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Legal AI Co. ROSS Appoints AI Guru Randy Goebel As Advisor
November 22, 2017
Legal AI research company, ROSS Intelligence, has appointed AI pioneer and leading academic, Randy Goebel (pictured above) as an advisor. Goebel is currently Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta; a founder and researcher with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute; and is involved with the development of the University of Alberta Google Deepmind relationship, the group behind AlphaGo.
November 22, 2017
Legal AI research company, ROSS Intelligence, has appointed AI pioneer and leading academic, Randy Goebel (pictured above) as an advisor. Goebel is currently Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta; a founder and researcher with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute; and is involved with the development of the University of Alberta Google Deepmind relationship, the group behind AlphaGo.
Dealing with Difficult People
November 22, 2017
For professionals, dealing with difficult people provides a challenge and exhausts us. From the National Jurist, legal coach John Allison offers this advice: It is also important to accept the fact that you cannot change the other person. You can only control your response to the person’s behavior. By using one or more of these techniques you can deal with a difficult person without becoming reactive and adversarial: Remain calm and centered – don’t let the person throw you off balance...
November 22, 2017
For professionals, dealing with difficult people provides a challenge and exhausts us. From the National Jurist, legal coach John Allison offers this advice: It is also important to accept the fact that you cannot change the other person. You can only control your response to the person’s behavior. By using one or more of these techniques you can deal with a difficult person without becoming reactive and adversarial: Remain calm and centered – don’t let the person throw you off balance...
Glover on the Supreme Court’s Class Action Cases
November 21, 2017
Maria Glover (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted The Supreme Court's 'Non‐Transsubstantive' Class Action (University...
November 21, 2017
Maria Glover (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted The Supreme Court's 'Non‐Transsubstantive' Class Action (University...
Texas Firm Seeks Binding Arbitration for Fee Fight with Former Associate
November 21, 2017
Houston trial firm Caddell & Chapman is seeking a declaratory judgment that a fee dispute with former associate Craig Marchiando should be decided through the Houston Bar Association arbitration process. In a petition filed Nov. 8 in state district court in Harris County, Caddell & Chapman alleges that it offered Marchiando, who left the firm in 2015 and now lives in Virginia, five percent of the net attorneys fees received from the settlement of litigation filed against Sirius...
November 21, 2017
Houston trial firm Caddell & Chapman is seeking a declaratory judgment that a fee dispute with former associate Craig Marchiando should be decided through the Houston Bar Association arbitration process. In a petition filed Nov. 8 in state district court in Harris County, Caddell & Chapman alleges that it offered Marchiando, who left the firm in 2015 and now lives in Virginia, five percent of the net attorneys fees received from the settlement of litigation filed against Sirius...
Lex Machina Adds Analytics for Product Liability Litigation
November 20, 2017
As it continues to expand its legal analytics into new practice areas, Lex Machina is today announcing the addition of analytics...
November 20, 2017
As it continues to expand its legal analytics into new practice areas, Lex Machina is today announcing the addition of analytics...
New Treasury Department Report Recommends SEC Allow Shareholder Arbitration
November 20, 2017
Last week, the United States Department of the Treasury issued a new report that calls for easing a variety of financial...
November 20, 2017
Last week, the United States Department of the Treasury issued a new report that calls for easing a variety of financial...
5 Factors That May Predict Divorce
November 19, 2017
Like the break-ups themselves, divorce rates are a complicated subject to study. Questions abound: Should we really want divorce rates to go down? Is it true that about half of American marriages end in splitsville? And why are so many baby boomers ending things all of a sudden? Then there are the questions of what predicts divorce in the first place -- a complex line of research that Ball State associate professor Justin Lehmiller recently digested on his Sex & Psychology blog. While...
November 19, 2017
Like the break-ups themselves, divorce rates are a complicated subject to study. Questions abound: Should we really want divorce rates to go down? Is it true that about half of American marriages end in splitsville? And why are so many baby boomers ending things all of a sudden? Then there are the questions of what predicts divorce in the first place -- a complex line of research that Ball State associate professor Justin Lehmiller recently digested on his Sex & Psychology blog. While...
EY’s AI Strategy And What It Means For Professional Services Firms
November 19, 2017
Their AI system reads the documents, compares the data gathered on past projects for various items and quickly calculates the overall position. ‘We’re taking a 15 hour project for one of our staff down to about three seconds,’ says Gaskell. Naturally, this three second work time is only possible because plenty of time has been spent beforehand training the system and getting the entire workflow and data flow right.
November 19, 2017
Their AI system reads the documents, compares the data gathered on past projects for various items and quickly calculates the overall position. ‘We’re taking a 15 hour project for one of our staff down to about three seconds,’ says Gaskell. Naturally, this three second work time is only possible because plenty of time has been spent beforehand training the system and getting the entire workflow and data flow right.
Google Cloud Strategic Partnership with Salesforce
November 18, 2017
Our partners are incredibly important in helping our customers maximize the value of their cloud investments. Today, we’re announcing a...
November 18, 2017
Our partners are incredibly important in helping our customers maximize the value of their cloud investments. Today, we’re announcing a...
Researcher Creates AI Compares Multiple Cases, Use Legal Reasoning to Pass Bar Exam
November 18, 2017
A world where artificial intelligence (AI) is used in courtrooms to rule on cases and in law firms to predict trial outcomes may seem like a science fiction novel to most, but work done by a researcher in Edmonton may be turning that fiction into a reality. Randy Goebel, a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, has been developing a computer program that has legal reasoning skills and is able to pass the Japanese bar exam. Goebel, who specializes in AI, was working at the University...
November 18, 2017
A world where artificial intelligence (AI) is used in courtrooms to rule on cases and in law firms to predict trial outcomes may seem like a science fiction novel to most, but work done by a researcher in Edmonton may be turning that fiction into a reality. Randy Goebel, a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, has been developing a computer program that has legal reasoning skills and is able to pass the Japanese bar exam. Goebel, who specializes in AI, was working at the University...
