to the climes of everyday life. This goal, if realized, could...
June 8, 2014
The microscopic structure of high-temperature superconductors has long puzzled scientists seeking to harness their virtually limitless technological potential. Now at last researchers have deciphered the cryptic structure of one class of the superconductors, providing a basis for theories about how they manage to transport electricity with perfect efficiency when cooled, and how scientists might raise their operating temperature closer to the climes of everyday life. This goal, if realized, could...
What Ants Teach Us About the B, Cancer and the Internet
June 8, 2014
Ecologist Deborah Gordon studies ants wherever she can find them — in the desert, in the tropics, in her kitchen ... In this fascinating talk, she explains her obsession with insects most of us would happily swat away without a second thought. She argues that ant life provides a useful model for learning about many other topics, including disease, technology and the human brain.
June 8, 2014
Ecologist Deborah Gordon studies ants wherever she can find them — in the desert, in the tropics, in her kitchen ... In this fascinating talk, she explains her obsession with insects most of us would happily swat away without a second thought. She argues that ant life provides a useful model for learning about many other topics, including disease, technology and the human brain.
