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Remote Jury Trial Notice: Bexar County Civil District Courts
October 13, 2020
Since March, the Bexar County Civil District Courts have continued to work diligently to keep the wheels of justice moving while keeping our community and staff as safe as possible through compliance with state and local regulations. Accepting that we are unable to begin in-person jury trials until 2021, and consistent with the Supreme Court of Texas’ Twenty-Five Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, we have developed a plan to resume the hearing of civil jury matters through...
October 13, 2020
Since March, the Bexar County Civil District Courts have continued to work diligently to keep the wheels of justice moving while keeping our community and staff as safe as possible through compliance with state and local regulations. Accepting that we are unable to begin in-person jury trials until 2021, and consistent with the Supreme Court of Texas’ Twenty-Five Emergency Order Regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster, we have developed a plan to resume the hearing of civil jury matters through...
Trial Court Case Filing Trends – Aggregated by Fourth Court of Appeals Region
October 12, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, the trend has been back toward the average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some highlights from trial courts in the Fourth Court: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
October 12, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, the trend has been back toward the average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some highlights from trial courts in the Fourth Court: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
UT Austin Uses Hologram Technology in the Classroom Thanks to an Austin Startup
October 11, 2020
The old saying is out of hardship and adversity comes innovation. Just take a look at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business and its use of a hologram application called Recourse to beam a professor into the classroom during the Coronavirus pandemic. The application is the brainchild of Contextual Content Group, a new startup headed up by serial entrepreneur Jim Spencer. He sold his last venture, Newsy, an early mobile and streaming video online news service, for $35 million...
October 11, 2020
The old saying is out of hardship and adversity comes innovation. Just take a look at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business and its use of a hologram application called Recourse to beam a professor into the classroom during the Coronavirus pandemic. The application is the brainchild of Contextual Content Group, a new startup headed up by serial entrepreneur Jim Spencer. He sold his last venture, Newsy, an early mobile and streaming video online news service, for $35 million...
Legal Theory Bookworm: “Too Much Information” by Sunstein
October 10, 2020
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: How information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it and sometimes seek it out.How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater? Do we want to know if we are genetically predisposed to a certain disease?...
October 10, 2020
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know by Cass R. Sunstein. Here is a description: How information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it and sometimes seek it out.How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater? Do we want to know if we are genetically predisposed to a certain disease?...
Texas State Trial Court Filings Trending Back to Pre-COVID Levels
October 9, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, Texas trial court filings trend back toward the pre-COVID average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some highlights: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
October 9, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, Texas trial court filings trend back toward the pre-COVID average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some highlights: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
Bexar Case Filings Rebound
October 8, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, the trend in Bexar County has been back toward the average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some Bexar highlights: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
October 8, 2020
After a COVID-19 drop in April new case filings, the trend in Bexar County has been back toward the average. District and County court clerks report data to the Texas Office of Court Administration (OCA) based on cover sheet categorizations. CourtStatPack.com presents OCA data in easily customizable graphs to quickly spot trends. Here are some Bexar highlights: By default, CourtStatPack.com presents annual trends statewide. By clicking on the pie charts,...
Crisis puts law firm focus on delivering digital tools
October 7, 2020
Even sceptics are looking to re-engineer their approach to legal services Covid-19 has provoked a sudden uptake of digital services across the professional sector. But opinion is divided over how fundamental its impact has been so far in forcing the re-engineering of legal practice. Mr West cites Kennedys’ “virtual defence lawyer” online litigation system, which he says can perform a significant part of what traditional legal teams do. “We’ve seen clients avoiding half of their litigation...
October 7, 2020
Even sceptics are looking to re-engineer their approach to legal services Covid-19 has provoked a sudden uptake of digital services across the professional sector. But opinion is divided over how fundamental its impact has been so far in forcing the re-engineering of legal practice. Mr West cites Kennedys’ “virtual defence lawyer” online litigation system, which he says can perform a significant part of what traditional legal teams do. “We’ve seen clients avoiding half of their litigation...
Don Philbin Ranked in Chambers USA Again
October 6, 2020
In its 2020 USA Guide, Chambers and Partners ranked Attorney-Mediator Don Philbin on its Nationwide Mediators list. Six of the 33 listed mediators are located in Texas. Chambers and Partners is widely recognized as one of the leading publishers of professional rankings and insights for the legal sector. Firms and individuals are assessed by an experienced team of researchers who consider recent work as well as first-hand accounts from external market sources, including a particular emphasis...
October 6, 2020
In its 2020 USA Guide, Chambers and Partners ranked Attorney-Mediator Don Philbin on its Nationwide Mediators list. Six of the 33 listed mediators are located in Texas. Chambers and Partners is widely recognized as one of the leading publishers of professional rankings and insights for the legal sector. Firms and individuals are assessed by an experienced team of researchers who consider recent work as well as first-hand accounts from external market sources, including a particular emphasis...
Negotiating By Email!
October 5, 2020
An important part of communication is body language. Indeed, according to a study by Professor Mehrabian, approximately 93 percent of our communication is non-verbal consisting of 55 percent in body language and 38 percent in tone of voice, while the remaining 7 percent is verbal. (The 7% Rule Fact, Fiction or Misunderstanding.) This means that in an asynchronous communication such as e mail, we are not able to assess about 93 percent of what is being communicated. We only pick up the 7 percent...
October 5, 2020
An important part of communication is body language. Indeed, according to a study by Professor Mehrabian, approximately 93 percent of our communication is non-verbal consisting of 55 percent in body language and 38 percent in tone of voice, while the remaining 7 percent is verbal. (The 7% Rule Fact, Fiction or Misunderstanding.) This means that in an asynchronous communication such as e mail, we are not able to assess about 93 percent of what is being communicated. We only pick up the 7 percent...
Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams
October 4, 2020
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our lives are spent asleep. Current technological interfaces miss an opportunity to access the unique, imaginative, elastic cognition ongoing during dreams and semi-lucid states. In turn, each of us misses an opportunity to use interfaces to influence our own processes of memory consolidation, creative insight generation, gist extraction, and emotion regulation that...
October 4, 2020
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our lives are spent asleep. Current technological interfaces miss an opportunity to access the unique, imaginative, elastic cognition ongoing during dreams and semi-lucid states. In turn, each of us misses an opportunity to use interfaces to influence our own processes of memory consolidation, creative insight generation, gist extraction, and emotion regulation that...
