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Pulling Back the Curtain on Google’s Network Infrastructure
August 22, 2015
Pursuing Google’s mission of organizing the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful takes an enormous...
August 22, 2015
Pursuing Google’s mission of organizing the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful takes an enormous...
Ten Top TED Motivational Talks
August 22, 2015
Even the most motivated of us sometimes needs a little inspiration to keep us going. Here, compliments of “Greatest,”...
August 22, 2015
Even the most motivated of us sometimes needs a little inspiration to keep us going. Here, compliments of “Greatest,”...
The Next Chapter for Flu Trends
August 21, 2015
When a small team of software engineers first started working on Flu Trends in 2008, we wanted to explore how real-world...
August 21, 2015
When a small team of software engineers first started working on Flu Trends in 2008, we wanted to explore how real-world...
News You Can Use: A Robot Paralegal?
August 21, 2015
The future is now! Dentons, LLP, the multinational firm boasting the largest number of lawyers in the world, apparently needs more of them — of the electro-mechanical sort. Dentons is financially backing a group of students from the University of Toronto who, as a class project, created an artificial intelligence to perform legal research. Code-named Ross, the AI uses IBM’s Jeopardy-nailing Watson to scour massive amounts of case law and legal docs in seconds to produce answers to legal questions....
August 21, 2015
The future is now! Dentons, LLP, the multinational firm boasting the largest number of lawyers in the world, apparently needs more of them — of the electro-mechanical sort. Dentons is financially backing a group of students from the University of Toronto who, as a class project, created an artificial intelligence to perform legal research. Code-named Ross, the AI uses IBM’s Jeopardy-nailing Watson to scour massive amounts of case law and legal docs in seconds to produce answers to legal questions....
Ninth Circuit Reverses Mid-Arbitration Removal of Arbitrator
August 21, 2015
In In re Sussex, 781 F.3d 1065 (9th Cir. 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its order removing the arbitrator in Sussex v. Turnberry/MGM Grand Towers, LLC, No. 2:08-cv-00773-MMD-PAL (D. Nev. Dec. 31, 2013), discussed in the Summer 2014 article “Pre-Award Removal of an Arbitrator.” The district court complied with the writ on April 8, 2015, reinstating the arbitrator more than five years after his initial appointment. Sussex...
August 21, 2015
In In re Sussex, 781 F.3d 1065 (9th Cir. 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a writ of mandamus directing the district court to vacate its order removing the arbitrator in Sussex v. Turnberry/MGM Grand Towers, LLC, No. 2:08-cv-00773-MMD-PAL (D. Nev. Dec. 31, 2013), discussed in the Summer 2014 article “Pre-Award Removal of an Arbitrator.” The district court complied with the writ on April 8, 2015, reinstating the arbitrator more than five years after his initial appointment. Sussex...
Litigation Funder Burford Capital Eyes Lending to Firms
August 20, 2015
For a third straight year, Burford Capital Limited, one of the world’s largest litigation funders, posted record income for the first half of the year. On Tuesday, the funding firm reported $30.7 million in profits from its litigation investments for the six months of 2015, 64 percent higher than the same period in the previous year. Burford's overall income of $40.6 million, which includes other litigation-related revenue, was up by nearly half over 2014. And in an effort to deploy that...
August 20, 2015
For a third straight year, Burford Capital Limited, one of the world’s largest litigation funders, posted record income for the first half of the year. On Tuesday, the funding firm reported $30.7 million in profits from its litigation investments for the six months of 2015, 64 percent higher than the same period in the previous year. Burford's overall income of $40.6 million, which includes other litigation-related revenue, was up by nearly half over 2014. And in an effort to deploy that...
Improve Negotiation Outcomes with Analytics
August 20, 2015
Because negotiation is a key strategic element of both transactions and litigation, the question is whether we can draw insights...
August 20, 2015
Because negotiation is a key strategic element of both transactions and litigation, the question is whether we can draw insights...
Assessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of a Pending Arbitration
August 19, 2015
Arbitration has been described as old-time litigation on steroids—limited discovery, no depositions, few constrains on demonstratives, and decision makers who may or may not be attorneys. But arbitration is a wonderful dispute resolution mechanism provided you understand how it works. If you did not take an ADR course in law school, you will probably obtain your knowledge firsthand—namely by representing a client in a pending arbitration. That can be a scary proposition when the amount in controversy...
August 19, 2015
Arbitration has been described as old-time litigation on steroids—limited discovery, no depositions, few constrains on demonstratives, and decision makers who may or may not be attorneys. But arbitration is a wonderful dispute resolution mechanism provided you understand how it works. If you did not take an ADR course in law school, you will probably obtain your knowledge firsthand—namely by representing a client in a pending arbitration. That can be a scary proposition when the amount in controversy...
You’re Already More Persuasive than You Think
August 19, 2015
How does all of this translate into getting what you need when you need it? Research my colleagues and I have conducted offers some practical suggestions on how to make requests. Just ask. The number one mistake people make is psyching themselves out before even asking for something. Be direct. Another common mistake is asking indirectly by dropping hints (“Hey Bob, what are you doing this weekend? I’m going to be working on a big project. I wish I had some more help…”). We think we’re...
August 19, 2015
How does all of this translate into getting what you need when you need it? Research my colleagues and I have conducted offers some practical suggestions on how to make requests. Just ask. The number one mistake people make is psyching themselves out before even asking for something. Be direct. Another common mistake is asking indirectly by dropping hints (“Hey Bob, what are you doing this weekend? I’m going to be working on a big project. I wish I had some more help…”). We think we’re...
Cyberweek 2015 – Call for Proposals
August 18, 2015
It is time once to prepare for the annual conference on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Cyberweek 2015. This online conference provides a week of activities and dialogue regarding the world of ODR. Cyberweek 2015 will take place beginning Monday, November 2nd through Friday, November 6th. And it’s FREE! We are currently in the process of identifying potential activities for the conference. Here are some questions to help you consider developing a proposal. •Is there an ODR topic on which...
August 18, 2015
It is time once to prepare for the annual conference on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Cyberweek 2015. This online conference provides a week of activities and dialogue regarding the world of ODR. Cyberweek 2015 will take place beginning Monday, November 2nd through Friday, November 6th. And it’s FREE! We are currently in the process of identifying potential activities for the conference. Here are some questions to help you consider developing a proposal. •Is there an ODR topic on which...
