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Join Bob Ambrogi for a Free Webinar: Using Big Data Analytics for Legal Research
December 12, 2014
On Tuesday, Dec. 16, I will be moderating a free webinar that will look at how “big data” analytics are being used to provide new windows into legal research. Specifically, we will look at Ravel Law and PacerPro, two tools that are providing new ways of looking at case law and case information. Ravel — which I wrote about in an ABA Journal article about “visual law” — uses visualization and analytics technology to move beyond basic research and reveal different perspectives on the law....
December 12, 2014
On Tuesday, Dec. 16, I will be moderating a free webinar that will look at how “big data” analytics are being used to provide new windows into legal research. Specifically, we will look at Ravel Law and PacerPro, two tools that are providing new ways of looking at case law and case information. Ravel — which I wrote about in an ABA Journal article about “visual law” — uses visualization and analytics technology to move beyond basic research and reveal different perspectives on the law....
Lawyers Can’t Be Luddites
December 12, 2014
Many of us probably chose law school because we didn’t like math. That hasn’t changed. But the profession is changing, and the changes are rapid. Until the mid-nineties, you could only send email to others on the same network. AOL was then the largest network, but it did not connect its customers to the outside, the “Internet,” until 1995. Nothing would ever be the same. In 1997, two Stanford students registered the domain name “google.com.” Google grew in several directions, and in 2007,...
December 12, 2014
Many of us probably chose law school because we didn’t like math. That hasn’t changed. But the profession is changing, and the changes are rapid. Until the mid-nineties, you could only send email to others on the same network. AOL was then the largest network, but it did not connect its customers to the outside, the “Internet,” until 1995. Nothing would ever be the same. In 1997, two Stanford students registered the domain name “google.com.” Google grew in several directions, and in 2007,...
UpCounsel Expanding Legal Services to San Antonio Entrepreneurs
December 11, 2014
A San Francisco-based online portal that provides legal services to venture-backed and pre-IPO stage companies plans to expand...
December 11, 2014
A San Francisco-based online portal that provides legal services to venture-backed and pre-IPO stage companies plans to expand...
Lawyer Travel for Work Enough for Personal Jurisdiction
December 11, 2014
An attorney traveling out-of-state for her clients to participate in settlement negotiations is subject to personal jurisdiction in the state where the negotiations occur. Downing v. Goldman Phipps, PLLC. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that voluntary travel into Missouri for settlement negotiations is sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction where, as a result, the attorneys received compensation that was the subject of an unjust enrichment claim. The court...
December 11, 2014
An attorney traveling out-of-state for her clients to participate in settlement negotiations is subject to personal jurisdiction in the state where the negotiations occur. Downing v. Goldman Phipps, PLLC. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has held that voluntary travel into Missouri for settlement negotiations is sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction where, as a result, the attorneys received compensation that was the subject of an unjust enrichment claim. The court...
Arbiter Does Not Decide Class Arbitration Status
December 11, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has joined the Sixth Circuit in concluding that classwide arbitration should...
December 11, 2014
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has joined the Sixth Circuit in concluding that classwide arbitration should...
UpCounsel Raises $2.4M, Plans Expansion of Legal Marketplace to Illinois, Texas
December 10, 2014
Entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of time, and dealing with attorneys takes plenty of it. Enter UpCounsel, a two-year-old startup in San Francisco, that’s created a marketplace of attorneys for business owners seeking legal help, big or small. And today, the company is announcing it has raised $2.4 million in additional seed funding. Traditionally, businesses in need of legal counsel or services have to manually find an attorney. They collect recommendations from friends, the Yellow Pages,...
December 10, 2014
Entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of time, and dealing with attorneys takes plenty of it. Enter UpCounsel, a two-year-old startup in San Francisco, that’s created a marketplace of attorneys for business owners seeking legal help, big or small. And today, the company is announcing it has raised $2.4 million in additional seed funding. Traditionally, businesses in need of legal counsel or services have to manually find an attorney. They collect recommendations from friends, the Yellow Pages,...
The Second Circuit Blinks on Competence-Competence
December 10, 2014
As the compétence-compétence stare-down continues between the U.S. courts and the drafters of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration, rather few seem to have taken notice that the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals may have blinked. The reflexive twitch happened on Halloween (boo!), when the Second Circuit in NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. v. UBS Securities, LLC, 770 F.3d 1010 (2d Cir. Oct. 31, 2014) affirmed a preliminary injunction — based...
December 10, 2014
As the compétence-compétence stare-down continues between the U.S. courts and the drafters of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration, rather few seem to have taken notice that the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals may have blinked. The reflexive twitch happened on Halloween (boo!), when the Second Circuit in NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. v. UBS Securities, LLC, 770 F.3d 1010 (2d Cir. Oct. 31, 2014) affirmed a preliminary injunction — based...
New Survey Dispels Common Myths About Arbitration
December 10, 2014
Did you know that 87% of experienced arbitrators report *always* trying to follow applicable law in rendering an award? That will come as a surprise to many critics who like to complain that arbitrators do not adhere to established law. The statistic comes from a survey that Prof. Thomas Stipanowich of Pepperdine University School of Law conducted recently. He obtained responses from 134 highly experienced arbitrators –most of them had arbitrated more than 100 disputes in their career — to a range...
December 10, 2014
Did you know that 87% of experienced arbitrators report *always* trying to follow applicable law in rendering an award? That will come as a surprise to many critics who like to complain that arbitrators do not adhere to established law. The statistic comes from a survey that Prof. Thomas Stipanowich of Pepperdine University School of Law conducted recently. He obtained responses from 134 highly experienced arbitrators –most of them had arbitrated more than 100 disputes in their career — to a range...
Lex Machina: a LegalTech Model for Success
December 9, 2014
In tech, it’s common for “cool” consumer facing products to get all the attention (look, drones!). LegalTech is no exception....
December 9, 2014
In tech, it’s common for “cool” consumer facing products to get all the attention (look, drones!). LegalTech is no exception....
Consumer Arbitration Agreements: Not Understanding What You Didn’t Agree To
December 9, 2014
A recently posted paper, reporting on the results of an empirical study, reveals unsettling facts about consumer understanding...
December 9, 2014
A recently posted paper, reporting on the results of an empirical study, reveals unsettling facts about consumer understanding...
