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From Wall Street to Main Street: A Multidimensional Map of the Impact of Magistrate Judges on Federal Courts
November 13, 2018
District courts are treated as synonymous with district judges despite the fact that nearly half of their judges are magistrate judges. Magistrate judges are selected by a district’s judges and serve for a renewable term. Doctrinal and empirical studies of federal trial courts largely ignore magistrate judges, assuming that, like law clerks, they do not play a salient role in the work of district courts. We test that assumption by using a wide-angle lens as well as two telephoto ones. We examine...
November 13, 2018
District courts are treated as synonymous with district judges despite the fact that nearly half of their judges are magistrate judges. Magistrate judges are selected by a district’s judges and serve for a renewable term. Doctrinal and empirical studies of federal trial courts largely ignore magistrate judges, assuming that, like law clerks, they do not play a salient role in the work of district courts. We test that assumption by using a wide-angle lens as well as two telephoto ones. We examine...
Court Affirms Judgment that Power-Of-Attorney Holder Converted Funds by Withdrawing them from a Joint Account
November 12, 2018
A Texas appeals court affirmed the decision of the lower Fort Worth court, finding that a brother used his power-of-attorney given to him by his brother (the decedent) to wrongfully exercise dominion and control over the money in a joint account to the exclusion of, or inconsistent with, the sister in law’s rights, who was the other account holder of the account. The brother argued that the sister in law did not own the funds because the decedent was the sole source of them and the withdrawal...
November 12, 2018
A Texas appeals court affirmed the decision of the lower Fort Worth court, finding that a brother used his power-of-attorney given to him by his brother (the decedent) to wrongfully exercise dominion and control over the money in a joint account to the exclusion of, or inconsistent with, the sister in law’s rights, who was the other account holder of the account. The brother argued that the sister in law did not own the funds because the decedent was the sole source of them and the withdrawal...
New Jersey: An Increasingly Anti-Arbitration Jurisdiction?
November 12, 2018
In recent years, courts from the great state of the Boss (sorry, I’m a Springsteen fan!) have issued opinions that appear...
November 12, 2018
In recent years, courts from the great state of the Boss (sorry, I’m a Springsteen fan!) have issued opinions that appear...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Custody Battle Headed to Private Trial
November 11, 2018
From USA Today: The dragging-on divorce and custody battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is set to go to a trial next month because they can't agree about the future of their six children despite two years of lawyering and leaking. And if Pitt and Jolie have their way, it will all happen behind closed doors. If it happens at all. The couple could still reach an agreement out of court and put the messy breakup of their family behind them but lately their ability to see eye-to-eye seems...
November 11, 2018
From USA Today: The dragging-on divorce and custody battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is set to go to a trial next month because they can't agree about the future of their six children despite two years of lawyering and leaking. And if Pitt and Jolie have their way, it will all happen behind closed doors. If it happens at all. The couple could still reach an agreement out of court and put the messy breakup of their family behind them but lately their ability to see eye-to-eye seems...
Great ADR Program in Palo Alto Sponsored by the SVAMC!
November 11, 2018
I am honored to be a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech-List who was one of the program sponsors, …and it was a great privilege to serve on a Panel about Arbitrating Technology and Patent disputes with Bryan Sinclair from Cisco, Adam Rattray from WIPO, and David Allgeyer at Allgeyer Law & ADR LLC. The half day program on November 7, 2018 was entitled “Advanced Issues in Tech and Patent ADR: Mediating and Arbitrating Disputes” and co-sponsored by SVAMC,...
November 11, 2018
I am honored to be a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech-List who was one of the program sponsors, …and it was a great privilege to serve on a Panel about Arbitrating Technology and Patent disputes with Bryan Sinclair from Cisco, Adam Rattray from WIPO, and David Allgeyer at Allgeyer Law & ADR LLC. The half day program on November 7, 2018 was entitled “Advanced Issues in Tech and Patent ADR: Mediating and Arbitrating Disputes” and co-sponsored by SVAMC,...
New Supercomputer Mimics Human Brain, Researchers Say
November 10, 2018
A new supercomputer is able to mimic how the human brain functions, and can perform 200 quadrillion actions simultaneously. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture, or SpiNNaker, went online last week for the first time at the University of Manchester in Britain. The computer can model more neurons in real time than any machine on the planet, developers say. "SpiNNaker completely re-thinks the way conventional computers work. We've essentially created a machine that works more like a brain...
November 10, 2018
A new supercomputer is able to mimic how the human brain functions, and can perform 200 quadrillion actions simultaneously. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture, or SpiNNaker, went online last week for the first time at the University of Manchester in Britain. The computer can model more neurons in real time than any machine on the planet, developers say. "SpiNNaker completely re-thinks the way conventional computers work. We've essentially created a machine that works more like a brain...
This AI Startup Generates Legal Papers Without Lawyers, and Suggests a Ruling
November 10, 2018
An artificial intelligence application (app) developed by Ignacio Raffa, a startup founder from Buenos Aires, can now draft a ruling on a non-complex case in seconds, going so far as recommending a ruling to the judge. The app was developed in collaboration with the local district attorney's office. The app, Prometea, is being used for stuff like taxi license disputes, not murder trials, but it’s a significant automation that is beneficial to the city's overworked justice system. The Buenos...
November 10, 2018
An artificial intelligence application (app) developed by Ignacio Raffa, a startup founder from Buenos Aires, can now draft a ruling on a non-complex case in seconds, going so far as recommending a ruling to the judge. The app was developed in collaboration with the local district attorney's office. The app, Prometea, is being used for stuff like taxi license disputes, not murder trials, but it’s a significant automation that is beneficial to the city's overworked justice system. The Buenos...
ACCTM $10K National ADR Law Student Writing Competition
November 9, 2018
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud...
November 9, 2018
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud...
Protecting Kids in Divorce Mediation
November 9, 2018
From Lawyers.com: Going through a divorce can be an emotional time for all parties. When children are involved in the divorce, there can be special challenges. Many divorcing couples share the primary goal of protecting their children from additional stress during this time. For this reason, divorcing parents often choose the mediation process over a traditionally litigated divorce. Mediation can be less stressful on children for several reasons. Most mediations are held at neutral locations, not in courthouses,...
November 9, 2018
From Lawyers.com: Going through a divorce can be an emotional time for all parties. When children are involved in the divorce, there can be special challenges. Many divorcing couples share the primary goal of protecting their children from additional stress during this time. For this reason, divorcing parents often choose the mediation process over a traditionally litigated divorce. Mediation can be less stressful on children for several reasons. Most mediations are held at neutral locations, not in courthouses,...
Project Provides Access to All U.S. Case Law, Covering 360 Years
November 8, 2018
Launching today is the capstone to a massive project executed over the last three years to digitize all U.S. case law, some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. The Caselaw Access Project site launching today makes all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public in a consistent digitized format. The site is the product of a partnership started in 2015 between Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab and legal research service Ravel...
November 8, 2018
Launching today is the capstone to a massive project executed over the last three years to digitize all U.S. case law, some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. The Caselaw Access Project site launching today makes all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public in a consistent digitized format. The site is the product of a partnership started in 2015 between Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab and legal research service Ravel...
