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Protect your Meetings From Zoom Bombers
April 5, 2020
Here are other simple tips to secure your Zoom meetings against Zoom bombers and eavesdroppers: 1. Protect your personal Zoom meeting ID as you would your personal passwords. Never use your personal Zoom meeting ID to host a meeting. Instead, have Zoom automatically generate a unique meeting ID for your invitations. 2. Require a meeting password. Zoom will generate one for your invitees when you check the box. 3. Allow only authenticated users to join. To gain...
April 5, 2020
Here are other simple tips to secure your Zoom meetings against Zoom bombers and eavesdroppers: 1. Protect your personal Zoom meeting ID as you would your personal passwords. Never use your personal Zoom meeting ID to host a meeting. Instead, have Zoom automatically generate a unique meeting ID for your invitations. 2. Require a meeting password. Zoom will generate one for your invitees when you check the box. 3. Allow only authenticated users to join. To gain...
The Real Threat to Business Schools from Artificial Intelligence
April 4, 2020
In the past few weeks, COVID 19 has moved hundreds of millions of students around the globe from physical to online classes. Some schools in Asia are going a step further to use AI to deliver personalized learning to students. All schools in the UK have access to the technology so that when students do return to school, they will not only have kept up with their studies, but their teachers will also have a full report on their progress. And yet very few business schools are deploying...
April 4, 2020
In the past few weeks, COVID 19 has moved hundreds of millions of students around the globe from physical to online classes. Some schools in Asia are going a step further to use AI to deliver personalized learning to students. All schools in the UK have access to the technology so that when students do return to school, they will not only have kept up with their studies, but their teachers will also have a full report on their progress. And yet very few business schools are deploying...
Vanessa Bryant Files to Add Infant Daughter to Kobe’s Trust
April 2, 2020
Kobe Bryant had set up a trust before his untimely death to provide for his widow, Vanessa, and their daughters, one of which perished alongside him in a helicopter crash in January. The trust was created in 2003 and amended several times, the last in 2017. The couple's most recent child, Capri, was born in 2019. Vanessa has filed to amend the problem, requesting that the infant daughter be added to the trust. The trust agreement is reportedly set up to allow Vanessa and her daughters to draw...
April 2, 2020
Kobe Bryant had set up a trust before his untimely death to provide for his widow, Vanessa, and their daughters, one of which perished alongside him in a helicopter crash in January. The trust was created in 2003 and amended several times, the last in 2017. The couple's most recent child, Capri, was born in 2019. Vanessa has filed to amend the problem, requesting that the infant daughter be added to the trust. The trust agreement is reportedly set up to allow Vanessa and her daughters to draw...
Thinking Quantum: A New Perspective on Decisionmaking in Law
April 1, 2020
Behavioral law and economics (BLE) is built on the observation that human decisionmaking is often incompatible with rational choice theory. But if our decisions do not follow the rules of rational choice theory, is there a general set of rules they do follow? Can BLE offer a coherent alternative to rational choice? To the extent it has addressed these questions, BLE has struggled with them. But an emerging psychological theory called “quantum decisionmaking” may offer answers. Quantum decisionmaking...
April 1, 2020
Behavioral law and economics (BLE) is built on the observation that human decisionmaking is often incompatible with rational choice theory. But if our decisions do not follow the rules of rational choice theory, is there a general set of rules they do follow? Can BLE offer a coherent alternative to rational choice? To the extent it has addressed these questions, BLE has struggled with them. But an emerging psychological theory called “quantum decisionmaking” may offer answers. Quantum decisionmaking...
Tailoring Zoom to Mediation for the Moment
March 31, 2020
Among the many ironies of the Coronavirus pandemic is that it isolates us when we need to come together. Dramatic change creates friction, yet traditional pathways to resolve those disputes were quickly frozen and are coming back at a trickle. Courts have cleared the way for video appearances and judges have pivoted remarkably quickly to technology designed to keep the wheels of justice turning. But they must prioritize cases due to bandwidth constraints. And like teachers, legislators, and so many...
