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Vermont Law Leads Again at LegalTech
January 31, 2014
Students and faculty from the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School will attend LegalTech 2014 in New York City, bringing with them ideas and expertise that are sought after by industry leaders like Google, LexisNexis, and Capital Novus. This is the fourth year Vermont Law has attended the conference, which has resulted in jobs for students and research support for faculty. Considered the largest and most important legal technology event of the year, LegalTech annually draws tens...
January 31, 2014
Students and faculty from the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School will attend LegalTech 2014 in New York City, bringing with them ideas and expertise that are sought after by industry leaders like Google, LexisNexis, and Capital Novus. This is the fourth year Vermont Law has attended the conference, which has resulted in jobs for students and research support for faculty. Considered the largest and most important legal technology event of the year, LegalTech annually draws tens...
Changes Ahead For Social Media In the Workplace
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
January 31, 2014
Social media has come a long way over the last few years. Services like Facebook and Twitter are no longer just ways to casually...
Web App Helps Rackspace Settle Legal Dispute
January 30, 2014
Rackspace Hosting recently settled a legal dispute with the help of a locally-developed web application. Mary Brennan...
January 30, 2014
Rackspace Hosting recently settled a legal dispute with the help of a locally-developed web application. Mary Brennan...
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case
January 30, 2014
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case Negotiation Moves Predicted Within 3.5% in New Case Study...
January 30, 2014
Picture It Settled® Helps Technology Company Settle Longshot Case Negotiation Moves Predicted Within 3.5% in New Case Study...
“ShalePlay” is Bracewell’s App for Shale Oil Tycoons
January 29, 2014
ShalePlay app for iOS aggregates fracking news, legislation, and studies, which you would expect. It also includes feeds from Bracewell’s blog and @bgenergy Twitter feed (the followers of which are probably a decent place to start finding shale oil tycoons on Twitter). The more-interesting part of the app is its interactive map of shale basins and “shale plays” — which I take to mean “places where fracking is happening.” I imagine most shale oil tycoons already have lots of maps...
January 29, 2014
ShalePlay app for iOS aggregates fracking news, legislation, and studies, which you would expect. It also includes feeds from Bracewell’s blog and @bgenergy Twitter feed (the followers of which are probably a decent place to start finding shale oil tycoons on Twitter). The more-interesting part of the app is its interactive map of shale basins and “shale plays” — which I take to mean “places where fracking is happening.” I imagine most shale oil tycoons already have lots of maps...
Valuing IP Claims: Google Sells Handset Business to Lenovo at Loss
January 29, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK +4.58% agreed to buy Google Inc. GOOG -1.43% 's Motorola Mobility unit for $2.91 billion, a deal that reverses the Internet company's short-lived move into smartphone hardware. The deal will transfer the Motorola handset business to the Chinese company, a new entrant into that market that is trying to build its presence rapidly. But Google will retain the vast majority of patents it acquired in its 2012 purchase of Motorola Mobility, a key motivation of the original...
January 29, 2014
Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK +4.58% agreed to buy Google Inc. GOOG -1.43% 's Motorola Mobility unit for $2.91 billion, a deal that reverses the Internet company's short-lived move into smartphone hardware. The deal will transfer the Motorola handset business to the Chinese company, a new entrant into that market that is trying to build its presence rapidly. But Google will retain the vast majority of patents it acquired in its 2012 purchase of Motorola Mobility, a key motivation of the original...
It’s All in the Game: Managing Partners Come to Grips with “Gamification”
January 29, 2014
Many managing partners tell us they are struggling to get their arms around new tools and techniques for driving more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into legal service delivery. Firms are seeing more and more RFPs in which clients make increasingly draconian demands for better management and control of legal work. AFAs (alternative fee arrangements) are reshaping not just pricing and profitability, but the whole way in which matters are staffed and billed. * * * Getting Lawyers into the Game So...
January 29, 2014
Many managing partners tell us they are struggling to get their arms around new tools and techniques for driving more efficiency and cost-effectiveness into legal service delivery. Firms are seeing more and more RFPs in which clients make increasingly draconian demands for better management and control of legal work. AFAs (alternative fee arrangements) are reshaping not just pricing and profitability, but the whole way in which matters are staffed and billed. * * * Getting Lawyers into the Game So...
Discovery of Quantum Vibrations Inside Brain Neurons Supports Controversial Theory of Consciousness
January 28, 2014
Recent evidence, though, from researchers led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay has found the proposed quantum vibrations inside microtubules within brain neurons. These microtubules are components of cell scaffolding–they help provide our cells with their structure–that are around 25µm in length. Other research has also found evidence of quantum coherence in living cells. It has been found in our sense of smell, in the parts of bird’s brains responsible for navigation and in plant photosynthesis. Hameroff...
January 28, 2014
Recent evidence, though, from researchers led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay has found the proposed quantum vibrations inside microtubules within brain neurons. These microtubules are components of cell scaffolding–they help provide our cells with their structure–that are around 25µm in length. Other research has also found evidence of quantum coherence in living cells. It has been found in our sense of smell, in the parts of bird’s brains responsible for navigation and in plant photosynthesis. Hameroff...
How Many Documents in a Gigabyte? An Updated Answer to that Vexing Question
January 27, 2014
For this round, we collected over 10 million native files (“documents” or “docs”) from 44 different cases. The sites themselves were not chosen for any particular reason, although we looked for a minimum of 10,000 native files on each. We also chose not to use several larger sites where clients used text files as substitutes for the original natives. Our focus for the study was on standard office files, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs and email. These are generally the focus of most...
January 27, 2014
For this round, we collected over 10 million native files (“documents” or “docs”) from 44 different cases. The sites themselves were not chosen for any particular reason, although we looked for a minimum of 10,000 native files on each. We also chose not to use several larger sites where clients used text files as substitutes for the original natives. Our focus for the study was on standard office files, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs and email. These are generally the focus of most...
Do Startups Need Patents? Rigorous Study Presents Real Data on Startup Company Patenting Behavior
January 27, 2014
I am glad to say that I have now identified a detailed and data-driven study of how patenting influences start up companies in the marketplace, with competitors and in obtaining outside investment. While a few years old, I recently discovered this article from lead author Stuart Graham, a Georgia Tech Business School professor who from 2010-2013 served as Chief Economist of the US Patent Office. Entitled “High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey”...
January 27, 2014
I am glad to say that I have now identified a detailed and data-driven study of how patenting influences start up companies in the marketplace, with competitors and in obtaining outside investment. While a few years old, I recently discovered this article from lead author Stuart Graham, a Georgia Tech Business School professor who from 2010-2013 served as Chief Economist of the US Patent Office. Entitled “High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey”...
