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Mercedes Mulls Over Limo Service With Driverless Cars
September 26, 2015
Imagine this: You call up a limo. Within minutes, a luxurious Mercedes-Benz car arrives at you door. As you peek inside, you notice it has no driver. The car's door opens, you sit inside and enjoy the scenery as it silently glides through the city, leaving you at your desired destination, all by itself. While not exactly launching such a service yet, Mercedes-Benz is definitely looking in this direction. "This is a concrete development goal of ours," Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Mercedes' parent...
September 26, 2015
Imagine this: You call up a limo. Within minutes, a luxurious Mercedes-Benz car arrives at you door. As you peek inside, you notice it has no driver. The car's door opens, you sit inside and enjoy the scenery as it silently glides through the city, leaving you at your desired destination, all by itself. While not exactly launching such a service yet, Mercedes-Benz is definitely looking in this direction. "This is a concrete development goal of ours," Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Mercedes' parent...
New Organization Aims to Kickstart Innovation in Legal Industry
September 25, 2015
A for-profit membership organization aimed at driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry made its formal launch yesterday. Called Evolve Law, its primary focus will be on promoting collaboration among a “community” of lawyers, law firms and innovative legal technology companies in order to speed adoption of new technology. “The focus is to make some noise and shake things up in the legal industry,” co-founder Jules Miller told me during an interview yesterday with...
September 25, 2015
A for-profit membership organization aimed at driving technology innovation and adoption in the legal industry made its formal launch yesterday. Called Evolve Law, its primary focus will be on promoting collaboration among a “community” of lawyers, law firms and innovative legal technology companies in order to speed adoption of new technology. “The focus is to make some noise and shake things up in the legal industry,” co-founder Jules Miller told me during an interview yesterday with...
Quantum Cognition Could Predict ‘Irrational’ Human Behaviour
September 25, 2015
People’s behaviour seems irrational but is governed by quantum principles. Dr Zheng Joyce Wang, one of the study’s...
September 25, 2015
People’s behaviour seems irrational but is governed by quantum principles. Dr Zheng Joyce Wang, one of the study’s...
Musings on Tom Brady and Arbitrator Bias
September 25, 2015
Again this year, a famous athlete put the spotlight on the process of arbitration. Earlier this month, Tom Brady succeeded in convincing a federal judge to vacate the arbitration award against Brady. (The four-game “deflategate” suspension — a pdf of the decision is available through the link.) The decision vacating the award is 40 pages (and a good read), but here’s the summary: The Court is fully aware of the deference afforded to arbitral decisions, but, nevertheless, concludes that...
September 25, 2015
Again this year, a famous athlete put the spotlight on the process of arbitration. Earlier this month, Tom Brady succeeded in convincing a federal judge to vacate the arbitration award against Brady. (The four-game “deflategate” suspension — a pdf of the decision is available through the link.) The decision vacating the award is 40 pages (and a good read), but here’s the summary: The Court is fully aware of the deference afforded to arbitral decisions, but, nevertheless, concludes that...
Using Brain Imaging to Reevaluate Three Famous Cases
September 24, 2015
It's 50 years since the American neurologist Norman Geschwind published his hugely influential Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man, in which he argued that many brain disorders and injuries could best be understood in terms of the damage incurred to the white-matter pathways connecting different areas of the brain. To mark this anniversary, an international team of researchers has used modern brain imaging techniques to reveal, in an open-access article for Cerebral Cortex, the likely damage...
September 24, 2015
It's 50 years since the American neurologist Norman Geschwind published his hugely influential Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man, in which he argued that many brain disorders and injuries could best be understood in terms of the damage incurred to the white-matter pathways connecting different areas of the brain. To mark this anniversary, an international team of researchers has used modern brain imaging techniques to reveal, in an open-access article for Cerebral Cortex, the likely damage...
Filing Claim In Court Is Not Enough To Waive Arbitration Right
September 24, 2015
The issue in analyzing whether a party waived its right to arbitrate is usually whether the defendant waited too long to assert the arbitration obligation. But, this week the Second Circuit had the opportunity to address whether a plaintiff waives its right to arbitrate by the simple fact of bringing a case in court. In LG Electronics, Inc. v. Wi-LAN USA, Inc., 2015 WL 5254894 (2d Cir. Sept. 10, 2015), the appellate court affirmed the district court’s decision that defendant Wi-LAN had not waived...
September 24, 2015
The issue in analyzing whether a party waived its right to arbitrate is usually whether the defendant waited too long to assert the arbitration obligation. But, this week the Second Circuit had the opportunity to address whether a plaintiff waives its right to arbitrate by the simple fact of bringing a case in court. In LG Electronics, Inc. v. Wi-LAN USA, Inc., 2015 WL 5254894 (2d Cir. Sept. 10, 2015), the appellate court affirmed the district court’s decision that defendant Wi-LAN had not waived...
Good Anger
September 24, 2015
An article in the New York Times, The Rationality of Rage, summarizes the findings of several studies about when expressing anger can be productive. Despite the catchy title of the article, expressing rage generally isn’t helpful. But expressing anger can be useful in some situations. The article distinguishes three types of negotiations – primarily cooperative (e.g., starting a business), primarily competitive (e.g., dissolving a business), and a mixture (e.g., selling a business to a buyer)....
September 24, 2015
An article in the New York Times, The Rationality of Rage, summarizes the findings of several studies about when expressing anger can be productive. Despite the catchy title of the article, expressing rage generally isn’t helpful. But expressing anger can be useful in some situations. The article distinguishes three types of negotiations – primarily cooperative (e.g., starting a business), primarily competitive (e.g., dissolving a business), and a mixture (e.g., selling a business to a buyer)....
Texas Considers Creating PACER-like System
September 23, 2015
Way in advance of a final deadline, all 254 Texas counties have gone live on EFileTexas.gov. And now the state is turning...
September 23, 2015
Way in advance of a final deadline, all 254 Texas counties have gone live on EFileTexas.gov. And now the state is turning...
What Makes Lawyers Happy? – And How Can You Help?
September 22, 2015
Money can’t buy me love. – Paul McCartney As a corollary to psychologist McCartney’s insight, money can’t...
September 22, 2015
Money can’t buy me love. – Paul McCartney As a corollary to psychologist McCartney’s insight, money can’t...
Managing Conflict 4.0: The New Wave of Opportunities for Businesses Around the Globe
September 22, 2015
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Dispute Resolution Law Journal present a two-day conference dealing with...
September 22, 2015
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and the Dispute Resolution Law Journal present a two-day conference dealing with...