March 31, 2020
Among the many ironies of the Coronavirus pandemic is that it isolates us when we need to come together. Dramatic change creates friction, yet traditional pathways to resolve those disputes were quickly frozen and are coming back at a trickle. Courts have cleared the way for video appearances and judges have pivoted remarkably quickly to technology designed to keep the wheels of justice turning. But they must prioritize cases due to bandwidth constraints. And like teachers, legislators, and so many...
Back to Mill? Behavioral Welfare Economics
March 30, 2020
A growing body of normative work, going under the name of “behavioral welfare economics,” explores how deference to people’s choices might be reconciled with behavioral findings about human error. This work has strong implications for economic analysis of law, cost-benefit analysis, and regulatory policy. The best approach adopts a working presumption in favor of respect for those choices, but only so long as they are adequately informed and sufficiently free from behavioral biases. That presumption...
March 30, 2020
A growing body of normative work, going under the name of “behavioral welfare economics,” explores how deference to people’s choices might be reconciled with behavioral findings about human error. This work has strong implications for economic analysis of law, cost-benefit analysis, and regulatory policy. The best approach adopts a working presumption in favor of respect for those choices, but only so long as they are adequately informed and sufficiently free from behavioral biases. That presumption...
Implications of COVID-19 on the Legal Sector
March 28, 2020
The legal industry, and the legal function within many businesses, is at an early stage of transformation. The impact of Covid-19 on business will change this. It will show that a business needs to be able to assess its legal obligations and exposures, and strategically align technology, systems and processes to enable simple things like finding and analyzing legal contracts quickly and efficiently, rather than relying on the human capital of its internal or external lawyers. It will help drive...
March 28, 2020
The legal industry, and the legal function within many businesses, is at an early stage of transformation. The impact of Covid-19 on business will change this. It will show that a business needs to be able to assess its legal obligations and exposures, and strategically align technology, systems and processes to enable simple things like finding and analyzing legal contracts quickly and efficiently, rather than relying on the human capital of its internal or external lawyers. It will help drive...
2020 Legal Analytics Study
March 27, 2020
ALM Intelligence & LexisNexis, 2020 Legal Analytics Study: Bringing Value into Focus: The 2020 Legal Analytics Study, conducted by ALM Intelligence in collaboration with LexisNexis, reveals a tipping point in the adoption of legal analytics among large law firm legal professionals. The study gathers insights from 163 large law firm professionals to gain an understanding of the adoption, application and value of legal analytics. Key findings from the survey study include: 74% say legal...
March 27, 2020
ALM Intelligence & LexisNexis, 2020 Legal Analytics Study: Bringing Value into Focus: The 2020 Legal Analytics Study, conducted by ALM Intelligence in collaboration with LexisNexis, reveals a tipping point in the adoption of legal analytics among large law firm legal professionals. The study gathers insights from 163 large law firm professionals to gain an understanding of the adoption, application and value of legal analytics. Key findings from the survey study include: 74% say legal...
Coronavirus Could Be Tipping Point For Tech Competence In Law
March 26, 2020
As if overnight, coronavirus has caused competence in technology to rise to a new level of urgency for the legal profession. Last year, I wrote about a Wolters Kluwer survey on “future-ready lawyers” that found, not surprisingly, that law firms that already leverage technology are better prepared to keep pace with an evolving legal market than those that are just beginning to use technology or that are not doing so at all. Suddenly, that concept of a legal market that is “evolving”...
March 26, 2020
As if overnight, coronavirus has caused competence in technology to rise to a new level of urgency for the legal profession. Last year, I wrote about a Wolters Kluwer survey on “future-ready lawyers” that found, not surprisingly, that law firms that already leverage technology are better prepared to keep pace with an evolving legal market than those that are just beginning to use technology or that are not doing so at all. Suddenly, that concept of a legal market that is “evolving”...
Texas Judges Rushing to Learn Video Conferencing as Shelter-In-Place Orders Spread
March 25, 2020
As shelter-in-place orders take effect this week, judges are beginning to conduct video conferences and trying to overcome the challenges of the virtual hearings.
March 25, 2020
As shelter-in-place orders take effect this week, judges are beginning to conduct video conferences and trying to overcome the challenges of the virtual hearings.
