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Helping Students Develop “Grit” and a “Growth Mindset”
October 8, 2017
The notions of grit and a growth mindset are in vogue today. I think we understand what grit is. As for the growth mindset, the idea is that many students and teachers assume that students have a fixed mindset, which limits them: Fixed mindset individuals believe that intelligence and ability are innate. Their early lack of success in attempting anything new often supports the preconceptions about their skills and abilities, making their failure a self-fulfilling prophecy. In comparison: Growth...
October 8, 2017
The notions of grit and a growth mindset are in vogue today. I think we understand what grit is. As for the growth mindset, the idea is that many students and teachers assume that students have a fixed mindset, which limits them: Fixed mindset individuals believe that intelligence and ability are innate. Their early lack of success in attempting anything new often supports the preconceptions about their skills and abilities, making their failure a self-fulfilling prophecy. In comparison: Growth...
Divorce by Demographic
October 8, 2017
From Flowingdata: As people are marrying later and staying single longer, divorce continues to be common in the United States. It’s not the mythical “half of marriages end in divorce” common, but the percentages are up there. Divorce rates vary a lot by group though. Rates are higher for the unemployed than employed. Divorce among Asians tends to be much lower than other races. Rates change a lot by education level. So, let’s look at divorce rates by occupation. Using data from the 2015...
October 8, 2017
From Flowingdata: As people are marrying later and staying single longer, divorce continues to be common in the United States. It’s not the mythical “half of marriages end in divorce” common, but the percentages are up there. Divorce rates vary a lot by group though. Rates are higher for the unemployed than employed. Divorce among Asians tends to be much lower than other races. Rates change a lot by education level. So, let’s look at divorce rates by occupation. Using data from the 2015...
The Global 100: Fractured Futures At The Richest Law Firms In The World (2017)
October 7, 2017
[T]his year’s Global 100 survey suggests that conditions for the world’s largest law firms are getting even more challenging. Total Global 100 revenue rose just 2.8 percent in 2016, to $99.3 billion—the lowest annual gain since the recession and the second consecutive year of slowing growth. (Group revenue is still likely to pass $100 billion next year for the first time ever, however, requiring an increase of just 0.7 percent to hit that milestone.) Having fallen by 2.1 percent in 2015,...
October 7, 2017
[T]his year’s Global 100 survey suggests that conditions for the world’s largest law firms are getting even more challenging. Total Global 100 revenue rose just 2.8 percent in 2016, to $99.3 billion—the lowest annual gain since the recession and the second consecutive year of slowing growth. (Group revenue is still likely to pass $100 billion next year for the first time ever, however, requiring an increase of just 0.7 percent to hit that milestone.) Having fallen by 2.1 percent in 2015,...
Investors Should Wake Up to Japan’s Robotic Future
October 7, 2017
Out of necessity, Japan has been pushing on the robotics frontier for years. As a result, the proliferation and embrace of robots goes well beyond the Japanese factory floor to include schools, hospitals, nursing homes, airports, train stations and even temples. “Robear” is a fixture for Japanese nursing homes, and is described as a “strong robot with a gentle touch”, capable of lifting the elderly to and from the bathroom, or gently placing them in wheelchairs. “Paro” is a miniature...
October 7, 2017
Out of necessity, Japan has been pushing on the robotics frontier for years. As a result, the proliferation and embrace of robots goes well beyond the Japanese factory floor to include schools, hospitals, nursing homes, airports, train stations and even temples. “Robear” is a fixture for Japanese nursing homes, and is described as a “strong robot with a gentle touch”, capable of lifting the elderly to and from the bathroom, or gently placing them in wheelchairs. “Paro” is a miniature...
New Judicial Analytics Platform Focuses on Los Angeles But Plans to Expand Nationally
October 6, 2017
Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision. Since then, both Bloomberg Law and Docket Navigator have also launched judicial analytics...
October 6, 2017
Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision. Since then, both Bloomberg Law and Docket Navigator have also launched judicial analytics...
Lawsuit Seeks to Halt CPFB Rule Against Mandatory Arbitration Agreements that Ban Class-Actions
October 6, 2017
Yesterday, the United States Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of corporate business lobbying groups filed a lawsuit in the Northern...
October 6, 2017
Yesterday, the United States Chamber of Commerce and a coalition of corporate business lobbying groups filed a lawsuit in the Northern...
Prevalence of Employment Arbitration is Measured
October 5, 2017
Two recently released survey reports measure the pervasive use of arbitration to resolve workplace disputes. Alexander J.S. Colvin of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has concluded that, “since the early 2000, the share of workers subject to mandatory arbitration has more than doubled and now exceeds 55 percent.” Key findings of Colvin’s study include: 53.9% of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures, and 65.1% of employers with 1,000...
October 5, 2017
Two recently released survey reports measure the pervasive use of arbitration to resolve workplace disputes. Alexander J.S. Colvin of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has concluded that, “since the early 2000, the share of workers subject to mandatory arbitration has more than doubled and now exceeds 55 percent.” Key findings of Colvin’s study include: 53.9% of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures, and 65.1% of employers with 1,000...
East Texas is Patent Capital No More
October 5, 2017
The Eastern District of Texas has lost its status as America's top place to sue businesses for patent infringement. Delaware...
October 5, 2017
The Eastern District of Texas has lost its status as America's top place to sue businesses for patent infringement. Delaware...
Tech Companies Want Speedy and Private Dispute Resolution
October 4, 2017
Arbitration is a better solution for tech companies than litigation but it needs to be faster. Technology companies would prefer arbitration over litigation when dealing with disputes. Respondents identified the top three problems with litigation as cost (64 per cent), time to resolution (57 per cent), and inexperienced or unqualified judges (46 per cent). More than 20 per cent of tech companies said that their main concerns included overly intrusive discovery practice, random jury verdicts,...
October 4, 2017
Arbitration is a better solution for tech companies than litigation but it needs to be faster. Technology companies would prefer arbitration over litigation when dealing with disputes. Respondents identified the top three problems with litigation as cost (64 per cent), time to resolution (57 per cent), and inexperienced or unqualified judges (46 per cent). More than 20 per cent of tech companies said that their main concerns included overly intrusive discovery practice, random jury verdicts,...
Third Parties Fail To Force Arbitration in Three Circuits
October 4, 2017
The “Summer of Arbitration” draws to a close tomorrow, if you can believe it. (On the first day of fall, it is supposed to be 91 degrees in Minnesota. Yikes.) But before I close that chapter, let’s take a look at a theme that emerged in these last weeks: non-signatories losing their attempts to compel arbitration (see last post). In one case, Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo, sued Uber (and others) for misappropriating trade secrets. Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc.,...
October 4, 2017
The “Summer of Arbitration” draws to a close tomorrow, if you can believe it. (On the first day of fall, it is supposed to be 91 degrees in Minnesota. Yikes.) But before I close that chapter, let’s take a look at a theme that emerged in these last weeks: non-signatories losing their attempts to compel arbitration (see last post). In one case, Google’s self-driving car project, Waymo, sued Uber (and others) for misappropriating trade secrets. Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc.,...
