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Arbitration Process Issues Round-Up
June 10, 2013
Following is a summary, by category, of recent opinions of note concerning arbitration process issues. Class Waiver Muriithi...
June 10, 2013
Following is a summary, by category, of recent opinions of note concerning arbitration process issues. Class Waiver Muriithi...
IBM’s Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
June 9, 2013
IBM’s question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdownagainst the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now Watson has a new job–as a customer-service agent with the mostest. The help desk is a bit of a step down from fighting cancer, but IBM is nothing if not pragmatic. U.S. organizations spend $112 billion on call center labor and software, yet half of the 270 billion...
June 9, 2013
IBM’s question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdownagainst the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist. Now Watson has a new job–as a customer-service agent with the mostest. The help desk is a bit of a step down from fighting cancer, but IBM is nothing if not pragmatic. U.S. organizations spend $112 billion on call center labor and software, yet half of the 270 billion...
LawTech Day in S.F. Caps LegalTech
June 9, 2013
The Recorder's second LawTech Day San Francisco, held Thursday at the Merchants Exchange Club, examined the impact of emerging technologies on the practice and business of law. Associate professor Renee Knake, co-founder of the Reinvent Law Lab at Michigan State University College of Law, put the event into gear with a keynote focused on harnessing innovation to democratize legal services. She identified as "a delivery challenge" the fact that 50 to 80 percent of the U.S. population is not getting...
June 9, 2013
The Recorder's second LawTech Day San Francisco, held Thursday at the Merchants Exchange Club, examined the impact of emerging technologies on the practice and business of law. Associate professor Renee Knake, co-founder of the Reinvent Law Lab at Michigan State University College of Law, put the event into gear with a keynote focused on harnessing innovation to democratize legal services. She identified as "a delivery challenge" the fact that 50 to 80 percent of the U.S. population is not getting...
List Of Apps And Accessories From IPad For Lawyers Webinar
June 9, 2013
We had a ton of requests for a list of iPad apps and accessories that Tom Mighell covered in his excellent presentation earlier today: Using IPads In Your Law Practice. Here it is: Apps Creating Notes and Documents Noteshelf Notability GoodNotes Documents To Go Quickoffice Pro HD CloudOn Working with PDF Files PDF Expert (recommended) Adobe EchoSign iAnnotate iPad for Litigators FormConnect TranscriptPad eDepo (in beta) iJuror JuryPad Legal Research WestlawNext Lexis Advance Fastcase Federal...
June 9, 2013
We had a ton of requests for a list of iPad apps and accessories that Tom Mighell covered in his excellent presentation earlier today: Using IPads In Your Law Practice. Here it is: Apps Creating Notes and Documents Noteshelf Notability GoodNotes Documents To Go Quickoffice Pro HD CloudOn Working with PDF Files PDF Expert (recommended) Adobe EchoSign iAnnotate iPad for Litigators FormConnect TranscriptPad eDepo (in beta) iJuror JuryPad Legal Research WestlawNext Lexis Advance Fastcase Federal...
Your iPhone as an Assistant: Siri and Google Now
June 9, 2013
I suspect that the top app that I use on my iPhone is the Mail app, but if you ask me about my favorite use of my iPhone, you'll get a different answer. I love using my iPhone to act as a sort of a second brain, helping me to remember things that I might otherwise forget and helping me to figure things out quickly. This type of technology is often called virtual assistant technology, and its usefulness is enhanced with the excellent voice recognition that has been a part of the iPhone since the iPhone...
June 9, 2013
I suspect that the top app that I use on my iPhone is the Mail app, but if you ask me about my favorite use of my iPhone, you'll get a different answer. I love using my iPhone to act as a sort of a second brain, helping me to remember things that I might otherwise forget and helping me to figure things out quickly. This type of technology is often called virtual assistant technology, and its usefulness is enhanced with the excellent voice recognition that has been a part of the iPhone since the iPhone...
More Law Schools are Teaching Business Skills
June 9, 2013
It was only two years ago that Harvard Law School began offering the first-of-its kind "business skills boot camp" for associates working for Milbank in NYC. And Michigan State recently announced plans to begin teaching law students how to be more entrepreneurial. Today, several more law schools have either launched or have in the planning stages programs to teach students and lawyers alike how to think like a businessperson. The National Law Journal has the story as part of its special...
June 9, 2013
It was only two years ago that Harvard Law School began offering the first-of-its kind "business skills boot camp" for associates working for Milbank in NYC. And Michigan State recently announced plans to begin teaching law students how to be more entrepreneurial. Today, several more law schools have either launched or have in the planning stages programs to teach students and lawyers alike how to think like a businessperson. The National Law Journal has the story as part of its special...
Majority of Consumers Use Social Media When Searching for Attorneys
June 8, 2013
The Rainmaker Institute recently commissioned a survey by The Research Intelligence Group to find out how consumers use social...
June 8, 2013
The Rainmaker Institute recently commissioned a survey by The Research Intelligence Group to find out how consumers use social...
Ten Improved Fastcase Tools
June 8, 2013
Here's an article that recently appeared from me in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. Ten Improved Fastcase Tools I...
June 8, 2013
Here's an article that recently appeared from me in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. Ten Improved Fastcase Tools I...
Tech Circuit: The LegalTech California Shuttle
June 8, 2013
The dilemma about LegalTech, whether in New York or Los Angeles, is that you can't be in five different places at once. It's always an absolute whirlwind of ideas, demonstrations, meetings, ideas, meals, networking, videos, ideas, presentations, overload, and did I say, ideas? It's exhilarating and somewhat dizzying. It's so difficult to choose among the panels, people, priorities, but you just have to do it. The cliché of course is to compare it to cruise food spread, but that's too easy. So...
June 8, 2013
The dilemma about LegalTech, whether in New York or Los Angeles, is that you can't be in five different places at once. It's always an absolute whirlwind of ideas, demonstrations, meetings, ideas, meals, networking, videos, ideas, presentations, overload, and did I say, ideas? It's exhilarating and somewhat dizzying. It's so difficult to choose among the panels, people, priorities, but you just have to do it. The cliché of course is to compare it to cruise food spread, but that's too easy. So...
A Quantum Leap in Computing?
June 8, 2013
For over a decade, researchers have been trying to build quantum computers, machines based on quantum physics that could solve problems in different ways from classical computers and, potentially, represent a radical leap forward in computing. As Rivka Galchen explained in a 2011 article for the magazine, “Dream Machine,” quantum computation begins from the fact that a single particle can be in two places at one time, a quality known as superposition. Whereas conventional computers compute solutions...
June 8, 2013
For over a decade, researchers have been trying to build quantum computers, machines based on quantum physics that could solve problems in different ways from classical computers and, potentially, represent a radical leap forward in computing. As Rivka Galchen explained in a 2011 article for the magazine, “Dream Machine,” quantum computation begins from the fact that a single particle can be in two places at one time, a quality known as superposition. Whereas conventional computers compute solutions...
